For mathematicians working in group theory, the study of the many infinite-dimensional groups has been carried out in an individual and non-coherent way. For the first time, these apparently disparate groups have been placed together, in order to construct the `big picture'. This book successfully gives an account of this - and shows how such seemingly dissimilar types such as the various groups of operators on Hilbert spaces, or current groups are shown to belong to a bigger entitity. This is a ground-breaking text will be important reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate mathematicians.
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Neretin's monograph is written in a colloquial style which sometimes reads more like the transcript of a good seminar, with numerous digressions and fascinating asides. His unconventional approach is apparent from the outset... the writing is clear. * Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society *
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-0-19-851186-1 (9780198511861)
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Professor, Department of Mathematical AnalysisProfessor, Department of Mathematical Analysis, Institute of Electronic Machine Building, 109028 Moscow, Bolshoi Vuzovsky per 3/12, Russia
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Preface ; 1. Visible and invisible structures on infinite-dimensional groups ; 2. Spinor representation ; 3. Representations of the complex classical categories ; 4. Fermion Fock space ; 5. The Weil representation: finite-dimensional case ; 6. The Weil representation: infinite-dimensional case ; 7. Representations of the diffeomorphisms of a circle and the Virasoro algebra ; 8. The heavy groups ; 9. Infinite-dimensional classical groups and almost invariant structures ; 10. Some algebraic constructions of measure theory ; Appendix A The real classical categories ; Appendix B Semple complexes, hinges, and boundaries of symmetric spaces ; Appendix C Boson-fermion correspondence ; Appendix D Univalent functions and the Grunsky operator ; Appendix E Characteristic Livsic function ; Appendix F Examples, counterexamples, notes ; References ; Index