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Scissors Congruences, Group Homology and Characteristic Classes
Johan L. Dupont
出版World Scientific, 2001
主題Mathematics / Geometry / GeneralMathematics / Topology
ISBN98102450849789810245085
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kllqDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋These lecture notes are based on a series of lectures given at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in the fall of 1998. They provide an overview of the work of the author and the late Chih-Han Sah on various aspects of Hilbert's Third Problem: Are two Euclidean polyhedra with the same volume ?scissors-congruent?, i.e. can they be subdivided into finitely many pairwise congruent pieces? The book starts from the classical solution of this problem by M Dehn. But generalization to higher dimensions and other geometries quickly leads to a great variety of mathematical topics, such as homology of groups, algebraic K-theory, characteristic classes for flat bundles, and invariants for hyperbolic manifolds. Some of the material, particularly in the chapters on projective configurations, is published here for the first time.