Download or read book An Introduction to Functions of Bounded Variation Sets of Finite Perimeter and Some Applications to Geometric Variational Problems written by Ke Liang Xiao and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this thesis, we explore how the theory of functions of bounded variation (BV) establishes an appropriate and versatile framework in the study of geometric variational problems. We begin with a presentation of some fundamental results on BV functions that will allow us to link them to Radon measures. In the special case of characteristic functions with bounded variation, we present structural results on sets of finite perimeter, including a generalization of the Gauss-Green Theorem. This machinery will allow us to assign a notion of perimeter to any set of finite Lebesgue measure, hence allowing non- smooth competitors to be considered in minimization problems involving the surface area. We will then address Plateau's problem and the first variation of the area functional. Finally, we will present the ideas of Steiner symmetrization to provide a proof of the Isoperimetric inequality"--
Download or read book Sets of Finite Perimeter and Geometric Variational Problems written by Francesco Maggi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marriage of analytic power to geometric intuition drives many of today's mathematical advances, yet books that build the connection from an elementary level remain scarce. This engaging introduction to geometric measure theory bridges analysis and geometry, taking readers from basic theory to some of the most celebrated results in modern analysis. The theory of sets of finite perimeter provides a simple and effective framework. Topics covered include existence, regularity, analysis of singularities, characterization and symmetry results for minimizers in geometric variational problems, starting from the basics about Hausdorff measures in Euclidean spaces and ending with complete proofs of the regularity of area-minimizing hypersurfaces up to singular sets of codimension 8. Explanatory pictures, detailed proofs, exercises and remarks providing heuristic motivation and summarizing difficult arguments make this graduate-level textbook suitable for self-study and also a useful reference for researchers. Readers require only undergraduate analysis and basic measure theory.
Download or read book Minimal Surfaces and Functions of Bounded Variation written by Giusti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of finding minimal surfaces, i. e. of finding the surface of least area among those bounded by a given curve, was one of the first considered after the foundation of the calculus of variations, and is one which received a satis factory solution only in recent years. Called the problem of Plateau, after the blind physicist who did beautiful experiments with soap films and bubbles, it has resisted the efforts of many mathematicians for more than a century. It was only in the thirties that a solution was given to the problem of Plateau in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, with the papers of Douglas [DJ] and Rado [R T1, 2]. The methods of Douglas and Rado were developed and extended in 3-dimensions by several authors, but none of the results was shown to hold even for minimal hypersurfaces in higher dimension, let alone surfaces of higher dimension and codimension. It was not until thirty years later that the problem of Plateau was successfully attacked in its full generality, by several authors using measure-theoretic methods; in particular see De Giorgi [DG1, 2, 4, 5], Reifenberg [RE], Federer and Fleming [FF] and Almgren [AF1, 2]. Federer and Fleming defined a k-dimensional surface in IR" as a k-current, i. e. a continuous linear functional on k-forms. Their method is treated in full detail in the splendid book of Federer [FH 1].
Download or read book Sets of Finite Perimeter and Geometric Variational Problems written by Francesco Maggi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging graduate-level introduction that bridges analysis and geometry. Suitable for self-study and a useful reference for researchers.
Download or read book Functions of Bounded Variation written by Simon Reinwand and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Functions of bounded variation are most important in many fields of mathe¬matics. This thesis investigates spaces of functions of bounded variation with one variable of various types, compares them to other classical function spaces and reveals natural “habitats” of BV-functions. New and almost comprehensive results concerning mapping properties like surjectivity and injectivity, several kinds of continuity and compactness of both linear and nonlinear operators bet¬ween such spaces are given. A new theory about different types of convergence of sequences of such operators is presented in full detail and applied to a new proof for the continuity of the composition operator in the classical BV-space. The abstract results serve as ingredients to solve Hammerstein and Volterra in¬tegral equations using fixed point theory. Many criteria guaranteeing the exis¬tence and uniqueness of solutions in BV-type spaces are given and later applied to solve boundary and initial value problems in a nonclassical setting. A big emphasis is put on a clear and detailed discussion. Many pictures and syn¬optic tables help to visualize and summarize the most important ideas. Over 160 examples and counterexamples illustrate the many abstract results and how de¬licate some of them are.
Download or read book Vector Valued Partial Differential Equations and Applications written by Bernard Dacorogna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collating different aspects of Vector-valued Partial Differential Equations and Applications, this volume is based on the 2013 CIME Course with the same name which took place at Cetraro, Italy, under the scientific direction of John Ball and Paolo Marcellini. It contains the following contributions: The pullback equation (Bernard Dacorogna), The stability of the isoperimetric inequality (Nicola Fusco), Mathematical problems in thin elastic sheets: scaling limits, packing, crumpling and singularities (Stefan Müller), and Aspects of PDEs related to fluid flows (Vladimir Sverák). These lectures are addressed to graduate students and researchers in the field.
