Torus Actions on Symplectic Manifolds
Michele Audin
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Paperback. Series: Progress in Mathematics. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBMP; PBMW; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
How I have (re-)written this book The book the reader has in hand was supposed to be a new edition of [14]. I have hesitated quite a long time before deciding to do the re-writing work-the first edition has been sold out for a few years. There was absolutely no question of just correcting numerous misprints and a few mathematical errors. When I wrote the first edition, in 1989, the convexity and Duistermaat-Heckman theorems together with the irruption of toric varieties on the scene of symplectic geometry, due to Delzant, around which the book was organized, were still rather recent ... Read more
How I have (re-)written this book The book the reader has in hand was supposed to be a new edition of [14]. I have hesitated quite a long time before deciding to do the re-writing work-the first edition has been sold out for a few years. There was absolutely no question of just correcting numerous misprints and a few mathematical errors. When I wrote the first edition, in 1989, the convexity and Duistermaat-Heckman theorems together with the irruption of toric varieties on the scene of symplectic geometry, due to Delzant, around which the book was organized, were still rather recent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer Basel Switzerland
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Progress in Mathematics
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783034896375
SKU
V9783034896375
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Reviews for Torus Actions on Symplectic Manifolds
From the reviews: “Through careful writing, this revised edition achieves much more than that volume, and can be considered, in fact, a new and improved book. The second edition contains more material, and includes several new results and techniques. Topics included in the first edition are now presented more thoroughly, with more results, illustrated by well-chosen examples, and ... Read more