Scissors Congruences, Group Homology And Characteristic Classes

These lecture notes are based on a series of lectures given at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in the fall of 1998. They provide an overview of the work of the author and the late Chih-Han Sah on various aspects of Hilbert's Third Problem: Are two Euclidean polyhedra with the same volume ¿scissors-congruent¿, i.e. can they be subdivided into finitely many pairwise congruent pieces? The book starts from the classical solution of this problem by M Dehn. But generalization to higher dimensions and other geometries quickly leads to a great variety of mathematical topics, such as homology of groups, algebraic K-theory, characteristic classes for flat bundles, and invariants for hyperbolic manifolds. Some of the material, particularly in the chapters on projective configurations, is published here for the first time.

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• Autori: Johan L Dupont, Johan L. Dupont, Johan L Dupont
• Con la collaborazione di: Weiping Zhang (Editore), Zhang Weiping (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9789810245085
• ISBN: 978-981-02-4508-5
• Serie: Nankai Tracts in Mathematics; Nankai Tracts in Mathematics
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Aritmetica, algebra; MATHEMATICS / Geometry / General, MATHEMATICS / Topology, Topology, Euclidean geometry