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Dynamical Systems of Algebraic Origin

Author : Klaus Schmidt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3034802765
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamical Systems of Algebraic Origin by : Klaus Schmidt

Download or read book Dynamical Systems of Algebraic Origin written by Klaus Schmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much of classical ergodic theory is concerned with single transformations and one-parameter flows, the subject inherits from statistical mechanics not only its name, but also an obligation to analyze spatially extended systems with multidimensional symmetry groups. However, the wealth of concrete and natural examples which has contributed so much to the appeal and development of classical dynamics, is noticeably absent in this more general theory. The purpose of this book is to help remedy this scarcity of explicit examples by introducing a class of continuous Zd-actions diverse enough to exhibit many of the new phenomena encountered in the transition from Z to Zd, but which nevertheless lends itself to systematic study: the Zd-actions by automorphisms of compact, abelian groups. One aspect of these actions, not surprising in itself but quite striking in its extent and depth nonetheless, is the connection with commutative algebra and arithmetical algebraic geometry. The algebraic framework resulting from this connection allows the construction of examples with a variety of specified dynamical properties, and by combining algebraic and dynamical tools one obtains a quite detailed understanding of this class of Zd-actions.

Algebraic and Symbolic Computation Methods in Dynamical Systems

Author : Alban Quadrat
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030383563
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Algebraic and Symbolic Computation Methods in Dynamical Systems by : Alban Quadrat

Download or read book Algebraic and Symbolic Computation Methods in Dynamical Systems written by Alban Quadrat and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at reviewing recent progress in the direction of algebraic and symbolic computation methods for functional systems, e.g. ODE systems, differential time-delay equations, difference equations and integro-differential equations. In the nineties, modern algebraic theories were introduced in mathematical systems theory and in control theory. Combined with real algebraic geometry, which was previously introduced in control theory, the past years have seen a flourishing development of algebraic methods in control theory. One of the strengths of algebraic methods lies in their close connections to computations. The use of the above-mentioned algebraic theories in control theory has been an important source of motivation to develop effective versions of these theories (when possible). With the development of computer algebra and computer algebra systems, symbolic methods for control theory have been developed over the past years. The goal of this book is to propose a partial state of the art in this direction. To make recent results more easily accessible to a large audience, the chapters include materials which survey the main mathematical methods and results and which are illustrated with explicit examples.

Applied Algebraic Dynamics

Author : Vladimir Anashin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110203006
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Applied Algebraic Dynamics by : Vladimir Anashin

Download or read book Applied Algebraic Dynamics written by Vladimir Anashin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the Expositions is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over more than two decades, the series offers a large library of mathematical works, including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers interested in a thorough study of the subject. Editorial Board Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Cear , Fortaleza, Brasil Walter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USA Markus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Dierk Schleicher, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Katrin Wendland, University of Freiburg, Germany Honorary Editor Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Titles in planning include Yuri A. Bahturin, Identical Relations in Lie Algebras (2019) Yakov G. Berkovich, Lev G. Kazarin, and Emmanuel M. Zhmud', Characters of Finite Groups, Volume 2 (2019) Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira, Variational Problems for Hypersurfaces in Riemannian Manifolds (2019) Volker Mayer, Mariusz Urbański, and Anna Zdunik, Random and Conformal Dynamical Systems (2021) Ioannis Diamantis, Bostjan Gabrovsek, Sofia Lambropoulou, and Maciej Mroczkowski, Knot Theory of Lens Spaces (2021)

Integrable Systems in the Realm of Algebraic Geometry

Author : Pol Vanhaecke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540445765
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Integrable Systems in the Realm of Algebraic Geometry by : Pol Vanhaecke

Download or read book Integrable Systems in the Realm of Algebraic Geometry written by Pol Vanhaecke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats the general theory of Poisson structures and integrable systems on affine varieties in a systematic way. Special attention is drawn to algebraic completely integrable systems. Several integrable systems are constructed and studied in detail and a few applications of integrable systems to algebraic geometry are worked out. In the second edition some of the concepts in Poisson geometry are clarified by introducting Poisson cohomology; the Mumford systems are constructed from the algebra of pseudo-differential operators, which clarifies their origin; a new explanation of the multi Hamiltonian structure of the Mumford systems is given by using the loop algebra of sl(2); and finally Goedesic flow on SO(4) is added to illustrate the linearizatin algorith and to give another application of integrable systems to algebraic geometry.

