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Selected writings

Dusa McDuff is a English mathematician, who worked in the USA. She has proved profound results in operator algebra and differential geometry. In recent years she has concentrated on symplectic, contact geometry and symplectic topology.

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Selected writings

On the group completion theorem:

• Dusa McDuff, Graeme Segal, Homology fibrations and the “group-completion” theorem, Inventiones mathematicae, October 1976, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp 279–284 (doi:10.1007/BF01403148)

On configuration spaces of points:

• Dusa McDuff, Configuration spaces of positive and negative particles, Topology 14 1 (1975) 91-107 [doi:10.1016/0040-9383(75)90038-5]

• Dusa McDuff: Configuration Spaces, in: K-Theory and Operator Algebras, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 575 Springer (1977) 88-95 [doi:10.1007/BFb0095704, pdf]

On symplectic topology:

• Dusa McDuff, Dietmar Salamon, Introduction to symplectic topology, 2 ed. Oxford Mathematical Monographs 1998. x+486 pp.

• Dusa McDuff, Dietmar Salamon, J-holomorphic curves

  and quantum cohomology_, AMS, University Lecture Series 6, 1994 (revised pdf 1995 pdf)

• Dusa McDuff, D.A. Salamon, J-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology, AMS Colloquium Publications 52, 2004.