A window into zeta and modular physics

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Label

A window into zeta and modular physics

Statement of responsibility

edited by Klaus Kirsten, Floyd L. Williams

Contributor

• Kirsten, Klaus, 1962-
• Williams, Floyd L

Subject

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Forms, Modular -- Congresses
• Functions, Zeta -- Congresses
• Mathematical physics -- Congresses

Genre

• Congresses
• Conference papers and proceedings

Language

eng

Summary

• "A book consisting of lectures that are part of the series of MSRI workshops and that introduce students and researchers to a portion of the intriguing world of theoretical physics"--
• "This book provides an introduction to (1) various zeta functions (for example, Riemann, Hurwitz, Barnes, Epstein, Selberg, and Ruelle), including graph zeta functions; (2) modular forms (Eisenstein series, Hecke and Dirichlet L-functions, Ramanujan's tau function, and cusp forms); and (3) vertex operator algebras (correlation functions, quasimodular forms, modular invariance, rationality, and some current research topics including higher genus conformal field theory). Various concrete applications of the material to physics are presented. These include Kaluza-Klein extra dimensional gravity, Bosonic string calculations, an abstract Cardy formula for black hole entropy, Patterson-Selberg zeta function expression of one-loop quantum field and gravity partition functions, Casimir energy calculations, atomic Schrödinger operators, Bose-Einstein condensation, heat kernel asymptotics, random matrices, quantum chaos, elliptic and theta function solutions of Einstein's equations, a soliton-black hole connection in two-dimensional gravity, and conformal field theory"--

Member of

• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute publications, 57

Assigning source

• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

530.15/556

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

QC20.7.Z47

LC item number

W56 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute publications

Series volume

57