文档介绍：Progress in Mathematics
Volume 156
Series Editors
Hyman Bass
Joseph Oesterle
Alan Weinstein
Yves Guivarc'h
Lizhen Ji
. Taylor
Compactifications of
Symmetric Spaces
Birkhauser
Boston • Basel • Berlin
Yves Guivarc'h Lizhen Ji
IRMAR Department of Mathematics
UFR Mathematiques University of Michigan
Universite de Rennes-I Ann Arbor, MI
Rennes, France
J. C. Taylor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guivarc'h, Yves
Compactifications of symmetric spaces / Yves Guivarc'h, Lizhen Ji,
John C. Taylor.
p. cm. -- (Progress in mathematics; v. 156)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-7542-8 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-2452-5
DOl: -1-4612-2452-5
1. Symmetric spaces. 2. Compactifications. I. Ji, Lizhen, 1964-
II. Taylor, J. C. (John Christopher), 1936- . III. Compactifications of
Symmetric Spaces. IV. Series: Progress in Mathematics (Boston, Mass.); vol. 156
1997 97-27755
'62--dc21 CIP
AMS Subject Classification: 53C35, 22E30, 51f15, 60145, 31C35, 43A85, 60150
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