… Recent developments in combinatorial group theory are a natural continuation of two
themes in the present book—the tree structure behind free groups and the tessellation structure …

… ONE OF THE primary tools of the study of the topology of Lie groups and their homogeneous
spaces is the theory of fibrations. The object of this chapter is to offer a unified treatment of …

… We develop a covering group theory for a large category of “coverable” topological groups,
… In this paper we consider only topological groups from the beginning, replacing traditional, …

… This book is an introduction to the role of topology in the quantization of classical systems.
It is also an introduction to topological solitons with special emphasis on Skyrmions. As …

… This is not to claim that topology received its main impetus from geometric recreations …
group theory (Dehn). It is these connec tions to other parts of mathematics which make topology …

… We discuss some elementary topics in homotopy theory which are useful for group theory.
Chief … topology of simplicial complexes and of topological and piecewise linear manifolds. …

… Topology into Lie theory. But ever since the definition of Lie groups, the analogy between
simple classical groups … (M), then by an isomorphism theorem from group theory, PG ~ G/(G^RL…

… the book, neither the infinitesimal nor the topological methods have been omitted. My experience
… In particular, the massif of topology lies for this book and its readers at the horizon, and …

… FrankeΓs results show how the classical groups can be … theory to the classical groups
using another elementary function, namely "the length function' '. We think of the classical groups …

… - the three dimensional topological theories with finite gauge group. We will show that
these theories can be very neatly represented in a form similar to lattice gauge theory. These …