Nicholas J. Higham

Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, Second Edition

Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms gives a thorough, up-to-date treatment of the behavior of numerical algorithms in finite precision arithmetic. It combines algorithmic derivations, perturbation theory, and rounding error analysis, all enlivened by historical perspective and informative quotations.

This second edition expands and updates the coverage of the first edition (1996) and includes numerous improvements to the original material. Two new chapters treat symmetric indefinite systems and skew-symmetric systems, and nonlinear systems and Newton's method. Twelve new sections include coverage of additional error bounds for Gaussian elimination, rank revealing LU factorizations, weighted and constrained least squares problems, and the fused multiply-add operation found on some modern computer architectures.

This text may become the new 'Bible' about accuracy and stability for the solution of systems of linear equations. It covers 688 pages carefully collected, investigated, and written ...One will find that this book is a very suitable and comprehensive reference for research in numerical linear algebra, software usage and development, and for numerical linear algebra courses.
N. Kockler, Zentrallblatt fur Mathematik, Band 847/96.

Contents
List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface to Second Edition; Preface to First Edition; About the Dedication; Chapter 1: Principles of Finite Precision Computation; Chapter 2: Floating Point Arithmetic; Chapter 3: Basics; Chapter 4: Summation; Chapter 5: Polynomials; Chapter 6: Norms; Chapter 7: Perturbation Theory for Linear Systems; Chapter 8: Triangular Systems; Chapter 9: LU Factorization and Linear Equations; Chapter 10: Cholesky Factorization; Chapter 11: Symmetric Indefinite and Skew-Symmetric Systems; Chapter 12: Iterative Refinement; Chapter 13: Block LU Factorization; Chapter 14: Matrix Inversion; Chapter 15: Condition Number Estimation; Chapter 16: The Sylvester Equation; Chapter 17: Stationary Iterative Methods; Chapter 18: Matrix Powers; Chapter 19: QR Factorization; Chapter 20: The Least Squares Problem; Chapter 21: Underdetermined Systems; Chapter 22: Vandermonde Systems; Chapter 23: Fast Matrix Multiplication; Chapter 24: The Fast Fourier Transform and Applications; Chapter 25: Nonlinear Systems and Newtonfs Method; Chapter 26: Automatic Error Analysis; Chapter 27: Software Issues in Floating Point Arithmetic; Chapter 28: A Gallery of Test Matrices; Appendix A: Solutions to Problems; Appendix B: Acquiring Software; Appendix C: Program Libraries; Appendix D: The Matrix Computation Toolbox; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.

2002 / xxx + 680 pages / Hardcover / ISBN 0-89871-521-0

Landi, G., Universita degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

An Introduction to Noncommutative Spaces and Their Geometries

1st ed. 1997. Corr. online-edition 2002 Online Book, XI, 247 p. 27 illus.
3-540-14949-X

These lecture notes are an introduction to several ideas and applications of noncommutative geometry. It starts with a not necessarily commutative but associative algebra which is thought of as the algebra of functions on some 'virtual noncommutative space'. Attention is switched from spaces, which in general do not even exist, to algebras of functions. In these notes, particular emphasis is put on seeing noncommutative spaces as concrete spaces, namely as a collection of points with a topology. The necessary mathematical tools are presented in a systematic and accessible way and include among other things, C'*-algebras, module theory and K-theory, spectral calculus, forms and connection theory.
Application to Yang--Mills, fermionic, and gravity models are described. Also the spectral action and the related invariance under automorphism of the algebra is illustrated.
Some recent work on noncommutative lattices is presented. These lattices arose as topologically nontrivial approximations to 'contuinuum' topological spaces. They have been used to construct quantum-mechanical and field-theory models, alternative models to lattice gauge theory, with nontrivial topological content.
This book will be essential to physicists and mathematicians with an interest in noncommutative geometry and its uses in physics.

Keywords: Algebras, Field Theories, Gravity Models, Noncommutative Lattices, Noncommutative Spaces, Quantum Mechanical Models, Topology

Contents: Introduction.- Noncommutative Spaces and Algebras of Functions.- Projective Systems of Noncommutative Lattices.- Modules as Bundles.- A Few Elements of K-theory.- The Spectral Calculus.- Noncommutative Differential Forms.- Connections on Modules.- Field Theories on Modules.- Gravity Models.- Quantum Mechanical Models on Noncommutative Lattices.- Basic Notions of Topology.- The Gel'fand-Naimark- Segal Construction.- Hilbert Modules.- Strong Morita Equivalence.- Partially Ordered Sets.- Pseudodifferential Operators.

Azema, J., Universite; Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France ; Emery, M., Universite; Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France ; Ledoux, M., Universite; Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France ; Yor, M., Universite; Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (Eds.)

Seminaire de Probabilites XXXVI

2003 VIII,499 p. Softcover
3-540-00072-0

The 36th Seminaire de Probabilites contains an advanced course on Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities by A. Guionnet and B. Zegarlinski, as well as two shorter surveys by L. Pastur and N. O'Connell on the theory of random matrices and their links with stochastic processes. The main themes of the other contributions are Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities, Stochastic Calculus, Martingale Theory and Filtrations. Besides the traditional readership of the Seminaires, this volume will be useful to researchers in statistical mechanics and mathematical finance.

