P-Adic Analysis and Mathematical Physics
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Will be published approx. on 1. December 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-981-02-3649-6 (ISBN)
Description
P-adic numbers play a very important role in modern number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory. Lately P-adic numbers have attracted a great deal of attention in modern theoretical physics as a promising new approach for describing the non-archimedean geometry of space-time at small distances. This is the "first" book to deal with applications of P-adic numbers in theoretical and mathematical physics. It gives an elementary and thoroughly written introduction to P-adic numbers and P-adic analysis with great numbers of examples as well as applications of P-adic numbers in classical mechanics, dynamical systems, quantum mechanics, statistical physics, quantum field theory and string theory.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-981-02-3649-6 (9789810236496)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
all of the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia
Content
P-adic numbers; p-adic analysis; non-Archimedean geometry; distribution theory; pseudo differential operators and spectral theory; p-adic quantum mechanics and representation theory; quantum field theory; p-adic strings.