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Lie Sphere Geometry

With Applications to Submanifolds

Thomas E. Cecil

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English
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
26 November 2007
Series: Universitext
Thomas Cecil is a math professor with an unrivalled grasp of Lie Sphere Geometry. Here, he provides a clear and comprehensive modern treatment of the subject, as well as its applications to the study of Euclidean submanifolds. It begins with the construction of the space of spheres, including the fundamental notions of oriented contact, parabolic pencils of spheres, and Lie sphere transformations. This new edition contains revised sections on taut submanifolds, compact proper Dupin submanifolds, reducible Dupin submanifolds, and the cyclides of Dupin. Completely new material on isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres and Dupin hypersurfaces with three and four principal curvatures is also included. The author surveys the known results in these fields and indicates directions for further research and wider application of the methods of Lie sphere geometry.
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Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   2nd ed. 2008
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9780387746555
ISBN 10:   0387746552
Series:   Universitext
Pages:   208
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Lie Sphere Geometry.- Lie Sphere Transformations.- Legendre Submanifolds.- Dupin Submanifolds.

Professor Thomas E. Cecil is a professor of mathematics at Holy Cross University, where he has taught for almost thirty years. He has held visiting appointments at UC Berkeley, Brown University, and the University of Notre Dame. He has written several articles on Dupin submanifolds and hypersurfaces, and their connections to Lie sphere geometry, and co-edited two volumes on tight and taught submanifolds.

Reviews for Lie Sphere Geometry: With Applications to Submanifolds

Reviews from the first edition: The book under review sets out the basic material on Lie sphere geometry in modern notation, thus making it accessible to students and researchers in differential geometry.....This is a carefully written, thorough, and very readable book. There is an excellent bibliography that not only provides pointers to proofs that have been omitted, but gives appropriate references for the results presented. It should be useful to all geometers working in the theory of submanifolds. - P.J. Ryan, MathSciNet The book under review is an excellent monograph about Lie sphere geometry and its recent applications to the study of submanifolds of Euclidean space.....The book is written in a very clear and precise style. It contains about a hundred references, many comments of and hints to the topical literature, and can be considered as a milestone in the recent development of a classical geometry, to which the author contributed essential results. - R. Sulanke, Zentralblatt


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