Download or read book Spectral Functions in Mathematics and Physics written by Klaus Kirsten and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature on the spectral analysis of second order elliptic differential operators contains a great deal of information on the spectral functions for explicitly known spectra. The same is not true, however, for situations where the spectra are not explicitly known. Over the last several years, the author and his colleagues have developed new,