Keywords: 60GXX, 60HXX, 60JXX, Stochastic Processes, Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities, Random Matrices, Martingales

Contents:

Cours specialises et exposes thematiques: A. Guionnet, B. Zegarlinski: Lectures on Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities.- A. Lejay, L. Pastur: Matrices aleatoires : statistique asymptotique des valeurs propres.- N. O'Connell: Random matrices, non-colliding particle systems and queues.- Exposes: A. Dermoune, O. Moutsinga: Generalized variational principles.- D. Chafai: Gaussian maximum of entropy and reversed log-Sobolev inequality.- L. Miclo: About projections of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities.- L. Miclo: Sur l'inegalite de Sobolev logarithmique des operateurs de Laguerre a petit parametre.- A. Bentaleb: Sur les fonctions extremales des inegalites de Sobolev des operateurs de diffusion.- C. Donati-Martin, Y. Hu: Penalization of the Wiener measure and principal values.- C. Leuridan: Theoreme de Ray-Knight dans un arbre : Une approche algebrique.- R. Bass: Stochastic differential equations driven by symmetric stable processes.- T. Simon: Support d'une equation d' Ito avec sauts en dimension 1.- N. Eisenbaum: A Gaussian sheet connected to symmetric Markov chains.- C. Leuridan: Filtration d'une marche aleatoire stationnaire sur le cercle.- S. Beghdadi-Sakrani: Une martingale non pure, dont la filtration est brownienne.- J. Hannig: On filtrations related to purely discontinuous martingales.- S. Beghdadi-Sakrani: Calcul stochastique pour des mesures signees.- J. Jacod: On processes with conditional independent increments and stable convergence in law.- V. Grecea: Duality and quasi-continuity for supermartingales.- Y. Kabanov, C. Stricker: On the true submartingale property, d'apres Schachermayer.- C. Stricker: Simple strategies in exponential utility maximization.- M. Arnaudon, A. Thalmaier: Horizontal martingales in vector bundles.- D. Kurtz: Representation nucleaire des martingales d'Azema.- S. Attal: Approximating the Fock space with the toy Fock space.- Corrections aux volumes anterieurs.

Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Volume. 1801

Boccaletti, S., Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Florence, Italy; Gluckman, B. J., George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA; Kurths, J., University of Potsdam, Germany; Pecora, L. M., Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA; Spano, M. L., University of Missouri at St.Louis, St.Louis, MO, USA (Eds.)

Experimental Chaos
6th Experimental Chaos Conference Potsdam, Germany, 22-26 July 2001

2002 XII, 491 p. Hardcover
0-7354-0071-7

Neuroscience was the topic of several talks and papers. Emerging themes appear to be the control of neuronal activity and the construction of hybrid neuron-circuit systems, and that of using nonlinear data analysis techniques for the characterization of physiological pathologies. It was shown that these approaches can be applied to cardiac arrhythmias and detection of problems in EEG signals. Synchronization of chaos in optical systems was also presented. New topics that were presented were Ecology and Traffic dynamics. Also, ecological dynamics showed that state space concepts can also be applied to populations and insect networks. Topics include: Chemistry, Electronics, Geophysics and Astrophysics, Neuroscience and Physiology, Data Analysis, Applications, Traffic, Combustion, Optics, Hydrodynamics, Condensed Matter, Synchrony, Dynamo, and Ecology.

Series: AIP Conference Proceedings. Volume. 622

Scheck, F., Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz; Werner, W., Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster; Upmeier, H., Philipps-Universitat Marburg (Eds.)

Noncommutative Geometry and the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics

2002 XII,346p. Hardcover
3-540-44071-2

The outcome of a close collaboration between mathematicians and mathematical physicists, these lecture notes present the foundations of A. Connes noncommutative geometry as well as its applications in particular to the field of theoretical particle physics. The coherent and systematic approach makes this book useful for experienced researchers and postgraduate students alike.

Contents: Foundations of Noncommutative Geometry and Basic Model Building.- The Lagrangian of the Standard Model Derived From Noncommutative Geometry.- New Directions in Noncommutative Geometry and Mathematical Physics 233.

Series: Lecture Notes in Physics. Volume. 596

Pajot, H. M., University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

Analytic Capacity, Rectifiability, Menger Curvature and Cauchy Integral

2002 VIII, 119 p. Softcover
3-540-00001-1

Based on a graduate course given by the author at Yale University this book deals with complex analysis (analytic capacity), geometric measure theory (rectifiable and uniformly rectifiable sets) and harmonic analysis (boundedness of singular integral operators on Ahlfors-regular sets). In particular, these notes contain a description of Peter Jones' geometric traveling salesman theorem, the proof of the equivalence between uniform rectifiability and boundedness of the Cauchy operator on Ahlfors-regular sets, the complete proofs of the Denjoy conjecture and the Vitushkin conjecture (for the latter, only the Ahlfors-regular case) and a discussion of X. Tolsa's solution of the Painleve problem.

Keywords: analytic capacity, rectifiability, menger curvature, singular integral operators, Cauchy integral, 28A75, 30C85, 42B20

Contents: Preface.- Notations and conventions.- Some geometric measures theory.- Jones' traveling salesman theorem.- Menger curvature.- The Cauchy singular integral operator on Ahlfors-regular sets.- Analytic capacity and the Painleve Problem.- The Denjoy and Vitushkin conjectures.- The capacity gamma (+) and the Painleve Problem.- Bibliography.- Index.

Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Volume. 1799