Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane (PMS-48) :Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane (PMS-48) ( Princeton Mathematical Series )

Publication subTitle :Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane (PMS-48)

Publication series :Princeton Mathematical Series

Author: Astala Kari;Iwaniec Tadeusz;Martin Gaven;  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2008

E-ISBN: 9781400830114

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691137773

Subject: O175.25 Elliptic Equations

Keyword: 数学

Language: ENG

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This book explores the most recent developments in the theory of planar quasiconformal mappings with a particular focus on the interactions with partial differential equations and nonlinear analysis. It gives a thorough and modern approach to the classical theory and presents important and compelling applications across a spectrum of mathematics: dynamical systems, singular integral operators, inverse problems, the geometry of mappings, and the calculus of variations. It also gives an account of recent advances in harmonic analysis and their applications in the geometric theory of mappings.

The book explains that the existence, regularity, and singular set structures for second-order divergence-type equations--the most important class of PDEs in applications--are determined by the mathematics underpinning the geometry, structure, and dimension of fractal sets; moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces; and conformal dynamical systems. These topics are inextricably linked by the theory of quasiconformal mappings. Further, the interplay between them allows the authors to extend classical results to more general settings for wider applicability, providing new and often optimal answers to questions of existence, regularity, and geometric properties of solutions to nonlinear systems in both elliptic and degenerate elliptic settings.

