Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Geometry and Physics: The 1995 Barrett Lectures

ISBN-10
0817654933
ISBN-13
9780817654931
Category
Differential equations, Nonlinear
Pages
153
Language
English
Published
1997-01-01
Publisher
Birkhäuser
Authors
Garth Baker, Alexandre S. Freire

Description

This volume contains survey lectures in four different areas, delivered by leading researchers at the 1995 Barrett Lectures held at the University of Tennessee: nonlinear hyperbolic systems arising in field theory and relativity (S. Klainerman); harmonic maps from Minkowski spacetime (M. Struwe); dynamics of vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity (F.-H. Lin); the Seiberg-Witten equations and their application to problems in four-dimensional topology (R. Fintushel). Most of this material has not previously been available in survey form. These lectures provide an up-to-date overview and an introduction to the research literature in each of these areas, which should prove useful to researchers and graduate students in mathematical physics, partial differential equations, differential geometry and topology.

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