Description: We will introduce the problems and methods on eigenfunctions of the Laplacian.Contents: Review of the Laplacian and the d'Alembertian, the Hadamard parametrix, the sharp Weyl formula, stationary phase and microlocal analysis, improved spectral asymptotics and periodic geodesics, classical and quantum ergodicity.Prerequisite:Real analysis, functional analysisReference:C.D. Sogge, ...
AbstractI will show the emergence of type III_1 von Neumann algebras from large N quantum mechanical models. These are effective models constructed from gauge theories on a circle. Their partition functions are matrix models that are explicitly solved in the large N limit. The spectral densities underlying the algebras are computed in closed form, and expressed in terms of the eigenvalue densit...