Author: Albrecht Fröhlich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468467409
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
These notes are an expanded and updated version of a course of lectures which I gave at King's College London during the summer term 1979. The main topic is the Hermitian classgroup of orders, and in particular of group rings. Most of this work is published here for the first time. The primary motivation came from the connection with the Galois module structure of rings of algebraic integers. The principal aim was to lay the theoretical basis for attacking what may be called the "converse problem" of Galois module structure theory: to express the symplectic local and global root numbers and conductors as algebraic invariants. A previous edition of these notes was circulated privately among a few collaborators. Based on this, and following a partial solution of the problem by the author, Ph. Cassou-Nogues and M. Taylor succeeded in obtaining a complete solution. In a different direction J. Ritter published a paper, answering certain character theoretic questions raised in the earlier version. I myself disapprove of "secret circulation", but the pressure of other work led to a delay in publication; I hope this volume will make amends. One advantage of the delay is that the relevant recent work can be included. In a sense this is a companion volume to my recent Springer-Ergebnisse-Bericht, where the Hermitian theory was not dealt with. Our approach is via "Hom-groups", analogous to that followed in recent work on locally free classgroups.
Classgroups and Hermitian Modules
Author: Albrecht Fröhlich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468467409
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
These notes are an expanded and updated version of a course of lectures which I gave at King's College London during the summer term 1979. The main topic is the Hermitian classgroup of orders, and in particular of group rings. Most of this work is published here for the first time. The primary motivation came from the connection with the Galois module structure of rings of algebraic integers. The principal aim was to lay the theoretical basis for attacking what may be called the "converse problem" of Galois module structure theory: to express the symplectic local and global root numbers and conductors as algebraic invariants. A previous edition of these notes was circulated privately among a few collaborators. Based on this, and following a partial solution of the problem by the author, Ph. Cassou-Nogues and M. Taylor succeeded in obtaining a complete solution. In a different direction J. Ritter published a paper, answering certain character theoretic questions raised in the earlier version. I myself disapprove of "secret circulation", but the pressure of other work led to a delay in publication; I hope this volume will make amends. One advantage of the delay is that the relevant recent work can be included. In a sense this is a companion volume to my recent Springer-Ergebnisse-Bericht, where the Hermitian theory was not dealt with. Our approach is via "Hom-groups", analogous to that followed in recent work on locally free classgroups.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468467409
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
These notes are an expanded and updated version of a course of lectures which I gave at King's College London during the summer term 1979. The main topic is the Hermitian classgroup of orders, and in particular of group rings. Most of this work is published here for the first time. The primary motivation came from the connection with the Galois module structure of rings of algebraic integers. The principal aim was to lay the theoretical basis for attacking what may be called the "converse problem" of Galois module structure theory: to express the symplectic local and global root numbers and conductors as algebraic invariants. A previous edition of these notes was circulated privately among a few collaborators. Based on this, and following a partial solution of the problem by the author, Ph. Cassou-Nogues and M. Taylor succeeded in obtaining a complete solution. In a different direction J. Ritter published a paper, answering certain character theoretic questions raised in the earlier version. I myself disapprove of "secret circulation", but the pressure of other work led to a delay in publication; I hope this volume will make amends. One advantage of the delay is that the relevant recent work can be included. In a sense this is a companion volume to my recent Springer-Ergebnisse-Bericht, where the Hermitian theory was not dealt with. Our approach is via "Hom-groups", analogous to that followed in recent work on locally free classgroups.
