Several Complex Variables V

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.