Bücher der Reihe London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series

This book covers the whole spectrum of number theory, and is composed of contributions from some of the best specialists worldwide.

The James space J and the James tree space JT were constructed as counterexamples to several outstanding conjectures in Banach space theory. This book is a compendium of most of the known results about these spaces, frequently taken from the original sources, but presented in a unified and up to date fashion. Generalisations of J and JT are also discussed and other pathological Banach spaces are introduced. Specialists will welcome this book for its drawing together of classical material and recent results. Graduate students should also find that this book offers an excellent introduction to more advanced topics in Banach space theory.

Surveys recent interactions between model theory and algebra, notably group theory. Topics include automorphism groups of algebraically closed fields, aspects of model theory of various classes of groups, and model theory of pseudo-finite fields and of modules. Contains the first comprehensive survey of finite covers.

This volume examines finite geometries and designs, a key area in modern applicable mathematics. It includes state-of-the-art surveys from leading international mathematicians in their fields, and will be a useful reference for researchers in many aspects of combinatorics.

In recent years the application of random matrix techniques to analytic number theory has been responsible for major advances in this area of mathematics. The aim of this book is to provide the necessary grounding as well as to inform the reader of recent progress.

Contains up-to-date contributions from leading international figures in analytic number theory. Topics discussed include the theory of zeta functions, spectral theory of automorphic forms, classical problems in additive number theory such as the Goldbach conjecture, and Diophantine approximations and equations.

This book has its origins in the 1996 Durham Symposium on 'Galois representations in arithmetic algebraic geometry'. Included here are expositions of subjects on the interface between algebraic number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry which have received substantial attention from many of the best known researchers in this field.

This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'. The articles cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. Proceedings of earlier 'Groups St Andrews' conferences have had a major impact on the development of group theory and these volumes should be equally important.

Authoritative lectures from world experts on spectral theory and geometry, arising from a meeting held under the auspices of the ICMS in Edinburgh. Together they survey core material and go beyond to reach deeper results. For graduate students and experts alike, this book will be a highly useful resource.

A comprehensive and self-contained exposition of the algebro-geometric theory of singularities of plane curves, covering both its classical and its modern aspects and presenting new, previously unpublished results. This book will be useful as a reference text for researchers and is also suitable as a textbook for postgraduate courses.

This book investigates the asymptotic behaviour of dynamical systems corresponding to parabolic equations.

Its self-contained presentation and 'do-it-yourself' approach makes this the perfect guide for graduate students wishing to access recent literature in the field of mathematical relativity. It introduces all of the key tools and concepts from Lorentzian geometry and provides complete elementary proofs. No previous knowledge of geometry is required.

Written to complement standard texts on commutative algebra, this short book gives complete and relatively easy proofs of important results, including the standard results involving localisation of formal smoothness (M. Andre) and localisation of complete intersections (L. Avramov), some important results of D. Popescu and Andre on regular homomorphisms, and some results from A. Grothendieck's EGA on smooth homomorphisms. The authors make extensive use of the Andre-Quillen homology of commutative algebras, but only up to dimension 2, which is easy to construct, and they deliberately avoid using simplicial methods. The book also serves as an accessible introduction to some advanced topics and techniques. The only prerequisites are a basic course in commutative algebra and the first definitions in homological algebra.

This edited volume contains a mixture of expository and current research material that illustrates the far-reaching impact of 'Monstrous Moonshine' on mathematics and theoretical physics and reflects the range of research activity that has stemmed from the Moonshine conjectures. Potential directions for future development are also discussed.

No leading university department of mathematics or statistics, or library, can afford to be without this unique text. Leading authorities give a unique insight into a wide range of currently topical problems, from the mathematics of road networks to the genomics of cancer.

A mixture of survey and research articles by leading experts that will be of interest to specialists in permutation patterns and other researchers in combinatorics and related fields. In addition, the volume provides plenty of material accessible to advanced undergraduates and is a suitable reference for projects and dissertations.

A 2010 collection of survey articles by leading experts covering fundamental aspects of triangulated categories, as well as applications in algebraic geometry, representation theory, commutative algebra, microlocal analysis and algebraic topology. This is a valuable reference for experts and a useful introduction for graduate students entering the field.

This book and its sister volume, Sets and Proofs, provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the current state of mathematical logic. All the authors are leaders in their fields and are drawn from invited speakers at 'Logic Colloquium '97' (the major international meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic).

