Groups and group theory

Based upon a three-year multi-disciplinary international research project, Political and Civic Participation examines the interplay of factors affecting civic and political engagement and participation across different generations, nations and ethnic groups, and the shifting variety of forms that participation can take.

Aimed toward graduate students and research mathematicians, with minimal prerequisites this book  provides a fresh take on Alexandrov geometry and explains the importance of CAT(0) geometry in geometric group theory.

In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders.

After a few initial chapters on the basics of Mathematica, the logic of the book is controlled by group theory.

People and Spaces: Experience, Ethics, and Intent examines the dynamic relationship between built environments and human behavior in today's rapidly evolving world.

This collection of invited expository articles focuses on recent developments and trends in infinite-dimensional Lie theory, which has become one of the core areas of modern mathematics.

The study of the relationship between the person and the situation has had a long history in psychology.

This volume examines mathematics as a product of the human mind and analyzes the language of "e;pure mathematics"e; from various advanced-level sources.

How is it that cultures come into existence at all?

This edited volume provides an up-to-date review of current research on ostracism, social exclusion, and rejection.

This book describes the relation between profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics.

Making an Impact on Policing and Crime: Psychological Research, Policy and Practice applies a range of case studies and examples of psychological research by international, leading researchers to tackle real-world issues within the field of crime and policing.

With a rapidly aging population throughout the world, the issue of larger percentages of older adults has repercussions for both policy and the job market.

Polycyclic groups are built from cyclic groups in a specific way.

This book investigates the situated (re)production of categories, from the most mundane and unremarkable to those most strongly associated with power and privilege.

Eugene Wigner is one of the few giants of 20th-century physics.

The objectives of the volume are to direct the field's attention to the unique value of studying interactions between members of different groups and to offer the most up-to-date summaries of prominent and cutting-edge scholarship on this topic written by leading scholars in the field.

The theory of groups and Lie algebras is interesting for many reasons.

This text systematically presents the basics of quantum mechanics, emphasizing the role of Lie groups, Lie algebras, and their unitary representations.

This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue a greater understanding of how people are both public and private in their interactions.

This work provides the first classification theory of matrix-valued symmetry breaking operators from principal series representations of a reductive group to those of its subgroup.

Surveys the state of the art in geometric and cohomological group theory.

Originally published in 1982, Time Resources, Society and Ecology examines and seeks to examine the time dimension in terms of the ecology, technology, social organization and spatial structure of the human habitat.

Self and Identity: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction that draws on key theories and ideas in Social Psychology to explore the ways that other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

This is the fifth volume of a comprehensive and elementary treatment of finite p-group theory.

This book offers a concise introduction to ergodic methods in group homology, with a particular focus on the computation of L2-Betti numbers.

This volume contains contributions from leading experts in the rapidly developing field of semigroup theory.

Proceedings containing twenty articles by leading experts in group theory and its applications.

This book deals with the theory of Kac algebras and their dual- ity, elaborated independently by M.

As the first book to examine the psychological motivations underlying people's attitudes, as well as why people form attitudes, this volume presents empirical research describing theoretical perspectives and practical applications.

This volume deals with the K-theoretical aspects of the group rings of braid groups of the 2-sphere.

The Handbook of Relationship Initiation is the first volume to focus specifically on the very beginning stage of relationships - their origin.

Leading researchers survey the latest developments in group theory and many related areas.

Convolution and Equidistribution explores an important aspect of number theory--the theory of exponential sums over finite fields and their Mellin transforms--from a new, categorical point of view.

Introduction to Political Psychology explores the many psychological patterns that influence individual political behavior.

This book considers the so-called Unlikely Intersections, a topic that embraces well-known issues, such as Lang's and Manin-Mumford's, concerning torsion points in subvarieties of tori or abelian varieties.

Starting with the Schur-Zassenhaus theorem, this monograph documents a wide variety of results concerning complementation of normal subgroups in finite groups.

This book is an exposition of the theoretical foundations of hyperbolic manifolds.

This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective.

Understanding Media Psychology is an authoritative introductory textbook on the growing field of media psychology.

Multiple Dirichlet Series, L-functions and Automorphic Forms gives the latest advances in the rapidly developing subject of Multiple Dirichlet Series, an area with origins in the theory of automorphic forms that exhibits surprising and deep connections to crystal graphs and mathematical physics.

A modern presentation of the ''Lyapunov function'' method applied to near-critical stochastic systems, exemplified by non-homogeneous random walks.

This book focuses on the Symmetric Informationally Complete quantum measurements (SICs) in dimensions 2 and 3, along with one set of SICs in dimension 8.

Presenting diverse perspectives from eminent scholars and contemporary researchers, The Handbook of Impression Formation contextualizes current and future areas of research in the social psychology of impression formation within a rich historic framework.

This volume brings together research on cyberbullying across contexts, age groups, and cultures to gain a fuller perspective of the prevalence and impact of electronic mistreatment on individual, group, and organizational outcomes.