University Lecture Series
Volume: 59;
2012;
190 pp;
Softcover
MSC: Primary 11; 40; 47; 81; 65;
Print ISBN: 978-0-8218-5367-2
Product Code: ULECT/59
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Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8218-9035-6
Product Code: ULECT/59.E
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Supplemental Materials
Regularised Integrals, Sums and Traces: An Analytic Point of View
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“Regularization techniques” is the common name for a variety of
methods used to make sense of divergent series, divergent integrals,
or traces of linear operators in infinite-dimensional spaces. Such
methods are often indispensable in problems of number theory,
geometry, quantum field theory, and other areas of mathematics and
theoretical physics. However arbitrary and noncanonical they might
seem at first glance, regularized sums, integrals, and traces
often contain canonical concepts, and the main purpose of this book is
to illustrate and explain this.
This book provides a unified and self-contained mathematical
treatment of various regularization techniques. The author shows how
to derive regularized sums, integrals, and traces from certain
canonical building blocks of the original divergent object. In the
process of putting together these “building blocks”, one encounters
many problems and ambiguities caused by various so-called anomalies,
which are investigated and explained in detail. Nevertheless, it turns
out that the corresponding canonical sums, integrals, sums, and traces
are well behaved, thus making the regularization procedure possible
and manageable.
This new unified outlook on regularization techniques in various
fields of mathematics and in quantum field theory can serve as an
introduction for anyone from a beginning mathematician interested in
the subject to an experienced physicist who wants to gain a unified
outlook on techniques he/she uses on a daily basis.
Readership
Research mathematicians interested in partial differential equations, asymptotic methods, and applications to quantum field theory.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Regularised Integrals, Sums and Traces: An Analytic Point of View
- Cover Cover11 free
- Title page i2 free
- Contents v6 free
- Preface vii8 free
- The Gamma function extended to nonpositive integer points 112 free
- The canonical integral and noncommutative residue on symbols 1526
- The cut-off regularised integral 3546
- The noncommutative residue as a complex residue 5364
- The canonical sum on noninteger order classical symbols 7990
- Traces on pseudodifferential operators 105116
- Weighted traces 131142
- Logarithmic residues 145156
- Anomalies of regularised determinants 167178
- Bibliography 183194
- Index 189200 free
- Back Cover Back Cover1202