Eigenvalues of the Laplacian for Hecke Triangle Groups

Eigenvalues of the Laplacian for Hecke Triangle Groups
Author: Dennis A. Hejhal
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 177
Release: 1992
Genre: Automorphic functions
ISBN: 0821825291

Paper I is concerned with computational aspects of the Selberg trace formalism, considering the usual type of eigenfunction and including an analysis of pseudo cusp forms and their residual effects. Paper II examines the modular group PSL (2, [bold]Z), as such groups have both a discrete and continuous spectrum. This paper only examines the discrete side of the spectrum.

Emerging Applications of Number Theory

Emerging Applications of Number Theory
Author: Dennis A. Hejhal
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 693
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461215447

Most people tend to view number theory as the very paradigm of pure mathematics. With the advent of computers, however, number theory has been finding an increasing number of applications in practical settings, such as in cryptography, random number generation, coding theory, and even concert hall acoustics. Yet other applications are still emerging - providing number theorists with some major new areas of opportunity. The 1996 IMA summer program on Emerging Applications of Number Theory was aimed at stimulating further work with some of these newest (and most attractive) applications. Concentration was on number theory's recent links with: (a) wave phenomena in quantum mechanics (more specifically, quantum chaos); and (b) graph theory (especially expander graphs and related spectral theory). This volume contains the contributed papers from that meeting and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by novel applications of modern number-theoretical techniques.

Computations with Modular Forms

Computations with Modular Forms
Author: Gebhard Böckle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319038478

This volume contains original research articles, survey articles and lecture notes related to the Computations with Modular Forms 2011 Summer School and Conference, held at the University of Heidelberg. A key theme of the Conference and Summer School was the interplay between theory, algorithms and experiment. The 14 papers offer readers both, instructional courses on the latest algorithms for computing modular and automorphic forms, as well as original research articles reporting on the latest developments in the field. The three Summer School lectures provide an introduction to modern algorithms together with some theoretical background for computations of and with modular forms, including computing cohomology of arithmetic groups, algebraic automorphic forms, and overconvergent modular symbols. The 11 Conference papers cover a wide range of themes related to computations with modular forms, including lattice methods for algebraic modular forms on classical groups, a generalization of the Maeda conjecture, an efficient algorithm for special values of p-adic Rankin triple product L-functions, arithmetic aspects and experimental data of Bianchi groups, a theoretical study of the real Jacobian of modular curves, results on computing weight one modular forms, and more.

Fourier Analysis on Finite Groups and Applications

Fourier Analysis on Finite Groups and Applications
Author: Audrey Terras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1999-03-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521457187

It examines the theory of finite groups in a manner that is both accessible to the beginner and suitable for graduate research.

Imbeddings of Three-Manifold Groups

Imbeddings of Three-Manifold Groups
Author: Francisco González-Acuña
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 71
Release: 1992
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821825348

This paper deals with the two broad questions of how 3-manifold groups imbed in one another and how such imbeddings relate to any corresponding [lowercase Greek]Pi1-injective maps. In particular, we are interested in 1) determining which 3-manifold groups are no cohopfian, that is, which 3-manifold groups imbed properly in themselves, 2) determining the knot subgroups of a knot group, and 3) determining when surgery on a knot [italic]K yields a lens (or "lens-like") space and the relationship of such a surgery to the knot-subgroup structure of [lowercase Greek]Pi1([italic]S3 - [italic]K). Our work requires the formulation of a deformation theorem for [lowercase Greek]Pi1-injective maps between certain kinds of Haken manifolds and the development of some algebraic tools.

Loop Groups, Discrete Versions of Some Classical Integrable Systems, and Rank 2 Extensions

Loop Groups, Discrete Versions of Some Classical Integrable Systems, and Rank 2 Extensions
Author: Percy Deift
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1992
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821825402

The authors show how to interpret recent results of Moser and Veselov on discrete versions of a class of classical integrable systems, in terms of a loop group framework. In this framework the discrete systems appear as time-one maps of integrable Hamiltonian flows. Earlier results of Moser on isospectral deformations of rank 2 extensions of a fixed matrix, can also be incorporated into their scheme.

Degenerate Principal Series for Symplectic Groups

Degenerate Principal Series for Symplectic Groups
Author: Chris Jantzen
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1993
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821825496

This paper is concerned with induced representations for $p$-adic groups. In particular, Jantzen examines the question of reducibility in the case where the inducing subgroup is a maximal parabolic subgroup of $Sp_{2n (F)$ and the inducing representation is one-dimensional. Two different approaches to this problem are used. The first, based on the work of Casselman and of Gustafson, reduces the problem to the corresponding question about an associated finite-dimensional representation of a certain Hecke algebra. The second approach is based on a technique of Tadi\'c and involves an analysis of Jacquet modules. This is used to obtain a more general result on induced representations, which may be used to deal with the problem when the inducing representation satisfies a regularity condition. The same basic argument is also applied in a case-by-case fashion to nonregular cases.

Unraveling the Integral Knot Concordance Group

Unraveling the Integral Knot Concordance Group
Author: Neal W. Stoltzfus
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 103
Release: 1977
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 082182192X

The group of concordance classes of high dimensional homotopy spheres knotted in codimension two in the standard sphere has an intricate algebraic structure which this paper unravels. The first level of invariants is given by the classical Alexander polynomial. By means of a transfer construction, the integral Seifert matrices of knots whose Alexander polynomial is a power of a fixed irreducible polynomial are related to forms with the appropriate Hermitian symmetry on torsion free modules over an order in the algebraic number field determined by the Alexander polynomial. This group is then explicitly computed in terms of standard arithmetic invariants. In the symmetric case, this computation shows there are no elements of order four with an irreducible Alexander polynomial. Furthermore, the order is not necessarily Dedekind and non-projective modules can occur. The second level of invariants is given by constructing an exact sequence relating the global concordance group to the individual pieces described above. The integral concordance group is then computed by a localization exact sequence relating it to the rational group computed by J. Levine and a group of torsion linking forms.

Hypergeometric Functions on Domains of Positivity, Jack Polynomials, and Applications

Hypergeometric Functions on Domains of Positivity, Jack Polynomials, and Applications
Author: Donald St. P. Richards
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1992
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821851594

This book is the first set of proceedings to be devoted entirely to the theory of hypergeometric functions defined on domains of positivity. Most of the scientific areas in which these functions are applied include analytic number theory, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, random walks, representation theory, and mathematical physics - are represented here. This volume is based largely on lectures presented at a Special Session at the AMS meeting in Tampa, Florida in March 1991, which was devoted to hypergeometric functions of matrix argument and to fostering communication among representatives of the diverse scientific areas in which these functions are utilized. Accessible to graduate students and others seeking an introduction to the state of the art in this area, this book is a suitable text for advanced graduate seminar courses for it contains many open problems.