Directed Algebraic Topology: Models of Non-Reversible Worlds: 13 (New Mathematical Monographs, Series Number 13) - Hardcover

Grandis, Marco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521760364 ISBN 13: 9780521760362

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This is the first authored book to be dedicated to the new field of directed algebraic topology that arose in the 1990s, in homotopy theory and in the theory of concurrent processes. Its general aim can be stated as 'modelling non-reversible phenomena' and its domain should be distinguished from that of classical algebraic topology by the principle that directed spaces have privileged directions and directed paths therein need not be reversible. Its homotopical tools (corresponding in the classical case to ordinary homotopies), fundamental group and fundamental groupoid should be similarly 'non-reversible': directed homotopies, fundamental monoid and fundamental category. Homotopy constructions occur here in a directed version, which gives rise to new 'shapes', like directed cones and directed spheres. Applications will deal with domains where privileged directions appear, including rewrite systems, traffic networks and biological systems. The most developed examples can be found in the area of concurrency.

About this title

Book Description:

The first authored book to be dedicated to the new field of directed algebraic topology that arose in the 1990s, in homotopy theory and in the theory of concurrent processes. The author presents its mathematical foundations, demonstrating its relation to classical algebraic topology, and explores its varied applications.

About the Author:

Marco Grandis is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Genoa, Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521760364
• ISBN 13: 9780521760362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 444