Quadratic and Hermitian Forms over Rings
Author: Max-Albert Knus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642754015
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
From its birth (in Babylon?) till 1936 the theory of quadratic forms dealt almost exclusively with forms over the real field, the complex field or the ring of integers. Only as late as 1937 were the foundations of a theory over an arbitrary field laid. This was in a famous paper by Ernst Witt. Still too early, apparently, because it took another 25 years for the ideas of Witt to be pursued, notably by Albrecht Pfister, and expanded into a full branch of algebra. Around 1960 the development of algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory led to the study of quadratic forms over commutative rings and hermitian forms over rings with involutions. Not surprisingly, in this more general setting, algebraic K-theory plays the role that linear algebra plays in the case of fields. This book exposes the theory of quadratic and hermitian forms over rings in a very general setting. It avoids, as far as possible, any restriction on the characteristic and takes full advantage of the functorial aspects of the theory. The advantage of doing so is not only aesthetical: on the one hand, some classical proofs gain in simplicity and transparency, the most notable examples being the results on low-dimensional spinor groups; on the other hand new results are obtained, which went unnoticed even for fields, as in the case of involutions on 16-dimensional central simple algebras. The first chapter gives an introduction to the basic definitions and properties of hermitian forms which are used throughout the book.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642754015
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
From its birth (in Babylon?) till 1936 the theory of quadratic forms dealt almost exclusively with forms over the real field, the complex field or the ring of integers. Only as late as 1937 were the foundations of a theory over an arbitrary field laid. This was in a famous paper by Ernst Witt. Still too early, apparently, because it took another 25 years for the ideas of Witt to be pursued, notably by Albrecht Pfister, and expanded into a full branch of algebra. Around 1960 the development of algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory led to the study of quadratic forms over commutative rings and hermitian forms over rings with involutions. Not surprisingly, in this more general setting, algebraic K-theory plays the role that linear algebra plays in the case of fields. This book exposes the theory of quadratic and hermitian forms over rings in a very general setting. It avoids, as far as possible, any restriction on the characteristic and takes full advantage of the functorial aspects of the theory. The advantage of doing so is not only aesthetical: on the one hand, some classical proofs gain in simplicity and transparency, the most notable examples being the results on low-dimensional spinor groups; on the other hand new results are obtained, which went unnoticed even for fields, as in the case of involutions on 16-dimensional central simple algebras. The first chapter gives an introduction to the basic definitions and properties of hermitian forms which are used throughout the book.
Séminaire de Théorie Des Nombres
Author: D. Sinnou
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780817636227
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Le travail ci-dessous developpe sur quelques points les tex:tes fondamentaux de C.L. Siegel [13[ et de K. Ramachandra [2). Remerclements C'est au Max Planck Institut de Bonn que la plus grande part des resultats (th. 2 et 3, ex:ception faite du point 3 d et th. 4 et 5) ont ete soit rectiges soit con~s. La rectaction definitive de ce travail a eu lieu ä l'Institut Fourier de Grenoble durant l'hiver 1990. Le th. 1 tel qu'il apparait ici, et le corollaire du th. 6 cf. identite (13), sont nouveaux. On trouvera une rectaction detailleedes th. 2 et 3 dans [51 et, parmi d'autres resultats, des th. 4, 5 et 6 dans [7). Que tous mes collegues et les deux equipes de secretartat recoivent ici mes remerciements les plus chaleureux. 2 1) On pose e( x) = e 1rix, x E C. Pour L un reseau complex:e, on note une base positivement olientee de L = lw + lw c'est-ä-dire teile que 1 2 On definit alors une forme modulaire .,.p> de poids 1 par 1](2)(w) ~fn (21l"i)ql/12 IJ ( - qn)2 1 { w2 n>l 1 12 q = e(W) , q 1 = e(W/12) , W = wt!w2 .
