Different Faces of Geometry (International Mathematical by Simon Donaldson,Yakov Eliashberg,Misha Gromov

Different Faces of Geometry - edited through the area well known geometers S. Donaldson, Ya. Eliashberg, and M. Gromov - offers the present country, new effects, unique principles and open questions from the next very important subject matters in sleek geometry:

Amoebas and Tropical Geometry
Convex Geometry and Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
Differential Topology of 4-Manifolds
3-Dimensional touch Geometry
Floer Homology and Low-Dimensional Topology
Kahler Geometry
Lagrangian and unique Lagrangian Submanifolds
Refined Seiberg-Witten Invariants.

These it sounds as if varied issues have a typical characteristic in that they're all parts of fascinating present job. The Editors have attracted a powerful array of prime experts to writer chapters for this quantity: G. Mikhalkin (USA-Canada-Russia), V.D. Milman (Israel) and A.A. Giannopoulos (Greece), C. LeBrun (USA), Ko Honda (USA), P. Ozsvath (USA) and Z. Szabo (USA), C. Simpson (France), D. Joyce (UK) and P. Seidel (USA), and S. Bauer (Germany).

"One can distinguish numerous issues operating in the course of the various contributions. there's a few emphasis on invariants outlined by means of elliptic equations and their functions in low-dimensional topology, symplectic and speak to geometry (Bauer, Seidel, Ozsvath and Szabo). those principles input, extra tangentially, within the articles of Joyce, Honda and LeBrun. right here and in other places, in addition to explaining the speedy advances which were made, the articles express an excellent feel of the great parts mendacity past our present figuring out.
Simpson's article emphasizes the necessity for fascinating new structures (in that case of Kahler and algebraic manifolds), some degree that is additionally made through Bauer within the context of 4-manifolds and the "11/8 conjecture."
LeBrun's article supplies one other standpoint on 4-manifold idea, through Riemannian geometry, and the demanding open questions concerning the geometry of even "well-known" 4-manifolds.
There also are remarkable contrasts among the articles. The authors have taken diverse ways: for instance, the considerate essay of Simpson, the hot learn result of LeBrun and the thorough expositions with homework difficulties of Honda.
One may also give some thought to the variations within the variety of arithmetic. within the articles of Honda, Giannopoulos and Milman, and Mikhalkin, the "geometry" is found in a really bright and tangible means; combining respectively with topology, research and algebra. The papers of Bauer and Seidel, nonetheless, makes the purpose that algebraic and algebro-topological abstraction (triangulated different types, spectra) can play an immense position in very unforeseen methods in concrete geometric problems." - From the Preface through the Editors