An introduction to viscosity solutions for fully nonlinear PDE with applications to calculus of variations in L∞ /
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Author / Creator: | Katzourakis, Nikos, author. |
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Imprint: | Cham : Springer, 2015. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 123 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
Language: | English |
Series: | SpringerBriefs in Mathematics, 2191-8198 SpringerBriefs in mathematics. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11090159 |
Summary: | The purpose of this book is to give a quick and elementary, yet rigorous, presentation of the rudiments of the so-called theory of Viscosity Solutions which applies to fully nonlinear 1st and 2nd order Partial Differential Equations (PDE). For such equations, particularly for 2nd order ones, solutions generally are non-smooth and standard approaches in order to define a "weak solution" do not apply: classical, strong almost everywhere, weak, measure-valued and distributional solutions either do not exist or may not even be defined. The main reason for the latter failure is that, the standard idea of using "integration-by-parts" in order to pass derivatives to smooth test functions by duality, is not available for non-divergence structure PDE. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 123 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9783319128290 3319128299 9783319128283 3319128280 |
ISSN: | 2191-8198 |