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780817636227
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Le travail ci-dessous developpe sur quelques points les tex:tes fondamentaux de C.L. Siegel [13[ et de K. Ramachandra [2). Remerclements C'est au Max Planck Institut de Bonn que la plus grande part des resultats (th. 2 et 3, ex:ception faite du point 3 d et th. 4 et 5) ont ete soit rectiges soit con~s. La rectaction definitive de ce travail a eu lieu ä l'Institut Fourier de Grenoble durant l'hiver 1990. Le th. 1 tel qu'il apparait ici, et le corollaire du th. 6 cf. identite (13), sont nouveaux. On trouvera une rectaction detailleedes th. 2 et 3 dans [51 et, parmi d'autres resultats, des th. 4, 5 et 6 dans [7). Que tous mes collegues et les deux equipes de secretartat recoivent ici mes remerciements les plus chaleureux. 2 1) On pose e( x) = e 1rix, x E C. Pour L un reseau complex:e, on note une base positivement olientee de L = lw + lw c'est-ä-dire teile que 1 2 On definit alors une forme modulaire .,.p> de poids 1 par 1](2)(w) ~fn (21l"i)ql/12 IJ ( - qn)2 1 { w2 n>l 1 12 q = e(W) , q 1 = e(W/12) , W = wt!w2 .
Galois Module Structure
Author: Victor Percy Snaith
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821871782
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This is the first published graduate course on the Chinburg conjectures, and this book provides the necessary background in algebraic and analytic number theory, cohomology, representation theory, and Hom-descriptions. The computation of Hom-descriptions is facilitated by Snaith's Explicit Brauer Induction technique in representation theory. In this way, illustrative special cases of the main results and new examples of the conjectures are proved and amplified by numerous exercises and research problems.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821871782
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This is the first published graduate course on the Chinburg conjectures, and this book provides the necessary background in algebraic and analytic number theory, cohomology, representation theory, and Hom-descriptions. The computation of Hom-descriptions is facilitated by Snaith's Explicit Brauer Induction technique in representation theory. In this way, illustrative special cases of the main results and new examples of the conjectures are proved and amplified by numerous exercises and research problems.
Group Representations
Author: Gregory Karpilovsky
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483295109
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 973
Book Description
This volume is divided into three parts. Part I provides the foundations of the theory of modular representations. Special attention is drawn to the Brauer-Swan theory and the theory of Brauer characters. A detailed investigation of quadratic, symplectic and symmetric modules is also provided. Part II is devoted entirely to the Green theory: vertices and sources, the Green correspondence, the Green ring, etc. In Part III, permutation modules are investigated with an emphasis on the study of p-permutation modules and Burnside rings. The material is developed with sufficient attention to detail so that it can easily be read by the novice, although its chief appeal will be to specialists. A number of the results presented in this volume have almost certainly never been published before.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483295109
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 973
Book Description
This volume is divided into three parts. Part I provides the foundations of the theory of modular representations. Special attention is drawn to the Brauer-Swan theory and the theory of Brauer characters. A detailed investigation of quadratic, symplectic and symmetric modules is also provided. Part II is devoted entirely to the Green theory: vertices and sources, the Green correspondence, the Green ring, etc. In Part III, permutation modules are investigated with an emphasis on the study of p-permutation modules and Burnside rings. The material is developed with sufficient attention to detail so that it can easily be read by the novice, although its chief appeal will be to specialists. A number of the results presented in this volume have almost certainly never been published before.
