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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480948703321

Autore

Kramer Linus <1964->

Titolo

Homogeneous spaces, Tits buildings, and isoparametric hypersurfaces / / Linus Kramer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

1-4704-0345-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 752

Disciplina

510 s

512/.2

Soggetti

Buildings (Group theory)

Global differential geometry

Finite generalized quadrangles

Homogeneous spaces

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Volume 158, number 752 (third of 4 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-114).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. The Leray-Serre spectral sequence""; ""1.A. Additive structure""; ""1.B. Multiplicative structure""; ""1.C. Notes on collapsing""; ""Chapter 2. Ranks of homotopy groups""; ""2.A. The Whitehead tower""; ""2.B. The Cartan-Serre Theorem""; ""Chapter 3. Some homogeneous spaces""; ""3.A. Structure of compact Lie groups""; ""3.B. Certain homogeneous spaces""; ""3.C. The integral classification""; ""Chapter 4. Representations of compact Lie groups""; ""4.A. The classification of irreducible representations""; ""4.B. Subgroups of classical groups""

""7.C. Some results about compact transformation groups""""7.D. Group actions on compact quadrangles""; ""7.E. The Stiefel manifolds""; ""7.F. The (4,4n � 5)-series""; ""7.G. Products of spheres""; ""7.H. Summary""; ""Chapter 8. Homogeneous focal manifolds""; ""8.A. Isoparametric hypersurfaces""; ""8.B. The Stiefel manifolds""; ""8.C. Some sporadic cases""; ""8.D. The semisimple case""; ""8.E. The (4,4n � 5)- and the (3, 4n � 4)-series""; ""8.F. Summary""; ""Bibliography""