Basic zeta functions and some applications in physics

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Authors Klaus Kirsten

Publication date 18 February 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2389

zbMATH Keywords

Barnes zeta functionBose-Einstein condensationCasimir effectEpstein zeta functionHurwitz zeta functionspectral zeta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analytic theory (Epstein zeta functions; relations with automorphic forms and functions) (11E45) Selberg zeta functions and regularized determinants; applications to spectral theory, Dirichlet series, Eisenstein series, etc. (explicit formulas) (11M36) Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41) Miscellaneous applications of number theory (11Z05) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: It is the aim of these lectures to introduce some basic zeta functions and their uses in the areas of the Casimir effect and Bose-Einstein condensation. A brief introduction into these areas is given in the respective sections. We will consider exclusively spectral zeta functions, that is zeta functions arising from the eigenvalue spectrum of suitable differential operators. There is a set of technical tools that are at the very heart of understanding analytical properties of essentially every spectral zeta function. Those tools are introduced using the well-studied examples of the Hurwitz, Epstein and Barnes zeta function. It is explained how these different examples of zeta functions can all be thought of as being generated by the same mechanism, namely they all result from eigenvalues of suitable (partial) differential operators. It is this relation with partial differential operators that provides the motivation for analyzing the zeta functions considered in these lectures. Motivations come for example from the questions "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" and "What does the Casimir effect know about a boundary?". Finally "What does a Bose gas know about its container?"

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