Geometry of the QuinticJohn Wiley & Sons, 31 ene 1997 - 200 páginas A chance for students to apply a wide range of mathematics to an engaging problem This book helps students at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate levels to develop connections between the algebra, geometry, and analysis that they know, and to better appreciate the totality of what they have learned. The text demonstrates the use of general concepts by applying theorems from various areas in the context of one problem—solving the quintic. The problem is approached from two directions: the first is Felix Klein's nineteenth-century approach, using the icosahedron. The second approach presents recent works of Peter Doyle and Curt McMullen, which update Klein's use of transcendental functions to a solution through pure iteration. Filling a pedagogical gap in the literature and providing a solid platform from which to address more advanced material, this meticulously written book:
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Índice
Preface Chapter 1 The complex sphere | 1 |
Stereographic projection | 5 |
The Riemann sphere and meromorphic functions | 8 |
The complex projective line and algebraic mappings | 13 |
Summary | 16 |
Finite automorphism groups of the sphere | 17 |
Rotations of the Riemann sphere | 20 |
Finite automorphism groups and rotation groups | 26 |
Inversion of the icosahedral invariant | 98 |
Summary | 101 |
Reduction of the quintic to Brioschi form | 103 |
Newtons identities | 107 |
Resultants | 109 |
Tschirnhaus transformations and principal form | 112 |
Galois theory of the Tschirnhaus transformation | 117 |
Projective space and algebraic sets | 119 |
Group actions | 30 |
The Platonic solids and their rotations | 31 |
Finite rotation groups of the sphere | 40 |
Projective representations of the finite rotation groups | 43 |
Summary | 47 |
Invariant functions | 49 |
Orbitforms and invariant forms | 54 |
Covariant forms | 56 |
Calculation of the degenerate orbitforms | 58 |
Invariant algebraic mappings | 63 |
Invariant rational functions | 65 |
Summary | 67 |
Inverses of the invariant functions | 69 |
Fields and polynomials | 70 |
Algebraic extensions | 71 |
Galois extensions | 75 |
The rotation group extension | 79 |
The Radical Criterion | 82 |
Algebraic inversion of the nonicosahedral invariants | 86 |
Resolvents | 91 |
The Brioschi resolvent | 93 |
Geometry of the Tschirnhaus transformation | 122 |
Brioschi form | 125 |
Summary | 133 |
Kroneckers Theorem | 135 |
Kroneckers Theorem | 138 |
Lüroths Theorem | 142 |
The Embedding Lemma | 144 |
Summary | 146 |
Computable extensions | 147 |
Varieties and function fields | 153 |
Purely iterative algorithms | 162 |
Iteratively constructible extensions | 169 |
Differential forms | 173 |
Normal rational functions | 176 |
Ingredients of the algorithm | 178 |
General convergence of the model | 182 |
Computing the algorithm | 184 |
Solving the Brioschi quintic by iteration | 187 |
Onward | 191 |
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Referencias a este libro
Invariant Theory in All Characteristics Harold Edward Alexander Eddy Campbell,David L. Wehlau Vista previa restringida |