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Partial Differential Equations II

Qualitative Studies of Linear Equations

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Michael E. Taylor

    1. Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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  • These volumes are the most up-to-date, comprehensive presentation of PDEs and has a wide appeal among mathematicians, engineers, and physicists - Applications from various areas are clearly illustrated - Includes extensive coverage of both linear and nonlinear PDEs

Part of the book series: Applied Mathematical Sciences (AMS, volume 116)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Pseudodifferential Operators

    • Michael E. Taylor
    Pages 1-73

  3. Spectral Theory

    • Michael E. Taylor
    Pages 74-144

  4. Scattering by Obstacles

    • Michael E. Taylor
    Pages 145-240

  5. Dirac Operators and Index Theory

    • Michael E. Taylor
    Pages 241-300

  6. Brownian Motion and Potential Theory

    • Michael E. Taylor
    Pages 301-388

  7. The ̄∂-Neumann Problem

    • Michael E. Taylor
    Pages 389-459

  8. Connections and Curvature

    • Michael E. Taylor
    Pages 460-523

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 525-529
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Partial differential equations is a many-faceted subject. Created to describe the mechanical behavior of objects such as vibrating strings and blowing winds, it has developed into a body of material that interacts with many branches of math­ ematics, such as differential geometry, complex analysis, and harmonic analysis, as weil as a ubiquitous factor in the description and elucidation of problems in mathematical physics. This work is intended to provide a course of study of some of the major aspects of PDE. It is addressed to readers with a background in the basic introductory grad­ uate mathematics courses in American universities: elementary real and complex analysis, differential geometry, and measure theory. Chapter 1 provides background material on the theory of ordinary differential equations (ODE). This includes both very basic material-on topics such as the existence and uniqueness of solutions to ODE and explicit solutions to equations with constant coefficients and relations to linear algebra-and more sophisticated results-on flows generated by vector fields, connections with differential geom­ etry, the calculus of differential forms, stationary action principles in mechanics, and their relation to Hamiltonian systems. We discuss equations of relativistic motion as weIl as equations of c1assical Newtonian mechanics. There are also applications to topological results, such as degree theory, the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, and the Jordan-Brouwer separation theorem. In this chapter we also treat scalar first-order PDE, via Hamilton-Jacobi theory.

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  • Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    Michael E. Taylor

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