Series: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics, Vol. 54
2011, X, 490 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-642-15201-6
Due: November 2010
Keywords ā Disordered Systems - Hopfield Model - Mean Field Models - Random Structures - Sherrington Kirkpatrick Model
Related subjects ā Materials - Physics - Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
Introduction.- 1. The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model.- 2. The Perceptron Model.- 3. The Shcherbina and Tirozzi Model.- 4. The Hopfield Model.- 5. The V-statistics Model.- 6. The Diluted SK Model and the K-Sat Problem.- 7. An Assignment Problem.- A. Appendix: Elements of Probability Theory.- References.- Index.- Glossary.
Series: Texts in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 57
2011, X, 182 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4419-7645-1
Due: October 24, 2010
Focuses on the key tools needed to understand delay equations
Begins with a survey of mathematical models involving delay equations
Includes a wealth of examples, exercises and illustrations
This book is intended to be an introduction to Delay Differential Equations for upper level undergraduates or beginning graduate mathematics students who have a good background in ordinary differential equations and would like to learn about the applications. It may also be of interest to applied mathematicians, computational scientists, and engineers. It focuses on key tools necessary to understand the applications literature involving delay equations and to construct and analyze mathematical models. Aside from standard well-posedness results for the initial value problem, it focuses on stability of equilibria via linearization and Lyapunov functions and on Hopf bifurcation. It contains a brief introduction to abstract dynamical systems focused on those generated by delay equations, introducing limit sets and their properties. Differential inequalities play a significant role in applications and are treated here, along with an introduction to monotone systems generated by delay equations. The book contains some quite recent results such as the Poincare-Bendixson theory for monotone cyclic feedback systems, obtained by Mallet-Paret and Sell. The linear chain trick for a special family of infinite delay equations is treated. The book is distinguished by the wealth of examples that are introduced and treated in detail. These include the delayed logistic equation, delayed chemostat model of microbial growth, inverted pendulum with delayed feedback control, a gene regulatory system, and an HIV transmission model. An entire chapter is devoted to the interesting dynamics exhibited by a chemostat model of bacteriophage parasitism of bacteria. The book has a large number of exercises and illustrations. Hal Smith is a Professor at the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University.
1 Introduction.-The Simplest Delay Equation.-Delayed Negative Feedback: A Warm-Up.- Existence of Solutions.- Linear Systems and Linearization.- Semidynamical Systems and Delay Equations.- Hopf Bifurcation.- Distributed Delay Equations and the Linear Chain Trick.- Phage and Bacteria in a Chemostat.-References.- Index.
Series: Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 115
2010, X, 621 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4419-7054-1
Due: October 29, 2010
Three volumes offer complete reference to PDEs
Includes both theory and applications
Lots of examples and exercises
The first of three volumes on partial differential equations, this one introduces basic examples arising in continuum mechanics, electromagnetism, complex analysis and other areas, and develops a number of tools for their solution, in particular Fourier analysis, distribution theory, and Sobolev spaces. These tools are then applied to the treatment of basic problems in linear PDE, including the Laplace equation, heat equation, and wave equation, as well as more general elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations. The book is targeted at graduate students in mathematics and at professional mathematicians with an interest in partial differential equations, mathematical physics, differential geometry, harmonic analysis, and complex analysis.
In this second edition, there are seven new sections including Sobolev spaces on rough domains, boundary layer phenomena for the heat equation, the space of pseudodifferential operators of harmonic oscillator type, and an index formula for elliptic systems of such operators. In addition, several other sections have been substantially rewritten, and numerous others polished to reflect insights obtained through the use of these books over time.
Series: Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 116
2011, X, 569 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4419-7051-0
Due: October 29, 2010
This second in the series of three volumes builds upon the basic theory of linear PDE given in volume 1, and pursues more advanced topics. Analytical tools introduced here include pseudodifferential operators, the functional analysis of self-adjoint operators, and Wiener measure. The book also develops basic differential geometrical concepts, centered about curvature. Topics covered include spectral theory of elliptic differential operators, the theory of scattering of waves by obstacles, index theory for Dirac operators, and Brownian motion and diffusion. The book is targeted at graduate students in mathematics and at professional mathematicians with an interest in partial differential equations, mathematical physics, differential geometry, harmonic analysis, and complex analysis.
In this second edition, there are seven new sections including Sobolev spaces on rough domains, boundary layer phenomena for the heat equation, the space of pseudodifferential operators of harmonic oscillator type, and an index formula for elliptic systems of such operators. In addition, several other sections have been substantially rewritten, and numerous others polished to reflect insights obtained through the use of these books over time.
Michael E. Taylor is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Review of first edition: gThese volumes will
be read by several generations of readers eager to learn the modern theory
of partial differential equations of mathematical physics and the analysis
in which this theory is rooted.h(SIAM Review, June 1998)
Series: Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 117
2011, X, 600 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4419-7048-0
Due: October 29, 2010
The third of three volumes on partial differential equations, this is devoted to nonlinear PDE. It treats a number of equations of classical continuum mechanics, including relativistic versions, as well as various equations arising in differential geometry, such as in the study of minimal surfaces, isometric imbedding, conformal deformation, harmonic maps, and prescribed Gauss curvature. In addition, some nonlinear diffusion problems are studied. It also introduces such analytical tools as the theory of L^p Sobolev spaces, Holder spaces, Hardy spaces, and Morrey spaces, and also a development of Calderon-Zygmund theory and paradifferential operator calculus. The book is targeted at graduate students in mathematics and at professional mathematicians with an interest in partial differential equations, mathematical physics, differential geometry, harmonic analysis, and complex analysis. In this second edition, there are seven new sections including Sobolev spaces on rough domains, boundary layer phenomena for the heat equation, an extension of complex interpolation theory, and Navier-Stokes equations with small viscosity. In addition, several other sections have been substantially rewritten, and numerous others polished to reflect insights obtained through the use of these books over time. Michael E. Taylor is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Review of first edition: gThese volumes will be read by several generations of readers eager to learn the modern theory of partial differential equations of mathematical physics and the analysis in which this theory is rooted.h(SIAM Review, June 1998)