Dimensions, Embeddings, and Attractors

di James C. Robinson (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2010

This accessible research monograph investigates how 'finite-dimensional' sets can be embedded into finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces. The first part brings together a number of abstract embedding results, and provides a unified treatment of four definitions of dimension that arise in disparate fields: Lebesgue covering dimension (from classical 'dimension theory'), Hausdorff dimension (from geometric measure theory), upper box-counting dimension (from dynamical systems), and Assouad dimension (from the theory of metric spaces). These abstract embedding results are applied in the second part of the book to the finite-dimensional global attractors that arise in certain infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, deducing practical consequences from the existence of such attractors: a version of the Takens time-delay embedding theorem valid in spatially extended systems, and a result on parametrisation by point values. This book will appeal to all researchers with an interest in dimension theory, particularly those working in dynamical systems.

• Autore: James C. Robinson
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 218 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 160 mm
• Peso: 450 gr.
• EAN: 9780521898058

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