Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 477 g
Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 477 g
Reihe: Springer Monographs in Mathematics
ISBN: 978-3-642-25619-6
Verlag: Springer
The purpose of this monograph is to present an elementary proof of this very fundamental and beautiful mathematical result. The exposition follows the original line of attack initiated by Jesse Douglas in his Fields medal work in 1931, namely use Dirichlet's energy as opposed to area. Remarkably, the author shows how to calculate arbitrarily high orders of derivatives of Dirichlet's energy defined on the infinite dimensional manifold of all surfaces spanning a contour, breaking new ground in the Calculus of Variations, where normally only the second derivative or variation is calculated.
The monograph begins with easy examples leading to a proof in a large number of cases that can be presented in a graduate course in either manifolds or complex analysis. Thus this monograph requires only the most basic knowledge of analysis, complex analysis and topology and can therefore be read by almost anyone with a basic graduate education.
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1.Introduction.- 2.Higher order Derivatives of Dirichlets' Energy.- 3.Very Special Case; The Theorem for n + 1 Even and m + 1 Odd.- 4.The First Main Theorem; Non-Exceptional Branch Points.- 5.The Second Main Theorem: Exceptional Branch Points; The Condition k > l.- 6.Exceptional Branch Points Without The Condition k > l.- 7.New Brief Proofs of the Gulliver-Osserman-Royden Theorem.- 8.Boundary Branch Points.- Scholia.- Appendix.- Bibliography.
