An Introduction to Minimax Theorems and Their Applications to Differential Equations: 52 (Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications) - Softcover

Do Rosário Grossinho, Maria Do Rosario; Tersian, Stepan Agop

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144194849X ISBN 13: 9781441948496

Verlag: Springer, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This text is meant to be an introduction to critical point theory and its ap­ plications to differential equations. It is designed for graduate and postgrad­ uate students as well as for specialists in the fields of differential equations, variational methods and optimization. Although related material can be the treatment here has the following main purposes: found in other books, • To present a survey on existing minimax theorems, • To give applications to elliptic differential equations in bounded do­ mains and periodic second-order ordinary differential equations, • To consider the dual variational method for problems with continuous and discontinuous nonlinearities, • To present some elements of critical point theory for locally Lipschitz functionals and to give applications to fourth-order differential equa­ tions with discontinuous nonlinearities, • To study homo clinic solutions of differential equations via the varia­ tional method. The Contents of the book consist of seven chapters, each one divided into several sections. A bibliography is attached to the end of each chapter. In Chapter I, we present minimization theorems and the mountain-pass theorem of Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz and some of its extensions. The con­ cept of differentiability of mappings in Banach spaces, the Fnkhet's and Gateaux derivatives, second-order derivatives and general minimization the­ orems, variational principles of Ekeland [EkI] and Borwein & Preiss [BP] are proved and relations to the minimization problem are given. Deformation lemmata, Palais-Smale conditions and mountain-pass theorems are consid­ ered.

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The book is intended to be an introduction to critical point theory and its applications to differential equations. Although the related material can be found in other books, the authors of this volume have had the following goals in mind: * To present a survey of existing minimax theorems, * To give applications to elliptic differential equations in bounded domains, * To consider the dual variational method for problems with continuous and discontinuous nonlinearities, * To present some elements of critical point theory for locally Lipschitz functionals and give applications to fourth-order differential equations with discontinuous nonlinearities, * To study homoclinic solutions of differential equations via the variational methods. The contents of the book consist of seven chapters, each one divided into several sections. Audience: Graduate and post-graduate students as well as specialists in the fields of differential equations, variational methods and optimization.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 144194849X
• ISBN 13: 9781441948496
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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