1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910227343003321

Titolo

Stad en migratie in de literatuur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gent, : Academia Press, 2016

ISBN

9789038226637

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172)

Collana

CLW (Series) ; ; 8

Disciplina

809.933552

Soggetti

United Kingdom, Great Britain

c 1800 to c 1900

20th century

Literature: history & criticism

Literary theory

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Poverty & unemployment

Housing & homelessness

Migration, immigration & emigration

Urban communities

Jewish studies

Belgium

France

Germany

USA

Argentina

Chile

English

Dutch

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Urbanity and migration are considered to be two basic components in definitions of modernity. They force us to reflect on how the



boundaries between the local and the global are determined and surpassed. Often this results in politically charged discussions about transnationality and national identity, monolingualism and multilingualism, inclusion and exclusion. The contributions to this issue of CLW demonstrate that literature can play a significant role in this debate. The authors highlight the representation of city and migration in a wide variety of novels published in Dutch, English, German, Spanish and French with a particular interest in political commitment.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141918003321

Autore

Alonso-Gutierrez David

Titolo

Approaching the Kannan-Lovász-Simonovits and Variance Conjectures / / by David Alonso-Gutiérrez, Jesús Bastero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-13263-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 148 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 2131

Disciplina

515.7

Soggetti

Functional analysis

Convex geometry

Discrete geometry

Probabilities

Functional Analysis

Convex and Discrete Geometry

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

The Conjectures -- Main Examples -- Relating the Conjectures -- Appendix -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on two central conjectures from the field of Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, the Kannan-Lovász-Simonovits spectral gap conjecture and the variance conjecture, these Lecture Notes present the



theory in an accessible way, so that interested readers, even those who are not experts in the field, will be able to appreciate the topics treated. Employing a style suitable for professionals with little background in analysis, geometry or probability, the work goes directly to the connection between isoperimetric-type inequalities and functional inequalities, allowing readers to quickly access the core of these conjectures. In addition, four recent and important results concerning this theory are presented. The first two are theorems attributed to Eldan-Klartag and Ball-Nguyen, which relate the variance and the KLS conjectures, respectively, to the hyperplane conjecture. The remaining two present in detail the main ideas needed to prove the best known estimate for the thin-shell width given by Guédon-Milman, and an approach to Eldan’s work on the connection between the thin-shell width and the KLS conjecture.