Frontiers in Number Theory Physics and Geometry I

The relation between mathematics and physics has a long history in which the role of number theory and of other more abstract parts of mathematics has recently become more prominent. More than 10 years after a first meeting between number theorists and physicists at the Centre de Physique des Houches a second two-week event focused on the broader interface of number theory geometry and physics. This book collects the material presented at this meeting.