Variational Methods in Mathematical Physics: A Unified Approach (Texts and Monographs in Physics) - Hardcover

Blanchard, Philippe; Bruning, Erwin; Bruening, E.

 
9783540161905: Variational Methods in Mathematical Physics: A Unified Approach (Texts and Monographs in Physics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3540161902 ISBN 13: 9783540161905
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1992

Synopsis

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to variational methods. Its unifying aspect, based on appropriate concepts of compactness, is the study of critical points of functionals via direct methods. It shows the interactions between linear and nonlinear functional analysis. Addressing in particular the interests of physicists, the authors treat in detail the variational problems of mechanics and classical field theories, writing on local linear and nonlinear boundary and eigenvalue problems of important classes of nonlinear partial differential equations, and giving more recent results on Thomas-Fermi theory and on problems involving critical nonlinearities.

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Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3540161902
ISBN 13 
9783540161905
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
422

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