C0-Groups, Commutator Methods and Spectral Theory of N-Body Hamiltonians
Author: Werner Amrein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3034877625
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The relevance of commutator methods in spectral and scattering theory has been known for a long time, and numerous interesting results have been ob tained by such methods. The reader may find a description and references in the books by Putnam [Pu], Reed-Simon [RS] and Baumgartel-Wollenberg [BW] for example. A new point of view emerged around 1979 with the work of E. Mourre in which the method of locally conjugate operators was introduced. His idea proved to be remarkably fruitful in establishing detailed spectral properties of N-body Hamiltonians. A problem that was considered extremely difficult be fore that time, the proof of the absence of a singularly continuous spectrum for such operators, was then solved in a rather straightforward manner (by E. Mourre himself for N = 3 and by P. Perry, 1. Sigal and B. Simon for general N). The Mourre estimate, which is the main input of the method, also has consequences concerning the behaviour of N-body systems at large times. A deeper study of such propagation properties allowed 1. Sigal and A. Soffer in 1985 to prove existence and completeness of wave operators for N-body systems with short range interactions without implicit conditions on the potentials (for N = 3, similar results were obtained before by means of purely time-dependent methods by V. Enss and by K. Sinha, M. Krishna and P. Muthuramalingam). Our interest in commutator methods was raised by the major achievements mentioned above.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3034877625
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The relevance of commutator methods in spectral and scattering theory has been known for a long time, and numerous interesting results have been ob tained by such methods. The reader may find a description and references in the books by Putnam [Pu], Reed-Simon [RS] and Baumgartel-Wollenberg [BW] for example. A new point of view emerged around 1979 with the work of E. Mourre in which the method of locally conjugate operators was introduced. His idea proved to be remarkably fruitful in establishing detailed spectral properties of N-body Hamiltonians. A problem that was considered extremely difficult be fore that time, the proof of the absence of a singularly continuous spectrum for such operators, was then solved in a rather straightforward manner (by E. Mourre himself for N = 3 and by P. Perry, 1. Sigal and B. Simon for general N). The Mourre estimate, which is the main input of the method, also has consequences concerning the behaviour of N-body systems at large times. A deeper study of such propagation properties allowed 1. Sigal and A. Soffer in 1985 to prove existence and completeness of wave operators for N-body systems with short range interactions without implicit conditions on the potentials (for N = 3, similar results were obtained before by means of purely time-dependent methods by V. Enss and by K. Sinha, M. Krishna and P. Muthuramalingam). Our interest in commutator methods was raised by the major achievements mentioned above.
Explicit Brauer Induction
Author: Victor Percy Snaith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521460158
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This 1994 book gave, for the first time, an entirely algebraic treatment of the technique of Explicit Brauer Induction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521460158
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This 1994 book gave, for the first time, an entirely algebraic treatment of the technique of Explicit Brauer Induction.
Module Des Fibrés Stables Sur Les Courbes Algébriques
Author: Verdier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468476033
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468476033
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Orders and their Applications
Author: Irving Reiner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540396012
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
With contributions by numerous experts
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540396012
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
With contributions by numerous experts
Classgroups of Group Rings
Author: Martin J. Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521278708
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
This book is a self-contained account of the theory of classgroups of group rings. The guiding philosophy has been to describe all the basic properties of such classgroups in terms of character functions. This point of view is due to A. Frohlich and it achieves a considerable simplification and clarity over previous techniques. A main feature of the book is the introduction of the author's group logarithm, with numerous examples of its application. The main results dealt with are: Ullom's conjecture for Swan modules of p-groups; the self-duality theorem for rings of integers of tame extensions; the fixed-point theorem for determinants of group rings; the existence of Adams operations on classgroups. In addition, the author includes a number of calculations of classgroups of specific families of groups such as generalized dihedral groups, and quaternion and dihedral 2-groups. The work contained in this book should be readily accessible to any graduate student in pure mathematics who has taken a course in the representation theory of finite groups. It will also be of interest to number theorists and algebraic topologists.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521278708
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
This book is a self-contained account of the theory of classgroups of group rings. The guiding philosophy has been to describe all the basic properties of such classgroups in terms of character functions. This point of view is due to A. Frohlich and it achieves a considerable simplification and clarity over previous techniques. A main feature of the book is the introduction of the author's group logarithm, with numerous examples of its application. The main results dealt with are: Ullom's conjecture for Swan modules of p-groups; the self-duality theorem for rings of integers of tame extensions; the fixed-point theorem for determinants of group rings; the existence of Adams operations on classgroups. In addition, the author includes a number of calculations of classgroups of specific families of groups such as generalized dihedral groups, and quaternion and dihedral 2-groups. The work contained in this book should be readily accessible to any graduate student in pure mathematics who has taken a course in the representation theory of finite groups. It will also be of interest to number theorists and algebraic topologists.