The geometry of string perturbation theory

E D'Hoker, DH Phong - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1988 - APS
This paper is devoted to recent progress made towards the understanding of closed bosonic
and fermionic string perturbation theory, formulated in a Lorentz-covariant way on Euclidean …

Bounds on the 𝐿² spectrum for Markov chains and Markov processes: a generalization of Cheeger's inequality

GF Lawler, AD Sokal - Transactions of the American mathematical society, 1988 - ams.org
We prove a general version of Cheeger's inequality for discrete-time Markov chains and
continuous-time Markovian jump processes, both reversible and nonreversible, with general …

Invariant distributions and time averages for horocycle flows

L Flaminio, G Forni - 2003 - projecteuclid.org
There are infinitely many obstructions to the existence of smooth solutions of the
cohomological equation Uu= f, where U is the vector field generating the horocycle flow on …

Hausdorff dimension and conformal dynamics, III: Computation of dimension

CT McMullen - American journal of mathematics, 1998 - muse.jhu.edu
This paper presents an eigenvalue algorithm for accurately computing the Hausdorff
dimension of limit sets of Kleinian groups and Julia sets of rational maps. The algorithm is …

Horocycle flow on geometrically finite surfaces

M Burger - 1990 - projecteuclid.org
In particular, the unipotent subgroup of PSL (2,) acts on TS. It is our main goal to
determineall N-invariant Radon measures on T1S. Our first remark is that if C is the cone of …

Asymptotics of the spectrum and the Selberg zeta function on the space of Riemann surfaces

SA Wolpert - Communications in mathematical physics, 1987 - Springer
Let Z (s, R) be the Selberg zeta function of a compact Riemann surface R. We study the
behavior of Z (s, R) as R tends to infinity in the moduli space of stable curves. The main …

Geometry of Riemann surfaces based on closed geodesics

P Schaller - Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 1998 - ams.org
The paper presents a survey on recent results on the geometry of Riemann surfaces
showing that the study of closed geodesics provides a link between different aspects of …

[PDF][PDF] Spectral limits for hyperbolic surfaces, II

SA Wolpert - Invent. Math, 1992 - academia.edu
We are interested in the limiting behavior of the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator
for a degenerating family of Riemann surfaces with finite area hyperbolic metrics. Our hope …

Phase transitions in 3D gravity and fractal dimension

X Dong, S Maguire, A Maloney, H Maxfield - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We show that for three dimensional gravity with higher genus boundary conditions,
if the theory possesses a sufficiently light scalar, there is a second order phase transition …

Congruence subgroups and maximal Riemann surfaces

P Schmutz - The Journal of Geometric Analysis, 1994 - Springer
A global maximal Riemann surface is a surface of constant curvature− 1 with the property
that the length of its shortest simple closed geodesic is maximal with respect to all surfaces …