We carry out, in the context of an algebraic group and an arithmetic subgroup, an idea of Selberg for continuing Eisenstein series. It makes use of the theory of integral operators. The meromorphic continuation and functional equation of an Eisenstein series constructed with a cusp form on the Levi component of a rank one cuspidal subgroup are established.

This memoir is a study of Ray-Singer analytic torsion for hermitian vector bundles on a compact Riemann surface [italic]C. The torsion is expressed through the trace of a modified resolvent. Thus, one can develop perturbation-curvature formulae for the Green-Szegö kernel and also for the torsion in terms of the Ahlfors-Bers complex structure of the Teichmuller space and Mumford complex structure of the moduli space of stable bundles of degree zero on [italic]C.

This work initiates a systematic analysis of the representation of real forms of even degree as sums of powers of linear forms and the resulting implications in real algebraic geometry, number theory, combinatorics, functional analysis, and numerical analysis. The proofs utilize elementary techniques from linear algebra, convexity, number theory, and real algebraic geometry and many explicit examples and relevant historical remarks are presented.

This work is concerned with a pair of dual asymptotics problems on a finite-area hyperbolic surface. The first problem is to determine the distribution of closed geodesics in the unit tangent bundle. The second problem is to determine the distribution of eigenfunctions (in microlocal sense) in the unit tangent bundle.

We present a new proof of the identities needed to exhibit an explicit [bold]Z-basis for the universal enveloping algebra associated to an affine Lie algebra. We then use the explicit [bold]Z-bases to extend Borcherds' description, via vertex operator representations, of a [bold]Z-form of the enveloping algebras for the simply-laced affine Lie algebras to the enveloping algebras associated to the unequal root length affine Lie algebras.

Paper I is concerned with computational aspects of the Selberg trace formalism, considering the usual type of eigenfunction and including an analysis of pseudo cusp forms and their residual effects. Paper II examines the modular group PSL (2, [bold]Z), as such groups have both a discrete and continuous spectrum. This paper only examines the discrete side of the spectrum.

This paper is devoted to the functional analytic approach to the problem of construction of Feller semigroups with Ventcel' (Wentzell) boundary conditions. This paper considers the non-transversal case and solves from the viewpoint of functional analysis the problem of construction of Feller semigroups for elliptic Waldenfels operators. Intuitively, our result may be stated as follows: One can construct a Feller semigroup corresponding to such a diffusion phenomenon that a Markovian particle moves both by jumps and continuously in the state space until it "dies" at which time it reaches the set where the absorption phenomenon occurs.