GRAPHS ON SURFACES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS by R. V. Gamkrelidze (Editor), V. A. Vassiliev (Editor) ( 9783540002031 )

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Title:

GRAPHS ON SURFACES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Volume:

v.141

By:

R. V. Gamkrelidze (Editor), V. A. Vassiliev (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£159.99
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ISBN 10:

3540002030

ISBN 13:

9783540002031

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG

Pub. date:

1 December, 2003

Edition:

2004 ed.

Series:

Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences v. 141

Pages:

455

Synopsis:

Graphs drawn on two-dimensional surfaces have always attracted researchers by their beauty and by the variety of difficult questions to which they give rise. The theory of such embedded graphs, which long seemed rather isolated, has witnessed the appearance of entirely unexpected new applications in recent decades, ranging from Galois theory to quantum gravity models, and has become a kind of a focus of a vast field of research. The book provides an accessible introduction to this new domain, including such topics as coverings of Riemann surfaces, the Galois group action on embedded graphs (Grothendieck's theory of "dessins d'enfants"), the matrix integral method, moduli spaces of curves, the topology of meromorphic functions, and combinatorial aspects of Vassiliev's knot invariants and, in an appendix by Don Zagier, the use of finite group representation theory. The presentation is concrete throughout, with numerous figures, examples (including computer calculations) and exercises, and should appeal to both graduate students and researchers.

Illustrations:

3 black & white illustrations, biography

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Returns:

Returnable

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