Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Geometry and Physics: The 1995 Barrett Lectures

Baker, Garth (Editor)/ Freire, Alexandre (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3764354933 / ISBN 13: 9783764354930

Editore: Birkhauser, 1997

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1st edition. 153 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo x-3764354933

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Titolo: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in ...

Casa editrice: Birkhauser

Data di pubblicazione: 1997

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Brand New

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Riassunto:

The subject of nonlinear partial differential equations has seen a lot of research on systems underlying basic theories in geometry, topology and physics. These mathematical models share the property of being derived from variational principles. Understanding the structure of critical configurations and the dynamics of the corresponding evolution problems is important for the development of physical theories and their applications. This volume contains survey lectures in four different areas, delivered at the 1995 Barrett Lectures held at the University of Tennessee. The lectures are on: nonlinear hyperbolic systems arising in field theory and relativity; harmonic maps from Minkowski spacetime; dynamics of vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity; and the Seiberg-Witten equations and their application to problems in four-dimensional topology. the text should prove useful to graduate students and researchers in mathematical physics, partial differential equations, differential geometry and topology.

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"All the essays are on the topmost professional level and are highly recommended to researchers and especially to young specialists in mathematical physics, PDE, differential geometry and topology, because they illustrate brilliantly the recent tendency in the theory of nonlinear PDE...namely the realization that structures originally introduced in the context of mathematical models in theoretical physics may turn out to have important applications in topology and (differential) geometry."

--Mathematica Bohemica