Number Theory and Physics
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Winter School, Les Houches, France, March 7-16, 1989
By: edited by Jean-Marc Luck, Pierre Moussa, Michel Waldschmidt
Contributors: Moussa, Pierre; Waldschmidt, Michel
Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics, 0930-8989 -- 47; Springer proceedings in physics -- 47.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9783642754050
Subjects: Crystallography; Physics; Number theory
Description: The contributions to this book can be divided into two categories: those in which mathematicians write on problems relevant to theoretical physics, and those dealing with problems relevant to number theory, written by physicists. Many recent developments in theoretical physics display aspects related to number theory, and this cooperation will be furthered by this volume. The authors from each discipline have taken pains to present their contributions in a manner that is attractive and understandable to readers from the other discipline. The subjects covered include: modular forms and applications to quantum field theory for strings, number theoretical aspects of the spectra of operators applied to the Hall effect, quasicrystals, almost periodic systems, the Riemann zeta function, applications of number theory to dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, lattices, stochastic processes and integrable systems.