Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 341 p)
ISBN:
9781461203278
,
9781461267096
Series Statement:
Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications 8
Note:
The last twentyfive years have seen an increasing interest for variational convergences and for their applications to different fields, like homogenization theory, phase transitions, singular perturbations, boundary value problems in wildly perturbed domains, approximation of variatonal problems, and nonsmooth analysis. Among variational convergences, De Giorgi's gamma-convergence plays a central role for its compactness properties and for the large number of results concerning gamma-limits of integral functionals. Moreover, almost all other variational convergences can be easily expressed in the language of gamma-convergence. This text originates from the notes of the courses on gamma-convergence held by the author in Trieste at the International School for Advanced Studies (S. I. S. S. A. ) during the academic years 1983-84,1986-87, 1990-91, and in Rome at the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (I. N. D. A. M. ) during the spring of 1987. This text is far from being a treatise on gamma-convergence and its applications
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-0327-8
