p-Adic Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810208806)

p-adic numbers play a very important role in modern number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory. Lately p-adic numbers have attracted a great deal of attention in modern theoretical physics as a promising new approach for describing the non-Archimedean geometry of space-time at small distances.This is the first book to deal with applications of p-adic numbers in theoretical and mathematical physics. It gives an elementary and thoroughly written introduction to p-adic numbers and p-adic analysis with great numbers of examples as well as applications of p-adic numbers in classical mechanics, dynamical systems, quantum mechanics, statistical physics, quantum field theory and string theory.

Author: V. S. Vladimirov
ISBN-10: 9810208804
ISBN-13: 9789810208806
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1994
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.30w x 0.90d