This volume contains the proceedings of the Conference on Analysis, Complex Geometry and Mathematical Physics: In Honor of Duong H. Phong, which was held from May 7-11, 2013, at Columbia University, New York. The conference featured thirty speakers who spoke on a range of topics reflecting the breadth and depth of the research interests of Duong H. Phong on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. A common thread, familiar from Phong's own work, was the focus on the interplay between the deep tools of analysis and the rich structures of geometry and physics. Papers included in this volume cover topics such as the complex Monge-Ampère equation, pluripotential theory, geometric partial differential equations, theories of integral operators, integrable systems and perturbative superstring theory.

Provides the reader with a deep appreciation of complex analysis and how this subject fits into mathematics. The first four chapters provide an introduction to complex analysis with many elementary and unusual applications. Chapters 5 to 7 develop the Cauchy theory and include some striking applications to calculus. Chapter 8 glimpses several appealing topics, simultaneously unifying the book and opening the door to further study.

Easily accessible Includes recent developments Assumes very little knowledge of differentiable manifolds and functional analysis Particular emphasis on topics related to mirror symmetry (SUSY, Kaehler-Einstein metrics, Tian-Todorov lemma)

A discrete model for Kähler magnetic fields on a complex hyperbolic space / T. Adachi -- Integrability condition on the boundary parameters of the asymmetric exclusion process and matrix product ansatz / B. Aneva -- Remarks on the double-complex Laplacian / L. Apostolova -- Generalizations of conjugate connections / O. Calin, H. Matsuzoe, J. Zhang -- Asymptotics of generalized value distribution for Herglotz functions / Y. T. Christodoulides -- Cyclic hyper-scalar systems / S. Dimiev, M. S. Marinov, Z. Zhelev -- Plane curves associated with integrable dynamical systems of the Frenet-Serret type / P. A. Djondjorov, V. M. Vassilev, I. M. Mladenov -- Relativistic strain and electromagnetic photon-like objects / S. Donev, M. Tashkova -- A construction of minimal surfaces in flat tori by swelling / N. Ejiri -- On NLS equations on BD.I symmetric spaces with constant boundary conditions / V. S. Gerdjikov, N. A. Kostov -- Orthogonal almost complex structures on S[symbol] x R[symbol] / H. Hashimoto, M. Ohashi -- Persistence of solutions for some integrable shallow water equations / D. Henry -- Some geometric properties and objects related to Bézier curves / M. J. Hristov -- Heisenberg relations in the general case / B. Z. Iliev -- Poisson structures of equations associated with groups of diffeomorphisms / R. I. Ivanov -- Hyperbolic Gauss maps and parallel surfaces in hyperbolic three-space / M. Kokubu -- On the lax pair for two and three wave interaction system / N. A. Kostov -- Mathematical outlook of fractals and chaos related to simple orthorhombic Ising-Onsager-Zhang lattices / J. Ławrynowicz, S. Marchiafava, M. Nowak-Kepczyk -- A characterization of Clifford minimal hypersurfaces of a sphere in terms of their geodesics / S. Maeda -- On the curvature properties of real time-like hypersurfaces of Kähler manifolds with Norden metric / M. Manev, M. Teofilova -- Some submanifolds of almost contact manifolds with Norden metric / G. Nakova -- A short note on the double-complex Laplace operator / P. Popivanov -- Monogenic, hypermonogenic and holomorphic Cliffordian functions - a survey / I. P. Ramadanoff -- On some classes of exact solutions of eikonal equation / Ł. T. Stepień -- Dirichlet property for tessellations of tiling-type 4 on a plane by congrent pentagons / Y. Takeo, T. Adachi -- Almost complex connections on almost complex manifolds with Norden metric / M. Teofilova -- Pseudo-boson coherent and Fock states / D. A. Trifonov -- New integrable equations of mKdV type / T. I. Valchev -- Integrable dynamical systems of the Frenet-Serret type / V. M. Vassilev, P. A. Djondjorov, I. M. Mladenov

This radical first course on complex analysis brings a beautiful and powerful subject to life by consistently using geometry (not calculation) as the means of explanation. Aimed at undergraduate students in mathematics, physics, and engineering, the book's intuitive explanations, lack of advanced prerequisites, and consciously user-friendly prose style will help students to master the subject more readily than was previously possible. The key to this is the book's use of new geometric arguments in place of the standard calculational ones. These geometric arguments are communicated with the aid of hundreds of diagrams of a standard seldom encountered in mathematical works. A new approach to a classical topic, this work will be of interest to students in mathematics, physics, and engineering, as well as to professionals in these fields.

Advanced textbook on central topic of pure mathematics.

Starting from an undergraduate level, this book systematically develops the basics of • Calculus on manifolds, vector bundles, vector fields and differential forms, • Lie groups and Lie group actions, • Linear symplectic algebra and symplectic geometry, • Hamiltonian systems, symmetries and reduction, integrable systems and Hamilton-Jacobi theory. The topics listed under the first item are relevant for virtually all areas of mathematical physics. The second and third items constitute the link between abstract calculus and the theory of Hamiltonian systems. The last item provides an introduction to various aspects of this theory, including Morse families, the Maslov class and caustics. The book guides the reader from elementary differential geometry to advanced topics in the theory of Hamiltonian systems with the aim of making current research literature accessible. The style is that of a mathematical textbook,with full proofs given in the text or as exercises. The material is illustrated by numerous detailed examples, some of which are taken up several times for demonstrating how the methods evolve and interact.

Number theory, spectral geometry, and fractal geometry are interlinked in this in-depth study of the vibrations of fractal strings, that is, one-dimensional drums with fractal boundary. Throughout Geometry, Complex Dimensions and Zeta Functions, Second Edition, new results are examined and a new definition of fractality as the presence of nonreal complex dimensions with positive real parts is presented. The new final chapter discusses several new topics and results obtained since the publication of the first edition.