This book provides a comprehensive advanced multi-linear algebra course based on the concept of Hasse-Schmidt derivations on a Grassmann algebra (an analogue of the Taylor expansion for real-valued functions), and shows how this notion provides a natural framework for many ostensibly unrelated subjects: traces of an endomorphism and the Cayley-Hamilton theorem, generic linear ODEs and their Wronskians, the exponential of a matrix with indeterminate entries (Putzer's method revisited), universal decomposition of a polynomial in the product of two monic polynomials of fixed smaller degree, Schubert calculus for Grassmannian varieties, and vertex operators obtained with the help of Schubert calculus tools (Giambelli's formula). Significant emphasis is placed on the characterization of decomposable tensors of an exterior power of a free abelian group of possibly infinite rank, which then leads to the celebrated Hirota bilinear form of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) hierarchy describing the Plucker embedding of an infinite-dimensional Grassmannian. By gathering ostensibly disparate issues together under a unified perspective, the book reveals how even the most advanced topics can be discovered at the elementary level.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer International Publishing Ag
ISBN-13
9783319318417
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221841616
Product Key Features
Author
Parham Salehyan, Letterio Gatto
Publication Name
Hasse-Schmidt Derivations on Grassmann Algebras: with Applications to Vertex Operators
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Mathematics
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
195 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
4
Item Weight
4557g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Letterio Gatto, Parham Salehyan
Series Title
Impa Monographs
Country/Region of Manufacture
Switzerland
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