Eisenstein Series and Automorphic Representations: With Applications in String Theory

ISBN-13: 9781107189928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 584 str.

Philipp Fleig; Henrik P. a. Gustafsson; Axel Kleinschmidt

Opis

Detailed exposition of automorphic representations and their relation to string theory, for mathematicians and theoretical physicists.

Recenzje

'The prerequisites for a profitable reading this book are enormous. Readers without a solid background in algebraic and analytic number theory, classfield theory, modular forms and representation theory will only be able to read a couple of sections. Researchers in these fields will be grateful to the authors and the publisher for providing access to some rather advanced mathematics. The material is presented in a very clear and lucid way; there is an extensive index and a list of references containing 634 items.' Franz Lemmermeyer, zbMATH

Spis treści

1. Motivation and background; Part I. Automorphic Representations: 2. Preliminaries on p-adic and adelic technology; 3. Basic notions from Lie algebras and Lie groups; 4. Automorphic forms; 5. Automorphic representations and Eisenstein series; 6. Whittaker functions and Fourier coefficients; 7. Fourier coefficients of Eisenstein series on SL(2, A); 8. Langlands constant term formula; 9. Whittaker coefficients of Eisenstein series; 10. Analysing Eisenstein series and small representations; 11. Hecke theory and automorphic L-functions; 12. Theta correspondences; Part II. Applications in String Theory: 13. Elements of string theory; 14. Automorphic scattering amplitudes; 15. Further occurrences of automorphic forms in string theory; Part III. Advanced Topics: 16. Connections to the Langlands program; 17. Whittaker functions, crystals and multiple Dirichlet series; 18. Automorphic forms on non-split real forms; 19. Extension to Kac–Moody groups; Appendix A. SL(2, R) Eisenstein series and Poisson resummation; Appendix B. Laplace operators on G/K and automorphic forms; Appendix C. Structure theory of su(2, 1); Appendix D. Poincaré series and Kloosterman sums; References; Index.