Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences: Oxford Mathematical Mongraphs) - Softcover

Macdonald, I. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198739125 ISBN 13: 9780198739128

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This reissued classic text is the acclaimed second edition of Professor Ian Macdonald's groundbreaking monograph on symmetric functions and Hall polynomials.

The first edition was published in 1979, before being significantly expanded into the present edition in 1995. This text is widely regarded as the best source of information on Hall polynomials and what have come to be known as Macdonald polynomials, central to a number of key developments in mathematics and mathematical physics in the 21st century

Macdonald polynomials gave rise to the subject of double affine Hecke algebras (or Cherednik algebras) important in representation theory. String theorists use Macdonald polynomials to attack the so-called AGT conjectures. Macdonald polynomials have been recently used to construct knot invariants. They are also a central tool for a theory of integrable stochastic models that have found a number of applications in probability, such as random matrices, directed polymers in random media, driven lattice gases, and so on.

Macdonald polynomials have become a part of basic material that a researcher simply must know if (s)he wants to work in one of the above domains, ensuring this new edition will appeal to a very broad mathematical audience.

Featuring a new foreword by Professor Richard Stanley of MIT.

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About the Author

I. G. Macdonald, Emeritus Professor, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198739125
• ISBN 13: 9780198739128
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 494