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Mumford-Tate Groups and Domains: Their Geometry and Arithmetic (AM-183)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mumford-Tate Groups and Domains: Their Geometry and Arithmetic (AM-183)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mark Green
By (author) Phillip A. Griffiths
By (author) Matt Kerr
SeriesAnnals of Mathematics Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 178
ISBN/Barcode 9780691154251
ClassificationsDewey:516.35
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 40 line illus. 6 tables.

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 22 April 2012
Publication Country United States

Description

Mumford-Tate groups are the fundamental symmetry groups of Hodge theory, a subject which rests at the center of contemporary complex algebraic geometry. This book is the first comprehensive exploration of Mumford-Tate groups and domains. Containing basic theory and a wealth of new views and results, it will become an essential resource for graduate students and researchers. Although Mumford-Tate groups can be defined for general structures, their theory and use to date has mainly been in the classical case of abelian varieties. While the book does examine this area, it focuses on the nonclassical case. The general theory turns out to be very rich, such as in the unexpected connections of finite dimensional and infinite dimensional representation theory of real, semisimple Lie groups. The authors give the complete classification of Hodge representations, a topic that should become a standard in the finite-dimensional representation theory of noncompact, real, semisimple Lie groups. They also indicate that in the future, a connection seems ready to be made between Lie groups that admit discrete series representations and the study of automorphic cohomology on quotients of Mumford-Tate domains by arithmetic groups. Bringing together complex geometry, representation theory, and arithmetic, this book opens up a fresh perspective on an important subject.

Author Biography

Mark Green is professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles and is Director Emeritus of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. Phillip A. Griffiths is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and former director at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Matt Kerr is assistant professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Reviews

"The brilliance of the results and their broad spectrum of their applications makes this book an outstanding piece. Yet, there is more to write and to develop: the authors suggest the existence of future lines of research for a next book."--Jonathan Sanchez Hernandez, European Mathematical Society