The Structure of Classical Diffeomorphism Groups (Mathematics and Its Applications, Band 400) - Softcover

Banyaga, Augustin

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ISBN 10: 1441947744 ISBN 13: 9781441947741

Verlag: Springer, 2010

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In the 60's, the work of Anderson, Chernavski, Kirby and Edwards showed that the group of homeomorphisms of a smooth manifold which are isotopic to the identity is a simple group. This led Smale to conjecture that the group Diff'" (M)o of cr diffeomorphisms, r ~ 1, of a smooth manifold M, with compact supports, and isotopic to the identity through compactly supported isotopies, is a simple group as well. In this monograph, we give a fairly detailed proof that DifF(M)o is a simple group. This theorem was proved by Herman in the case M is the torus rn in 1971, as a consequence of the Nash-Moser-Sergeraert implicit function theorem. Thurston showed in 1974 how Herman's result on rn implies the general theorem for any smooth manifold M. The key idea was to vision an isotopy in Diff'"(M) as a foliation on M x [0, 1]. In fact he discovered a deep connection between the local homology of the group of diffeomorphisms and the homology of the Haefliger classifying space for foliations. Thurston's paper [180] contains just a brief sketch of the proof. The details have been worked out by Mather [120], [124], [125], and the author [12]. This circle of ideas that we call the "Thurston tricks" is discussed in chapter 2. It explains how in certain groups of diffeomorphisms, perfectness leads to simplicity. In connection with these ideas, we discuss Epstein's theory [52], which we apply to contact diffeomorphisms in chapter 6.

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Augustin Banyaga is a Professor of Mathematics and a Distinguished Senior Scholar at Penn State University in the Eberly College of Science and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He has authored at least 70 peer reviewed papers and 3 books, including Lectures on Morse Homology published by Springer. David Hurtubise is a Professor of Mathematics at Penn State Altoona. He has authored at least 14 peer reviewed papers, 140 Mathematical Reviews, 45 Zentralblatt Reviews, and the book Lectures on Morse Homology published by Springer. Peter Spaeth is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center. He has authored over 20 peer reviewed papers in mathematics, materials science, and nondestructive evaluation. In 2023 he was awarded the NASA Early Career Achievement Medal.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1441947744
• ISBN 13: 9781441947741
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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