Author : F. Bethuel
Release : 2006-11-14
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 138/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Calculus of Variations and Geometric Evolution Problems by : F. Bethuel
Download or read book Calculus of Variations and Geometric Evolution Problems written by F. Bethuel. This book was released on 2006-11-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international summer school on Calculus of Variations and Geometric Evolution Problems was held at Cetraro, Italy, 1996. The contributions to this volume reflect quite closely the lectures given at Cetraro which have provided an image of a fairly broad field in analysis where in recent years we have seen many important contributions. Among the topics treated in the courses were variational methods for Ginzburg-Landau equations, variational models for microstructure and phase transitions, a variational treatment of the Plateau problem for surfaces of prescribed mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds - both from the classical point of view and in the setting of geometric measure theory.