Spectral Geometry of Manifolds with Boundary and Decomposition of Manifolds

Spectral Geometry of Manifolds with Boundary and Decomposition of Manifolds
Author: Gerd Grubb
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2005
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 082183536X

In recent years, increasingly complex methods have been brought into play in the treatment of geometric and topological problems for partial differential operators on manifolds. This collection of papers, resulting from a Workshop on Spectral Geometry of Manifolds with Boundary and Decomposition of Manifolds, provides a broad picture of these methods with new results. Subjects in the book cover a wide variety of topics, from recent advances in index theory and the more general boundary, to applications of those invariants in geometry, topology, and physics. Papers are grouped into four parts: Part I gives an overview of the subject from various points of view. Part II deals with spectral invariants, such as geometric and topological questions. Part IV deals specifically with problems on manifolds with singularities. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in spectral problems in geometry.

Analysis, Geometry and Topology of Elliptic Operators

Analysis, Geometry and Topology of Elliptic Operators
Author: Bernhelm Booss
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812568050

Modern theory of elliptic operators, or simply elliptic theory, has been shaped by the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem created 40 years ago. Reviewing elliptic theory over a broad range, 32 leading scientists from 14 different countries present recent developments in topology; heat kernel techniques; spectral invariants and cutting and pasting; noncommutative geometry; and theoretical particle, string and membrane physics, and Hamiltonian dynamics.The first of its kind, this volume is ideally suited to graduate students and researchers interested in careful expositions of newly-evolved achievements and perspectives in elliptic theory. The contributions are based on lectures presented at a workshop acknowledging Krzysztof P Wojciechowski's work in the theory of elliptic operators.

Analysis, Geometry And Topology Of Elliptic Operators: Papers In Honor Of Krzysztof P Wojciechowski

Analysis, Geometry And Topology Of Elliptic Operators: Papers In Honor Of Krzysztof P Wojciechowski
Author: Matthias Lesch
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2006-04-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814478024

Modern theory of elliptic operators, or simply elliptic theory, has been shaped by the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem created 40 years ago. Reviewing elliptic theory over a broad range, 32 leading scientists from 14 different countries present recent developments in topology; heat kernel techniques; spectral invariants and cutting and pasting; noncommutative geometry; and theoretical particle, string and membrane physics, and Hamiltonian dynamics.The first of its kind, this volume is ideally suited to graduate students and researchers interested in careful expositions of newly-evolved achievements and perspectives in elliptic theory. The contributions are based on lectures presented at a workshop acknowledging Krzysztof P Wojciechowski's work in the theory of elliptic operators.

Spectral Flow

Spectral Flow
Author: Nora Doll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2023-06-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3111172473

Elliptic Mixed, Transmission and Singular Crack Problems

Elliptic Mixed, Transmission and Singular Crack Problems
Author: Gohar Harutyunyan
Publisher: European Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2007
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783037190401

Mixed, transmission, or crack problems belong to the analysis of boundary value problems on manifolds with singularities. The Zaremba problem with a jump between Dirichlet and Neumann conditions along an interface on the boundary is a classical example. The central theme of this book is to study mixed problems in standard Sobolev spaces as well as in weighted edge spaces where the interfaces are interpreted as edges. Parametrices and regularity of solutions are obtained within a systematic calculus of boundary value problems on manifolds with conical or edge singularities. This calculus allows singularities on the interface and homotopies between mixed and crack problems. Additional edge conditions are computed in terms of relative index results. In a detailed final chapter, the intuitive ideas of the approach are illustrated, and there is a discussion of future challenges. A special feature of the text is the inclusion of many worked-out examples which help the reader to appreciate the scope of the theory and to treat new cases of practical interest. This book is addressed to mathematicians and physicists interested in models with singularities, associated boundary value problems, and their solvability strategies based on pseudo-differential operators. The material is also useful for students in higher semesters and young researchers, as well as for experienced specialists working in analysis on manifolds with geometric singularities, the applications of index theory and spectral theory, operator algebras with symbolic structures, quantisation, and asymptotic analysis.

The Laplacian on a Riemannian Manifold

The Laplacian on a Riemannian Manifold
Author: Steven Rosenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1997-01-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521468312

This text on analysis of Riemannian manifolds is aimed at students who have had a first course in differentiable manifolds.

Noncommutative Geometry and Physics 3

Noncommutative Geometry and Physics 3
Author: Giuseppe Dito
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2013
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 981442501X

Noncommutative differential geometry has many actual and potential applications to several domains in physics ranging from solid state to quantization of gravity. The strategy is to formulate usual differential geometry in a somewhat unusual manner, using in particular operator algebras and related concepts, so as to be able to plug in noncommutativity in a natural way. Algebraic tools such as K-theory and cyclic cohomology and homology play an important role in this field.

Sturm?Liouville Operators, Their Spectral Theory, and Some Applications

Sturm?Liouville Operators, Their Spectral Theory, and Some Applications
Author: Fritz Gesztesy
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2024-09-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470476665

This book provides a detailed treatment of the various facets of modern Sturm?Liouville theory, including such topics as Weyl?Titchmarsh theory, classical, renormalized, and perturbative oscillation theory, boundary data maps, traces and determinants for Sturm?Liouville operators, strongly singular Sturm?Liouville differential operators, generalized boundary values, and Sturm?Liouville operators with distributional coefficients. To illustrate the theory, the book develops an array of examples from Floquet theory to short-range scattering theory, higher-order KdV trace relations, elliptic and algebro-geometric finite gap potentials, reflectionless potentials and the Sodin?Yuditskii class, as well as a detailed collection of singular examples, such as the Bessel, generalized Bessel, and Jacobi operators. A set of appendices contains background on the basics of linear operators and spectral theory in Hilbert spaces, Schatten?von Neumann classes of compact operators, self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators, including the Friedrichs and Krein?von Neumann extensions, boundary triplets for ODEs, Krein-type resolvent formulas, sesquilinear forms, Nevanlinna?Herglotz functions, and Bessel functions.

New Developments in Pseudo-Differential Operators

New Developments in Pseudo-Differential Operators
Author: Luigi Rodino
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3764389699

This volume consists of peer-reviewed papers related to lectures on pseudo-differential operators presented at the meeting of the ISAAC Group in Pseudo-Differential Operators (IGPDO) held on August 13-18, 2007, and invited papers by experts in the field.