Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics: Ergodic Schrödinger operators, singular spectrum, orthogonal polynomials, and inverse spectral theory

Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics: Ergodic Schrödinger operators, singular spectrum, orthogonal polynomials, and inverse spectral theory
ISBN-10
0821868535
ISBN-13
9780821868539
Series
Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics
Category
Mathematics
Pages
472
Language
English
Publisher
American Mathematical Soc.
Author
Fritz Gesztesy

Description

This Festschrift had its origins in a conference called SimonFest held at Caltech, March 27-31, 2006, to honor Barry Simon's 60th birthday. It is not a proceedings volume in the usual sense since the emphasis of the majority of the contributions is on reviews of the state of the art of certain fields, with particular focus on recent developments and open problems. The bulk of the articles in this Festschrift are of this survey form, and a few review Simon's contributions to aparticular area. Part 1 contains surveys in the areas of Quantum Field Theory, Statistical Mechanics, Nonrelativistic Two-Body and $N$-Body Quantum Systems, Resonances, Quantum Mechanics with Electric and Magnetic Fields, and the Semiclassical Limit. Part 2 contains surveys in the areas of Random andErgodic Schrodinger Operators, Singular Continuous Spectrum, Orthogonal Polynomials, and Inverse Spectral Theory. In several cases, this collection of surveys portrays both the history of a subject and its current state of the art. A substantial part of the contributions to this Festschrift are survey articles on the state of the art of certain areas with special emphasis on open problems. This will benefit graduate students as well as researchers who want to get a quick, yet comprehensiveintroduction into an area covered in this volume.

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