Synopses & Reviews
This book represents the fruits of the author's many years of research and teaching. The introductory chapter contains the necessary background information from algebra, topology, and geometry of real spaces. Chapter 1 presents more specialized information on associative and nonassociative algebras and on Lie groups and algebras. In Chapters 2 through 6 geometric interpretations of all simple Lie groups of classes An, Bn, Cn, and Dn as well as of finite groups of Lie type are given. In Chapters 5 and 6 geometric interpretations of quasisimple and r-quasisimple Lie groups of the same classes are included. In Chapter 7, for the first time ever, geometric interpretations of all simple and quasisimple Lie groups of exceptional classes G2, F4, E6, E7, and E8 are given. The role of exercises is played by the assertions and theorems given without a full proof, but with the indication that they can be proved analogously to already proved theorems. Audience: The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics.
Synopsis
This book is the result of many years of research in Non-Euclidean Geometries and Geometry of Lie groups, as well as teaching at Moscow State University (1947- 1949), Azerbaijan State University (Baku) (1950-1955), Kolomna Pedagogical Col- lege (1955-1970), Moscow Pedagogical University (1971-1990), and Pennsylvania State University (1990-1995). My first books on Non-Euclidean Geometries and Geometry of Lie groups were written in Russian and published in Moscow: Non-Euclidean Geometries (1955) Ro1], Multidimensional Spaces (1966) Ro2], and Non-Euclidean Spaces (1969) Ro3]. In Ro1] I considered non-Euclidean geometries in the broad sense, as geometry of simple Lie groups, since classical non-Euclidean geometries, hyperbolic and elliptic, are geometries of simple Lie groups of classes Bn and D, and geometries of complex n and quaternionic Hermitian elliptic and hyperbolic spaces are geometries of simple Lie groups of classes An and en. Ro1] contains an exposition of the geometry of classical real non-Euclidean spaces and their interpretations as hyperspheres with identified antipodal points in Euclidean or pseudo-Euclidean spaces, and in projective and conformal spaces. Numerous interpretations of various spaces different from our usual space allow us, like stereoscopic vision, to see many traits of these spaces absent in the usual space.
Table of Contents
Preface.
0. Structures of Geometry.
I. Algebras and Lie Groups.
II. Affine and Projective Geometries.
III. Euclidean, Pseudo-Euclidean, Conformal and Pseudoconformal Geometries.
IV. Elliptic, Hyperbolic, Pseudoelliptic, and Pseudohyperbolic Geometries.
V. Quasielliptic, Quasihyperbolic, and Quasi-Euclidean Geometries.
VI. Symplectic and Quasisymplectic Geometries.
VII. Geometries of Exceptional Lie Groups. Metasymplectic Geometries. References. Index of Persons. Index of Subjects.