
Lectures on Nonlinear Hyperbolic Differential Equations
Lars Hörmander(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 17. July 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 290 pages
978-3-540-62921-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this introductory textbook, a revised and extended version of well-known lectures by L. Hörmander from 1986, four chapters are devoted to weak solutions of systems of conservation laws. Apart from that the book only studies classical solutions. Two chapters concern the existence of global solutions or estimates of the lifespan for solutions of nonlinear perturbations of the wave or Klein-Gordon equation with small initial data. Four chapters are devoted to microanalysis of the singularities of the solutions. This part assumes some familiarity with pseudodifferential operators which are standard in the theory of linear differential operators, but the extension to the more exotic classes of opertors needed in the nonlinear theory is presented in complete detail.
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Edition
1997 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 290 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-62921-4 (9783540629214)
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Person
Lars Hörmander was born on January 24, 1931, on the southern coast of Sweden. His secondary schooling, as well as his undergraduate and doctoral studies, took place in Lund, Sweden. His principal teacher and adviser at the University of Lund was Marcel Riesz, until his retirement, and then Lars Gårding. In 1956 he worked in the USA, at the universities of Chicago, Kansas, Minnesota and New York, before returning to a chair at the University of Stockholm. He remained a frequent visitor to the US, particularly to Stanford, and was Professor at the IAS, Princeton from 1964 to 1968. In 1968 he accepted a chair at the University of Lund, and remained there until his retirement in 1996. He passed away on November 25, 2012, in Lund, at the age of 81.
Hörmander's life's work was devoted to the study of partial differential equations and its applications in complex analysis. In 1962 he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the general theory of linear partial differential operators. He was also awarded the Wolf Prize in 1988, and the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 2006. His Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators I-IV is considered a standard work on the subject of linear partial differential operators.
Content
Preface.- Contents.- Chap. I: Ordinary differential equations.- Chap. II: Scalar first order equations with one space variable.- Chap. III: Scalar first order equations with several variables.- Chap. IV: First order systems of conservation laws with one space.- Chap. V: Compensated compactness.- Chap. VI: Nonlinear perturbations of the wave equation.- Chap. VII: Nonlinear perturbations of the Klein-Gordon equation.- Chap. VIII: Microlocal analysis.- Chap. IX: Pseudo-differential operators of type 1,1.- Chap. X: Paradifferential calculus.- Chap. XI: Propagation of singularities.- Appendix on pseudo-Riemannian geometry.- References.- Index of notations.- Index.