Normal Forms and Unfoldings for Local Dynamical Systems

Author : James Murdock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387217851
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis Normal Forms and Unfoldings for Local Dynamical Systems by : James Murdock

Download or read book Normal Forms and Unfoldings for Local Dynamical Systems written by James Murdock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most thorough treatment of normal forms currently existing in book form. There is a substantial gap between elementary treatments in textbooks and advanced research papers on normal forms. This book develops all the necessary theory 'from scratch' in just the form that is needed for the application to normal forms, with as little unnecessary terminology as possible.

Partial Dynamical Systems, Fell Bundles and Applications

Author : Ruy Exel
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470437856
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Partial Dynamical Systems, Fell Bundles and Applications by : Ruy Exel

Download or read book Partial Dynamical Systems, Fell Bundles and Applications written by Ruy Exel and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial dynamical systems, originally developed as a tool to study algebras of operators in Hilbert spaces, has recently become an important branch of algebra. Its most powerful results allow for understanding structural properties of algebras, both in the purely algebraic and in the C*-contexts, in terms of the dynamical properties of certain systems which are often hiding behind algebraic structures. The first indication that the study of an algebra using partial dynamical systems may be helpful is the presence of a grading. While the usual theory of graded algebras often requires gradings to be saturated, the theory of partial dynamical systems is especially well suited to treat nonsaturated graded algebras which are in fact the source of the notion of “partiality”. One of the main results of the book states that every graded algebra satisfying suitable conditions may be reconstructed from a partial dynamical system via a process called the partial crossed product. Running in parallel with partial dynamical systems, partial representations of groups are also presented and studied in depth. In addition to presenting main theoretical results, several specific examples are analyzed, including Wiener–Hopf algebras and graph C*-algebras.

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Of Mathematical Physics: Spectral And Symplectic Integrability Analysis

Author : Denis Blackmore
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814462713
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Book Synopsis Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Of Mathematical Physics: Spectral And Symplectic Integrability Analysis by : Denis Blackmore

Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Of Mathematical Physics: Spectral And Symplectic Integrability Analysis written by Denis Blackmore and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinctive volume presents a clear, rigorous grounding in modern nonlinear integrable dynamics theory and applications in mathematical physics, and an introduction to timely leading-edge developments in the field — including some innovations by the authors themselves — that have not appeared in any other book.The exposition begins with an introduction to modern integrable dynamical systems theory, treating such topics as Liouville-Arnold and Mischenko-Fomenko integrability. This sets the stage for such topics as new formulations of the gradient-holonomic algorithm for Lax integrability, novel treatments of classical integration by quadratures, Lie-algebraic characterizations of integrability, and recent results on tensor Poisson structures. Of particular note is the development via spectral reduction of a generalized de Rham-Hodge theory, related to Delsarte-Lions operators, leading to new Chern type classes useful for integrability analysis. Also included are elements of quantum mathematics along with applications to Whitham systems, gauge theories, hadronic string models, and a supplement on fundamental differential-geometric concepts making this volume essentially self-contained.This book is ideal as a reference and guide to new directions in research for advanced students and researchers interested in the modern theory and applications of integrable (especially infinite-dimensional) dynamical systems.

