ENGLISH

Spectral functions in mathematics and physics

By Klaus Kirsten

Book information

Publisher
Chapman & Hall/CRC
Year
2002
ISBN
158488259X, 9781584882596, 9781420035469
LCC
QC20.7.S64 K57 2001
Open Library ID
OL18168970M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2024438 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
388\388
Library
kolxoz
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Over the last several years, the author and his colleagues have developed new methods for the exact analysis, including numerical evaluations, of different spectral functions that have significant applications in physics. This book provides a comprehensive description of these techniques and of their various applications. The approach allows for an exact treatment of zeta functions associated with the spectrum of a certain class of second order elliptic differential operators. Although much of the book is devoted to spectral analysis and spectral geometry, it also demonstrates some of the many ramifications spectral analysis and geometry has in physics, particularly to heat asymptotics, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, the theory of partitions, and Bose-Einstein condensation.

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