Spaces of Measures and their Applications to Structured Population Models

ISBN-13: 9781316519103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Christian Düll (Universität Heidelberg); Warsaw) Piotr Gwiazda (Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN);Anna Marciniak-Czochra (Universität Heidelberg)

Opis

Structured population models are transport-type equations often applied to describe evolution of heterogeneous populations of biological cells, animals or humans, including phenomena such as crowd dynamics or pedestrian flows. This book introduces the mathematical underpinnings of these applications, providing a comprehensive analytical framework for structured population models in spaces of Radon measures. The unified approach allows for the study of transport processes on structures that are not vector spaces (such as traffic flow on graphs) and enables the analysis of the numerical algorithms used in applications. Presenting a coherent account of over a decade of research in the area, the text includes appendices outlining the necessary background material and discusses current trends in the theory, enabling graduate students to jump quickly into research.

Spis treści

Notation; Introduction; 1. Analytical setting; 2. Structured population models on state space R+; 3. Structured population models on proper spaces; 4. Numerical methods for structured population models; 5. Recent developments and future perspectives; Appendix A. Topology, compactness and proper spaces; Appendix B. Functional analysis; Appendix C. Bounded Lipschitz and Hölder functions; Appendix D. Results on approximation with polynomials; Appendix E. Differential geometry; Appendix F. Measure theory; Appendix G. Weaker topologies on spaces of measures; Appendix H. The Bochner integral; Appendix I. Semigroups; Appendix J. Supplement to Chapter 2; Appendix K. Technical proofs from Chapter 3; References; Index.