Bifurcation Phenomena in Mathematical Physics and Related Topics: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Cargèse, Corsica, France, June 24–July 7, 1979

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C. Bardos, D. Bessis
Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012 - Science - 596 pages
One of the main ideas in organizing the Summer Institute of Cargese on "Bifurcation Phenomena in Mathematical Physics and Related Topics" was to bring together Physicists and Mathematicians working on the properties arising from the non linearity of the phenomena and of the models that are used for their description. Among these properties the existence of bifurcations is one of the most interesting, and we had a general survey of the mathematical tools used in this field. This survey was done by M. Crandall and P. Rabinowitz and the notes enclosed in these proceedings were written by E. Buzano a]ld C. Canuto. Another mathematical approach, using Morse Theory was given by J. Smoller reporting on a joint work with C. Conley. An example of a direct application was given by M. Ghil. For physicists the theory of bifurcation is closely related to critical phenomena and this was explained in a series of talks given by J.P. Eckmann, G. Baker and M. Fisher. Some related ideas can be found in the talk given by T. T. Wu , on a joint work with Barry Mc Coy on quantum field theory. The description of these phenomena leads to the use of Pade approximants (it is explained for instance in the lectures of J. Nuttall) and then to some problems in drop hot moment problems. (cf. the lecture of D. Bessis).
 

Contents

G Crandall and P H Rabinowitz Notes by E Buzano
3
Conley and J Smoller Remarks on the Stability
47
Ghil Successive Bifurcations and the IceAge Problem
57
Mc Coy and T T Wu Lattice Renormalization
69
G A Baker Jr The ContinuousSpin Ising Model
91
J P Eckmann Bifurcations for Maps
115
B Derrida Critical Properties of One Dimensional Mappings 137
155
S Aubry MetalInsulator Transition in OneDimensional
163
H Berestycki P L Lions Existence of Stationary States
268
Inverse Scattering Theory
295
F Barnsley and G Turchetti New Results on
350
F Calogero Solvable ManyBody Problems and Related
371
Deformation Equations and Completely Integrable Systems
385
Chudnovsky Padé Approximation and the Riemann
449
H Brezis Nonlinear Evolution Equations of Schrödinger
512
J P Dias Nonlinear Problems Arising in the Study
535

J Nuttall Sets of Minimum Capacity Padé Approximants
185
Bessis Bifurcations in the Diophant Moment Problem
203
Semi Classical Aspects
219
B Gidas Euclidean YangMills and Related Equations
243
R Teman Some Properties of Functional Invariant Sets
551
List of Participants
585
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