Several Complex Variables V
Subtitle: Complex Analysis in Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics
Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9783642634338
Subjects: Mathematical physics; Differential equations, partial; Functions of several complex variables
Description: This volume of the Encyclopaedia contains three contributions in the field of complex analysis. The topics treated are mean periodicity and convolutionequations, Yang-Mills fields and the Radon-Penrose transform, and stringtheory. The latter two have strong links with quantum field theory and the theory of general relativity. In fact, the mathematical results described inthe book arose from the need of physicists to find a sound mathematical basis for their theories. The authors present their material in the formof surveys which provide up-to-date accounts of current research. The book will be immensely useful to graduate students and researchers in complex analysis, differential geometry, quantum field theory, string theoryand general relativity.