Computational Mathematics Driven by Industrial Problems

Computational Mathematics Driven by Industrial Problems
Author: R. Burkard
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2007-05-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540449760

These lecture notes by very authoritative scientists survey recent advances of mathematics driven by industrial application showing not only how mathematics is applied to industry but also how mathematics has drawn benefit from interaction with real-word problems. The famous David Report underlines that innovative high technology depends crucially for its development on innovation in mathematics. The speakers include three recent presidents of ECMI, one of ECCOMAS (in Europe) and the president of SIAM.

Weighted Littlewood-Paley Theory and Exponential-Square Integrability

Weighted Littlewood-Paley Theory and Exponential-Square Integrability
Author: Michael Wilson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2008
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540745823

Littlewood-Paley theory is an essential tool of Fourier analysis, with applications and connections to PDEs, signal processing, and probability. It extends some of the benefits of orthogonality to situations where orthogonality doesn’t really make sense. It does so by letting us control certain oscillatory infinite series of functions in terms of infinite series of non-negative functions. Beginning in the 1980s, it was discovered that this control could be made much sharper than was previously suspected. The present book tries to give a gentle, well-motivated introduction to those discoveries, the methods behind them, their consequences, and some of their applications.

Parameter Estimation in Stochastic Differential Equations

Parameter Estimation in Stochastic Differential Equations
Author: Jaya P. N. Bishwal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2007-09-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540744487

Parameter estimation in stochastic differential equations and stochastic partial differential equations is the science, art and technology of modeling complex phenomena. The subject has attracted researchers from several areas of mathematics. This volume presents the estimation of the unknown parameters in the corresponding continuous models based on continuous and discrete observations and examines extensively maximum likelihood, minimum contrast and Bayesian methods.

Entropy Methods for the Boltzmann Equation

Entropy Methods for the Boltzmann Equation
Author: Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2007-12-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540737057

Featuring updated versions of two research courses held at the Centre Émile Borel in Paris in 2001, this book describes the mathematical theory of convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation and its relation to various problems and fields. It also discusses four conjectures for the kinetic behavior of the hard sphere models and formulates four stochastic variations of this model, also reviewing known results for these.

Calculus of Variations and Geometric Evolution Problems

Calculus of Variations and Geometric Evolution Problems
Author: F. Bethuel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2006-11-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540488138

The international summer school on Calculus of Variations and Geometric Evolution Problems was held at Cetraro, Italy, 1996. The contributions to this volume reflect quite closely the lectures given at Cetraro which have provided an image of a fairly broad field in analysis where in recent years we have seen many important contributions. Among the topics treated in the courses were variational methods for Ginzburg-Landau equations, variational models for microstructure and phase transitions, a variational treatment of the Plateau problem for surfaces of prescribed mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds - both from the classical point of view and in the setting of geometric measure theory.

Local Newforms for GSp(4)

Local Newforms for GSp(4)
Author: Brooks Roberts
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2007-07-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540733248

Local Newforms for GSp(4) describes a theory of new- and oldforms for representations of GSp(4) over a non-archimedean local field. This theory considers vectors fixed by the paramodular groups and singles out certain vectors that encode canonical information, such as L-factors and epsilon-factors, through their Hecke and Atkin-Lehner eigenvalues. An appendix includes extensive tables about the results and the representations theory of GSp(4).

Advances in Applied Mathematics and Global Optimization

Advances in Applied Mathematics and Global Optimization
Author: David Y. Gao
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2009-04-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387757147

The articles that comprise this distinguished annual volume for the Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics series have been written in honor of Gilbert Strang, a world renowned mathematician and exceptional person. Written by leading experts in complementarity, duality, global optimization, and quantum computations, this collection reveals the beauty of these mathematical disciplines and investigates recent developments in global optimization, nonconvex and nonsmooth analysis, nonlinear programming, theoretical and engineering mechanics, large scale computation, quantum algorithms and computation, and information theory.

Evolution Algebras and Their Applications

Evolution Algebras and Their Applications
Author: Jianjun Paul Tian
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2008
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540742832

Behind genetics and Markov chains, there is an intrinsic algebraic structure. It is defined as a type of new algebra: as evolution algebra. This concept lies between algebras and dynamical systems. Algebraically, evolution algebras are non-associative Banach algebras; dynamically, they represent discrete dynamical systems. Evolution algebras have many connections with other mathematical fields including graph theory, group theory, stochastic processes, dynamical systems, knot theory, 3-manifolds, and the study of the Ihara-Selberg zeta function. In this volume the foundation of evolution algebra theory and applications in non-Mendelian genetics and Markov chains is developed, with pointers to some further research topics.