Discontinuous Groups for Non-Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces
A Lie group is a group G equipped with the structure of a C∞-manifold such that the multiplication $$ G \times G \to G,\quad (x,y) \mapsto x{{y}^{{ - 1}}} $$ is a C∞ map. In the definition, C∞ can be replaced by any of C0, C1, …, Cw (real analytic), by an
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MATHEMATICS UNLIMITED2001 AND BEYOND COLLECTOR'S EDITION· PART II
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Die Deutsche BibliOlhek - CIP·Einheit5aufnahme Mathematics un limited - 200 1 and beyond I BjOm Engq uist : Wil fried Schmid ed.Collector's ed.Berlin : Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong : London : Milan ; Paris: Singapore : Tokyo : Springer ~ I S BN- I ); 978-j~2-S6478-9 ISBN· I): 978·)-642--6) 114-6 001: 10.10071978-j-642·56478·9
PI. 2. - (2001 ) Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 00-02, 0)-XX. 05-X X. II·X X. 14·XX, 34· XX. )5· XX. 46-XX. 47·XX, 49-XX, 5 1· XX. 52·XX. 53-XX , 55-XX, 57- XX. 5S·XX. 6()..XX, 65-XX, 68-XX, 7Q.XX. 7)-XX. 76-XX. SI-XX. S3- XX , 8S-XX , 9().XX. 92-XX. 94·XX
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