Partial Differential Equations And The Calculus of Variations

A novel, practical introduction to functional analysis
In the twenty years since the first edition of Applied Functional Analysis was published, there has been an explosion in the number of books on functional analysis. Yet none of these offers the unique perspective of this new edition. Jean-Pierre Aubin updates his popular reference on functional analysis with new insights and recent discoveries-adding three new chapters on set-valued analysis and convex analysis, viability kernels and capture basins, and first-order partial differential equations. He presents, for the first time at an introductory level, the extension of differential calculus in the framework of both the theory of distributions and set-valued analysis, and discusses their application for studying boundary-value problems for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations and for systems of first-order partial differential equations.

Self-similar processes are stochastic processes that are invariant in distribution under suitable time scaling, and are a subject intensively studied in the last few decades. This book presents the basic properties of these processes and focuses on the study of their variation using stochastic analysis. While self-similar processes, and especially fractional Brownian motion, have been discussed in several books, some new classes have recently emerged in the scientific literature.

Cet ouvrage est issu d’un cours de Master 2 enseigné à l’UPMC entre 2004 et 2007. Nous y présentons une sélection de techniques mathématiques orientées vers la résolution des équations aux dérivées partielles elliptiques semi-linéaires et quasi-linéaires. Après un vade-mecum d'analyse réelle et d'analyse fonctionnelle de base pour les EDP, sans démonstrations pour les points les plus connus, nous parcourons ainsi les théorèmes de point fixe classiques, les opérateurs de superposition dans les espaces de Lebesgue et de Sobolev, la méthode de Galerkin, les principes du maximum et la régularité elliptique, nous faisons une excursion assez longue dans divers aspects du calcul des variations puis terminons par les opérateurs monotones et pseudo-monotones.