Group Actions In Ergodic Theory Geometry And Topology

Author : Robert J. Zimmer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656827X
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Group Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology written by Robert J. Zimmer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert J. Zimmer is best known in mathematics for the highly influential conjectures and program that bear his name. Group Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology: Selected Papers brings together some of the most significant writings by Zimmer, which lay out his program and contextualize his work over the course of his career. Zimmer’s body of work is remarkable in that it involves methods from a variety of mathematical disciplines, such as Lie theory, differential geometry, ergodic theory and dynamical systems, arithmetic groups, and topology, and at the same time offers a unifying perspective. After arriving at the University of Chicago in 1977, Zimmer extended his earlier research on ergodic group actions to prove his cocycle superrigidity theorem which proved to be a pivotal point in articulating and developing his program. Zimmer’s ideas opened the door to many others, and they continue to be actively employed in many domains related to group actions in ergodic theory, geometry, and topology. In addition to the selected papers themselves, this volume opens with a foreword by David Fisher, Alexander Lubotzky, and Gregory Margulis, as well as a substantial introductory essay by Zimmer recounting the course of his career in mathematics. The volume closes with an afterword by Fisher on the most recent developments around the Zimmer program.

Author : M. Bachir Bekka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521660303
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics of Group Actions on Homogeneous Spaces written by M. Bachir Bekka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, focuses on developments in the study of geodesic flows on homogenous spaces.

Author : Robert J Zimmer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226237907
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions written by Robert J Zimmer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of group actions is more than a hundred years old but remains to this day a vibrant and widely studied topic in a variety of mathematic fields. A central development in the last fifty years is the phenomenon of rigidity, whereby one can classify actions of certain groups, such as lattices in semi-simple Lie groups. This provides a way to classify all possible symmetries of important spaces and all spaces admitting given symmetries. Paradigmatic results can be found in the seminal work of George Mostow, Gergory Margulis, and Robert J. Zimmer, among others. The papers in Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions explore the role of group actions and rigidity in several areas of mathematics, including ergodic theory, dynamics, geometry, topology, and the algebraic properties of representation varieties. In some cases, the dynamics of the possible group actions are the principal focus of inquiry. In other cases, the dynamics of group actions are a tool for proving theorems about algebra, geometry, or topology. This volume contains surveys of some of the main directions in the field, as well as research articles on topics of current interest.

Author : Robert J. Zimmer
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821883364
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ergodic Theory, Groups, and Geometry written by Robert J. Zimmer and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study of group actions on manifolds is the meeting ground of a variety of mathematical areas. In particular, interesting geometric insights can be obtained by applying measure-theoretic techniques. This book provides an introduction to some of the important methods, major developments, and open problems in the subject. It is slightly expanded from lectures given by Zimmer at the CBMS conference at the University of Minnesota. The main text presents a perspective on the field as it was at that time. Comments at the end of each chapter provide selected suggestions for further reading, including references to recent developments."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : S. G. Dani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811506833
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geometric and Ergodic Aspects of Group Actions written by S. G. Dani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers papers on recent advances in the ergodic theory of group actions on homogeneous spaces and on geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds presented at the workshop “Geometric and Ergodic Aspects of Group Actions,” organized by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, in 2018. Written by eminent scientists, and providing clear, detailed accounts of various topics at the interface of ergodic theory, the theory of homogeneous dynamics, and the geometry of hyperbolic surfaces, the book is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced graduate students in mathematics.

Author : Boris Hasselblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521875412
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics, Ergodic Theory and Geometry written by Boris Hasselblatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the subjects from the Clay Mathematics Institute/Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Workshop titled 'Recent Progress in Dynamics' in September and October 2004, this volume contains surveys and research articles by leading experts in several areas of dynamical systems that have experienced substantial progress. One of the major surveys is on symplectic geometry, which is closely related to classical mechanics and an exciting addition to modern geometry. The survey on local rigidity of group actions gives a broad and up-to-date account of another flourishing subject. Other papers cover hyperbolic, parabolic, and symbolic dynamics as well as ergodic theory. Students and researchers in dynamical systems, geometry, and related areas will find this book fascinating. The book also includes a fifty-page commented problem list that takes the reader beyond the areas covered by the surveys, to inspire and guide further research.

Author : A. S. Kechris
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821848941
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Aspects of Ergodic Group Actions written by A. S. Kechris and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of ergodic, measure preserving actions of countable discrete groups on standard probability spaces. It explores a direction that emphasizes a global point of view, concentrating on the structure of the space of measure preserving actions of a given group and its associated cocycle spaces.

Author : Mikhail Kapranov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764386085
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geometry and Dynamics of Groups and Spaces written by Mikhail Kapranov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Reznikov (1960-2003) was a brilliant and highly original mathematician. This book presents 18 articles by prominent mathematicians and is dedicated to his memory. In addition it contains an influential, so far unpublished manuscript by Reznikov of book length. The book further provides an extensive survey on Kleinian groups in higher dimensions and some articles centering on Reznikov as a person.

Author : Robert J. Zimmer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226237893
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions written by Robert J. Zimmer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of group actions is more than 100 years old but remains a widely studied topic in a variety of mathematic fields. A central development in the last 50 years is the phenomenon of rigidity, whereby one can classify actions of certain groups. This book looks at rigidity.

Author : Gregori A. Margulis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540121794
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discrete Subgroups of Semisimple Lie Groups written by Gregori A. Margulis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1991-02-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete subgroups have played a central role throughout the development of numerous mathematical disciplines. Discontinuous group actions and the study of fundamental regions are of utmost importance to modern geometry. Flows and dynamical systems on homogeneous spaces have found a wide range of applications, and of course number theory without discrete groups is unthinkable. This book, written by a master of the subject, is primarily devoted to discrete subgroups of finite covolume in semi-simple Lie groups. Since the notion of "Lie group" is sufficiently general, the author not only proves results in the classical geometry setting, but also obtains theorems of an algebraic nature, e.g. classification results on abstract homomorphisms of semi-simple algebraic groups over global fields. The treatise of course contains a presentation of the author's fundamental rigidity and arithmeticity theorems. The work in this monograph requires the language and basic results from fields such as algebraic groups, ergodic theory, the theory of unitary representatons, and the theory of amenable groups. The author develops the necessary material from these subjects; so that, while the book is of obvious importance for researchers working in related areas, it is essentially self-contained and therefore is also of great interest for advanced students.