Holomorphic Dynamical Systems

Author : Nessim Sibony
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642131700
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis Holomorphic Dynamical Systems by : Nessim Sibony

Download or read book Holomorphic Dynamical Systems written by Nessim Sibony and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of holomorphic dynamical systems is a subject of increasing interest in mathematics, both for its challenging problems and for its connections with other branches of pure and applied mathematics. A holomorphic dynamical system is the datum of a complex variety and a holomorphic object (such as a self-map or a vector ?eld) acting on it. The study of a holomorphic dynamical system consists in describing the asymptotic behavior of the system, associating it with some invariant objects (easy to compute) which describe the dynamics and classify the possible holomorphic dynamical systems supported by a given manifold. The behavior of a holomorphic dynamical system is pretty much related to the geometry of the ambient manifold (for instance, - perbolic manifolds do no admit chaotic behavior, while projective manifolds have a variety of different chaotic pictures). The techniques used to tackle such pr- lems are of variouskinds: complexanalysis, methodsof real analysis, pluripotential theory, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, topology. To cover all the possible points of view of the subject in a unique occasion has become almost impossible, and the CIME session in Cetraro on Holomorphic Dynamical Systems was not an exception.

Dynamical Systems and Applications

Author : Ravi P. Agarwal
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810223830
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (238 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamical Systems and Applications by : Ravi P. Agarwal

Download or read book Dynamical Systems and Applications written by Ravi P. Agarwal and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Scientific series in Applicable Analysis (WSSIAA) aims at reporting new developments of high mathematical standard and current interest. Each volume in the series shall be devoted to the mathematical analysis that has been applied or potentially applicable to the solutions of scientific, engineering, and social problems. For the past twenty five years, there has been an explosion of interest in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems. Mathematical techniques developed during this period have been applied to important nonlinear problems ranging from physics and chemistry to ecology and economics. All these developments have made dynamical systems theory an important and attractive branch of mathematics to scientists in many disciplines. This rich mathematical subject has been partially represented in this collection of 45 papers by some of the leading researchers in the area. This volume contains 45 state-of-art articles on the mathematical theory of dynamical systems by leading researchers. It is hoped that this collection will lead new direction in this field.Contributors: B Abraham-Shrauner, V Afraimovich, N U Ahmed, B Aulbach, E J Avila-Vales, F Battelli, J M Blazquez, L Block, T A Burton, R S Cantrell, C Y Chan, P Collet, R Cushman, M Denker, F N Diacu, Y H Ding, N S A El-Sharif, J E Fornaess, M Frankel, R Galeeva, A Galves, V Gershkovich, M Girardi, L Gotusso, J Graczyk, Y Hino, I Hoveijn, V Hutson, P B Kahn, J Kato, J Keesling, S Keras, V Kolmanovskii, N V Minh, V Mioc, K Mischaikow, M Misiurewicz, J W Mooney, M E Muldoon, S Murakami, M Muraskin, A D Myshkis, F Neuman, J C Newby, Y Nishiura, Z Nitecki, M Ohta, G Osipenko, N Ozalp, M Pollicott, Min Qu, Donal O-Regan, E Romanenko, V Roytburd, L Shaikhet, J Shidawara, N Sibony, W-H Steeb, C Stoica, G Swiatek, T Takaishi, N D Thai Son, R Triggiani, A E Tuma, E H Twizell, M Urbanski; T D Van, A Vanderbauwhede, A Veneziani, G Vickers, X Xiang, T Young, Y Zarmi.