Chapter

4 Complex Potentials

4.1 The Fourier Transform

4.1.1 The Fourier Transform in L[sup(1)] and L[sup(2)]

4.1.2 Fourier Transform on Measures

4.1.3 Multipliers

4.1.4 The Hecke Identities

4.2 The Complex Riesz Transforms R[sup(k)]

4.2.1 Potentials Associated with R[sup(k)]

4.3 Quantitative Analysis of Complex Potentials

4.3.1 The Logarithmic Potential

4.3.2 The Cauchy Transform

4.4 Maximal Functions and Interpolation

4.4.1 Interpolation

4.4.2 Maximal Functions

4.5 Weak-Type Estimates and L[sup(p)]-Bounds

4.5.1 Weak-Type Estimates for Complex Riesz Transforms

4.5.2 Estimates for the Beurling Transform S

4.5.3 Weighted L[sup(p)]-Theory for S

4.6 BMO and the Beurling Transform

4.6.1 Global John-Nirenberg Inequalities

4.6.2 Norm Bounds in BMO

4.6.3 Orthogonality Properties of S

4.6.4 Proof of the Pointwise Estimates

4.6.5 Commutators

4.6.6 The Beurling Transform of Characteristic Functions

4.7 Hölder Estimates

4.7.1 Hölder Bounds for the Beurling Transform

4.7.2 The Inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann Equation

4.8 Beurling Transforms for Boundary Value Problems

4.8.1 The Beurling Transform on Domains

4.8.2 L[sup(p)]-Theory

4.8.3 Complex Potentials for the Dirichlet Problem

4.9 Complex Potentials in Multiply Connected Domains

5 The Measurable Riemann Mapping Theorem: The Existence Theory of Quasiconformal Mappings

5.1 The Basic Beltrami Equation

5.2 Quasiconformal Mappings with Smooth Beltrami Coefficient

5.3 The Measurable Riemann Mapping Theorem

5.4 L[sup(p)]-Estimates and the Critical Interval

5.4.1 The Caccioppoli Inequalities

5.4.2 Weakly Quasiregular Mappings

5.5 Stoilow Factorization

5.6 Factoring with Small Distortion

5.7 Analytic Dependence on Parameters

5.8 Extension of Quasisymmetric Mappings of the Real Line

5.8.1 The Douady-Earle Extension

5.8.2 The Beurling-Ahlfors Extension

5.9 Reflection

5.10 Conformal Welding

6 Parameterizing General Linear Elliptic Systems

6.1 Stoilow Factorization for General Elliptic Systems

6.2 Linear Families of Quasiconformal Mappings

6.3 The Reduced Beltrami Equation

6.4 Homeomorphic Solutions to Reduced Equations

6.4.1 Fabes-Stroock Theorem

7 The Concept of Ellipticity

7.1 The Algebraic Concept of Ellipticity

7.2 Some Examples of First-Order Equations

7.3 General Elliptic First-Order Operators in Two Variables

7.3.1 Complexification

7.3.2 Homotopy Classification

7.3.3 Classification; n = 1

7.4 Partial Differential Operators with Measurable Coefficients

7.5 Quasilinear Operators

7.6 Lusin Measurability

7.7 Fully Nonlinear Equations

7.8 Second-Order Elliptic Systems

7.8.1 Measurable Coefficients

8 Solving General Nonlinear First-Order Elliptic Systems

8.1 Equations Without Principal Solutions

8.2 Existence of Solutions

8.3 Proof of Theorem 8.2.1

8.3.1 Step 1: H Continuous, Supported on an Annulus

8.3.2 Step 2: Good Smoothing of H

8.3.3 Step 3: Lusin-Egoroff Convergence

8.3.4 Step 4: Passing to the Limit

8.4 Equations with Infinitely Many Principal Solutions

8.5 Liouville Theorems

8.6 Uniqueness

8.6.1 Uniqueness for Normalized Solutions

8.7 Lipschitz H(z, w, ζ)

9 Nonlinear Riemann Mapping Theorems

9.1 Ellipticity and Change of Variables

9.2 The Nonlinear Mapping Theorem: Simply Connected Domains

9.2.1 Existence

9.2.2 Uniqueness

9.3 Mappings onto Multiply Connected Schottky Domains

9.3.1 Some Preliminaries

9.3.2 Proof of the Mapping Theorem 9.3.4

10 Conformal Deformations and Beltrami Systems

10.1 Quasilinearity of the Beltrami System

10.1.1 The Complex Equation

10.2 Conformal Equivalence of Riemannian Structures

10.3 Group Properties of Solutions

10.3.1 Semigroups

10.3.2 Sullivan-Tukia Theorem

10.3.3 Ellipticity Constants

11 A Quasilinear Cauchy Problem

11.1 The Nonlinear [Omitted]-Equation

11.2 A Fixed-Point Theorem

11.3 Existence and Uniqueness

12 Holomorphic Motions

12.1 The λ-Lemma

12.2 Two Compelling Examples

12.2.1 Limit Sets of Kleinian Groups

12.2.2 Julia Sets of Rational Maps

12.3 The Extended λ-Lemma

12.3.1 Holomorphic Motions and the Cauchy Problem

12.3.2 Holomorphic Axiom of Choice

12.4 Distortion of Dimension in Holomorphic Motions

12.5 Embedding Quasiconformal Mappings in Holomorphic Flows

12.6 Distortion Theorems

12.7 Deformations of Quasiconformal Mappings

13 Higher Integrability

13.1 Distortion of Area

13.1.1 Initial Bounds for Distortion of Area

13.1.2 Weighted Area Distortion

13.1.3 An Example

13.1.4 General Area Estimates

13.2 Higher Integrability

13.2.1 Integrability at the Borderline

13.2.2 Distortion of Hausdorff Dimension

13.3 The Dimension of Quasicircles

13.3.1 Symmetrization of Beltrami Coefficients

13.3.2 Distortion of Dimension

13.4 Quasiconformal Mappings and BMO

13.4.1 Quasiconformal Jacobians and A[sub(p)]-Weights

13.5 Painlevé's Theorem: Removable Singularities

13.5.1 Distortion of Hausdorff Measure

13.6 Examples of Nonremovable Sets

14 L[sup(p)]-Theory of Beltrami Operators

14.1 Spectral Bounds and Linear Beltrami Operators

