Compactifications of Symmetric and Locally Symmetric Spaces

• Main Authors: Borel, Armand (Author), Ji, Lizhen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston, 2006.
• Series: Mathematics: Theory & Applications
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebraic geometry.; Topological groups.; Lie groups.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Geometry.; Number theory.; Algebraic topology.; Topological Groups, Lie Groups.; Algebraic Topology.; Number Theory.; Algebraic Geometry.; Applications of Mathematics.

Noncompact symmetric and locally symmetric spaces naturally appear in many mathematical theories, including analysis (representation theory, nonabelian harmonic analysis), number theory (automorphic forms), algebraic geometry (modulae) and algebraic topology (cohomology of discrete groups). In most...