Optimization and Dynamical Systems

Author : Uwe Helmke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447134672
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Optimization and Dynamical Systems written by Uwe Helmke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is aimed at mathematics and engineering graduate students and researchers in the areas of optimization, dynamical systems, control sys tems, signal processing, and linear algebra. The motivation for the results developed here arises from advanced engineering applications and the emer gence of highly parallel computing machines for tackling such applications. The problems solved are those of linear algebra and linear systems the ory, and include such topics as diagonalizing a symmetric matrix, singular value decomposition, balanced realizations, linear programming, sensitivity minimization, and eigenvalue assignment by feedback control. The tools are those, not only of linear algebra and systems theory, but also of differential geometry. The problems are solved via dynamical sys tems implementation, either in continuous time or discrete time , which is ideally suited to distributed parallel processing. The problems tackled are indirectly or directly concerned with dynamical systems themselves, so there is feedback in that dynamical systems are used to understand and optimize dynamical systems. One key to the new research results has been the recent discovery of rather deep existence and uniqueness results for the solution of certain matrix least squares optimization problems in geomet ric invariant theory. These problems, as well as many other optimization problems arising in linear algebra and systems theory, do not always admit solutions which can be found by algebraic methods.

Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory and Applications

Author : L.A. Bunimovich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540663164
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (631 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory and Applications by : L.A. Bunimovich

Download or read book Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory and Applications written by L.A. Bunimovich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-04-05 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This EMS volume, the first edition of which was published as Dynamical Systems II, EMS 2, familiarizes the reader with the fundamental ideas and results of modern ergodic theory and its applications to dynamical systems and statistical mechanics. The enlarged and revised second edition adds two new contributions on ergodic theory of flows on homogeneous manifolds and on methods of algebraic geometry in the theory of interval exchange transformations.

An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding

Author : Douglas Lind
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110882028X
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding by : Douglas Lind

Download or read book An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding written by Douglas Lind and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elementary introduction to symbolic dynamics, updated to describe the main advances in the subject since the original publication in 1995.

Symbolic Dynamics

Author : Bruce P. Kitchens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642588220
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Symbolic Dynamics written by Bruce P. Kitchens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly one hundred years ago Jacques Hadamard used infinite sequences of symbols to analyze the distribution of geodesics on certain surfaces. That was the beginning of symbolic dynamics. In the 1930's and 40's Arnold Hedlund and Marston Morse again used infinite sequences to investigate geodesics on surfaces of negative curvature. They coined the term symbolic dynamics and began to study sequence spaces with the shift transformation as dynamical systems. In the 1940's Claude Shannon used sequence spaces to describe infor mation channels. Since that time symbolic dynamics has been used in ergodic theory, topological dynamics, hyperbolic dynamics, information theory and complex dynamics. Symbolic dynamical systems with a finite memory are stud ied in this book. They are the topological Markov shifts. Each can be defined by transition rules and the rules can be summarized by a transition matrix. The study naturally divides into two parts. The first part is about topological Markov shifts where the alphabet is finite. The second part is concerned with topological Markov shifts whose alphabet is count ably infinite. The techniques used in the two cases are quite different. When the alphabet is finite most of the methods are combinatorial or algebraic. When the alphabet is infinite the methods are much more analytic. This book grew from notes for a graduate course taught at Wesleyan Uni versity in the fall of 1994 and is intended as a graduate text and as a reference book for mathematicians working in related fields.

European Congress of Mathematics

Author : Antal Balog
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034888988
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book European Congress of Mathematics written by Antal Balog and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of the procedings of the second European Congress of Mathematics. Volume I presents the speeches delivered at the Congress, the list of lectures, and short summaries of the achievements of the prize winners. Together with volume II it contains a collection of contributions by the invited lecturers. Finally, volume II also presents reports on some of the Round Table discussions. This two-volume set thus gives an overview of the state of the art in many fields of mathematics and is therefore of interest to every professional mathematician. Contributors: Vol. I: N. Alon, L. Ambrosio, K. Astala, R. Benedetti, Ch. Bessenrodt, F. Bethuel, P. Bjørstad, E. Bolthausen, J. Bricmont, A. Kupiainen, D. Burago, L. Caporaso, U. Dierkes, I. Dynnikov, L.H. Eliasson, W.T. Gowers, H. Hedenmalm, A. Huber, J. Kaczorowski, J. Kollár, D.O. Kramkov, A.N. Shiryaev, C. Lescop, R. März. Vol. II: J. Matousek, D. McDuff, A.S. Merkurjev, V. Milman, St. Müller, T. Nowicki, E. Olivieri, E. Scoppola, V.P. Platonov, J. Pöschel, L. Polterovich , L. Pyber, N. Simányi, J.P. Solovej, A. Stipsicz, G. Tardos, J.-P. Tignol, A.P. Veselov, E. Zuazua.

