"Visions in Mathematics - Towards 2000" was one of the most remarkable mathematical meetings in recent years. It was held in Tel Aviv from August 25th to September 3rd, 1999, and united some of the leading mathematicians worldwide. The goals of the conference were to discuss the importance, the methods, the past and the future of mathematics as we enter the 21st century and to consider the connection between mathematics and related areas.
The aims of the conference are reflected in the present set of survey articles, documenting the state of art and future prospects in many branches...
"Visions in Mathematics - Towards 2000" was one of the most remarkable mathematical meetings in recent years. It was held in Tel Aviv from August 2...
If you have not already heard about solitons, you will sooner or later encounter them. The soliton, a solitary wave impulse preserving its shape and strikingly similar to a particle, is one of the most fascinating and beautiful phenomena in the physics of nonlinear waves. In this engaging book, the concept of the soliton is traced from the beginning of the last century to modern times, with recent applications in biology, oceanography, solid state physics, electronics, elementary particle physics, and cosmology. The main concepts and results of theoretical physics related to solitons can be...
If you have not already heard about solitons, you will sooner or later encounter them. The soliton, a solitary wave impulse preserving its shape and s...
The book deals with the two scales Bsp, q and Fsp, q of spaces of distributions, where -∞n in the framework of Fourier analysis, which is based on the technique of maximal functions, Fourier multipliers and interpolation assertions. These topics are treated in Chapter 2, which is the heart of the book. Chapter 3 deals with corresponding spaces on smooth bounded domains in Rn. These results are applied in Chapter 4 in order to study general boundary value problems for regular elliptic differential operators in the above spaces....
The book deals with the two scales Bsp, q and Fsp, q of spaces of distributions, where -∞n in ...
s s T h is b o ok de als w ith the the o ry of func tion s p ac e s of t y p e B and F as it s t ands pq pq at the end of the eigh ties. These t w o scales of spaces co v er man y w ell- kno w n s paces of functions a nd distributions suc h as H] olde r-Zy gm und s pac e s, Sob ole v s pac e s, fra- tional Sob o lev s paces (prev ious ly a ls o o ft en referred to a s Bes s e l-p o ten tial s paces ), Be s o v s pac e s, i nhom oge ne ous Hardy s p ac e s, s pac e s of BM O-t y p e and l o c al appro - imation s paces whic h are clos ely c onnected with Morrey-Campanato s paces.
s s T h is b o ok de als w ith the the o ry of func tion s p ac e s of t y p e B and F as it s t ands pq pq at the end of the eigh ties. These t w o s...
In a coherent, exhaustive and progressive way, this book presents the tools for studying local bifurcations of limit cycles in families of planar vector fields. A systematic introduction is given to such methods as division of an analytic family of functions in its ideal of coefficients, and asymptotic expansion of non-differentiable return maps and desingularisation. The exposition moves from classical analytic geometric methods applied to regular limit periodic sets to more recent tools for singular limit sets.
The methods can be applied to theoretical problems such as Hilbert's...
In a coherent, exhaustive and progressive way, this book presents the tools for studying local bifurcations of limit cycles in families of planar v...
This book is devoted to the relation between two different concepts of integrability: the complete integrability of complex analytical Hamiltonian systems and the integrability of complex analytical linear differential equations. For linear differential equations, integrability is made precise within the framework of differential Galois theory. The connection of these two integrability notions is given by the variational equation (i.e. linearized equation) along a particular integral curve of the Hamiltonian system. The underlying heuristic idea, which motivated the main results presented...
This book is devoted to the relation between two different concepts of integrability: the complete integrability of complex analytical Hamiltonian ...
Optimal Control brings together many of the important advances in 'nonsmooth' optimal control over the last several decades concerning necessary conditions, minimizer regularity, and global optimality conditions associated with the Hamilton Jacobi equation. The book is largely self-contained and incorporates numerous simplifications and unifying features for the subject s key concepts and foundations.
Features and Topics:
* a comprehensive overview is provided for specialists and nonspecialists
* authoritative, coherent, and accessible coverage of the role of...
Optimal Control brings together many of the important advances in 'nonsmooth' optimal control over the last several decades concerning neces...
This book deals with two subjects. The first subject is the geometric theory of compact Riemann surfaces of genus greater than one, the second subject is the Laplace operator and its relationship with the geometry of compact Riemann surfaces. The book grew out of the idea, a long time ago, to publish a Habili- tionsschrift, a thesis, in which I studied Bers' pants decomposition theorem and its applications to the spectrum of a compact Riemann surface. A basic tool in the thesis was cutting and pasting in connection with the trigono- metry of hyperbolic geodesic polygons. As this approach to...
This book deals with two subjects. The first subject is the geometric theory of compact Riemann surfaces of genus greater than one, the second subject...
More than twenty years ago I gave a course on Fourier Integral Op- erators at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (1970-71) from which a set of lecture notes were written up; the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York distributed these notes for many years, but they be- came increasingly difficult to obtain. The current text is essentially a nicely TeXed version of those notes with some minor additions (e.g., figures) and corrections. Apparently an attractive aspect of our approach to Fourier Integral Operators was its introduction to symplectic differential geometry, the...
More than twenty years ago I gave a course on Fourier Integral Op- erators at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (1970-71) from which a set of lectur...
n This book deals with several aspects of fractal geometry in ? which are closely connected with Fourier analysis, function spaces, and appropriate (pseudo)differ- tial operators. It emerged quite recently that some modern techniques in the theory of function spaces are intimately related to methods in fractal geometry. Special attention is paid to spectral properties of fractal (pseudo)differential operators; in particular we shall play the drum with a fractal layer. In some sense this book may be considered as the fractal twin of ET96], where we developed adequate methods to handle...
n This book deals with several aspects of fractal geometry in ? which are closely connected with Fourier analysis, function spaces, and appropriate (p...