Global Solution Branches of Two Point Boundary Value Problems / by Renate Schaaf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaaf, Renate, 1951- author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 0075-8434 ; 1458.

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 0075-8434 ; 1458

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global analysis (Mathematics).

Analysis.

Local Subjects:

Analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXII, 146 pages).

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1990.

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Summary:

The book deals with parameter dependent problems of the form u"+*f(u)=0 on an interval with homogeneous Dirichlet or Neuman boundary conditions. These problems have a family of solution curves in the (u,*)-space. By examining the so-called time maps of the problem the shape of these curves is obtained which in turn leads to information about the number of solutions, the dimension of their unstable manifolds (regarded as stationary solutions of the corresponding parabolic prob- lem) as well as possible orbit connections between them. The methods used also yield results for the period map of certain Hamiltonian systems in the plane. The book will be of interest to researchers working in ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and various fields of applications. By virtue of the elementary nature of the analytical tools used it can also be used as a text for undergraduate and graduate students with a good background in the theory of ordinary differential equations.

Contents:

Dirichlet branches bifurcating from zero

Neumann problems, period maps and semilinear dirichlet problems

Generalizations

General properties of time maps.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

9783540467427

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