Download or read book Functions of Least Gradient written by Wojciech Górny and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minimal Surfaces and Functions of Bounded Variation written by E. Giusti and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measure Theory and Fine Properties of Functions written by LawrenceCraig Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed examination of the central assertions of measure theory in n-dimensional Euclidean space and emphasizes the roles of Hausdorff measure and the capacity in characterizing the fine properties of sets and functions. Topics covered include a quick review of abstract measure theory, theorems and differentiation in Mn, lower Hausdorff measures, area and coarea formulas for Lipschitz mappings and related change-of-variable formulas, and Sobolev functions and functions of bounded variation. The text provides complete proofs of many key results omitted from other books, including Besicovitch's Covering Theorem, Rademacher's Theorem (on the differentiability a.e. of Lipschitz functions), the Area and Coarea Formulas, the precise structure of Sobolev and BV functions, the precise structure of sets of finite perimeter, and Alexandro's Theorem (on the twice differentiability a.e. of convex functions). Topics are carefully selected and the proofs succinct, but complete, which makes this book ideal reading for applied mathematicians and graduate students in applied mathematics.
Download or read book Existence and Regularity Results for Some Shape Optimization Problems written by Bozhidar Velichkov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the existence and regularity of optimal domains for functionals depending on the spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian or of more general Schrödinger operators. The domains are subject to perimeter and volume constraints; we also take into account the possible presence of geometric obstacles. We investigate the properties of the optimal sets and of the optimal state functions. In particular, we prove that the eigenfunctions are Lipschitz continuous up to the boundary and that the optimal sets subject to the perimeter constraint have regular free boundary. We also consider spectral optimization problems in non-Euclidean settings and optimization problems for potentials and measures, as well as multiphase and optimal partition problems.
Download or read book Geometric Integration Theory written by Steven G. Krantz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook introduces geometric measure theory through the notion of currents. Currents, continuous linear functionals on spaces of differential forms, are a natural language in which to formulate types of extremal problems arising in geometry, and can be used to study generalized versions of the Plateau problem and related questions in geometric analysis. Motivating key ideas with examples and figures, this book is a comprehensive introduction ideal for both self-study and for use in the classroom. The exposition demands minimal background, is self-contained and accessible, and thus is ideal for both graduate students and researchers.
Download or read book Nonlocal Perimeter Curvature and Minimal Surfaces for Measurable Sets written by José M. Mazón and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the latest developments in the geometry of measurable sets, presenting them in simple, straightforward terms. It addresses nonlocal notions of perimeter and curvature and studies in detail the minimal surfaces associated with them. These notions of nonlocal perimeter and curvature are defined on the basis of a non-singular kernel. Further, when the kernel is appropriately rescaled, they converge toward the classical perimeter and curvature as the rescaling parameter tends to zero. In this way, the usual notions can be recovered by using the nonlocal ones. In addition, nonlocal heat content is studied and an asymptotic expansion is obtained. Given its scope, the book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as senior researchers interested in analysis and/or geometry.
Download or read book Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory written by Leon Simon and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Variational Inequalities and Their Applications written by David Kinderlehrer and published by SIAM. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unabridged republication of the 1980 text, an established classic in the field, is a resource for many important topics in elliptic equations and systems and is the first modern treatment of free boundary problems. Variational inequalities (equilibrium or evolution problems typically with convex constraints) are carefully explained in An Introduction to Variational Inequalities and Their Applications. They are shown to be extremely useful across a wide variety of subjects, ranging from linear programming to free boundary problems in partial differential equations. Exciting new areas like finance and phase transformations along with more historical ones like contact problems have begun to rely on variational inequalities, making this book a necessity once again.
Download or read book Variational and Free Boundary Problems written by Avner Friedman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications VARIATIONAL AND FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEMS is based on the proceedings of a workshop which was an integral part of the 1990- 91 IMA program on "Phase Transitions and Free Boundaries. " The aim of the workshop was to highlight new methods, directions and problems in variational and free boundary theory, with a concentration on novel applications of variational methods to applied problems. We thank R. Fosdick, M. E. Gurtin, W. -M. Ni and L. A. Peletier for organizing the year-long program and, especially, J. Sprock for co-organizing the meeting and co-editing these proceedings. We also take this opportunity to thank the National Science Foundation whose financial support made the workshop possible. Avner Friedman Willard Miller, Jr. PREFACE In a free boundary one seeks to find a solution u to a partial differential equation in a domain, a part r of its boundary of which is unknown. Thus both u and r must be determined. In addition to the standard boundary conditions on the un known domain, an additional condition must be prescribed on the free boundary. A classical example is the Stefan problem of melting of ice; here the temperature sat isfies the heat equation in the water region, and yet this region itself (or rather the ice-water interface) is unknown and must be determined together with the tempera ture within the water. Some free boundary problems lend themselves to variational formulation.
Download or read book Measure Theory and Fine Properties of Functions Revised Edition written by Lawrence Craig Evans and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measure Theory and Fine Properties of Functions, Revised Edition provides a detailed examination of the central assertions of measure theory in n-dimensional Euclidean space. The book emphasizes the roles of Hausdorff measure and capacity in characterizing the fine properties of sets and functions. Topics covered include a quick review of abstract
Download or read book Optimal Mass Transport on Euclidean Spaces written by Francesco Maggi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a graduate-level introduction to the key ideas and theoretical foundation of the vibrant field of optimal mass transport in the Euclidean setting. Taking a pedagogical approach, it introduces concepts gradually and in an accessible way, while also remaining technically and conceptually complete.
