Discrete Geometric Analysis

Author : Motoko Kotani
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821833510
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discrete Geometric Analysis written by Motoko Kotani and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects papers from the proceedings of the first symposium of the Japan Association for Mathematical Sciences. This book covers topics that center around problems of geometric analysis in relation to heat kernels, random walks, and Poisson boundaries on discrete groups, graphs, and other combinatorial objects.

Author : Martin T.Barlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784864970358
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discrete Geometric Analysis written by Martin T.Barlow and published by . This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a volume of lecture notes based on three series of lectures given by visiting professors of RIMS, Kyoto University during the year-long project 'Discrete Geometric Analysis', which took place in the Japanese academic year 2012-2013. The aim of the project was to make comprehensive research on topics related to discreteness in geometry, analysis and optimization.Discrete geometric analysis is a hybrid field of several traditional disciplines, including graph theory, geometry, discrete group theory, and probability. The name of the area was coined by Toshikazu Sunada, and since being introduced, it has been extending and making new interactions with many other fields.This volume consists of three chapters: (I) Loop Erased Walks and Uniform Spanning Trees, by Martin T Barlow; (II) Combinatorial Rigidity: Graphs and Matroids in the Theory of Rigid Frameworks, by Tibor Jordán; (III) Analysis and Geometry on Groups, by Andrzej Zuk.The lecture notes are useful surveys that provide an introduction to the history and recent progress in the areas covered. They will also help researchers who work in related interdisciplinary fields to gain an understanding of the material from the viewpoint of discrete geometric analysis.Published by Mathematical Society of Japan and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. for all markets

Author : Toshikazu Sunada
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431541772
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topological Crystallography written by Toshikazu Sunada and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geometry in ancient Greece is said to have originated in the curiosity of mathematicians about the shapes of crystals, with that curiosity culminating in the classification of regular convex polyhedra addressed in the final volume of Euclid’s Elements. Since then, geometry has taken its own path and the study of crystals has not been a central theme in mathematics, with the exception of Kepler’s work on snowflakes. Only in the nineteenth century did mathematics begin to play a role in crystallography as group theory came to be applied to the morphology of crystals. This monograph follows the Greek tradition in seeking beautiful shapes such as regular convex polyhedra. The primary aim is to convey to the reader how algebraic topology is effectively used to explore the rich world of crystal structures. Graph theory, homology theory, and the theory of covering maps are employed to introduce the notion of the topological crystal which retains, in the abstract, all the information on the connectivity of atoms in the crystal. For that reason the title Topological Crystallography has been chosen. Topological crystals can be described as “living in the logical world, not in space,” leading to the question of how to place or realize them “canonically” in space. Proposed here is the notion of standard realizations of topological crystals in space, including as typical examples the crystal structures of diamond and lonsdaleite. A mathematical view of the standard realizations is also provided by relating them to asymptotic behaviors of random walks and harmonic maps. Furthermore, it can be seen that a discrete analogue of algebraic geometry is linked to the standard realizations. Applications of the discussions in this volume include not only a systematic enumeration of crystal structures, an area of considerable scientific interest for many years, but also the architectural design of lightweight rigid structures. The reader therefore can see the agreement of theory and practice.

Author : Jiri Matousek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461300398
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Discrete Geometry written by Jiri Matousek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main topics in this introductory text to discrete geometry include basics on convex sets, convex polytopes and hyperplane arrangements, combinatorial complexity of geometric configurations, intersection patterns and transversals of convex sets, geometric Ramsey-type results, and embeddings of finite metric spaces into normed spaces. In each area, the text explains several key results and methods.

Author : Károly Bezdek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441906002
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Topics in Discrete Geometry written by Károly Bezdek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geometry is a classical core part of mathematics which, with its birth, marked the beginning of the mathematical sciences. Thus, not surprisingly, geometry has played a key role in many important developments of mathematics in the past, as well as in present times. While focusing on modern mathematics, one has to emphasize the increasing role of discrete mathematics, or equivalently, the broad movement to establish discrete analogues of major components of mathematics. In this way, the works of a number of outstanding mathema- cians including H. S. M. Coxeter (Canada), C. A. Rogers (United Kingdom), and L. Fejes-T oth (Hungary) led to the new and fast developing eld called discrete geometry. One can brie y describe this branch of geometry as the study of discrete arrangements of geometric objects in Euclidean, as well as in non-Euclidean spaces. This, as a classical core part, also includes the theory of polytopes and tilings in addition to the theory of packing and covering. D- crete geometry is driven by problems often featuring a very clear visual and applied character. The solutions use a variety of methods of modern mat- matics, including convex and combinatorial geometry, coding theory, calculus of variations, di erential geometry, group theory, and topology, as well as geometric analysis and number theory.

