Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations I written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph (in two volumes) deals with non scalar variational problems arising in geometry, as harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds and minimal graphs, and in physics, as stable equilibrium configuations in nonlinear elasticity or for liquid crystals. The presentation is selfcontained and accessible to non specialists. Topics are treated as far as possible in an elementary way, illustrating results with simple examples; in principle, chapters and even sections are readable independently of the general context, so that parts can be easily used for graduate courses. Open questions are often mentioned and the final section of each chapter discusses references to the literature and sometimes supplementary results. Finally, a detailed Table of Contents and an extensive Index are of help to consult this monograph

Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations II written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph (in two volumes) deals with non scalar variational problems arising in geometry, as harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds and minimal graphs, and in physics, as stable equilibrium configuations in nonlinear elasticity or for liquid crystals. The presentation is selfcontained and accessible to non specialists. Topics are treated as far as possible in an elementary way, illustrating results with simple examples; in principle, chapters and even sections are readable independently of the general context, so that parts can be easily used for graduate courses. Open questions are often mentioned and the final section of each chapter discusses references to the literature and sometimes supplementary results. Finally, a detailed Table of Contents and an extensive Index are of help to consult this monograph

Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations II written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-scalar variational problems appear in different fields. In geometry, for in stance, we encounter the basic problems of harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds and of minimal immersions; related questions appear in physics, for example in the classical theory of a-models. Non linear elasticity is another example in continuum mechanics, while Oseen-Frank theory of liquid crystals and Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity require to treat variational problems in order to model quite complicated phenomena. Typically one is interested in finding energy minimizing representatives in homology or homotopy classes of maps, minimizers with prescribed topological singularities, topological charges, stable deformations i. e. minimizers in classes of diffeomorphisms or extremal fields. In the last two or three decades there has been growing interest, knowledge, and understanding of the general theory for this kind of problems, often referred to as geometric variational problems. Due to the lack of a regularity theory in the non scalar case, in contrast to the scalar one - or in other words to the occurrence of singularities in vector valued minimizers, often related with concentration phenomena for the energy density - and because of the particular relevance of those singularities for the problem being considered the question of singling out a weak formulation, or completely understanding the significance of various weak formulations becames non trivial.

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Download or read book Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Elliptic Systems AM 105 Volume 105 written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Elliptic Systems. (AM-105), Volume 105, will be forthcoming.

Download or read book Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Elliptic Systems written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Elliptic Systems. (AM-105), Volume 105, will be forthcoming.

Download or read book Unbounded Functionals in the Calculus of Variations written by Luciano Carbone and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades, research in elastic-plastic torsion theory, electrostatic screening, and rubber-like nonlinear elastomers has pointed the way to some interesting new classes of minimum problems for energy functionals of the calculus of variations. This advanced-level monograph addresses these issues by developing the framework of a gener

Download or read book Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations written by Bernard Dacorogna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is developed for the study of vectorial problems in the calculus of variations. The subject is a very active one and almost half of the book consists of new material. This is a new edition of the earlier book published in 1989 and it is suitable for graduate students. The book has been updated with some new material and examples added. Applications are included.

Download or read book Singularities in PDE and the Calculus of Variations written by Stanley Alama and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains papers presented at the "Workshop on Singularities in PDE and the Calculus of Variations" at the CRM in July 2006. The main theme of the meeting was the formation of geometrical singularities in PDE problems with a variational formulation. These equations typically arise in some applications (to physics, engineering, or biology, for example) and their resolution often requires a combination of methods coming from areas such as functional and harmonic analysis, differential geometry and geometric measure theory. Among the PDE problems discussed were: the Cahn-Hilliard model of phase transitions and domain walls; vortices in Ginzburg-Landau type models for superconductivity and superfluidity; the Ohna-Kawasaki model for di-block copolymers; models of image enhancement; and Monge-Ampere functions. The articles give a sampling of problems and methods in this diverse area of mathematics, which touches a large part of modern mathematics and its applications.

Download or read book Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations written by Luigi Ambrosio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a historical overview by Elvira Mascolo

Download or read book Sobolev Maps to the Circle written by Haim Brezis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of real-valued Sobolev functions is a classical part of analysis and has a wide range of applications in pure and applied mathematics. By contrast, the study of manifold-valued Sobolev maps is relatively new. The incentive to explore these spaces arose in the last forty years from geometry and physics. This monograph is the first to provide a unified, comprehensive treatment of Sobolev maps to the circle, presenting numerous results obtained by the authors and others. Many surprising connections to other areas of mathematics are explored, including the Monge-Kantorovich theory in optimal transport, items in geometric measure theory, Fourier series, and non-local functionals occurring, for example, as denoising filters in image processing. Numerous digressions provide a glimpse of the theory of sphere-valued Sobolev maps. Each chapter focuses on a single topic and starts with a detailed overview, followed by the most significant results, and rather complete proofs. The “Complements and Open Problems” sections provide short introductions to various subsequent developments or related topics, and suggest newdirections of research. Historical perspectives and a comprehensive list of references close out each chapter. Topics covered include lifting, point and line singularities, minimal connections and minimal surfaces, uniqueness spaces, factorization, density, Dirichlet problems, trace theory, and gap phenomena. Sobolev Maps to the Circle will appeal to mathematicians working in various areas, such as nonlinear analysis, PDEs, geometric analysis, minimal surfaces, optimal transport, and topology. It will also be of interest to physicists working on liquid crystals and the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductors.

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Download or read book Introduction to the Calculus of Variations written by Hans Sagan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a thorough understanding of calculus of variations and prepares readers for the study of modern optimal control theory. Selected variational problems and over 400 exercises. Bibliography. 1969 edition.

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Download or read book Stability Criteria for Fluid Flows written by Adelina Georgescu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the mathematical problems of thermal convection. The book delineates the main ideas leading to the authors' variant of the energy method. These can be also applied to other variants of the energy method. The importance of the book lies in its focussing on the best concrete results known in the domain of fluid flows stability and in the systematic treatment of mathematical instruments used in order to reach them.