Groups and Analysis: The Legacy of Hermann Weyl

by Katrin Tent

Overview

Many areas of mathematics were deeply influenced or even founded by Hermann Weyl, including geometric foundations of manifolds and physics, topological groups, Lie groups and representation theory, harmonic analysis and analytic number theory as well as foundations of mathematics. In this volume, leading experts present his lasting influence on current mathematics, often connecting Weyl’s theorems with cutting edge research in dynamical systems, invariant theory, and partial differential equations. In a broad and accessible presentation, survey chapters describe the historical development of each area alongside up-to-the-minute results, focusing on the mathematical roots evident within Weyl's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521717885
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/16/2008
Series:	London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series , #354
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Katrin Tent is a Professor in the Mathematics Department at Bielefeld University in Germany.

Table of Contents

List of speakers and talks; 1. Harmonic analysis on compact symmetric spaces Roe Goodman; 2. Weyl, Eigenfunction expansions, symmetric spaces Erik van den Ban; 3. Weyl's Work on singular Sturm-Liouville operators W. N. Everitt and H. Kalf; 4. From Weyl quantization to modern algebraic index theory Markus J. Pflaum; 5. Sharp spectral inequalities for the Heisenberg Laplacian A. M. Hansson and A. Laptev; 6. Equidistribution for quadratic differentials Ursula Hamenstädt; 7. Weyl's law in the theory of automorphic forms Werner Müller; 8. Weyl's Lemma, one of many Daniel W. Stroock; 9. Analysis on foliated spaces and arithmetic geometry Christopher Deninger; 10. Reciprocity algebras and branching R. E. Howe, E.-C. Tan and J. F. Willenbring; 11. Character formulae from Hermann Weyl to the present Jens Carsten Jantzen; 12. The classification of Affine buildings Richard M. Weiss; 13. Emmy Noether and Hermann Weyl Peter Roquette.

Editorial Reviews

"The quality of the articles is high: the promise of the title is met, and the material is presented at a very accessible level, but without courting triviality."
Michael Berg, MAA Reviews

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