Attractors Of Hamiltonian Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

The first monograph on the theory of global attractors of Hamiltonian partial differential equations.

The original idea of the organizers of the Washington Symposium was to span a fairly narrow range of topics on some recent techniques developed for the investigation of nonlinear partial differential equations and discuss these in a forum of experts. It soon became clear, however, that the dynamical systems approach interfaced significantly with many important branches of applied mathematics. As a consequence, the scope of this resulting proceedings volume is an enlarged one with coverage of a wider range of research topics.

Contents: Direct and Inverse Diffraction by Periodic Structures (G Bao)Weak Flow of H-Systems (Y-M Chen)Strongly Compact Attractor for Dissipative Zakharov Equations (B-L Guo et al.)C∞-Solutions of Generalized Porous Medium Equations (M Ôtani & Y Sugiyama)Cauchy Problem for Generalized IMBq Equation (G-W Chen & S-B Wang)Inertial Manifolds for a Nonlocal Kuramoto–Sivashinsky Equation (J-Q Duan et al.)Weak Solutions of the Generalized Magnetic Flow Equations (S-H He & Z-D Dai)The Solution of Hammerstein Integral Equation Without Coercive Conditions (Y-L Shu)Global Behaviour of the Solution of Nonlinear Forest Evolution Equation (D-J Wang)Uniqueness of Generalized Solutions for Semiconductor Equations (J-S Xing & Y Hu)On the Vectorial Hamilton–Jacobi System (B-S Yan)An Integrable Hamiltonian System Associated with cKdV Hierarchy (J-S Zhang et al.)and other papers Readership: Mathematicians. Keywords:Diffraction;Weak Flow;Zakharov Equations;Porous Medium Equations;Cauchy Problem;IMBq Equation;Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation;Magnetic Flow Equations;Hammerstein Integral Equation;Nonlinear Forest Evolution Equation;Uniqueness;Generalized Solutions;Semiconductor Equations;Hamilton–Jacobi System;Hamiltonian System;cKdV Hierarchy

Many partial differential equations (PDEs) that arise in physics can be viewed as infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. This monograph presents recent existence results of nonlinear oscillations of Hamiltonian PDEs, particularly of periodic solutions for completely resonant nonlinear wave equations. The text serves as an introduction to research in this fascinating and rapidly growing field. Graduate students and researchers interested in variational techniques and nonlinear analysis applied to Hamiltonian PDEs will find inspiration in the book.

This book gives a concise introduction to Quantum Mechanics with a systematic, coherent, and in-depth explanation of related mathematical methods from the scattering theory and the theory of Partial Differential Equations.The book is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, as well as at the readers specializing in quantum mechanics, theoretical physics and quantum chemistry, and applications to solid state physics, optics, superconductivity, and quantum and high-frequency electronic devices.The book utilizes elementary mathematical derivations. The presentation assumes only basic knowledge of the origin of Hamiltonian mechanics, Maxwell equations, calculus, Ordinary Differential Equations and basic PDEs. Key topics include the Schrödinger, Pauli, and Dirac equations, the corresponding conservation laws, spin, the hydrogen spectrum, and the Zeeman effect, scattering of light and particles, photoelectric effect, electron diffraction, and relations of quantum postulates with attractors of nonlinear Hamiltonian PDEs. Featuring problem sets and accompanied by extensive contemporary and historical references, this book could be used for the course on Quantum Mechanics and is also suitable for individual study.

This book is a unique selection of work by world-class experts exploring the latest developments in Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their applications. Topics covered within are representative of the field’s wide scope, including KAM and normal form theories, perturbation and variational methods, integrable systems, stability of nonlinear solutions as well as applications to cosmology, fluid mechanics and water waves. The volume contains both surveys and original research papers and gives a concise overview of the above topics, with results ranging from mathematical modeling to rigorous analysis and numerical simulation. It will be of particular interest to graduate students as well as researchers in mathematics and physics, who wish to learn more about the powerful and elegant analytical techniques for Hamiltonian partial differential equations.

Mark Vishik was one of the prominent figures in the theory of partial differential equations. His ground-breaking contributions were instrumental in integrating the methods of functional analysis into this theory. The book is based on the memoirs of his friends and students, as well as on the recollections of Mark Vishik himself, and contains a detailed description of his biography: childhood in Lwów, his connections with the famous Lwów school of Stefan Banach, a difficult several year long journey from Lwów to Tbilisi after the Nazi assault in June 1941, going to Moscow and forming his own school of differential equations, whose central role was played by the famous Vishik Seminar at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University. The reader is introduced to a number of remarkable scientists whose lives intersected with Vishik’s, including S. Banach, J. Schauder, I. N. Vekua, N. I. Muskhelishvili, L. A. Lyusternik, I. G. Petrovskii, S. L. Sobolev, I. M. Gelfand, M. G. Krein, A. N. Kolmogorov, N. I. Akhiezer, J. Leray, J.-L. Lions, L. Schwartz, L. Nirenberg, and many others. The book also provides a detailed description of the main research directions of Mark Vishik written by his students and colleagues, as well as several reviews of the recent development in these directions.