FESENKO,I.ET AL(ED)

A COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS WRITTEN IN HONOUR OF JOHN H.COATES.
Extra Volume: John H. Coates' Sixtieth Birthday (2006)

Preface 1
Foreword 3
Samegai's Waters 5

K. Ardakov and K. A. Brown
Ring-Theoretic Properties of Iwasawa Algebras: A Survey 7--33

G. Banaszak, W. Gajda, P. Krason
On the Image of l-Adic Galois Representations for Abelian Varieties of Type I and II 35--75

Siegfried Bocherer, A. A. Panchishkin
Admissible p-adic Measures Attached to Triple Products of Elliptic Cusp Forms 77--132

David Burns and Matthias Flach
On the Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecturefor Tate Motives, Part II. 133--163

David Burns and Otmar Venjakob
On the Leading Terms of Zeta Isomorphisms and
p-Adic L-functions in Non-Commutative Iwasawa Theory 165--209

Kevin Buzzard and Frank Calegari
The 2-adic Eigencurve is Proper. 211--232

L. Clozel, E. Ullmo
Equidistribution Adelique des Tores et Equidistribution des Points CM 233--260

Robert Coleman and Ken McMurdy
Fake CM and the Stable Model of X_0(Np^3) 261--300

Daniel Delbourgo
Lambda-Adic Euler Characteristics of Elliptic Curves 301--323

Ehud de Shalit
Coleman Integration Versus
Schneider Integration on Semistable Curves 325--334

Ralph Greenberg
On The Structure of Certain Galois Cohomology Groups 335--391

Michael Harris, Jian-Shu Li, Christopher M. Skinner
p-Adic L-Functions for Unitary Shimura Varieties
I: Construction of the Eisenstein Measure 393--464

Haruzo Hida
Anticyclotomic Main Conjectures 465--532

Frazer Jarvis
Optimal Levels for Modular Mod 2 Representations over Totally Real Fields 533--550

Kazuya Kato
Universal Norms of p-Units in Some Non-Commutative Galois Extensions 551--565

Shinichi Kobayashi
An Elementary Proof of the Mazur-Tate-Teitelbaum Conjecture for Elliptic Curves 567--575

Barry Mazur, William Stein, John Tate
Computation of p-Adic Heights and Log Convergence 577--614

Robert Pollack and Tom Weston
Kida's Formula and Congruences 615--630

P. Schneider, J. Teitelbaum
Banach-Hecke Algebras and p-Adic Galois Representations 631--684

Anthony J. Scholl
Higher Fields of Norms and (phi,Gamma)-Modules 685--709

Joseph H. Silverman
Divisibility Sequences and Powers of Algebraic Integers 711--727

Richard Taylor
On the Meromorphic Continuation of Degree Two L-Functions 729--779

J. Tilouine
Siegel Varieties and p-Adic Siegel Modular Forms 781--817

J.-P. Wintenberger
On p-Adic Geometric Representations of G_Q 819--827


Michael Dine / University of California, Santa Cruz

Supersymmetry and String Theory
Beyond the Standard Model

Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521858410)

The past decade has witnessed dramatic developments in the field of theoretical physics. This book is a comprehensive introduction to these recent developments. It contains a review of the Standard Model, covering non-perturbative topics, and a discussion of grand unified theories and magnetic monopoles. It introduces the basics of supersymmetry and its phenomenology, and includes dynamics, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, and electric-magnetic duality. The book then covers general relativity and the big bang theory, and the basic issues in inflationary cosmologies before discussing the spectra of known string theories and the features of their interactions. The book also includes brief introductions to technicolor, large extra dimensions, and the Randall-Sundrum theory of warped spaces. This will be of great interest to graduates and researchers in the fields of particle theory, string theory, astrophysics and cosmology. The book contains several problems, and password protected solutions will be available to lecturers at www.cambridge.org/9780521858410.

