An Introduction to Groups, Groupoids and Their Representations

Alberto Ibort, Miguel A. Rodriguez

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English

CRC Press
30 June 2021

Discrete mathematics; Algebra; Geometry; Combinatorics & graph theory

This book offers an introduction to the theory of groupoids and their representations encompassing the standard theory of groups. Using a categorical language, developed from simple examples, the theory of finite groupoids is shown to knit neatly with that of groups and their structure as well as that of their representations is described. The book comprises numerous examples and applications, including well-known games and puzzles, databases and physics applications. Key concepts have been presented using only basic notions so that it can be used both by students and researchers interested in the subject.

Category theory is the natural language that is being used to develop the theory of groupoids. However, categorical presentations of mathematical subjects tend to become highly abstract very fast and out of reach of many potential users. To avoid this, foundations of the theory, starting with simple examples, have been developed and used to study the structure of finite groups and groupoids. The appropriate language and notions from category theory have been developed for students of mathematics and theoretical physics. The book presents the theory on the same level as the ordinary and elementary theories of finite groups and their representations, and provides a unified picture of the same. The structure of the algebra of finite groupoids is analysed, along with the classical theory of characters of their representations.

Unnecessary complications in the formal presentation of the subject are avoided. The book offers an introduction to the language of category theory in the concrete setting of finite sets. It also shows how this perspective provides a common ground for various problems and applications, ranging from combinatorics, the topology of graphs, structure of databases and quantum physics.

By: Alberto Ibort, Miguel A. Rodriguez
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781032086767
ISBN 10: 1032086769
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 30 June 2021
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Categories: basic notions and examples. 2. Groups. 3. Groupoids. 4. Actions of groups and groupoids. 5. Functors and transformations. 6. The structure of groupoids. 7. Linear representations of groups. 8. Characters. 9. Linear representations of categories. 10. Algebras and groupoids. 11. Semi-simplicity. 12. Representations of groupoids. A. Glossary of Linear Algebra. B. Generators and relations. C. Schwinger Algebra. Bibliography. Index.

Alberto Ibort is full professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics of the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain and member of the Mathematical Institute, ICMAT, Madrid, Spain. He has been visiting professor and Fulbright Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, postdoc at the Université de Paris VI, France and the Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark, and professor of Theoretical Physics at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. His research includes several areas of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics: Functional Analysis, Differential Geometry and more recently algebraic structures on Physics and Engineering, mainly control theory. Miguel A. Rodríguez is full professor in the Department of Theoretical Physics of Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. His teaching is mainly related to courses on Mathematics applied to Physics, in particular group theory. He has been visiting professor at Université de Montréal, Canada, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, and Università di Roma Tre, Italy. His research field includes several areas of Mathematical Physics: Integrable Systems, Group Theory, and Difference Equations.