This book explores the theory and application of locally nilpotent derivations, which is a subject of growing interest and importance not only among those in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, but also in fields such as Lie algebras and differential equations.
"This book explores the theory and application of locally nilpotent derivations, which is a subject of growing interest and importance not only among those in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, but also in fields such as Lie algebras and differential equations.
First Principles.- Further Properties of Locally Nilpotent Derivations.- Polynomial Rings.- Dimension Two.- Dimension Three.- Linear Actions of Unipotent Groups.- Non-Finitely Generated Kernels.- Algorithms.- The Makar-Limanov and Derksen Invariants.- Slices, Embeddings and Cancellation.- Epilogue.