Singularity theory : proceedings of the European Singularities Conference, Liverpool, August 1996. Dedicated to C.T.C. Wall on the occasion of his 60th birthday / edited by Bill Bruce, David Mond.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

European Singularities Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Wall, C. T. C. (Charles Terence Clegg), editor.

Bruce, Bill, 1952- editor.

Mond, D. (David), editor.

Conference Name:

European Singularities Conference (1996 : Liverpool, England)

European Singularities Conference

Series:

London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 263.

London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 263

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singularities (Mathematics)--Congresses.

Singularities (Mathematics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 440 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Singularity theory is a broad subject with vague boundaries. It draws on many other areas of mathematics, and in turn has contributed to many areas both within and outside mathematics, in particular differential and algebraic geometry, knot theory, differential equations, bifurcation theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, optics, robotics and computer vision. This volume consists of two dozen articles from some of the best known figures in singularity theory, and it presents an up-to-date survey of research in this area.

Contents:

Singularities arising from lattice polytopes / K. Altmann

Critical points of affine multiforms on the complements of arrangements / J.N. Damon

Strange duality, mirror symmetry and the Leech lattice / W. Ebeling

Geometry of equisingular families of curves / G-M. Greuel and E. Shustin

Arrangements, KZ systems and Lie algebra homology / E.J.N. Looijenga

The signature of f(x, y) + zn / A. Nemethi

Spectra of K-unimodal isolated singularities of complete intersections / J.M. Steenbrink

Dynkin graphs, Gabriélov graphs and triangle singularities / T. Urabe

Differential forms on singular varieties and cyclic homology / J.P. Brasselet and Y. Legrand

Continuous controlled Vector fields ; Finiteness of Mather's canonical stratification / A.A. du Plessis

Trends in equisingularity theory / T.J. Gaffney and D. Massey

Regularity at infinity of real and complex polynomial functions / M. Tibar

A Bennequin number estimate for transverse knots / V.V. Goryunov and J.W. Hill

Abelian branched covers of the projective plane / A. Libgober

Elimination of singularities : Thom polynomials and beyond / O. Saeki and K. Sakuma

An introduction to the image-computing spectral sequence / K.A. Houston

On the classification and geometry of Corank-1 Map-Germs from three-space to four-space / K.A. Houston and N.P. Kirk

Multiplicities of zero-schemes in quasihomogeneous corank-1 singularities Cn

Cn / W.L. Marar, J.A. Montaldi and M.A.S. Ruas

Butterflies and umbilics of stable perturbations of analytic Map-Germs (C5,0)

(C4,0) / T. Fukui

Singular phenomena in kinematics / P.S. Donelan and C.G. Gibson

Singularities of developable surfaces / G. Ishikawa

singularities of solutions of first order partial differential equations / S. Izumiya.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-139-88554-5

1-107-08926-3

1-107-09224-8

1-107-10356-8

1-107-09549-2

1-107-10108-5

0-511-56926-2