Geometry of Differential Equations (186)

by A. Khovanskii (Editor)

Contains seven papers written by V.I. Arnold's colleagues on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Topics Lagrangian reduction, the Euler-Poincare equations, and semidirect products; Lagrangian intersection theory (finite-dimensional approach); multiplicity of a Noetherian intersection; sixth PainlevT equation, universal elliptic curve, and mirror of P 2; convex hulls of random processes; mutual position of hypersurfaces in projective spaces; and Hochschild cohomology and characteristic classes for star products. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

194 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998