An Invitation to Variational Methods in Differential Equations

• Main Author: Costa, David G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston, 2007.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Differential equations.; Partial differential equations.; Calculus of variations.; Ordinary Differential Equations.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Partial Differential Equations.

This book is a short introductory text to variational techniques with applications to differential equations. It presents a sampling of topics in critical point theory with applications to existence and multiplicity of solutions in nonlinear problems involving ordinary differential equations (ODEs)...