This work examines a solution method for arbitrary continuous nonlinear PDEs. The solution method is based on Dedekind order completion of usual spaces of smooth functions defined on domains in Euclidean spaces.
Author(s): Michael B. Oberguggenberger and Elemér E. Rosinger (Eds.)
Series: North-Holland Mathematics Studies 181
Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: ii-xii, 1-432
Content:
Editor
Page ii
Edited by
Page iii
Copyright page
Page iv
Dedication
Page v
Foreword
Pages vii-xii
Part I. General Existence of Solutions Theory
Page 1
1. Introduction
Pages 3-10
2. Approximation of Solutions of Continuous Nonlinear PDEs
Pages 11-23
3. Spaces of Generalized Functions
Pages 24-30
4. Extending T(x, D) to the Order Completion of Spaces of Smooth Functions
Pages 31-37
5. Existence of Generalized Solutions
Pages 38-64
6. A Few First Examples
Pages 65-73
7. Generalized Solutions as Measurable Functions
Pages 74-158
Part II. Applications to Specific Classes of Nonlinear and Linear PDEs
Page 159
8. The Cauchy Problem for Nonlinear First Order Systems
Pages 161-183
9. An Abstract Existence Result
Pages 184-194
10. PDEs with Sufficiently Many Smooth Solutions
Pages 195-209
11. Nonlinear Systems with Measures as Initial Data
Pages 210-236
12. Solution of PDEs and the Completion of Uniform Spaces
Pages 237-262
13. Partial Orders Compatible with a Nonlinear Partial Differential Operator
Pages 263-277
14. Miscellaneous Results
Pages 278-293
Part III. Group Invariance of Global Generalized Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs
Page 295
15. Introduction
Pages 297-298
16. Group Invariance of Global Generalized Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs Obtained Through the Algebraic Method
Pages 299-353
17. Group Invariance of Generalized Solutions Obtained Through the Algebraic Method : An Alternative Approach
Pages 354-364
18. Group Invariance of Global Generalized Solutions Obtained Through the Order Completion Method
Pages 365-387
Appendix. MacNeille Order Completion Through Dedekind Cuts and Related Results
Pages 390-420
References
Pages 421-428
Index
Pages 429-432