Drabek, Pavel / Holubova, Gabriela

Elements of Partial Differential Equations

24 x 17 cm. Approx. 290 pages. Paperback.
ISBN 978-3-11-019124-0 (ISBN10: 3-11-019124-5)
Series: de Gruyter Textbook

Language: English
to be published February 2007

This textbook presents a first introduction to PDEs on an elementary level, enabling the reader to understand what partial differential equations are, where they come from and how they can be solved. The intention is that the reader understands the basic principles which are valid for particular types of PDEs, and to acquire some classical methods to solve them, thus the authors restrict their considerations to fundamental types of equations and basic methods. Only basic facts from calculus and linear ordinary differential equations of first and second order are needed as a prerequisite.

The book is addressed to students who intend to specialize in mathematics as well as to students of physics, engineering, and economics.


Ed. by Landman, Bruce / Nathanson, Melvyn / Nesetril, Jaroslav / Nowakowski, Richard / Pomerance, Carl

Combinatorial Number Theory

Proceedings of the 'Integers Conference 2005' in Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Ronald Graham, Carrollton, Georgia, October 27-30, 2005

24 x 17 cm. Approx. 400 pages. Cloth. Euro [D] 168.00 / sFr 269.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 186.00. *
ISBN 978-3-11-019029-8 (ISBN10: 3-11-019029-X)

Series: [de Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics]


Subjects: Mathematics / Algebra, Number theory
Mathematics / Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Language: English

to be published February 2007


This carefully edited volume contains selected refereed papers based on lectures presented by many distinguished speakers at the "Integers Conference 2005", an international conference in combinatorial number theory. The conference was held in celebration of the 70th birthday of Ronald Graham, a leader in several fields of mathematics.


Marius Junge - Christian Le Merdy - Quanhua Xu

functional calculus and square functions on noncommutative Lp-spaces

Asterisque 305 (2006), vi+138 pages
Acheter l'ouvrage

Resume :

Calcul fonctionnel et fonctions carrees dans les espaces Lp non commutatifs
Nous etudions les operateurs sectoriels et les semigroupes operant sur un espace Lp non commutatif. Nous introduisons de nouvelles fonctions carrees adaptees a ce contexte et etudions leurs interactions avec le calcul fonctionnel . Nous obtenons des extensions de travaux fameux de Cowling, Doust, McIntoch et Yagi qui concernaient le cas commutatif. Cette etude necessite l'introduction de variantes de la Rademacher sectorialite et l'usage des structures matricielles sur les espaces Lp non commutatifs. Nous traitons de facon approfondie les semigroupes de diffusion non commutatifs. Il s'agit des semigroupes d'operateurs normaux et auto-adjoints operant sur une algebre de von Neumann semifinie , tels que est une contraction pour tout et pour tout . Nous presentons et etudions plusieurs exemples de tels semigroupes, pour lesquels nous sommes en mesure d'etablir une propriete de calcul borne, ainsi que des estimations quadratiques. Cette etude inclut certains semigroupes engendres par des operateurs Hamiltoniens ou des multiplicateurs de Schur, des semigroupes d'Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operant sur les algebres de von Neumann de q-deformation de Bozejko-Speicher, et le semigroupe de Poisson non commutatif defini sur l'algebre de von Neumann d'un groupe libre.

Mots clefs : calcul fonctionnel , espaces Lp non commutatifs, fonctions carrees, operateurs sectoriels, semigroupes de diffusion, fonctions completement bornees, multiplicateurs

Abstract:

We investigate sectorial operators and semigroups acting on noncommutative Lp-spaces. We introduce new square functions in this context and study their connection with functional calculus, extending some famous work by Cowling, Doust, McIntoch and Yagi concerning commutative Lp-spaces. This requires natural variants of Rademacher sectoriality and the use of the matricial structure of noncommutative Lp-spaces. We mainly focus on noncommutative diffusion semigroups, that is, semigroups of normal selfadjoint operators on a semifinite von Neumann algebra such that is a contraction for any and any . We discuss several examples of such semigroups for which we establish bounded functional calculus and square function estimates. This includes semigroups generated by certain Hamiltonians or Schur multipliers, q-Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroups acting on the q-deformed von Neumann algebras of Bozejko-Speicher, and the noncommutative Poisson semigroup acting on the group von Neumann algebra of a free group.

Key words: functional calculus, noncommutative Lp-spaces, square functions, sectorial operators, diffusion semigroups, completely bounded maps, multipliers

ISBN : 978-2-85629-189-4


Bernard Helffer - Francis Nier

Quantitative analysis of metastability in reversible diffusion processes via a Witten complex approach: the case with boundary

Memoires de la SMF 105 (2006), vi+89 pages

Resume :

Etude quantitative de la metastabilite des processus reversibles au moyen du complexe de Witten : le cas a bord.
Cet article prolonge des travaux anterieurs de Bovier-Eckhoff-Gayrard-Klein, Bovier-Gayrard-Klein et Helffer-Klein-Nier. L'objet principal en est l'analyse des petites valeurs propres du Laplacien associe a la forme quadratique

ou est un domaine borne regulier et f est une fonction de Morse sur . Les travaux precedents traitaient le cas d'une variete compacte M sans bord ou le cas . Ici nous analysons le cas d'une variete compacte a bord. Apres l'introduction d'un complexe de cohomologie de Witten adapte au cas a bord, nous donnons une description tres precise des valeurs propres exponentiellement petites. En particulier, nous traitons l'effet du bord sur les developpements asymptotiques.
Mots clefs : Complexe de Witten, Developpements semiclassiques, valeurs propres exponentiellement petites, varietes a bord

Abstract:

This article is a continuation of previous works by Bovier-Eckhoff-Gayrard-Klein, Bovier-Gayrard-Klein and Helffer-Klein-Nier. The main object is the analysis of the small eigenvalues (as ) of the Laplacian attached to the quadratic form

where is a bounded connected open set with -boundary and f is a Morse function on . The previous works were devoted to the case of a manifold M which is compact but without boundary or . Our aim is here to analyze the case with boundary. After the introduction of a Witten cohomology complex adapted to the case with boundary, we give a very accurate asymptotics for the exponentially small eigenvalues. In particular, we analyze the effect of the boundary in the asymptotics.
Key words: Witten complex, Semiclassical expansion, exponentially small quantities, manifolds with boundary

ISBN : 978-2-85629-218-1