Progress in Mathematics: Lie Groups Beyond an Introduction (Hardcover)

Anthony W Knapp
Birkhauser Boston
 9780817642594
0-8176-4259-5

This book takes the reader from the end of introductory Lie group theory to the threshold of infinite-dimensional group representations. Merging algebra and analysis throughout, the author uses Lie-theoretic.

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methods to develop a beautiful theory having wide applications in mathematics and physics. The book initially shares insights that make use of actual matrices; it later relies on such structural features as properties of root systems.