edited by M M Hafez (University of California, Davis)

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOWS

This book consists of 37 articles dealing with simulation of incompressible flows and applications in many areas. It covers numerical methods and algorithm developments as well as applications in aeronautics and other areas. It represents the state of the art in the field.

Contents:

Navier-Stokes Solvers
Projection Methods
Finite Element Methods
Higher-Order Methods
Innovative Methods
Applications in Aeronautics
Applications Beyond Aeronautics
Multiphase and Cavitating Flows
Special Topics

Readership: Researchers and graduate students in computational science and engineering.

708pp Pub. date: Jan 2003
ISBN 981-238-317-4

edited by A A Ivanov, M W Liebeck (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK) & J Saxl (University of Cambridge, UK)

GROUPS, COMBINATORICS AND GEOMETRY
Durham, UK 16 - 26 July 2001

Over the past 20 years, the theory of groups ? in particular simple groups, finite and algebraic ? has influenced a number of diverse areas of mathematics. Such areas include topics where groups have been traditionally applied, such as algebraic combinatorics, finite geometries, Galois theory and permutation groups, as well as several more recent developments. Among the latter are probabilistic and computational group theory, the theory of algebraic groups over number fields, and model theory, in each of which there has been a major recent impetus provided by simple group theory. In addition, there is still great interest in local analysis in finite groups, with substantial new input from methods of geometry and amalgams, and particular emphasis on the revision project for the classification of finite simple groups.
This important book contains 20 survey articles covering many of the above developments. It should prove invaluable for those working in the theory of groups and its applications.

Contents:

Curtis?Phan?Tits Theory (C D Bennett et al.)
Derangements in Simple and Primitive Groups (J Fulman & R Guralnick)
Computing with Matrix Groups (W M Kantor & A Seress)
Bases of Primitive Permutation Groups (M W Liebeck & A Shalev)
Modular Subgroup Arithmetic (T W Muller)
Counting Nets in the Monster (S P Norton)
Overgroups of Finite Quasiprimitive Permutation Groups (C E Praeger)
Old Groups Can Learn New Tricks (L Pyber)
Structure and Presentations of Lie-Type Groups (F G Timmesfeld)
Computing in the Monster (R A Wilson)
and other papers

Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in algebra.

300pp (approx.) Pub. date: Scheduled Spring 2003
ISBN 981-238-312-3

edited by Nobuaki Obata (Tohoku University, Japan), Taku Matsui (Kyushu University, Japan) & Akihito Hora (Okayama University, Japan)

NON-COMMUTATIVITY, INFINITE-DIMENSIONALITY
AND PROBABILITY AT THE CROSSROADS
Proceedings of the RIMS Workshop on Infinite-Dimensional Analysis and Quantum Probability
Kyoto, Japan 20 - 22 November 2001

Quantum Probability and White Noise Analysis - Vol. 16

Infinite-dimensional analysis and quantum probability have undergone significant developments in the last few years and created many applications. This volume includes four expository articles on recent developments in quantum field theory, quantum stochastic differential equations, free probability and quantum white noise calculus, which are targeted also for graduate study. The fourteen research papers deal with most of the current topics, and their interconnections reflect a vivid development in interacting Fock space, infinite-dimensional groups, stochastic independence, non-commutative central limit theorems, stochastic geometry, and so on.

Contents:

Mathematical Theory of Quantum Particles Interacting with a Quantum Field (A Arai)
H-P Quantum Stochastic Differential Equations (F Fagnola)
Quantum White Noise Calculus (U C Ji & N Obata)
Can "Quantumness" Be an Origin of Dissipation? (T Arimitsu)
What is Stochastic Independence? (U Franz)
Creation?Annihilation Processes on Cellar Complecies (Y Hashimoto)
Fock Space and Representation of Some Infinite-Dimensional Groups (T Matsui & Y Shimada)
Free Product Actions and Their Applications (Y Ueda)
Remarks on the s-Free Convolution (H Yoshida)
and other papers

Readership: Researchers and graduate students in analysis & differential equations, probability & statistics, mathematical physics and quantum physics.

448pp Pub. date: Jan 2003
ISBN 981-238-297-6

edited by Shuichi Tasaki (Waseda University, Japan) & Luigi Accardi (University of Roma II, Italy)

FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF QUANTUM PHYSICS
Proceedings of the Japan-Italy Joint Workshop on Quantum Open Systems, Quantum Chaos and Quantum Measurement
Tokyo, Japan 27 - 29 September 2001

Quantum Probability and White Noise Analysis - Vol. 17

This volume includes new topics such as the stochastic limit approach to nonequilibrium states, a new algebraic approach to relativistic nonequilibrium local states, classical and quantum features of weak chaos, transports in quantum billiards, the Welcher?Weg puzzle with a decaying atom, and the topics related to the quantum Zeno effect.

Contents:

Quantum Open Systems:
Onsager Relation with the "Slow" Degrees of the Field in the White Noise Equation Based on Stochastic Limit (L Accardi et al.)
Nonequilibrium Local States in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (I Ojima)
Fluctuation Theorem, Nonequilibrium Steady States and MacLennan?Zubarev Ensembles of a Class of Large Quantum Systems (S Tasaki & T Matsui)
Quantum Chaology:
Weak Chaos: Classical and Quantum Features (R Artuso)
Quantum Transport in Quantum Billiards: From Kelvin Through Arnold (K Nakamura)
On Quantum?Classical Correspondence and Chaos Degree for Baker's Map (K Inoue et al.)
Quantum Measurements and Related Topics:
Welcher?Weg Puzzle with a Decaying Atom (S Takagi)
Unstable Systems and Quantum Zeno Phenomena in Quantum Field Theory (P Facchi & S Pascazio)
Quantum Decomposition and Quantum Central Limit Theorem (A Hora & N Obata)
and other papers

Readership: Researchers in probability & statistics, quantum physics, stochastic theory, mathematical physics and nonlinear science.

350pp (approx.) Pub. date: Scheduled Spring 2003
ISBN 981-238-295-X

by Jun O'Hara (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

ENERGY OF KNOTS AND CONFORMAL GEOMETRY

Series on Knots and Everything - Vol. 33

Energy of knots is a theory that was introduced to create a "canonical configuration" of a knot ? a beautiful knot which represents its knot type. This book introduces several kinds of energies, and studies the problem of whether or not there is a "canonical configuration" of a knot in each knot type. It also considers this problems in the context of conformal geometry. The energies presented in the book are defined geometrically. They measure the complexity of embeddings and have applications to physical knotting and unknotting through numerical experiments.

Contents:

In Search of the "Optimal Embedding" of a Knot:
a-Energy Functional E(a)
On E(2)
Lp Norm Energy with Higher Index
Numerical Experiments
Energy of Knots in a Riemannian Manifold
Geometrically Defined Knot Energies
Energy of Knots from a Conformal Geometric Viewpoint:
Preparation from Conformal Geometry
The Space of Non-Trivial Spheres of a Knot
The Infinitesimal Cross Ratio
The Conformal Sin Energy Esin q
Measure of Non-Trivial Spheres
Appendices: Generalization of the Gauss Formula for the Linking Number
The 3-Tuple Map to the Set of Circles in S3
Conformal Moduli of a Solid Torus
Kirchhoff Elastica
Open Problems and Dreams

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in geometry & topology and numerical & computational mathematics.

300pp (approx.) Pub. date: Scheduled Spring 2003
ISBN 981-238-316-6