Elliptic and Parabolic Methods in Geometry

Elliptic and Parabolic Methods in Geometry
Author: Ben Chow
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1996-10-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1439864519

This book documents the results of a workshop held at the Geometry Center (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) and captures the excitement of the week.

Geometric Properties for Parabolic and Elliptic PDE's

Geometric Properties for Parabolic and Elliptic PDE's
Author: Vincenzo Ferone
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-06-12
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030733637

This book contains the contributions resulting from the 6th Italian-Japanese workshop on Geometric Properties for Parabolic and Elliptic PDEs, which was held in Cortona (Italy) during the week of May 20–24, 2019. This book will be of great interest for the mathematical community and in particular for researchers studying parabolic and elliptic PDEs. It covers many different fields of current research as follows: convexity of solutions to PDEs, qualitative properties of solutions to parabolic equations, overdetermined problems, inverse problems, Brunn-Minkowski inequalities, Sobolev inequalities, and isoperimetric inequalities.

Second Order Equations of Elliptic and Parabolic Type

Second Order Equations of Elliptic and Parabolic Type
Author: E. M. Landis
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1997-12-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821897812

Most books on elliptic and parabolic equations emphasize existence and uniqueness of solutions. By contrast, this book focuses on the qualitative properties of solutions. In addition to the discussion of classical results for equations with smooth coefficients (Schauder estimates and the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for elliptic equations; the Dirichlet problem for the heat equation), the book describes properties of solutions to second order elliptic and parabolic equations with measurable coefficients near the boundary and at infinity. The book presents a fine elementary introduction to the theory of elliptic and parabolic equations of second order. The precise and clear exposition is suitable for graduate students as well as for research mathematicians who want to get acquainted with this area of the theory of partial differential equations.

Lectures on Elliptic and Parabolic Equations in Holder Spaces

Lectures on Elliptic and Parabolic Equations in Holder Spaces
Author: Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich Krylov
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1996
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 082180569X

These lectures concentrate on fundamentals of the modern theory of linear elliptic and parabolic equations in H older spaces. Krylov shows that this theory - including some issues of the theory of nonlinear equations - is based on some general and extremely powerful ideas and some simple computations. The main object of study is the first boundary-value problems for elliptic and parabolic equations, with some guidelines concerning other boundary-value problems such as the Neumann or oblique derivative problems or problems involving higher-order elliptic operators acting on the boundary. Numerical approximations are also discussed. This book, containing 200 exercises, aims to provide a good understanding of what kind of results are available and what kinds of techniques are used to obtain them.

Elliptic–Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

Elliptic–Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
Author: Thomas H. Otway
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2015-07-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319197614

This text is a concise introduction to the partial differential equations which change from elliptic to hyperbolic type across a smooth hypersurface of their domain. These are becoming increasingly important in diverse sub-fields of both applied mathematics and engineering, for example: • The heating of fusion plasmas by electromagnetic waves • The behaviour of light near a caustic • Extremal surfaces in the space of special relativity • The formation of rapids; transonic and multiphase fluid flow • The dynamics of certain models for elastic structures • The shape of industrial surfaces such as windshields and airfoils • Pathologies of traffic flow • Harmonic fields in extended projective space They also arise in models for the early universe, for cosmic acceleration, and for possible violation of causality in the interiors of certain compact stars. Within the past 25 years, they have become central to the isometric embedding of Riemannian manifolds and the prescription of Gauss curvature for surfaces: topics in pure mathematics which themselves have important applications. Elliptic−Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations is derived from a mini-course given at the ICMS Workshop on Differential Geometry and Continuum Mechanics held in Edinburgh, Scotland in June 2013. The focus on geometry in that meeting is reflected in these notes, along with the focus on quasilinear equations. In the spirit of the ICMS workshop, this course is addressed both to applied mathematicians and to mathematically-oriented engineers. The emphasis is on very recent applications and methods, the majority of which have not previously appeared in book form.

Nonlinear Methods in Riemannian and Kählerian Geometry

Nonlinear Methods in Riemannian and Kählerian Geometry
Author: Jürgen Jost
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034877064

In this book, I present an expanded version of the contents of my lectures at a Seminar of the DMV (Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung) in Düsseldorf, June, 1986. The title "Nonlinear methods in complex geometry" already indicates a combination of techniques from nonlinear partial differential equations and geometric concepts. In older geometric investigations, usually the local aspects attracted more attention than the global ones as differential geometry in its foundations provides approximations of local phenomena through infinitesimal or differential constructions. Here, all equations are linear. If one wants to consider global aspects, however, usually the presence of curvature Ieads to a nonlinearity in the equations. The simplest case is the one of geodesics which are described by a system of second ordernonlinear ODE; their linearizations are the Jacobi fields. More recently, nonlinear PDE played a more and more pro~inent röle in geometry. Let us Iist some of the most important ones: - harmonic maps between Riemannian and Kählerian manifolds - minimal surfaces in Riemannian manifolds - Monge-Ampere equations on Kähler manifolds - Yang-Mills equations in vector bundles over manifolds. While the solution of these equations usually is nontrivial, it can Iead to very signifi cant results in geometry, as solutions provide maps, submanifolds, metrics, or connections which are distinguished by geometric properties in a given context. All these equations are elliptic, but often parabolic equations are used as an auxiliary tool to solve the elliptic ones.

Elliptic And Parabolic Problems, Proceedings Of The 4th European Conference

Elliptic And Parabolic Problems, Proceedings Of The 4th European Conference
Author: Josef Bemelmans
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2002-08-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814488275

This book provides an overview of the state of the art in important subjects, including — besides elliptic and parabolic issues — geometry, free boundary problems, fluid mechanics, evolution problems in general, calculus of variations, homogenization, control, modeling and numerical analysis.

Partial Differential Equations 2

Partial Differential Equations 2
Author: Friedrich Sauvigny
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2006-10-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540344624

This encyclopedic work covers the whole area of Partial Differential Equations - of the elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic type - in two and several variables. Emphasis is placed on the connection of PDEs and complex variable methods. This second volume addresses Solvability of operator equations in Banach spaces; Linear operators in Hilbert spaces and spectral theory; Schauder's theory of linear elliptic differential equations; Weak solutions of differential equations; Nonlinear partial differential equations and characteristics; Nonlinear elliptic systems with differential-geometric applications. While partial differential equations are solved via integral representations in the preceding volume, this volume uses functional analytic solution methods.

Elliptic And Parabolic Equations

Elliptic And Parabolic Equations
Author: Zhuoqun Wu
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2006-10-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9813101709

This book provides an introduction to elliptic and parabolic equations. While there are numerous monographs focusing separately on each kind of equations, there are very few books treating these two kinds of equations in combination. This book presents the related basic theories and methods to enable readers to appreciate the commonalities between these two kinds of equations as well as contrast the similarities and differences between them.