An Introduction to Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Elliptic Problems

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8176-8113-5
Verlag: Birkhauser Boston

Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications

This self-contained textbook provides the basic, abstract tools used in nonlinear analysis and their applications to semilinear elliptic boundary value problems. By first outlining the advantages and disadvantages of each method, this comprehensive text displays how various approaches can easily be applied to a range of model cases.

An Introduction to Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Elliptic Problems is divided into two parts: the first discusses key results such as the Banach contraction principle, a fixed point theorem for increasing operators, local and global inversion theory, Leray–Schauder degree, critical point theory, and bifurcation theory; the second part shows how these abstract results apply to Dirichlet elliptic boundary value problems. The exposition is driven by numerous prototype problems and exposes a variety of approaches to solving them.

Complete with a preliminary chapter, an appendix that includes further results on weak derivatives, and chapter-by-chapter exercises, this book is a practical text for an introductory course or seminar on nonlinear functional analysis.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ambrosetti, Antonio

Arcoya Álvarez, David

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Funktionalanalysis
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Differentialrechnungen und -gleichungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notation.- Preliminaries.- Some Fixed Point Theorems.- Local and Global Inversion Theorems.- Leray-Schauder Topological Degree.- An Outline of Critical Points.- Bifurcation Theory.- Elliptic Problems and Functional Analysis.- Problems with A Priori Bounds.- Asymptotically Linear Problems.- Asymmetric Nonlinearities.- Superlinear Problems.- Quasilinear Problems.- Stationary States of Evolution Equations.- Appendix A Sobolev Spaces.- Exercises.- Index.- Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Both authors are leading experts in this area of mathematics. Antonio Ambrosetti has been at the very forefront of research in this field for forty years, and several of the major topics from Parts 1 and 2 of the book are drawn from his research.