Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics, and Geometry I: On Random Matrices, Zeta Functions, and Dynamical Systems

ISBN-13: 9783540231899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 624 str.

Michael Tehranchi; P. E. Cartier; Pierre Emile Cartier

Opis

The relation between mathematics and physics has a long history, in which the role of number theory and of other more abstract parts of mathematics has recently become more prominent. More than 10 years after a first meeting between number theorists and physicists at the Centre de Physique des Houches, a second two-week event focused on the broader interface of number theory, geometry, and physics. This book collects the material presented at this meeting.

Spis treści

Random Matrices: from Physics to Number Theory.- Quantum and Arithmetical Chaos.- Notes on L-functions and Random Matrix Theory.- Energy Level Statistics, Lattice Point Problems, and Almost Modular Functions.- Arithmetic Quantum Chaos of Maass Waveforms.- Large N Expansion for Normal and Complex Matrix Ensembles.- Symmetries Arising from Free Probability Theory.- Universality and Randomness for the Graphs and Metric Spaces.- Zeta Functions.- From Physics to Number Theory Via Noncommutative Geometry.- More Zeta Functions for the Riemann Zeros.- Hilbert Spaces of Entire Functions and Dirichlet L-Functions.- Dynamical Zeta Functions and Closed Orbits for Geodesic and Hyperbolic Flows.- Dynamical Systems: Interval Exchange, Flat Surfaces, and Small Divisors.- Continued Fraction Algorithms for Interval Exchange Maps: an Introduction.- Flat Surfaces.- Brjuno Numbers and Dynamical Systems.- Some Properties of Real and Complex Brjuno Functions.