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The analysis of harmonic maps and their heat flows
This book provides a broad yet comprehensive introduction to the analysis of harmonic maps and their heat flows. The first part of the book contains many important theorems on the regularity of minimizing harmonic maps by Schoen–Uhlenbeck, stationary harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds in higher dimensions by Evans and Bethuel, and weakly harmonic maps from Riemannian surfaces by Helein, as well as on the structure of a singular set of minimizing harmonic maps and stationary harmonic maps by Simon and Lin.
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Grozio Stanilov (1933–2023)
The fields of his interest to which he contributed significantly include local differential geometry, projective differential geometry, biaxial geometry and its generalizations, integral geometry, Riemannian manifolds with additional structure, applications of computer algebra in geometry. Stanilov, G.: Conformal invariants of Riemannian manifolds, Serdica 2 165–167 (1976). Stanilov, G., Milusheva, V., Berger, M.: Jacobi maps between Riemannian manifolds, Beitr. Stanilov, G., Gilkey, P., Videv, V.: Pseudo Riemannian manifolds whose generalized Jacobi operator has constant characteristic polynomial, J. Geom. 62, 144–153, (1998). Stanilov, G., Tsankov, Y.: A characterization of classical Riemannian manifolds by curvature operators, J. Geom. 87, 150–159 (2007).
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A look to differential
This paper reveals results of a research related to the presentation of the concept of differential for functions of a variable, from some calculus textbooks. Given that the concept of differential is closely linked to the concepts of derivative, integral and differential equation, the objective is to analyze the different ways of presenting the concept from those instances, in order to determine whether the presentation facilitates its understanding. The research follows a qualitative methodology based on a bibliographic review and conceptual didactic analysis, proceeding from content analysis corresponding to the notion of differential. It was found that the concept of differential in textbooks is presented in a geometric context, as an increment of a variable and as a function, dispossessed of its arithmetic meaning, being impossible to suppress the concept in the formal construction of the calculus.
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The aromatic bicomplex for the description of divergence-free aromatic forms and volume-preserving integrators
Aromatic B-series were introduced as an extension of standard Butcher-series for the study of volume-preserving integrators. It was proven with their help that the only volume-preserving B-series method is the exact flow of the differential equation. The question was raised whether there exists a volume-preserving integrator that can be expanded as an aromatic B-series. In this work, we introduce a new algebraic tool, called the aromatic bicomplex, similar to the variational bicomplex in variational calculus. We prove the exactness of this bicomplex and use it to describe explicitly the key object in the study of volume-preserving integrators: the aromatic forms of vanishing divergence. The analysis provides us with a handful of new tools to study aromatic B-series, gives insights on the process of integration by parts of trees, and allows to describe explicitly the aromatic B-series of a volume-preserving integrator. In particular, we conclude that an aromatic Runge–Kutta method cannot preserve volume.
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A First Course in Computational Algebraic Geometry
A First Course in Computational Algebraic Geometry is designed for young students with some background in algebra who wish to perform their first experiments in computational geometry. Originating from a course taught at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the book gives a compact presentation of the basic theory, with particular emphasis on explicit computational examples using the freely available computer algebra system, Singular. Readers will quickly gain the confidence to begin performing their own experiments.
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Generalized Approach to Differentiability
In the traditional approach to differentiability, found in almost all university textbooks, this notion is considered only for interior points of the domain of function or for functions with an open domain. This approach leads to the fact that differentiability has usually been considered only for functions with an open domain in Rn, which severely limits the possibility of applying the potential techniques and tools of differential calculus to a broader class of functions. Although there is a great need for generalization of the notion of differentiability of a function in various problems of mathematical analysis and other mathematical branches, the notion of differentiability of a function at the non-interior points of its domain has almost not been considered or successfully defined. In this paper, we have generalized the differentiability of scalar and vector functions of several variables by defining it at non-interior points of the domain of the function, which include not only boundary points but also all points at which the notion of linearization is meaningful (points admitting nbd rays). This generalization allows applications in all areas where standard differentiability can be applied. With this generalized approach to differentiability, some unexpected phenomena may occur, such as a function discontinuity at a point where a function is differentiable, the non-uniqueness of differentials… However, if one reduces this theory only to points with some special properties (points admitting a linearization space with dimension equal to the dimension of the ambient Euclidean space of the domain and admitting a raylike neighborhood, which includes the interior points of a domain), then all properties and theorems belonging to the known theory of differentiability remain valid in this extended theory. For generalized differentiability, the corresponding calculus (differentiation techniques) is also provided by matrices—representatives of differentials at points. In this calculus the role of partial derivatives (which in general cannot exist for differentiable functions at some points) is taken by directional derivatives.
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Topics in Quaternion Linear Algebra
Quaternions are a number system that has become increasingly useful for representing the rotations of objects in three-dimensional space and has important applications in theoretical and applied mathematics, physics, computer science, and engineering. This is the first book to provide a systematic, accessible, and self-contained exposition of quaternion linear algebra. It features previously unpublished research results with complete proofs and many open problems at various levels, as well as more than 200 exercises to facilitate use by students and instructors. Applications presented in the book include numerical ranges, invariant semidefinite subspaces, differential equations with symmetries, and matrix equations.
Designed for researchers and students across a variety of disciplines, the book can be read by anyone with a background in linear algebra, rudimentary complex analysis, and some multivariable calculus. Instructors will find it useful as a complementary text for undergraduate linear algebra courses or as a basis for a graduate course in linear algebra. The open problems can serve as research projects for undergraduates, topics for graduate students, or problems to be tackled by professional research mathematicians. The book is also an invaluable reference tool for researchers in fields where techniques based on quaternion analysis are used.
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Multigrid second-order accurate solution of parabolic control-constrained problems
A mesh-independent and second-order accurate multigrid strategy to solve control-constrained parabolic optimal control problems is presented. The resulting algorithms appear to be robust with respect to change of values of the control parameters and have the ability to accommodate constraints on the control also in the limit case of bang-bang control. Central to the development of these multigrid schemes is the design of iterative smoothers which can be formulated as local semismooth Newton methods. The design of distributed controls is considered to drive nonlinear parabolic models to follow optimally a given trajectory or attain a final configuration. In both cases, results of numerical experiments and theoretical twogrid local Fourier analysis estimates demonstrate that the proposed schemes are able to solve parabolic optimality systems with textbook multigrid efficiency. Further results are presented to validate second-order accuracy and the possibility to track a trajectory over long time intervals by means of a receding-horizon approach.
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Differential equations, dynamical systems, and linear algebra
This book is about dynamical aspects of ordinary differential equations and the relations between dynamical systems and certain fields outside pure mathematics. A prominent role is played by the structure theory of linear operators on finite-dimensional vector spaces; the authors have included a self-contained treatment of that subject.
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