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Variational Analysis in Sobolev and BV Spaces

Variational Analysis in Sobolev and BV Spaces

Variational Analysis in Sobolev and BV Spaces

Applications to PDEs and Optimization
Edition:
2nd Edition
Authors:
Hedy Attouch, Université de Montpellier II
Giuseppe Buttazzo, Università degli Studi, Pisa
Gérard Michaille, Université de Montpellier II
Published:
January 2015
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781611973471

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    Variational analysis is the subject of this self-contained guide, which provides a detailed presentation of the most important tools in the field, as well as applications to geometry, mechanics, elasticity, and computer vision. This second edition introduces significant new material on several topics, including: quasi-open sets and quasi-continuity in the context of capacity theory and potential theory; mass transportation problems and the Kantorovich relaxed formulation of the Monge problem; and stochastic homogenization, with mathematical tools coming from ergodic theory. It also features an entirely new and comprehensive chapter devoted to gradient flows and the dynamical approach to equilibria, and extra examples in the areas of linearized elasticity systems, obstacles problems, convection-diffusion, semilinear equations, and the shape optimization procedure. The book is intended for PhD students, researchers, and practitioners who want to approach the field of variational analysis in a systematic way.

    • Suitable for anyone who wants to approach the field of variational analysis in a systematic way
    • Contains a substantial amount of new material on a range of significant modern topics
    • Presents powerful applications to problems in geometry, mechanics, elasticity, and computer vision

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    January 2015
    Hardback
    9781611973471
    800 pages
    260 × 183 × 44 mm
    1.58kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Preface to the second edition
    • Preface to the first edition
    • 1. Introduction
    • Part I. Basic Variational Principles:
    • 2. Weak solution methods in variational analysis
    • 3. Abstract variational principles
    • 4. Complements on measure theory
    • 5. Sobolev spaces
    • 6. Variational problems: some classical examples
    • 7. The finite element method
    • 8. Spectral analysis of the Laplacian
    • 9. Convex duality and optimization
    • Part II. Advanced Variational Analysis:
    • 10. Spaces BV and SBV
    • 11. Relaxation in Sobolev, BV, and Young measure spaces
    • 12. Γ-Convergence and applications
    • 13. Integral functionals of the calculus of variations
    • 14. Applications in mechanics and computer vision
    • 15. Variational problems with a lack of coercivity
    • 16. An introduction to shape optimization problems
    • 17. Gradient flows
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
      Authors
    • Hedy Attouch , Université de Montpellier II

      Hedy Attouch is a professor in the Institut de Mathématique et de Modélisation de Montpellier II, where he also has been director of the Laboratory of Convex Analysis and of ACSIOM. His research focuses on variational analysis, convex analysis, continuous optimization, semialgebraic optimization, gradient flows, the interaction among these fields of research, and their applications. He has published more than 100 articles in international journals and has written six books. He serves as editor for several journals on continuous optimization and is responsible for several international research programs.

    • Giuseppe Buttazzo , Università degli Studi, Pisa

      Giuseppe Buttazzo is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pisa. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences and workshops on the fields of calculus of variations, nonlinear PDEs, applied mathematics, control theory and related topics. He is the author of more than 180 scientific publications and 20 books, and he serves as an editor of several international journals.

    • Gérard Michaille , Université de Montpellier II

      Gérard Michaille is a professor at the University of Nîmes and member of the UMR-CNRS Institut de Mathématique et de Modélisation de Montpellier. He works in the areas of variational analysis, homogenization, and the applications of PDEs in mechanics and physics.