20402098 - AM420 - SOBOLEV SPACES AND PARTIAL DERIVATIVE EQUATIONS

To acquire a good knowledge of the general methods andÿclassical techniques necessary for the study ofÿweak solutions of partial differential equations
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Fruizione: 20410518 AM420 - SPAZI DI SOBOLEV ED EQUAZIONI ALLE DERIVATE PARZIALI in Matematica LM-40 ESPOSITO PIERPAOLO

Programme

Preliminaries
- Weak topologies and weak convergence, weak lower semi-continuity of the norm
- L^P spaces: reflexivity, separability, criteria for strong compactness.

Sobolev spaces and variational formulation of boundary value problems in dimension one
- Motivations
- The Sobolev space W^{1,p} (I)
- The space W^{1,p}_0 (I)
- Some examples of boundary value problems
- Maximum principle

Sobolev spaces and variational formulation of boundary value problems in dimension N
- Definition and basic properties of the Sobolev spaces W^{1,p} (Ω)
- Extension operators
- Sobolev inequalities
- The space W^{1,p}_0 (Ω)
- Variational formulation of some elliptic boundary value problems
- Existence of weak solutions
- Regularity of weak solutions
- Maximum principle

Core Documentation

Analisi funzionale, H. Brézis, Liguori Editore

Type of delivery of the course

The course plans lectures. Attendance is not required but strongly suggested.

Type of evaluation

Seminar on a research paper.