Groups and group theory

The primary goal of these lectures is to introduce a beginner to the finite- dimensional representations of Lie groups and Lie algebras.

It is gratifying to learn that there is new life in an old field that has been at the center of one's existence for over a quarter of a century.

This monograph studies women and men as friends from a developmental perspective.

This book studies the modules arising in Fourier expansions of automorphic forms, namely Fourier term modules on SU(2,1), the smallest rank one Lie group with a non-abelian unipotent subgroup.

This volume contains one invited lecture which was presented by the 1994 Fields Medal- ist Professor E.

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.

Mumford-Tate groups are the fundamental symmetry groups of Hodge theory, a subject which rests at the center of contemporary complex algebraic geometry.

This book explores the theory and application of locally nilpotent derivations, which is a subject of growing interest and importance not only among those in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, but also in fields such as Lie algebras and differential equations.

Hans Duistermaat, an influential geometer-analyst, made substantial contributions to the theory of ordinary and partial differential equations, symplectic, differential, and algebraic geometry, minimal surfaces, semisimple Lie groups, mechanics, mathematical physics, and related fields.

This book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and AIDS.

The second edition of this handbook explores the social, cognitive, motivational, interpersonal, clinical, and applied aspects of personal uncertainty.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

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

The book is intended to serve as an introductory course in group theory geared towards second-year university students.

This book studies diverse aspects of braid representations via knots and links.

This book shows how the ADE Coxeter graphs unify at least 20 different types of mathematical structures.

This textbook explores advanced topics in differential geometry, chosen for their particular relevance to modern geometry processing.

Over the past 40 years, there has been a growing trend toward the utilization of teams for accomplishing work in organizations.

This monograph provides a comprehensive introduction to the Kazhdan-Lusztig theory of cells in the broader context of the unequal parameter case.

This volume contains a collection of papers on the subject of the classification of finite simple groups.

During the last ten years a powerful technique for the study of partial differential equations with regular singularities has developed using the theory of hyperfunctions.

Human Communication Theory and Research introduces students to the growing body of theory and research in communication, demonstrating the integration between the communication efforts of interpersonal, organizational, and mediated settings.

Bifurcation theory studies how the structure of solutions to equations changes as parameters are varied.

A locally compact group has the Haagerup property, or is a-T-menable in the sense of Gromov, if it admits a proper isometric action on some affine Hilbert space.

This book explores the classical and beautiful character theory of finite groups.

Algebraic groups are treated in this volume from a group theoretical point of view and the obtained results are compared with the analogous issues in the theory of Lie groups.

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.

This textbook provides a concise, visual introduction to Hopf algebras and their application to knot theory, most notably the construction of solutions of the Yang-Baxter equations.

For over forty years, Robert Gilmer's numerous articles and books have had a tremendous impact on research in commutative algebra.

This book introduces the theory of enveloping semigroups-an important tool in the field of topological dynamics-introduced by Robert Ellis.

Dieses Buch über Permutationsgruppen bietet neben modernen Beweisen klassischer Ergebnisse, die bislang nicht in Buchform erschienen sind,  einen Zugang zur Klassifikation der primitiven Gruppen.

Can a sense of belonging increase life satisfaction?

This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging.

This book is devoted to the theory of geometries which are locally Euclidean, in the sense that in small regions they are identical to the geometry of the Euclidean plane or Euclidean 3-space.

This book provides a complete and comprehensive classification of normal 2-coverings of non-abelian simple groups and their generalizations.

Signs of Identity presents an interdisciplinary introduction to collective identity, using insights from social psychology, anthropology, sociology and the humanities.

The second edition of this handbook explores the social, cognitive, motivational, interpersonal, clinical, and applied aspects of personal uncertainty.

The Social Psychology of Behaviour in Small Groups covers theories of group behaviour and their application in organizational psychology.

Drawing upon international expertise, and including some of the most well-known academics and practitioners in the field, The Routledge International Handbook of Human Aggression is the first reference work to fully capture how our understanding of aggression has been refined and reconceptualised in recent years.

This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature.

For advanced undergraduates and graduates, introducing physicists to the mathematical aspects of group theory, and mathematicians to its physics applications.

This text for advanced undergraduates develops group theory from triangle symmetry to particle physics, supported by examples from research.

Special relativity and quantum mechanics, formulated early in the twentieth century, are the two most important scientific languages and are likely to remain so for many years to come.

This concise and practical textbook presents the essence of the theory on smooth manifolds.

Gullibility, whether we like it or not, is a fundamental characteristic of human beings.

This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely original approach to the subject of the mind-body problem, examining it in terms of the conceptual links between the physical sciences and the sciences of human behaviour.

A recurring theme in a traditional introductory graduate algebra course is the existence and consequences of relationships between different algebraic structures.