China—the world's oldest continuous civilization—has undergone an astonishing transformation in a brief span of recent history. Since the collapse of its once-glorious empire in 1911, China has seen decades of epic turmoil and upheavals, emerging in the new century as both an authoritarian megastate and an economic powerhouse, poised to become an imposing global force.
By current estimates, the People's Republic is set to outpace the United States economically in the coming decades and to rival or surpass it militarily, making China the richest, most powerful nation on earth.
Contents: Introduction; Symplectic analysis; Fourier transform, stationary phase; Semiclassical Quantization; Semiclassical defect measures; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Estimates for eigenfunctions; More on the symbol calculus; Quantum ergodicity; Quantizing symplectic transformations.
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