Variational Methods Proceedings of a Conference Paris, June 1988

Variational Methods Proceedings of a Conference Paris, June 1988 / by BERESTYCKI.

In the framework of the "Annee non lineaire" (the special nonlinear year) sponsored by the C.N.R.S. (the French National Center for Scien­ tific Research), a meeting was held in Paris in June 1988. It took place in the Conference Hall of the Ministere de la Recherche and had as an organizi...

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Main Author: BERESTYCKI (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 1990.
Edition:1st ed. 1990.
Series:Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, 4
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Subjects:
Calculus of variations.
Partial differential equations.
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Table of Contents:
  • I: Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics
  • 1. The (Non)continuity of Symmetric Decreasing Rearrangement
  • 2. Counting Singularities in Liquid Crystals
  • 3. Relaxed Energies for Harmonic Maps
  • 4. Topological Results on Fredholm Maps and Application to a Superlinear Differential Equation
  • 5. Existence Results for Some Quasilinear Elliptic Equations
  • 6. A New Setting for Skyrme’s Problem
  • 7. Relative Category and the Calculus of Variations
  • 8. Point and Line Singularities in Liquid Crystals
  • 9. The Variety of Configurations of Static Liquid Crystals
  • 10. Existence of Multiple Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations in RN
  • 11. Lagrange Multipliers, Morses Indices and Compactness
  • 12. Elliptic Equations with Critical Growth and Moser’s Inequality
  • 13. Evolution Equations with Discontinuous Nonlinearities and Non-Convex Constraints
  • 14. Nonlinear Variational Two-Point Boundary Value Problems
  • 15. Some Relative Isoperimetric Inequalities and Applications to Nonlinear Problems
  • II: Partial Differential Equations and Problems in Geometry
  • 16. Approximation in Sobolev Spaces Between Two Manifolds and Homotopy Groups
  • 17. The “Magic” of Weitzenböck Formulas
  • 18. A Remark on Minimal Surfaces with Corners
  • 19. Extremal Surfaces of Mixed Type in Minkowski Space Rn+1
  • 20. Convergence of Minimal Submanifolds to a Singular Variety
  • 21. Harmonic Diffeomorphisms Between Riemannian Manifolds
  • 22. Surfaces of Minimal Area Supported by a Given Body in ?3
  • 23. Calibrations and New Singularities in Area-Minimizing Surfaces: A Survey
  • 24. Harmonic Maps with Free Boundaries
  • 25. Global Existence of Partial Regularity Results for the Evolution of Harmonic Maps
  • III: Hamiltonian Systems
  • 26. Multiple Periodic Trajectories in a Relativistic Gravitational Field
  • 27. Periodic Solutions of Some Problems of 3-Body Type
  • 28. Periodic Solutions of Dissipative Dynamical Systems
  • 29. Periodic Trajectories for the Lorentz-Metric of a Static Gravitational Field
  • 30. Morse Theory for Harmonic Maps
  • 31. Morse Theory and Existence of Periodic Solutions of Elliptic Type
  • 32. Periodic Solutions of a Nonlinear Second Order System
  • 33. Existence of Multiple Brake Orbits for a Hamiltonian System.

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