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  • Progress in Low Temperature Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 11
    • English
    The present volume is largely concerned with helium, as the variety of physics encompassed in the thermal, magnetic and hydrodynamic properties of liquid and solid helium is considerable - it is in many ways a model condensed system.

  • Progress in Low Temperature Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English

  • Foundations of the Numerical Analysis of Plasticity

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 107
    • T. Miyoshi
    • English
    This monograph describes a theoretical foundation for analysing and developing approximate methods to solve dynamic and quasi-static plasticity problems.

  • Spectra and the Steenrod Algebra

    Modules over the Steenrod Algebra and the Stable Homotopy Category
    • 1st Edition
    • H.R. Margolis
    • English
    I have intended this book to be more than just the sum of its chapters, and the introduction is, in part, an attempt to spell out what the more is. Algebraic topology is the study of topological problems by algebraic means. More precisely, this has come to be framed as the study of topological categories by means of functors to algebraic categories. Beyond the basic definitions and structure, the focus is often on particular problems, for example, Adams’ use of K-theory to solve the vector fields on spheres problem. On the other hand, there are contributions of a more global nature yielding insight into the overall structure of some topological category, for example, Quillen’s work on rational homotopy type. This book is intended primarily as a contribution of this latter sort. So while there will be a variety of particular examples and computations, and although the structure being developed has significant application to many specific problems (some of which are considered here), the major thrust of the text is toward understanding the global structure and linkage of the topological and algebraic categories considered: the stable homotopy category and the category of modules over the Steenrod algebra.

  • Fundamentals of Generalized Recursion Theory

    • 1st Edition
    • M. Fitting
    • English

  • Theory of Relations

    • 1st Edition
    • R. Fraïssé
    • English
    The first part of this book concerns the present state of the theory of chains (= total or linear orderings), in connection with some refinements of Ramsey's theorem, due to Galvin and Nash-Williams. This leads to the fundamental Laver's embeddability theorem for scattered chains, using Nash-Williams' better quasi-orderings, barriers and forerunning.The second part (chapters 9 to 12) extends to general relations the main notions and results from order-type theory. An important connection appears with permutation theory (Cameron, Pouzet, Livingstone and Wagner) and with logics (existence criterion of Pouzet-Vaught for saturated relations). The notion of bound of a relation (due to the author) leads to important calculus of thresholds by Frasnay, Hodges, Lachlan and Shelah. The redaction systematically goes back to set-theoretic axioms and precise definitions (such as Tarski's definition for finite sets), so that for each statement it is mentioned either that ZF axioms suffice, or what other axioms are needed (choice, continuum, dependent choice, ultrafilter axiom, etc.).

  • Probabilities and Potential, B

    Theory of Martingales
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 72
    • C. Dellacherie + 1 more
    • English

  • Foundations of Infinitesimal Stochastic Analysis

    • 1st Edition
    • K.D. Stroyan + 1 more
    • English
    This book gives a complete and elementary account of fundamental results on hyperfinite measures and their application to stochastic processes, including the *-finite Stieltjes sum approximation of martingale integrals. Many detailed examples, not found in the literature, are included. It begins with a brief chapter on tools from logic and infinitesimal (or non-standard) analysis so that the material is accessible to beginning graduate students.

  • Geometry of Riemann Surfaces and Teichmüller Spaces

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 169
    • M. Seppälä + 1 more
    • English
    The moduli problem is to describe the structure of the spaceof isomorphism classes of Riemann surfaces of a giventopological type. This space is known as the modulispace and has been at the center of pure mathematics formore than a hundred years. In spite of its age, this fieldstill attracts a lot of attention, the smooth compact Riemannsurfaces being simply complex projective algebraic curves.Therefore the moduli space of compact Riemann surfaces is alsothe moduli space of complex algebraic curves. This space lieson the intersection of many fields of mathematics and may bestudied from many different points of view.The aim of thismonograph is to present information about the structure of themoduli space using as concrete and elementary methods aspossible. This simple approach leads to a rich theory andopens a new way of treating the moduli problem, putting newlife into classical methods that were used in the study ofmoduli problems in the 1920s.

  • Approximation Problems in Analysis and Probability

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 159
    • M.P. Heble
    • English
    This is an exposition of some special results on analytic or C∞-approximation of functions in the strong sense, in finite- and infinite-dimensional spaces. It starts with H. Whitney's theorem on strong approximation by analytic functions in finite-dimensional spaces and ends with some recent results by the author on strong C∞-approximation of functions defined in a separable Hilbert space. The volume also contains some special results on approximation of stochastic processes. The results explained in the book have been obtained over a span of nearly five decades.

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