Variational Methods Applications to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Hamiltonian Systems /

• Main Author: Struwe, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics ; 34
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; System theory.; Calculus of variations.; Systems Theory, Control.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Analysis.

Hilbert's talk at the second International Congress of 1900 in Paris marked the beginning of a new era in the calculus of variations. A development began which, within a few decades, brought tremendous success, highlighted by the 1929 theorem of Ljusternik and Schnirelman on the existence of th...