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Book An Introduction to Minimal Currents and Parametric Variational Problems

Download or read book An Introduction to Minimal Currents and Parametric Variational Problems written by Enrico Bombieri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Introduction to Minimal Currents and Parametric Variational Problems

Download or read book An Introduction to Minimal Currents and Parametric Variational Problems written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Almgren s Big Regularity Paper

Download or read book Almgren s Big Regularity Paper written by Frederick J. Almgren and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Almgren created the excess method for proving regularity theorems in the calculus of variations. His techniques yielded Holder continuity except for a small closed singular set. In the sixties and seventies Almgren refined and generalized his methods. Between 1974 and 1984 he wrote a 1,700-page proof that was his most ambitious exposition of his ground-breaking ideas. Originally, this monograph was available only as a three-volume work of limited circulation. The entire text is faithfully reproduced here. This book gives a complete proof of the interior regularity of an area-minimizing rectifiable current up to Hausdorff codimension 2. The argument uses the theory of Q-valued functions, which is developed in detail. For example, this work shows how first variation estimates from squash and squeeze deformations yield a monotonicity theorem for the normalized frequency of oscillation of a Q-valued function that minimizes a generalized Dirichlet integral. The principal features of the book include an extension theorem analogous to Kirszbraun's theorem and theorems on the approximation in mass of nearly flat mass-minimizing rectifiable currents by graphs and images of Lipschitz Q-valued functions.

Book Almgren s Big Regularity Paper  Q valued Functions Minimizing Dirichlet s Integral And The Regularit

Download or read book Almgren s Big Regularity Paper Q valued Functions Minimizing Dirichlet s Integral And The Regularit written by Vladimir Scheffer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Almgren exploited the excess method for proving regularity theorems in the calculus of variations. His techniques yielded Hölder continuous differentiability except for a small closed singular set. In the sixties and seventies Almgren refined and generalized his methods. Between 1974 and 1984 he wrote a 1,700-page proof that was his most ambitious development of his ground-breaking ideas. Originally, this monograph was available only as a three-volume work of limited circulation. The entire text is faithfully reproduced here.This book gives a complete proof of the interior regularity of an area-minimizing rectifiable current up to Hausdorff codimension 2. The argument uses the theory of Q-valued functions, which is developed in detail. For example, this work shows how first variation estimates from squash and squeeze deformations yield a monotonicity theorem for the normalized frequency of oscillation of a Q-valued function that minimizes a generalized Dirichlet integral. The principal features of the book include an extension theorem analogous to Kirszbraun's theorem and theorems on the approximation in mass of nearly flat mass-minimizing rectifiable currents by graphs and images of Lipschitz Q-valued functions.

Book Mathematical Structures of Nonlinear Science

Download or read book Mathematical Structures of Nonlinear Science written by Melvyn S. Berger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of a series of books that will describe current advances and past accompli shments of mathemat i ca 1 aspects of nonlinear sCience taken in the broadest contexts. This subject has been studied for hundreds of years, yet it is the topic in whi ch a number of outstandi ng di scoveri es have been made in the past two decades. Clearly, this trend will continue. In fact, we believe some of the great scientific problems in this area will be clarified and perhaps resolved. One of the reasons for this development is the emerging new mathematical ideas of nonlinear science. It is clear that by looking at the mathematical structures themselves that underlie experiment and observation that new vistas of conceptual thinking lie at the foundation of the unexplored area in this field. To speak of specific examples, one notes that the whole area of bifurcation was rarely talked about in the early parts of this century, even though it was discussed mathematically by Poi ncare at the end of the ni neteenth century. I n another di rect ion, turbulence has been a key observation in fluid dynamics, yet it was only recently, in the past decade, that simple computer studies brought to light simple dynamical models in which chaotic dynamics, hopefully closely related to turbulence, can be observed.

Book Global Analysis of Minimal Surfaces

Download or read book Global Analysis of Minimal Surfaces written by Ulrich Dierkes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many properties of minimal surfaces are of a global nature, and this is already true for the results treated in the first two volumes of the treatise. Part I of the present book can be viewed as an extension of these results. For instance, the first two chapters deal with existence, regularity and uniqueness theorems for minimal surfaces with partially free boundaries. Here one of the main features is the possibility of "edge-crawling" along free parts of the boundary. The third chapter deals with a priori estimates for minimal surfaces in higher dimensions and for minimizers of singular integrals related to the area functional. In particular, far reaching Bernstein theorems are derived. The second part of the book contains what one might justly call a "global theory of minimal surfaces" as envisioned by Smale. First, the Douglas problem is treated anew by using Teichmüller theory. Secondly, various index theorems for minimal theorems are derived, and their consequences for the space of solutions to Plateau ́s problem are discussed. Finally, a topological approach to minimal surfaces via Fredholm vector fields in the spirit of Smale is presented.

