Nonlinear partial differential equations in geometry and physics
Subtitle: the 1995 Barrett lectures
By: Garth Baker, Alexandre Freire, editors.
Contributors: Baker, Garth, 1945-; Freire, Alexandre S.
Series: Progress in nonlinear differential equations and their applications ;; v. 29
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Basel; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Geometry -- Congresses.; Differential equations, Nonlinear -- Congresses.; Mathematical physics -- Congresses.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Proceedings of a series of lectures hosted by the Mathematics Department of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 22-24, 1995"--Pref.