Overview
- An up-to-date and user-friendly introduction to the rapidly developing field of ℓ²-invariants
- Proceeds quickly to the research level after thoroughly covering all the basics
- Contains many motivating examples, illustrations, and exercises
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2247)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
The text provides a self-contained treatment that constructs the required specialized concepts from scratch. It comes with numerous exercises and examples, so that both graduate students and researchers will find it useful for self-study or as a basis for an advanced lecture course.
Reviews
“This is an excellent introductory book, to be recommended to readers looking for an introduction to the field, as well as those that want to have an overview of recent developments.” (Joan Porti, Mathematical Reviews, September, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Holger Kammeyer studied Mathematics at Göttingen and Berkeley. After a postdoc position in Bonn he is now based at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research interests range around algebraic topology and group theory. The application of ℓ ²-invariants forms a recurrent theme in his work. He has given introductory courses on the matter on various occasions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to ℓ²-invariants
Authors: Holger Kammeyer
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28297-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28296-7Published: 31 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28297-4Published: 29 October 2019
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 183
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations
Topics: Algebraic Topology, Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology), Functional Analysis, Group Theory and Generalizations