Nonlinear Analysis On Manifolds Monge Amp Re Equations

A conference was organized to discuss research in variational methods as applied to nonlinear elliptic PDE. This volume resulted from that gathering. Included in this title are both survey and research papers that address important open questions and offer suggestions on analytical and numerical techniques for solving those open problems. It is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in elliptic partial differential equations.

The international workshop on which this proceedings volume is based on brought together leading researchers in the field of elliptic and parabolic equations. Particular emphasis was put on the interaction between well-established scientists and emerging young mathematicians, as well as on exploring new connections between pure and applied mathematics. The volume contains material derived after the workshop taking up the impetus to continue collaboration and to incorporate additional new results and insights.

This book is written in a pedagogical style intelligible for graduate students. It reviews recent progress in black-hole and wormhole theory and in mathematical cosmology within the framework of Einstein's field equations and beyond, including quantum effects. This collection of essays, written by leading scientists of long standing reputation, should become an indispensable source for future research.

Fur die Analyse des Langzeitverhaltens dynamischer Systeme werden in dieser Dissertation drei neue Ansatze, basierend auf Transferoperator-Methoden, zur Entwicklung effizienter Algorithmen vorgestellt. Zuerst leiten wir eine Diskretisierung auf dunnen Gittern her, um den Fluch der Dimension in den Griff zu bekommen. Die zweite Methode behandelt den infinitesimalen Generator der Transferoperator-Halbgruppe fur zeit-kontinuierliche Systeme. Als Drittes benutzen wir mean-field-Theorie, um die Dynamik von Subsystemen zu beschreiben, wobei besonderes Augenmerk auf die Konformationsanalyse in der Molekuldynamik gerichtet wird. Des Weiteren werden Bedingungen hergeleitet, unter welchen die Galerkin-Projektion des Transferoperators mit einer kleinen zufalligen Storung des zugrunde liegenden Systems in Verbindung gebracht werden kann. In this thesis three new transfer operator based approaches are developed for the analysis of the long-term behavior of dynamical systems. First, a sparse grid discretization is derived in order to deal with the "curse of dimension". The second method considers the infinitesimal generator of the transfer operator semigroup for continuous-time systems. The third method uses mean field theory to describe the dynamics of subsystems; here the main attention is devoted to conformation analysis in molecular dynamics. Further, conditions are derived such that the Galerkin projection of the transfer operator can be related to a small random perturbation of the underlying system.

Comprehensive graduate text offering a detailed mathematical treatment of polynomial splines on triangulations.

When M. Vidyasagar wrote the first edition of Nonlinear Systems Analysis, most control theorists considered the subject of nonlinear systems a mystery. Since then, advances in the application of differential geometric methods to nonlinear analysis have matured to a stage where every control theorist needs to possess knowledge of the basic techniques because virtually all physical systems are nonlinear in nature. The second edition, now republished in SIAM's Classics in Applied Mathematics series, provides a rigorous mathematical analysis of the behavior of nonlinear control systems under a variety of situations. It develops nonlinear generalizations of a large number of techniques and methods widely used in linear control theory. The book contains three extensive chapters devoted to the key topics of Lyapunov stability, input-output stability, and the treatment of differential geometric control theory. Audience: this text is designed for use at the graduate level in the area of nonlinear systems and as a resource for professional researchers and practitioners working in areas such as robotics, spacecraft control, motor control, and power systems.