Dynamics And Symmetry.

This book contains the first systematic exposition of the global and local theory of dynamics equivariant with respect to a (compact) Lie group. Aside from general genericity and normal form theorems on equivariant bifurcation, it describes many general families of examples of equivariant bifurcatio...

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Language:English
Published: World Scientific 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Groups
  • 1.1 Definition of a group and examples
  • 1.2 Homomorphisms, subgroups and quotient groups
  • 1.2.1 Generators and relations for .nite groups
  • 1.3 Constructions
  • 1.4 Topological groups
  • 1.5 Lie groups
  • 1.5.1 The Lie bracket of vector fields
  • 1.5.2 The Lie algebra of G
  • 1.5.3 The exponential map of g
  • 1.5.4 Additional properties of brackets and exp
  • 1.5.5 Closed subgroups of a Lie group
  • 1.6 Haarmeasure
  • 2. Group Actions and Representations
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Groups and G-spaces
  • 2.2.1 Continuous actions and G-spaces
  • 2.3 Orbit spaces and actions
  • 2.4 Twisted products
  • 2.4.1 Induced G-spaces
  • 2.5 Isotropy type and stratification by isotropy type
  • 2.6 Representations
  • 2.6.1 Averaging over G
  • 2.7 Irreducible representations and the isotypic decomposition
  • 2.7.1 C-representations
  • 2.7.2 Absolutely irreducible representations
  • 2.8 Orbit structure for representations
  • 2.9 Slices
  • 2.9.1 Slices for linear finite group actions
  • 2.10 Invariant and equivariant maps
  • 2.10.1 Smooth invariant and equivariant maps on representations
  • 2.10.2 Equivariant vector fields and flows
  • 3. Smooth G-manifolds
  • 3.1 Proper G-manifolds
  • 3.1.1 Proper free actions
  • 3.2 G-vector bundles
  • 3.3 Infinitesimal theory
  • 3.4 Riemannianmanifolds
  • 3.4.1 Exponential map of a complete Riemannian manifold
  • 3.4.2 The tubular neighbourhood theorem
  • 3.4.3 Riemannian G-manifolds
  • 3.5 The differentiable slice theorem
  • 3.6 Equivariant isotopy extension theorem
  • 3.7 Orbit structure for G-manifolds
  • 3.7.1 Closed filtration of M by isotropy type
  • 3.8 The stratification of M by normal isotropy type
  • 3.9 Stratified sets
  • 3.9.1 Transversality to a Whitney stratification
  • 3.9.2 Regularity of stratification by normal isotropy type
  • 3.10 Invariant Riemannian metrics on a compact Lie group
  • 3.10.1 The adjoint representations
  • 3.10.2 The exponential map
  • 3.10.3 Closed subgroups of a Lie group
  • 4. Equivariant Bifurcation Theory: Steady State Bifurcation
  • 4.1 Introduction and preliminaries
  • 4.1.1 Normalized families
  • 4.2 Solution branches and the branching pattern
  • 4.2.1 Stability of branching patterns
  • 4.3 Symmetry breaking8212;theMISC
  • 4.3.1 Symmetry breaking isotropy types
  • 4.3.2 Maximal isotropy subgroup conjecture
  • 4.4 Determinacy
  • 4.4.1 Polynomial maps
  • 4.4.2 Finite determinacy
  • 4.5 The hyperoctahedral family
  • 4.5.1 The representations (Rk, Hk)
  • 4.5.2 Invariants and equivariants for Hk
  • 4.5.3 Cubic equivariants for Hk
  • 4.5.4 Bifurcation for cubic families
  • 4.5.5 Subgroups of Hk
  • 4.5.6 Some subgroups of the symmetric group
  • 4.5.7 A big family of counterexamples to the MISC
  • 4.5.8 Examples where P3G (Rk, Rk) = P3H k (Rk, Rk)
  • 4.5.9 Stable solution branches of maximal index and trivial isotropy
  • 4.5.10 An example with applications to phase transitions
  • 4.6 Phase vector field and maps of hyperbolic type
  • 4.6.1 Cubic polynomial maps
  • 4.6.2 Phase vector field
  • 4.6.3 Normalized families
  • 4.6.4 Maps of hyperbolic type
  • 4.6.5 The branching pattern of JQ
  • 4.7 Transforming to generalized spherical polar coordinates
  • 4.7.1 Preliminaries
  • 4.7.2 Polar blowing-up
  • 4.8 d(V, G)-deter.