Download or read book Compactifications of Symmetric and Locally Symmetric Spaces written by Armand Borel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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