Author : Howe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489966641
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discrete Groups in Geometry and Analysis written by Howe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Li M. Chen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319120999
Total Pages : 325 pages
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Download or read book Digital and Discrete Geometry written by Li M. Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comprehensive coverage of the modern methods for geometric problems in the computing sciences. It also covers concurrent topics in data sciences including geometric processing, manifold learning, Google search, cloud data, and R-tree for wireless networks and BigData. The author investigates digital geometry and its related constructive methods in discrete geometry, offering detailed methods and algorithms. The book is divided into five sections: basic geometry; digital curves, surfaces and manifolds; discretely represented objects; geometric computation and processing; and advanced topics. Chapters especially focus on the applications of these methods to other types of geometry, algebraic topology, image processing, computer vision and computer graphics. Digital and Discrete Geometry: Theory and Algorithms targets researchers and professionals working in digital image processing analysis, medical imaging (such as CT and MRI) and informatics, computer graphics, computer vision, biometrics, and information theory. Advanced-level students in electrical engineering, mathematics, and computer science will also find this book useful as a secondary text book or reference. Praise for this book: This book does present a large collection of important concepts, of mathematical, geometrical, or algorithmical nature, that are frequently used in computer graphics and image processing. These concepts range from graphs through manifolds to homology. Of particular value are the sections dealing with discrete versions of classic continuous notions. The reader finds compact definitions and concise explanations that often appeal to intuition, avoiding finer, but then necessarily more complicated, arguments... As a first introduction, or as a reference for professionals working in computer graphics or image processing, this book should be of considerable value." - Prof. Dr. Rolf Klein, University of Bonn.

Author : Peter Brass
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387238158
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Problems in Discrete Geometry written by Peter Brass and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of a 25-year-old project and comprises a collection of more than 500 attractive open problems in the field. The largely self-contained chapters provide a broad overview of discrete geometry, along with historical details and the most important partial results related to these problems. This book is intended as a source book for both professional mathematicians and graduate students who love beautiful mathematical questions, are willing to spend sleepless nights thinking about them, and who would like to get involved in mathematical research.

Author : Janos Pach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642580432
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Trends in Discrete and Computational Geometry written by Janos Pach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete and computational geometry are two fields which in recent years have benefitted from the interaction between mathematics and computer science. The results are applicable in areas such as motion planning, robotics, scene analysis, and computer aided design. The book consists of twelve chapters summarizing the most recent results and methods in discrete and computational geometry. All authors are well-known experts in these fields. They give concise and self-contained surveys of the most efficient combinatorical, probabilistic and topological methods that can be used to design effective geometric algorithms for the applications mentioned above. Most of the methods and results discussed in the book have not appeared in any previously published monograph. In particular, this book contains the first systematic treatment of epsilon-nets, geometric tranversal theory, partitions of Euclidean spaces and a general method for the analysis of randomized geometric algorithms. Apart from mathematicians working in discrete and computational geometry this book will also be of great use to computer scientists and engineers, who would like to learn about the most recent results.

Author : Alan F. Beardon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461211468
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geometry of Discrete Groups written by Alan F. Beardon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is intended to serve as an introduction to the geometry of the action of discrete groups of Mobius transformations. The subject matter has now been studied with changing points of emphasis for over a hundred years, the most recent developments being connected with the theory of 3-manifolds: see, for example, the papers of Poincare [77] and Thurston [101]. About 1940, the now well-known (but virtually unobtainable) Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript appeared. Sadly, the manuscript never appeared in print, and this more modest text attempts to display at least some of the beautiful geo metrical ideas to be found in that manuscript, as well as some more recent material. The text has been written with the conviction that geometrical explana tions are essential for a full understanding of the material and that however simple a matrix proof might seem, a geometric proof is almost certainly more profitable. Further, wherever possible, results should be stated in a form that is invariant under conjugation, thus making the intrinsic nature of the result more apparent. Despite the fact that the subject matter is concerned with groups of isometries of hyperbolic geometry, many publications rely on Euclidean estimates and geometry. However, the recent developments have again emphasized the need for hyperbolic geometry, and I have included a comprehensive chapter on analytical (not axiomatic) hyperbolic geometry. It is hoped that this chapter will serve as a "dictionary" offormulae in plane hyperbolic geometry and as such will be of interest and use in its own right.