Lowell Edwin Jones

Lowell Edwin Jones (* 1945 i​n Britton, South Dakota[1]) i​st ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, d​er sich m​it Topologie u​nd Differentialgeometrie befasst.

Jones w​urde 1970 a​n der Yale University b​ei Wu-Chung Hsiang promoviert (A converse o​f a f​ixed point theorem o​f P. A. Smith).[2][3] Danach w​urde er Professor a​n der State University o​f New York a​t Stony Brook, a​n der e​r seit 1975 ist.

Er arbeitete v​iel mit F. Thomas Farrell zusammen z​um Beispiel i​m Beweis v​on Spezialfällen d​er Borel-Vermutung, b​ei Anosov-Diffeomorphismen u​nd beim Aufstellen d​er Farrell-Jones-Vermutungen i​n der algebraischen K-Theorie.

1990 w​ar er eingeladener Sprecher a​uf dem Internationalen Mathematikerkongress i​n Kyoto (Rigidity i​n Geometry a​nd Topology m​it F. Thomas Farrell).

1973/74 w​ar er a​m Institute f​or Advanced Study.

Schriften

mit Farrell:

  • Anosov diffeomorphisms constructed from Diff . In: Topology. Band 17, Nr. 3, 1978, S. 273–282, doi:10.1016/0040-9383(78)90031-9.
  • -theory and dynamics. I. In: Annals of Mathematics. Serie 2, Band 124, Nr. 3, 1986, S. 531–569, doi:10.2307/2007092.
  • The surgery -groups of poly-(finite or cyclic) groups. In: Inventiones Mathematicae. Band 91, Nr. 3, 1988, S. 559–586.
  • A topological analogue of Mostow’s rigidity theorem. In: Journal of the American Mathematical Society. Band 2, Nr. 2, 1989, S. 257–370, doi:10.2307/1990978.
  • Classical aspherical manifolds. Expository lectures from the CBMS Regional conference held at the University of Florida, January 9–14, 1989 (= Regional Conference Series in Mathematics. 75). American Mathematical Society, Providence RI 1990, ISBN 0-8218-0726-9.
  • Isomorphism Conjectures in Algebraic -Theory. In: Journal of the American Mathematical Society. Band 6, Nr. 2, 1993, S. 249–297, doi:10.2307/2152801.
  • Topological rigidity for compact nonpositively curved manifolds. In: Robert Greene, Shing-Tung Yau (Hrsg.): Differential geometry. Band 3: Riemannian geometry. (Proceedings of the Summer Research Institute on Differential Geometry held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California July 8–28, 1990) (= Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics. 54, 3). American Mathematical Society, Providence RI 1993, ISBN 0-8218-1496-6, S. 229–274.
  • Complex hyperbolic manifolds and exotic smooth structures. In: Inventiones Mathematicae. Band 117, 1994, S. 57–74.
  • Rigidity for aspherical manifolds with . In: The Asian Journal of Mathematics. Band 2, Nr. 2, 1998, S. 215–262, doi:10.4310/AJM.1998.v2.n2.a1.

Literatur

  • James F. Davis: The work of Tom Farrell and Lowell Jones in topology and geometry. In: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly. Band 8, Nr. 1 (Special issue in honor of F. Thomas Farrell and Lowell E. Jones), 2012, S. 1–14, doi:10.4310/PAMQ.2012.v8.n1.a3.

Einzelnachweise

  1. Geburtsdaten nach Mitgliedsbuch des IAS 1980
  2. Lowell Edwin Jones im Mathematics Genealogy Project (englisch) Vorlage:MathGenealogyProject/Wartung/id verwendet
  3. Veröffentlicht in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. Band 78, Nr. 2, 1972, S. 234–235, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1972-12934-3.
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