Compactifications of Symmetric and Locally Symmetric Spaces

Introduces uniform constructions of most of the known compactifications of symmetric and locally symmetric spaces, with emphasis on their geometric and topological structures Relatively self-contained reference aimed at graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the applications of Lie theory and representation theory to analysis, number theory, algebraic geometry and algebraic topology Compactifications of Symmetric and Locally Symmetric Spaces is written by Armand Borel; Lizhen Ji and published by Birkhäuser. ISBNs for Compactifications of Symmetric and Locally Symmetric Spaces are 9780817644666, 0817644660 and the print ISBNs are 9780817632472, 0817632476.