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Author:   Boris Khesin ,  Robert Wendt
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2009 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9783540852056

ISBN 10:   3540852050
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   20 March 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction.- I Preliminaries.- II Infinite-dimensional Lie Groups: Their Geometry, Orbits and Dynamical Systems.- III Applications of Groups: Topological and Holomorphic Gauge Theories.- Appendices.- A1 Root Systems.- A2 Compact Lie Groups.- A3 Krichever-Novikov Algebras.- A4 Kähler Structures on the Virasoro and Loop Group Coadjoint Orbits.- A5 Metrics and Diameters of the Group of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms.- A6 Semi-Direct Extensions of the Diffeomorphism Group and Gas Dynamics.- A7 The Drinfeld-Sokolov Reduction.- A8 Surjectivity of the Exponential Map on Pseudo-Differential Symbols.- A9 Torus Actions on the Moduli Space of Flat Connections.- Bibliography.- Index

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From the reviews: The book under review is a welcome addition to the literature on infinite-dimensional Lie groups. ! the present monograph is to 'present the unifying ideas of the theory by concentrating on specific types and examples of infinite-dimensional Lie groups', in the authors' own words. The groups discussed here can be divided roughly into three classes ! . The main part of the book consists in the treatment of these groups, including their geometry, their coad-joint orbits, and their relationship to the Hamiltonian structures. (Daniel Beltita, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2009 k) The book itself starts with (possibly infinite-dimensional) Lie groups and their algebras, defines the adjoint and co-adjoint representations, and then proceeds to central extensions ! . there are ample references to the enormous bibliography, which contains 393 listings, so the interested reader can easily delve further if he or she wishes. The book may be most useful as a way to get an overview of the subject ! or as a window through which to glimpse any one of the subjects ! . (David G. Ebin, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, January, 2011)

From the reviews: The book under review is a welcome addition to the literature on infinite-dimensional Lie groups. ! the present monograph is to 'present the unifying ideas of the theory by concentrating on specific types and examples of infinite-dimensional Lie groups', in the authors' own words. The groups discussed here can be divided roughly into three classes ! . The main part of the book consists in the treatment of these groups, including their geometry, their coad-joint orbits, and their relationship to the Hamiltonian structures. (Daniel Beltita, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2009 k)

From the reviews: The book under review is a welcome addition to the literature on infinite-dimensional Lie groups. ... the present monograph is to `present the unifying ideas of the theory by concentrating on specific types and examples of infinite-dimensional Lie groups', in the authors' own words. The groups discussed here can be divided roughly into three classes ... . The main part of the book consists in the treatment of these groups, including their geometry, their coad-joint orbits, and their relationship to the Hamiltonian structures. (Daniel Beltita, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2009 k) The book itself starts with (possibly infinite-dimensional) Lie groups and their algebras, defines the adjoint and co-adjoint representations, and then proceeds to central extensions ... . there are ample references to the enormous bibliography, which contains 393 listings, so the interested reader can easily delve further if he or she wishes. The book may be most useful as a way to get an overview of the subject ... or as a window through which to glimpse any one of the subjects ... . (David G. Ebin, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, January, 2011)

Author Information

B.Khesin's areas of research are infinite-dimensional Lie groups, integrable systems, Poisson geometry, and topological hydrodynamics. Together with Vladimir Arnold he is the author of the monograph on ""Topological methods in hydrodynamics"", which has become a standard reference in mathematical fluid dynamics. He was a Sloan research fellow in 1997-1999 and a Clay Mathematics Institute book fellow in 2006-2007, as well as an Andre-Aizenstadt prize recepient in 1998. R.Wendt's fields of research include the geometry and representation theory of infinite dimensional Lie groups and algebras, related geometric structures, and mathematical physics. He is also interested in mathematical finance and 'real world' applications of financial modelling

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