Algebraic Groups And Arithmetic

Major advances have been made in recent decades in algebraic groups and arithmetic. The School of Mathematics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, under the leadership of Professor M. S. Raghunathan, has been a significant contributor to this progress. This collection of papers grew out of a conference held in honor of Professor Raghunathan's sixtieth birthday. The volume contains original papers contributed by leading experts. Topics covered include group-theoretic aspects, Diophantine approximation, modular forms, representation theory, interactions with topology and geometry, and dynamics on homogeneous spaces. Particularly noteworthy are two expository articles on Professor Raghunathan's work by the late Armand Borel and Gopal Prasad. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in algebra and algebraic geometry.