Basic zeta functions and some applications in physics

zbMATH Open1234.11120arXiv1005.2389MaRDI QIDQ3078286FDOQ3078286

Klaus Kirsten

Publication date: 18 February 2011

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?"

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

zbMATH Keywords

Hurwitz zeta functionBose-Einstein condensationCasimir effectspectral zeta functionEpstein zeta functionBarnes zeta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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