Book Minimal Surfaces I

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulrich Dierkes
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-11-27
  • ISBN : 3662027917
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Minimal Surfaces I written by Ulrich Dierkes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimal surfaces I is an introduction to the field of minimal surfaces and apresentation of the classical theory as well as of parts of the modern development centered around boundary value problems. Part II deals with the boundary behaviour of minimal surfaces. Part I is particularly apt for students who want to enter this interesting area of analysis and differential geometry which during the last 25 years of mathematical research has been very active and productive. Surveys of various subareas will lead the student to the current frontiers of knowledge and can alsobe useful to the researcher. The lecturer can easily base courses of one or two semesters on differential geometry on Vol. 1, as many topics are worked out in great detail. Numerous computer-generated illustrations of old and new minimal surfaces are included to support intuition and imagination. Part 2 leads the reader up to the regularity theory fornonlinear elliptic boundary value problems illustrated by a particular and fascinating topic. There is no comparably comprehensive treatment of the problem of boundary regularity of minimal surfaces available in book form. This long-awaited book is a timely and welcome addition to the mathematical literature.

Book Minimal Surfaces II

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulrich Dierkes
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-03-14
  • ISBN : 3662087766
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Minimal Surfaces II written by Ulrich Dierkes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimal Surfaces I is an introduction to the field of minimal surfaces and a presentation of the classical theory as well as of parts of the modern development centered around boundary value problems. Part II deals with the boundary behaviour of minimal surfaces. Part I is particularly apt for students who want to enter this interesting area of analysis and differential geometry which during the last 25 years of mathematical research has been very active and productive. Surveys of various subareas will lead the student to the current frontiers of knowledge and can also be useful to the researcher. The lecturer can easily base courses of one or two semesters on differential geometry on Vol. 1, as many topics are worked out in great detail. Numerous computer-generated illustrations of old and new minimal surfaces are included to support intuition and imagination. Part 2 leads the reader up to the regularity theory for nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems illustrated by a particular and fascinating topic. There is no comparably comprehensive treatment of the problem of boundary regularity of minimal surfaces available in book form. This long-awaited book is a timely and welcome addition to the mathematical literature.

Book A Survey of Minimal Surfaces

Download or read book A Survey of Minimal Surfaces written by Robert Osserman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated accessible study covers parametric and non-parametric surfaces, isothermal parameters, Bernstein’s theorem, much more, including such recent developments as new work on Plateau’s problem and on isoperimetric inequalities. Clear, comprehensive examination provides profound insights into crucial area of pure mathematics. 1986 edition. Index.

Book Minimal Surfaces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulrich Dierkes
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2010-08-16
  • ISBN : 3642116981
  • Pages : 699 pages

Download or read book Minimal Surfaces written by Ulrich Dierkes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimal Surfaces is the first volume of a three volume treatise on minimal surfaces (Grundlehren Nr. 339-341). Each volume can be read and studied independently of the others. The central theme is boundary value problems for minimal surfaces. The treatise is a substantially revised and extended version of the monograph Minimal Surfaces I, II (Grundlehren Nr. 295 & 296). The first volume begins with an exposition of basic ideas of the theory of surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space, followed by an introduction of minimal surfaces as stationary points of area, or equivalently, as surfaces of zero mean curvature. The final definition of a minimal surface is that of a nonconstant harmonic mapping X: \Omega\to\R^3 which is conformally parametrized on \Omega\subset\R^2 and may have branch points. Thereafter the classical theory of minimal surfaces is surveyed, comprising many examples, a treatment of Björling ́s initial value problem, reflection principles, a formula of the second variation of area, the theorems of Bernstein, Heinz, Osserman, and Fujimoto. The second part of this volume begins with a survey of Plateau ́s problem and of some of its modifications. One of the main features is a new, completely elementary proof of the fact that area A and Dirichlet integral D have the same infimum in the class C(G) of admissible surfaces spanning a prescribed contour G. This leads to a new, simplified solution of the simultaneous problem of minimizing A and D in C(G), as well as to new proofs of the mapping theorems of Riemann and Korn-Lichtenstein, and to a new solution of the simultaneous Douglas problem for A and D where G consists of several closed components. Then basic facts of stable minimal surfaces are derived; this is done in the context of stable H-surfaces (i.e. of stable surfaces of prescribed mean curvature H), especially of cmc-surfaces (H = const), and leads to curvature estimates for stable, immersed cmc-surfaces and to Nitsche ́s uniqueness theorem and Tomi ́s finiteness result. In addition, a theory of unstable solutions of Plateau ́s problems is developed which is based on Courant ́s mountain pass lemma. Furthermore, Dirichlet ́s problem for nonparametric H-surfaces is solved, using the solution of Plateau ́s problem for H-surfaces and the pertinent estimates.

