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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299964203321

Autore

Bramanti Marco

Titolo

An invitation to hypoelliptic operators and Hormander's vector fields / / Marco Bramanti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-02087-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 150 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Mathematics, , 2191-8198

Disciplina

515

Soggetti

Hypoelliptic operators

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN: 2191-8198."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1 Hörmander's operators: what they are -- 2 Hörmander's operators: why they are studied -- 3 A priori estimates in Sobolev spaces -- 4 Geometry of Hörmander's vector fields -- 5 Beyond Hörmander's operators.

Sommario/riassunto

Hörmander's operators are an important class of linear elliptic-parabolic degenerate partial differential operators with smooth coefficients, which have been intensively studied since the late 1960s and are still an active field of research. This text provides the reader with a general overview of the field, with its motivations and problems, some of its fundamental results, and some recent lines of development.