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Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variat

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co (
Year
2003
ISBN
9812380434, 9789812380432
LCC
QA315 .G54 2003
Open Library ID
OL3435181M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12740584 bytes)
Pages
412\412
Time added
2011-01-06 10:13:16

Description

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on the existence and regularity of minima of regular integrals in the calculus of variations and of solutions to elliptic partial differential equations and systems of the second order. While direct methods for the existence of solutions are well known and have been widely used in the last century, the regularity of the minima was always obtained by means of the Euler equation as a part of the general theory of partial differential equations. In this book, using the notion of the quasi-minimum introduced by Giaquinta and the author, the direct methods are extended to the regularity of the minima of functionals in the calculus of variations, and of solutions to partial differential equations. This unified treatment offers a substantial economy in the assumptions, and permits a deeper understanding of the nature of the regularity and singularities of the solutions. The book is essentially self-contained, and requires only a general knowledge of the elements of Lebesgue integration theory.

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