Author : Augusto C. Ponce
Publisher : European Mathematical Society
ISBN 13 : 9783037191408
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (914 download)
Book Synopsis Elliptic PDEs, Measures and Capacities by : Augusto C. Ponce
Download or read book Elliptic PDEs, Measures and Capacities written by Augusto C. Ponce and published by European Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2016 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial differential equations (PDEs) and geometric measure theory (GMT) are branches of analysis whose connections are usually not emphasized in introductory graduate courses. Yet one cannot dissociate the notions of mass or electric charge, naturally described in terms of measures, from the physical potential they generate. Having such a principle in mind, this book illustrates the beautiful interplay between tools from PDEs and GMT in a simple and elegant way by investigating properties such as existence and regularity of solutions of linear and nonlinear elliptic PDEs. Inspired by a variety of sources, from the pioneer balayage scheme of Poincare to more recent results related to the Thomas-Fermi and Chern-Simons models, the problems covered in this book follow an original presentation, intended to emphasize the main ideas in the proofs. Classical techniques such as regularity theory, maximum principles and the method of sub- and supersolutions are adapted to the setting where merely integrability or density assumptions on the data are available. The distinguished role played by capacities and precise representatives is also explained. Other special features are: the remarkable equivalence between Sobolev capacities and Hausdorff contents in terms of trace inequalities; the strong approximation of measures in terms of capacities or densities, normally absent from GMT books; and the rescue of the strong maximum principle for the Schrodinger operator involving singular potentials. This book invites the reader on a trip through modern techniques in the frontier of elliptic PDEs and GMT and is addressed to graduate students and researchers with a deep interest in analysis. Most of the chapters can be read independently, and only a basic knowledge of measure theory, functional analysis, and Sobolev spaces is required.