Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
Topics on Geometrical Evolution Problems and Degree Theory
Published on 24. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 348 pages
978-3-540-64803-1 (ISBN)
Description
At the summer school in Pisa in September 1996, Luigi Ambrosio and Norman Dancer each gave a course on the geometric problem of evolution of a surface by mean curvature, and degree theory with applications to PDEs respectively. This self-contained presentation accessible to PhD students bridged the gap between standard courses and advanced research on these topics. The resulting book is divided accordingly into 2 parts, and neatly illustrates the 2-way interaction of problems and methods. Each of the courses is augmented and complemented by additional short chapters by other authors describing current research problems and results.
Reviews / Votes
"Fazit: Dies ist kein typischer Proccedingsband, sondern stellt - insbesondere wegen der Lecture Notes von Dancer und vor allem wegen der von Ambrosio - ... eine wichtige Bereicherung der anspruchsvollen Forschungsliteratur auf den Gebieten Variationsrechnung und partielle Differentialgleichungen dar. Es ist erfreulich, dass hier allerneueste Forschungsergebnisse so schnell Eingang - abgesehen von Zeitschriften - in die Literatur gefunden haben. Fur Interessierte eine lohnenswerte Anschaffung!" Jahresbericht der DMV, 104. Band, Heft 2, August 2002More details
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Graduate
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen
X, 348 p. 4 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-64803-1 (9783540648031)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-57186-2
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Prof. Luigi Ambrosio is a Professor of Mathematical Analysis, a former student of the Scuola Normale Superiore and presently its Rector. His research interests include calculus of variations, geometric measure theory, optimal transport and analysis in metric spaces. For his scientific achievements, he has been awarded several prizes, in particular the Fermat prize in 2003, the Balzan Prize in 2019, the Riemann Prize in 2023 and the Nemmers Prize in 2024.
Dr. Elia Bruè is an Associate Professor at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. He earned his PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 2020. His research interests lie in the fields of Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, with a focus on Ricci curvature, metric geometry, incompressible fluid mechanics, and passive scalars with rough velocity fields.
Dr. Daniele Semola is an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna. He was a student in Mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where he earned his PhD degree in 2020. His research interests lie at the interface between geometric analysis and analysis on metric spaces, mainly with a focus on lower curvature bounds.
Content
I Geometric Evolution Problems.- Geometric evolution problems, distance function and viscosity solutions.- Variational models for phase transitions, an approach via ?-convergence.- Some aspects of De Giorgi's barriers for geometric evolutions.- Partial Regularity for Minimizers of Free Discontinuity Problems with p-th Growth.- Free discontinuity problems and their non-local approximation.- II Degree Theory on Convex Sets and Applications to Bifurcation.- Degree theory on convex sets and applications to bifurcation.- Nonlinear elliptic equations involving critical Sobolev exponents.- On the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for semilinear mixed and Neumann elliptic problems.- Solitons and Relativistic Dynamics.- An algebraic approach to nonstandard analysis.- References.