
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 2, The Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping Class Groups
Volume 2, the Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping Class Groups
Cambridge University Press
Published on 7. August 1997
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Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-521-59641-1 (ISBN)
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This book surveys progress in the domains described in the hitherto unpublished manuscript 'Esquisse d'un Programme' (Sketch of a Program) by Alexander Grothendieck. It will be of wide interest amongst workers in algebraic geometry, number theory, algebra and topology.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
584 gr
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978-0-521-59641-1 (9780521596411)
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Leila Schneps | Pierre Lochak
Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 2, The Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping Class Groups
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Content
List of participants; Abstracts of the talks; Part I. Introduction: Part II. Abstracts: Part III. Dessins d'enfants: 1. Unicellular cartography and Galois orbits of plane trees N. Adrianov, G. Shabat; 2. Galois groups, monodromy groups and cartographical groups G. Jones, M. Streit; 3. Drawings, triangle groups and algebraic curves W. Harvey; 4. Permutation techniques for coset representations of modular subgroups T. Hsu; 5. On groups acting on dessin-labeled objects V. Shabat; 6. Dessins d'enfants en genre 1 L. Zapponi; Part IV. Inverse Galois Problem: 7. The regular inverse Galois problem over large fields P. Debes, B. Deschamps; 8. The symplectic braid group and Galois realizations K. Strambach, H. Volklein; 9. Obstructed components of A5 modular towers M. Fried, Y. Kopeliovic; Part V. Galois Actions And Mapping Class Groups: 10. Monodromy of iterated integrals (non-Abelian unipotent periods) Z. Wojtkowiak; 11. Deformation of singularities and mapping class groups M. Matsumoto; Part VI. Universal Teichmueller Theory: 12. The universal Ptolemy group and its completions R. Penner; 13. Sur l'isomorphisme du groupe de Richard Thompson avec le groupe de Ptolemee M. Imbert, V. Sergiescu; 14. The universal Ptolemy-Teichmuller groupoid P. Lochak, L. Schneps.