Böcker i Graduate Studies in Mathematics-serien

Presents modern algebra. This book includes such topics as affine and projective spaces, tensor algebra, Galois theory, Lie groups, and associative algebras and their representations. It is suitable for independent study for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

Representation theory plays important roles in geometry, algebra, analysis, and mathematical physics. This book presents an introduction to the representation theory of finite groups from an algebraic point of view, regarding representations as modules over the group algebra. It is suitable for a year-long graduate course.

Presents a readable and accessible introductory course in algebraic geometry, with most of the fundamental classical results presented with complete proofs. An emphasis is placed on developing connections between geometric and algebraic aspects of the theory. Differences between the theory in characteristic $0$ and positive characteristic are emphasized.

Deals with the Ricci flow, and the convergence theory for the Ricci flow. This title focuses on preserved curvature conditions, such as positive isotropic curvature. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers.

Sobolev spaces are a fundamental tool in the modern study of partial differential equations. This book takes a novel approach to the theory by looking at Sobolev spaces as the natural development of monotone, absolutely continuous, and BV functions of one variable.

Treats the fundamentals of differential geometry: manifolds, flows, Lie groups and their actions, invariant theory, differential forms and de Rham cohomology, bundles and connections, Riemann manifolds, isometric actions, and symplectic and Poisson geometry. This book covers a wide range of topics of modern coordinate-free differential geometry.

A guide to the qualitative theory of foliations. It features topics including: analysis on foliated spaces, characteristic classes of foliations and foliated manifolds. It is suitable as a supplementary text for a topics course at the advanced graduate level.

Offers a focused point of view on the differential geometry of curves and surfaces. This monograph treats the Gauss - Bonnet theorem and discusses the Euler characteristic. It also covers Alexandrov's theorem on embedded compact surfaces in R3 with constant mean curvature.

Provides an introduction to hyperbolic geometry in dimension three, with motivation and applications arising from knot theory. The book was written to be interactive, with many examples and exercises. Some important results are left to guided exercises.

Provides a self-contained introduction to ordinary differential equations and dynamical systems suitable for beginning graduate students. It contains almost three hundred exercises. Additionally, the use of mathematical software systems is incorporated throughout, showing how they can help in the study of differential equations.

Extrinsic geometric flows are characterized by a submanifold evolving in an ambient space with velocity determined by its extrinsic curvature. The goal of this book is to give an extensive introduction to a few of the most prominent extrinsic flows, namely, the curve shortening flow, the mean curvature flow, the Gauss curvature flow, the inverse-mean curvature flow, and fully nonlinear flows of mean curvature and inverse-mean curvature type. The authors highlight techniques and behaviors that frequently arise in the study of these (and other) flows. To illustrate the broad applicability of the techniques developed, they also consider general classes of fully nonlinear curvature flows. The book is written at the level of a graduate student who has had a basic course in differential geometry and has some familiarity with partial differential equations. It is intended also to be useful as a reference for specialists. In general, the authors provide detailed proofs, although for some more specialized results they may only present the main ideas; in such cases, they provide references for complete proofs. A brief survey of additional topics, with extensive references, can be found in the notes and commentary at the end of each chapter.