A Window into Zeta and Modular Physics

Herausgeber: Kirsten, Klaus; Williams, Floyd L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Consists of lectures that are part of the MSRI workshops and that introduce students and researchers to the intriguing world of theoretical physics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9781107633933
• ISBN-10: 1107633931
• Artikelnr.: 40305741

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introductory Lectures: 1. Lectures on zeta functions, L-functions
and modular forms with some physical applications Floyd L. Williams; 2.
Basic zeta functions and some applications in physics Klaus Kirsten; 3.
Zeta functions and chaos Audrey Terras; 4. Vertex operators and modular
forms Geoffrey Mason and Michael Tuite; Part II. Research Lectures: 5.
Applications of elliptic and theta functions to
Friedmann-Robertson-Lemaître-Walker cosmology with cosmological constant
Jennie D'Ambroise; 6. Integrable systems and 2D gravitation: how a soliton
illuminates a black hole Shabnam Beheshti; 7. Functional determinants in
higher dimensions using contour integrals Klaus Kirsten; 8. The role of the
Patterson-Selberg zeta function of a hyperbolic cylinder in
three-dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant Floyd L.
Williams.