Book Regularity of Minimal Surfaces

Download or read book Regularity of Minimal Surfaces written by Ulrich Dierkes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regularity of Minimal Surfaces begins with a survey of minimal surfaces with free boundaries. Following this, the basic results concerning the boundary behaviour of minimal surfaces and H-surfaces with fixed or free boundaries are studied. In particular, the asymptotic expansions at interior and boundary branch points are derived, leading to general Gauss-Bonnet formulas. Furthermore, gradient estimates and asymptotic expansions for minimal surfaces with only piecewise smooth boundaries are obtained. One of the main features of free boundary value problems for minimal surfaces is that, for principal reasons, it is impossible to derive a priori estimates. Therefore regularity proofs for non-minimizers have to be based on indirect reasoning using monotonicity formulas. This is followed by a long chapter discussing geometric properties of minimal and H-surfaces such as enclosure theorems and isoperimetric inequalities, leading to the discussion of obstacle problems and of Plateau ́s problem for H-surfaces in a Riemannian manifold. A natural generalization of the isoperimetric problem is the so-called thread problem, dealing with minimal surfaces whose boundary consists of a fixed arc of given length. Existence and regularity of solutions are discussed. The final chapter on branch points presents a new approach to the theorem that area minimizing solutions of Plateau ́s problem have no interior branch points.

Book Semi Linear Hyperbolic Problems in Bounded Domains

Download or read book Semi Linear Hyperbolic Problems in Bounded Domains written by Alain Haraux and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening chapter provides background information on the basic functional setting, semi-groups and the abstract wave equation, almost periodicity and the wave equation, and technical tools. Succeeding chapters cover the initial value problem, asymptotics in autonomous cases, non-resonance in the purely dissipative case, stability of periodic and almost-periodic solutions, oscillation properties in the conservative case, and global properties of the full equation. Includes bibliographic references and indexes by author and subject.

Book Frattini like Subgroups of Finite Groups

Download or read book Frattini like Subgroups of Finite Groups written by Marian Deaconescu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What s Next

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  • Author : Dylan Thurston
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-07
  • ISBN : 069116777X
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book What s Next written by Dylan Thurston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Thurston (1946-2012) was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was a visionary whose extraordinary ideas revolutionized a broad range of mathematical fields, from foliations, contact structures, and Teichm ller theory to automorphisms of surfaces, hyperbolic geometry, geometrization of 3-manifolds, geometric group theory, and rational maps. In addition, he discovered connections between disciplines that led to astonishing breakthroughs in mathematical understanding as well as the creation of entirely new fields. His far-reaching questions and conjectures led to enormous progress by other researchers. What's Next? brings together many of today's leading mathematicians to describe recent advances and future directions inspired by Thurston's transformative ideas. Including valuable insights from his colleagues and former students, What's Next? discusses Thurston's fundamental contributions to topology, geometry, and dynamical systems and includes many deep and original contributions to the field. This incisive and wide-ranging book also explores how he introduced new ways of thinking about and doing mathematics, innovations that have had a profound and lasting impact on the mathematical community as a whole.

Book Complex  Contact and Symmetric Manifolds

Download or read book Complex Contact and Symmetric Manifolds written by Oldrich Kowalski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Contains research and survey articles by well known and respected mathematicians on recent developments and research trends in differential geometry and topology * Dedicated in honor of Lieven Vanhecke, as a tribute to his many fruitful and inspiring contributions to these fields * Papers include all necessary introductory and contextual material to appeal to non-specialists, as well as researchers and differential geometers

Book Functional Analysis And Related Topics   Proceedings Of The International Symposium

Download or read book Functional Analysis And Related Topics Proceedings Of The International Symposium written by Shozo Koshi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1991-10-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this symposium is to discuss the recent developments in the various areas of functional analysis. This volume consists mainly of articles in the fields of topological algebra, Banach spaces, function spaces, harmonic analysis, operator theory and application of functional analysis.