Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents of Volume 1
- Contents of Volume 2
- Algebraic Geometry: A Celebration of Emma Previato’s 65th Birthday
- 1 Arithmetic Analogues of Hamiltonian Systems
- 2 Algebraic Spectral Curves over Q and their Tau-Functions
- 3 Frobenius Split Anticanonical Divisors
- 4 Halves of Points of an Odd Degree Hyperelliptic Curve in its Jacobian
- 5 Normal Forms for Kummer Surfaces
- 6 σ-Functions: Old and New Results
- 7 Bergman Tau-Function: From Einstein Equations and Dubrovin-Frobenius Manifolds to Geometry of Moduli Spaces
- 8 The Rigid Body Dynamics in an Ideal Fluid: Clebsch Top and Kummer Surfaces
- 9 An Extension of Delsarte, Goethals and Mac Williams Theorem on Minimal Weight Codewords to a Class of Reed-Muller Type Codes
- 10 A Primer on Lax Pairs
- 11 Lattice-Theoretic Characterizations of Classes of Groups
- 12 Jacobi Inversion Formulae for a Curve in Weierstrass Normal Form
- 13 Spectral Construction of Non-Holomorphic Eisenstein-Type Series and their Kronecker Limit Formula
- 14 Some Topological Applications of Theta Functions
- 15 Multiple Dedekind Zeta Values are Periods of Mixed Tate Motives
- 16 Noncommutative Cross-Ratio and Schwarz Derivative
14 - Some Topological Applications of Theta Functions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents of Volume 1
- Contents of Volume 2
- Algebraic Geometry: A Celebration of Emma Previato’s 65th Birthday
- 1 Arithmetic Analogues of Hamiltonian Systems
- 2 Algebraic Spectral Curves over Q and their Tau-Functions
- 3 Frobenius Split Anticanonical Divisors
- 4 Halves of Points of an Odd Degree Hyperelliptic Curve in its Jacobian
- 5 Normal Forms for Kummer Surfaces
- 6 σ-Functions: Old and New Results
- 7 Bergman Tau-Function: From Einstein Equations and Dubrovin-Frobenius Manifolds to Geometry of Moduli Spaces
- 8 The Rigid Body Dynamics in an Ideal Fluid: Clebsch Top and Kummer Surfaces
- 9 An Extension of Delsarte, Goethals and Mac Williams Theorem on Minimal Weight Codewords to a Class of Reed-Muller Type Codes
- 10 A Primer on Lax Pairs
- 11 Lattice-Theoretic Characterizations of Classes of Groups
- 12 Jacobi Inversion Formulae for a Curve in Weierstrass Normal Form
- 13 Spectral Construction of Non-Holomorphic Eisenstein-Type Series and their Kronecker Limit Formula
- 14 Some Topological Applications of Theta Functions
- 15 Multiple Dedekind Zeta Values are Periods of Mixed Tate Motives
- 16 Noncommutative Cross-Ratio and Schwarz Derivative
Summary
In this paper some recent topological applications of Riemann surface theory and especially of their associated theta functions (in different geometric incarnations) are surveyed, taking the circle of ideas around geometric quantization as a vantage point. They include classical and quantum monodromy of 2D-integrable systems and the construction of unitary Riemann surface braid group representations (aimed, in particular, at devising a mathematical interpretation of the Laughlin wave functions emerging in condensed matter physics). The noncommutative version of theta functions due to A. Schwarz is briefly discussed, showing in particular its efficacy in Fourier–Mukai–Nahm computations.
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- Integrable Systems and Algebraic Geometry , pp. 440 - 484Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020