This 2010 book was the first devoted to the theory of p-adic wavelets and pseudo-differential equations in the framework of distribution theory. This relatively recent theory has become increasingly important in the last decade with exciting applications in a variety of fields, including biology, image analysis, psychology, and information science. p-Adic mathematical physics also plays an important role in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, the theory of strings, quantum gravity and cosmology, and solid state physics. The authors include many new results, some of which constitute new areas in p-adic analysis related to the theory of distributions, such as wavelet theory, the theory of pseudo-differential operators and equations, asymptotic methods, and harmonic analysis. Any researcher working with applications of p-adic analysis will find much of interest in this book. Its extended introduction and self-contained presentation also make it accessible to graduate students approaching the theory for the first time.

This volume contains articles based on the invited lectures given at the Twenty-second British Combinatorial Conference, held in July 2009 at the University of St Andrews. Each article surveys an area of current research in combinatorial mathematics, and will be invaluable to anyone wishing to keep abreast of modern developments.

A selection of papers by leading group theorists presented at the 1989 international conference on group theory held in St Andrews. The themes of the conference were combinatorial and computational group theory. The many articles with their wealth of references demonstrate the richness and vitality of modern group theory.

Singularity theory draws on and contributes to many areas both within and outside mathematics including differential and algebraic geometry, knot theory, differential equations, bifurcation theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, optics, robotics and computer vision. This volume, containing articles from well known figures, presents an up-to-date survey of research in this area.

This book introduces a new approach to building models of bounded arithmetic, with techniques drawn from recent results in computational complexity. Propositional proof systems and bounded arithmetics are closely related. In particular, proving lower bounds on the lengths of proofs in propositional proof systems is equivalent to constructing certain extensions of models of bounded arithmetic. This offers a clean and coherent framework for thinking about lower bounds for proof lengths, and it has proved quite successful in the past. This book outlines a brand new method for constructing models of bounded arithmetic, thus for proving independence results and establishing lower bounds for proof lengths. The models are built from random variables defined on a sample space which is a non-standard finite set and sampled by functions of some restricted computational complexity. It will appeal to anyone interested in logical approaches to fundamental problems in complexity theory.

This is the first detailed elementary introduction to Galois cohomology and its applications. The introductory section is self-contained and provides the basic results of the theory. Assuming only a minimal background in algebra, the main purpose of this book is to prepare graduate students and researchers for more advanced study.

This book is concerned with the research conducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the theory of commutative Neotherian rings. It consists of articles by invited speakers at the Symposium of Commutative Algebra held at the University of Durham in July 1981.

Originally published in 1983, the principal object of this book is to discuss in detail the structure of finite group rings over fields of characteristic, p, P-adic rings and, in some cases, just principal ideal domains, as well as modules of such group rings. The approach does not emphasize any particular point of view, but aims to present a smooth proof in each case to provide the reader with maximum insight. However, the trace map and all its properties have been used extensively. This generalizes a number of classical results at no extra cost and also has the advantage that no assumption on the field is required. Finally, it should be mentioned that much attention is paid to the methods of homological algebra and cohomology of groups as well as connections between characteristic 0 and characteristic p.

This volume contains the invited papers from the 1983 British Combinatorial Conference. Several distinguished mathematicians were invited to give a lecture and write a paper for the conference volume. The papers cover a broad range of combinatorial topics, including enumeration, finite geometries, graph theory and permanents.

This self-contained and relatively elementary introduction to functions of several complex variables and complex (especially compact) manifolds was first published in 1982. It was intended be a synthesis of those topics and a broad introduction to the field. The work as a whole will be useful to professional mathematicians or mathematical physicists who wish to acquire a further knowledge of this area of mathematics. Many exercises have been included and indeed they form an integral part of the text. The prerequisites for understanding Part I would be met by any mathematics student with a first degree and together the two parts were designed to provide an introduction to the more advanced works in the subject.

Originally published in 1981, this collection of 33 research papers follows from a conference on the interwoven themes of finite Desarguesian spaces, Steiner systems, coding theory, group theory, block designs, generalized quadrangles, and projective planes. This is a field of research pursued both for its intrinsic interest and its applications.

The aims of this book, originally published in 1982, are to give an understanding of the basic ideas concerning stochastic differential equations on manifolds and their solution flows, to examine the properties of Brownian motion on Riemannian manifolds when it is constructed using the stochiastic development and to indicate some of the uses of the theory. The author has included two appendices which summarise the manifold theory and differential geometry needed to follow the development; coordinate-free notation is used throughout. Moreover, the stochiastic integrals used are those which can be obtained from limits of the Riemann sums, thereby avoiding much of the technicalities of the general theory of processes and allowing the reader to get a quick grasp of the fundamental ideas of stochastic integration as they are needed for a variety of applications.