Compactifications of Symmetric and Locally Symmetric Spaces

by Armand Borel and Lizhen Ji

Introduces uniform constructions of most of the known compactifications of symmetric and locally symmetric spaces, with emphasis on their geometric and topological structures

Relatively self-contained reference aimed at graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the applications of Lie theory and representation theory to analysis, number theory, algebraic geometry and algebraic topology

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817632476
• ISBN13: 9780817632472
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.5"