* Provides reader with tools to confront limitations of the Standard Model
* Includes several exercises and problems
* Solutions are available to lecturers at www.cambridge.org/9780521858410

Contents

Part I. Effective Field Theory: The Standard Model, Supersymmetry, Unification: 1. Before the Standard Model; 2. The Standard Model; 3. Phenomenology of the Standard Model; 4. The Standard Model as an effective field theory; 5. Anomalies. instantons and the Strong CP Problem; 6. Grand unification; 7. Magnetic monopoles and solitons; 8. Technicolor: a first attempt to explain hierarchies; Part II. Supersymmetry: 9. Supersymmetry; 10. A first look at supersymmetry breaking; 11. The minimal supersymmetry Standard Model; 12. Supersymmetric grand unification; 13. Supersymmetric dynamics; 14. Dynamical supersymmetry breaking; 15. Theories with more than four conserved supercharges; 16. More supersymmetric dynamics; 17. An introduction to general relativity; 18. Cosmology; 19. Astroparticle physics and inflation; Part III. String Theory: 20. Introduction; 21. The Bosonic string; 22. The superstring; 23. The heterotic string; 24. Effective actions on ten dimensions; 25. Compactification of string theory; 26. Compactification of strings; 27. Dynamics of strong theory at weak coupling; 28. Beyond weak coupling: non-perturbative string theory; 29. Large and warped extra dimensions; 30. Coda: where are we headed?; Part IV. The Appendices: Appendix A. Two component spinors; Appendix B. Goldstone?s theorem and the pi mesons; Appendix C. Some practice with the path integral in field theory; Appendix D. The beta-function in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory; Index.

Victor A. Galaktionov / University of Bath, UK
Sergey R. Svirshchevskii / Keldysh Institute of Applied Math, Moscow, Russia

Exact Solutions and Invariant Subspaces of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Mechanics and Physics

Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Mathematics & Nonlinear Science Volume: 10

ISBN: 1584886633
Publication Date: 11/2/2006
Number of Pages: 528

Provides a large collection of exact solutions of a wide class of nonlinear evolution PDEs
Includes many applications from the areas of fluid mechanics, reaction-diffusion, thin film theory, wave propagation, and gas dynamics
Supplies numerous open-ended mathematical problems of principal interest, including blow-up aspects, applications to moving-mesh methods, and discrete operators
Contains standard nonlinear models as well as new examples, such as modifications of thin film, nonlinear dispersion, and Harry Dym equations with nonlinearities
Features exact solutions on invariant subspaces for some unharmonic lattices

Exact Solutions and Invariant Subspaces of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Mechanics and Physics is the first book to provide a systematic construction of exact solutions via linear invariant subspaces for nonlinear differential operators. Acting as a guide to nonlinear evolution equations and models from physics and mechanics, the book focuses on the existence of new exact solutions on linear invariant subspaces for nonlinear operators and their crucial new properties.

This practical reference deals with various partial differential equations (PDEs) and models that exhibit some common nonlinear invariant features. It begins with classical as well as more recent examples of solutions on invariant subspaces. In the remainder of the book, the authors develop several techniques for constructing exact solutions of various nonlinear PDEs, including reaction-diffusion and gas dynamics models, thin-film and Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations, nonlinear dispersion (compacton) equations, KdV-type and Harry Dym models, quasilinear magma equations, and Green-Naghdi equations. Using exact solutions, they describe the evolution properties of blow-up or extinction phenomena, finite interface propagation, and the oscillatory, changing sign behavior of weak solutions near interfaces for nonlinear PDEs of various types and orders.

The techniques surveyed in Exact Solutions and Invariant Subspaces of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Mechanics and Physics serve as a preliminary introduction to the general theory of nonlinear evolution PDEs of different orders and types.

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Felipe Cucker / City University of Hong Kong
Ding Xuan Zhou / City University of Hong Kong

Learning Theory
An Approximation Theory Viewpoint

Series: Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics (No. 24)
Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521865593)

The goal of learning theory is to approximate a function from sample values. To attain this goal learning theory draws on a variety of diverse subjects, specifically statistics, approximation theory, and algorithmics. Ideas from all these areas blended to form a subject whose many successful applications have triggered a rapid growth during the last two decades. This is the first book to give a general overview of the theoretical foundations of the subject emphasizing the approximation theory, while still giving a balanced overview. It is based on courses taught by the authors, and is reasonably self-contained so will appeal to a broad spectrum of researchers in learning theory and adjacent fields. It will also serve as an introduction for graduate students and others entering the field, who wish to see how the problems raised in learning theory relate to other disciplines.

* Balanced view, with rigorous approach to issues of practical importance
* First book to adopt the approximation theory viewpoint
* Will appeal to mathematicians as well as statisticians and computer scientists

Contents

Preface; Foreword; 1. The framework of learning; 2. Basic hypothesis spaces; 3. Estimating the sample error; 4. Polynomial decay approximation error; 5. Estimating covering numbers; 6. Logarithmic decay approximation error; 7. On the bias-variance problem; 8. Regularization; 9. Support vector machines for classification; 10. General regularized classifiers; Bibliography; Index.