Self-dual Partial Differential Systems and Their Variational Principles

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Springer Science & Business Media, 11.11.2008 - 354 Seiten

This text is intended for a beginning graduate course on convexity methods for PDEs. The generality chosen by the author puts this under the classification of "functional analysis". The book contains new results and plenty of examples and exercises.

 

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Preface
1
SELFDUAL SYSTEMS AND THEIR ANTISYMMETRIC
12
Selfdual Lagrangians on Phase Space
49
4
63
5
80
Variational Principles for Completely Selfdual Functionals
99
Semigroups of Contractions Associated to Selfdual Lagrangians 119
118
Iteration of Selfdual Lagrangians and Multiparameter Evolutions
147
The Class of Antisymmetric Hamiltonians 205
204
Variational Principles for Selfdual Functionals and First
217
The Role of the CoHamiltonian in Selfdual Variational Problems 241
240
Direct Sum of Selfdual Functionals and Hamiltonian Systems
253
Superposition of Interacting Selfdual Functionals 275
274
Hamiltonian Systems of Partial Differential Equations
287
The Selfdual PalaisSmale Condition for Noncoercive Functionals
305
NavierStokes and other Selfdual Nonlinear Evolutions 319
318

Direct Sum of Completely Selfdual Functionals 175
174
Semilinear Evolution Equations with Selfdual Boundary
187

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