Simon Scott

Traces and Determinants of Pseudodifferential Operators

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The text is on the traces and determinants of elliptic pseudo differential operators-an interesting and important topic in the field of geometric analysis. Aimed at graduates and researchers in mathematics and physics, the book covers the basics of the topic, advances and developments, and will also be of interest to those studying string theory and quantum field theory.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Mathematical Monographs
• Verlag: Prairie Wind Publishing
• New
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198568360
• ISBN-10: 0198568363
• Artikelnr.: 24878777

Autorenporträt

Dr. Scott obtained his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1992. He went on to hold post doctoral positions in Oxford University, the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, and then for two years at the research institute `SISSA' in Trieste, Italy. In 1998 he was appointed to the mathematics department at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Traces
2: Determinants
3: Computations, transition formulae, and the local index formula
4: Pseudodifferential operator trace formulae
5: Geometric families of pseudodifferential operators and determinant line bundles
List of symbols
References
Index