The Method of Newton’ s Polyhedron in the Theory of Partial Differential Equations

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Cover Title page Preface Chapter 1. Two-sided estimates for polynomials related to Newton's polygon and their application to studying local properties of partial differential operators in two variables Introduction §l. Newton's polygon of a polynomial in two variables §2. Polynomials admitting of two-sided estimates §3. N Quasi-elliptic polynomials in two variables §4. N Quasi-elliptic differential operators Appendix to §4 Chapter 2. Parabolic operators associated with Newton's polygon Introduction §1. Polynomials correct in Petrovskil's sense §2. Two-sided estimates for polynomials in two variables satisfying Petrovskil's condition. N -parabolic polynomials §3. Cauchy's problem for N-stable correct and N-parabolic differential operators in the case of one spatial variable §4. Stable-correct and parabolic polynomials in several variables §5. Cauchy's problem for stable-correct differential operators with variable coefficients Chapter 3. Dominantly correct operators Introduction §1. Strictly hyperbolic operators §2. Dominantly correct polynomials in two variables §3. Dominantly correct differential operators with variable coefficients (the case of two variables) §4. Dominantly correct polynomials and the corresponding differential operators (the case of several spatial variables) Chapter 4. Operators of principal type associated with Newton's polygon §l. Introduction. Operators of principal and quasi-principal type §2. Polynomials of N-principal type §3. The main L 2 estimate for operators of N -principal type Appendix to §3 §4. Local solvability of differential operators of N-principal type Appendix to §4 Chapter 5. Two-sided estimates in several variables relating to Newton's polyhedra Introduction §l. Estimates for polynomials in IRn relating to Newton's polyhedra §2. Two-sided estimates in some regions in R^n relating to Newton's polyhedron. Special classes of polynomials and differential operators in several variables Chapter 6. Operators of principal type associated with Newton's polyhedron Introduction §1. Polynomials of N -principal type §2. Estimates for polynomials of N -principal type in regions of special form §3. The covering of IRn by special regions associated with Newton's polyhedron §4. DifferentiaI operators of N-principal type with variable coefficients Appendix to §4 Chapter 7. The method of energy estimates in Cauchy's problem §1. Introduction. The functional scheme of the proof of the solvability of Cauchy's problem §2. Sufficient conditions for the existence of energy estimates §3. An analysis of conditions for the existence of energy estimates §4. Cauchy's problem for dominantly correct differential operators References Index