14.2 Invertibility of the Beltrami Operators

14.2.1 Proof of Invertibility; Theorem 14.0.4

14.3 Determining the Critical Interval

14.4 Injectivity in the Borderline Cases

14.4.1 Failure of Factorization in W[sup(1,q)]

14.4.2 Injectivity and Liouville-Type Theorems

14.5 Beltrami Operators; Coefficients in VMO

14.6 Bounds for the Beurling Transform

15 Schauder Estimates for Beltrami Operators

15.1 Examples

15.2 The Beltrami Equation with Constant Coefficients

15.3 A Partition of Unity

15.4 An Interpolation

15.5 Hölder Regularity for Variable Coefficients

15.6 Hölder-Caccioppoli Estimates

15.7 Quasilinear Equations

16 Applications to Partial Diffierential Equations

16.1 The Hodge * Method

16.1.1 Equations of Divergence Type: The A-Harmonic Operator

16.1.2 The Natural Domain of Definition

16.1.3 The A-Harmonic Conjugate Function

16.1.4 Regularity of Solutions

16.1.5 General Linear Divergence Equations

16.1.6 A-Harmonic Fields

16.2 Topological Properties of Solutions

16.3 The Hodographic Method

16.3.1 The Continuity Equation

16.3.2 The p-Harmonic Operator div|[Omitted]|[sup(p–2)][Omitted]

16.3.3 Second-Order Derivatives

16.3.4 The Complex Gradient

16.3.5 Hodograph Transform for the p-Laplacian

16.3.6 Sharp Hölder Regularity for p-Harmonic Functions

16.3.7 Removing the Rough Regularity in the Gradient

16.4 The Nonlinear A-Harmonic Equation

16.4.1 ʈ-Monotonicity of the Structural Field

16.4.2 The Dirichlet Problem

16.4.3 Quasiregular Gradient Fields and C[sup(1,α)]-Regularity

16.5 Boundary Value Problems

16.5.1 A Nonlinear Riemann-Hilbert Problem

16.6 G-Compactness of Beltrami Diffierential Operators

16.6.1 G-Convergence of the Operators [Omitted] — μ[sub(j)][Omitted][sub(z)]

16.6.2 G-Limits and the Weak*-Topology

16.6.3 The Jump from [Omitted][sub(2)] –V[Omitted][sub(z)] to [Omitted][sub(z)] – μ[Omitted][sub(z)]

16.6.4 The Adjacent Operator's Two Primary Solutions

16.6.5 The Independence of [Omitted][sub(z)](z) and [Omitted][sub(z)](z)

16.6.6 Linear Families of Quasiregular Mappings

16.6.7 G-Compactness for Beltrami Operators

17 PDEs Not of Divergence Type: Pucci's Conjecture

17.1 Reduction to a First-Order System

17.2 Second-Order Caccioppoli Estimates

17.3 The Maximum Principle and Pucci's Conjecture

17.4 Interior Regularity

17.5 Equations with Lower-Order Terms

17.5.1 The Dirichlet Problem

17.6 Pucci's Example

18 Quasiconformal Methods in Impedance Tomography: Calderón's Problem

18.1 Complex Geometric Optics Solutions

18.2 The Hilbert Transform Hσ

18.3 Dependence on Parameters

18.4 Nonlinear Fourier Transform

18.5 Argument Principle

18.6 Subexponential Growth

18.7 The Solution to Calderón's Problem

19 Integral Estimates for the Jacobian

19.1 The Fundamental Inequality for the Jacobian

19.2 Rank-One Convexity and Quasiconvexity

19.2.1 Burkholder's Theorem

19.3 L[sup(1)]-Integrability of the Jacobian

20 Solving the Beltrami Equation: Degenerate Elliptic Case

20.1 Mappings of Finite Distortion; Continuity

20.1.1 Topological Monotonicity

20.1.2 Proof of Continuity in W[sup(1,2)]

20.2 Integrable Distortion; W[sup(1,2)]-Solutions and Their Properties

20.3 A Critical Example

20.4 Distortion in the Exponential Class

20.4.1 Example: Regularity in Exponential Distortion

20.4.2 Beltrami Operators for Degenerate Equations

20.4.3 Decay of the Neumann Series

20.4.4 Existence Above the Critical Exponent

20.4.5 Exponential Distortion: Existence of Solutions

20.4.6 Optimal Regularity

20.4.7 Uniqueness of Principal Solutions

20.4.8 Stoilow Factorization

20.4.9 Failure of Factorization in W[sup(1,q)] When q < 2

20.5 Optimal Orlicz Conditions for the Distortion Function

20.6 Global Solutions

20.6.1 Solutions on C

20.6.2 Solutions on Ĉ

20.7 A Liouville Theorem

20.8 Applications to Degenerate PDEs

20.9 Lehto's Condition

21 Aspects of the Calculus of Variations

21.1 Minimizing Mean Distortion

21.1.1 Formulation of the General Problem

21.1.2 The L[sup(1)]-Grötzsch Problem

21.1.3 Sublinear Growth: Failure of Minimization

21.1.4 Inverses of Homeomorphisms of Integrable Distortion

21.1.5 The Traces of Mappings with Integrable Distortion

21.2 Variational Equations

21.2.1 The Lagrange-Euler Equations

21.2.2 Equations for the Inverse Map

21.3 Mean Distortion, Annuli and the Nitsche Conjecture

21.3.1 Polar Coordinates

21.3.2 Free Lagrangians

21.3.3 Lower Bounds by Free Lagrangians

21.3.4 Weighted Mean Distortion

21.3.5 Minimizers within the Nitsche Range

21.3.6 Beyond the Nitsche Bound

21.3.7 The Minimizing Sequence and Its BV-limit

21.3.8 Correction Lemma

Appendix: Elements of Sobolev Theory and Function Spaces

A.1 Schwartz Distributions

A.2 Definitions of Sobolev Spaces

A.3 Mollification

A.4 Pointwise Coincidence of Sobolev Functions

A.5 Alternate Characterizations

A.6 Embedding Theorems

A.7 Duals and Compact Embeddings

A.8 Hardy Spaces and BMO

A.9 Reverse Hölder Inequalities

A.10 Variations of Sobolev Mappings

Basic Notation

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