Higher Order Partial Differential Equations in Clifford Analysis
Subtitle: Effective Solutions to Problems
By: by Elena Obolashvili
Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics -- 28; Progress in mathematical physics -- 28.
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston; Imprint; Birkhäuser
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781461200154
Subjects: Global differential geometry; Mathematics; Differential equations, partial
Description: This monograph is devoted to new types of higher order PDEs in the framework of Clifford analysis. While elliptic and hyperbolic equations have been studied in the Clifford analysis setting in book and journal literature, parabolic equations in this framework have been largely ignored and are the primary focus of this work. Thus, new types of equations are examined: elliptic-hyperbolic, elliptic-parabolic, hyperbolic-parabolic and elliptic-hyperbolic-parabolic. These equations are related to polyharmonic, polywave, polyheat, harmonic-wave, harmonic-heat, wave-heat and harmonic-wave-heat equations for which various boundary and initial value problems are solved explicitly in quadratures. The solutions to these new equations in the Clifford setting have some remarkable applications, for example, to the mechanics of deformable bodies, electromagnetic fields, and quantum mechanics.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.- Part I: Boundary Value Problems for Regular, Generalized, Regular and Pluriregular Elliptic Equations.- Two Dimensional Cases; Multi-Dimensional Cases.- Part II: Initial Value Problems for Regular, Pluriregular Hyperbolic and Parabolic Equations; title: Hyperbolic and Plurihyperbolic Equations in Clifford Analysis; Parabolic and Pluriparabolic Equations in Clifford Analysis; Epilogue; title: References; title: Index.