Partial Differential Equations 2: Functional Analytic Methods

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Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 11, 2006 - Mathematics - 392 pages

This comprehensive two-volume textbook presents the whole area of Partial Differential Equations - of the elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic type - in two and several variables. Special emphasis is put on the connection of PDEs and complex variable methods.

In this second volume the following topics are treated: Solvability of operator equations in Banach spaces, Linear operators in Hilbert spaces and spectral theory, Schauder's theory of linear elliptic differential equations, Weak solutions of differential equations, Nonlinear partial differential equations and characteristics, Nonlinear elliptic systems with differential-geometric applications. While partial differential equations are solved via integral representations in the preceding volume, functional analytic methods are used in this volume.

This textbook can be chosen for a course over several semesters on a medium level. Advanced readers may study each chapter independently from the others.

 

Contents

2 Twodimensional parametric integrals
265
3 Quasilinear hyperbolic differential equations and systems of second order Characteristic parameters
274
Brouwers Degree of Mapping with Geometric Applica tions
279
1 The winding number 2 The degree of mapping in Rn 3 Geometric existence theorems 4 The index of a mapping 5 The product theorem 6 Theore...
280
4 Cauchys initial value problem for quasilinear hyperbolic differential equations and systems of second order
281
5 Riemanns integration method
291
6 Bernsteins analyticity theorem
296
7 Some historical notices to chapter XI
302

Linear Operators in Hilbert Spaces
31
9 Some historical notices to chapter I
125
Linear Elliptic Differential Equations
127
Weak Solutions of Elliptic Differential Equations
187
2 Embedding and compactness
201
3 Existence of weak solutions
208
4 Boundedness of weak solutions
213
5 Hölder continuity of weak solutions
216
6 Weak potentialtheoretic estimates
227
7 Boundary behavior of weak solutions
234
8 Equations in divergence form
239
9 Greens function for elliptic operators
245
10 Spectral theory of the LaplaceBeltrami operator
254
11 Some historical notices to chapter X
256
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations 259
258
Nonlinear Elliptic Systems
305
2 Gradient estimates for nonlinear elliptic systems
312
3 Global estimates for nonlinear systems
324
4 The Dirichlet problem for nonlinear elliptic systems
328
5 Distortion estimates for plane elliptic systems
336
6 A curvature estimate for minimal surfaces
344
7 Global estimates for conformal mappings with respect to Riemannian metrics
348
8 Introduction of conformal parameters into a Riemannian metric
357
9 The uniformization method for quasilinear elliptic differential equations and the Dirichlet problem
362
10 An outlook on Plateaus problem
374
11 Some historical notices to chapter XII
379
References 383
382
Index
385
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