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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.

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@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