Symmetry and Spaces In Honor of Gerry Schwarz /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Campbell, H. E. A. (Editor), Helminck, Aloysius G. (Editor), Kraft, Hanspeter. (Editor), Wehlau, David. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Birkhũser Boston, 2010.
• Series: Progress in Mathematics ; 278
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Geometry, algebraic.; Algebra.; Field theory (Physics).; Algebraic Geometry.; Commutative Rings and Algebras.; Field Theory and Polynomials.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4875-6

A group of Gerry Schwarz<U+0019>s colleagues and collaborators gathered at the Fields Institute in Toronto for a mathematical festschrift in honor of his 60th birthday. This volume is an outgrowth of that event, covering the wide range of mathematics to which Gerry Schwarz has either made fund...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Michel Brion: "Some basis results on actions of non-affine algebraic groups"
• Abraham Broer: "On Chevalley-Shephard-Todd's theorem in positive characteristic".-Jonathan Elmer and Peter Fleischmann: "On the depth of modular invariant rings for the groups $C_p<U+00d7>C_p$"
• Daniel Daigle and Gene Freudenberg: "Families of affine fibrations"
• Daniel Greb and Peter Heinzner: "Kh̃lerian reduction in steps"
• Aloysius Helminck: "On orbit decompositions for symmetric k-varieties"
• Bertram Kostant: "Root systems for Levi factors and Borel-de Siebenthal theory"
• Hanspeter Kraft and Nolan R Wallach: "Polarizations and nullcone of representations of reductive groups"
• R. James Shank and David Wehlau: "Decomposing symmetric powers of certain modular representations of cyclic groups"
• Will Traves: "Differential operators on Grassmann varieties".