Automorphic forms: a physicist's survey
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Motivated by issues in string theory and M-theory, we provide a pedestrian introduction to automorphic forms and theta series, emphasizing examples rather than generality.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312068,
title = {Automorphic forms: a physicist's survey},
author = {B. Pioline and A. Waldron},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312068},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
22 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of Les Houches Winter School ``Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics and Geometry'', March 9-21, 2003; v2: minor changes and clarifications, section 3.5 on pure spinors has been rewritten