Ergodic Theory

Author : I. P. Cornfeld
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461569273
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Ergodic Theory by : I. P. Cornfeld

Download or read book Ergodic Theory written by I. P. Cornfeld and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ergodic theory is one of the few branches of mathematics which has changed radically during the last two decades. Before this period, with a small number of exceptions, ergodic theory dealt primarily with averaging problems and general qualitative questions, while now it is a powerful amalgam of methods used for the analysis of statistical properties of dyna mical systems. For this reason, the problems of ergodic theory now interest not only the mathematician, but also the research worker in physics, biology, chemistry, etc. The outline of this book became clear to us nearly ten years ago but, for various reasons, its writing demanded a long period of time. The main principle, which we adhered to from the beginning, was to develop the approaches and methods or ergodic theory in the study of numerous concrete examples. Because of this, Part I of the book contains the description of various classes of dynamical systems, and their elementary analysis on the basis of the fundamental notions of ergodicity, mixing, and spectra of dynamical systems. Here, as in many other cases, the adjective" elementary" i~ not synonymous with "simple. " Part II is devoted to "abstract ergodic theory. " It includes the construc tion of direct and skew products of dynamical systems, the Rohlin-Halmos lemma, and the theory of special representations of dynamical systems with continuous time. A considerable part deals with entropy.

Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory

Author : Yves Aubry
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821875728
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory by : Yves Aubry

Download or read book Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory written by Yves Aubry and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the 13th $\mathrm{AGC^2T}$ conference, held March 14-18, 2011, in Marseille, France, together with the proceedings of the 2011 Geocrypt conference, held June 19-24, 2011, in Bastia, France. The original research articles contained in this volume cover various topics ranging from algebraic number theory to Diophantine geometry, curves and abelian varieties over finite fields and applications to codes, boolean functions or cryptography. The international conference $\mathrm{AGC^2T}$, which is held every two years in Marseille, France, has been a major event in the area of applied arithmetic geometry for more than 25 years.

Geometry of Subanalytic and Semialgebraic Sets

Author : Masahiro Shiota
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461220084
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Book Synopsis Geometry of Subanalytic and Semialgebraic Sets by : Masahiro Shiota

Download or read book Geometry of Subanalytic and Semialgebraic Sets written by Masahiro Shiota and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real analytic sets in Euclidean space (Le. , sets defined locally at each point of Euclidean space by the vanishing of an analytic function) were first investigated in the 1950's by H. Cartan [Car], H. Whitney [WI-3], F. Bruhat [W-B] and others. Their approach was to derive information about real analytic sets from properties of their complexifications. After some basic geometrical and topological facts were established, however, the study of real analytic sets stagnated. This contrasted the rapid develop ment of complex analytic geometry which followed the groundbreaking work of the early 1950's. Certain pathologies in the real case contributed to this failure to progress. For example, the closure of -or the connected components of-a constructible set (Le. , a locally finite union of differ ences of real analytic sets) need not be constructible (e. g. , R - {O} and 3 2 2 { (x, y, z) E R : x = zy2, x + y2 -=I- O}, respectively). Responding to this in the 1960's, R. Thorn [Thl], S. Lojasiewicz [LI,2] and others undertook the study of a larger class of sets, the semianalytic sets, which are the sets defined locally at each point of Euclidean space by a finite number of ana lytic function equalities and inequalities. They established that semianalytic sets admit Whitney stratifications and triangulations, and using these tools they clarified the local topological structure of these sets. For example, they showed that the closure and the connected components of a semianalytic set are semianalytic.