Potential theory
Thirty years ago, as a graduate student, I studied ``Introduction to Potential Theory by \textit{L. L. Helms} [Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 22, New York etc.: Wiley-Interscience a Division of John Wiley \& Sons (1969; Zbl 0188.17203)]. I found it well written and accessible, self-contained and efficient, and almost free from errors and gaps. The sections on the sweeping operation, the fine topology and the Martin boundary were somewhat rudimentary, but I could readily make up the deficit from other sources and was content with the foothold that Helms had given me in the subject. It was therefore with some interest that I learned of this new volume entitled \textit{Potential Theory} by the same author. Was it to be a revision of the original book or an entirely new text? The answer lies somewhere in between. The first six chapters of the present book closely resemble the first eleven chapters of the original. The remaining five chapters, which amount to about 40\% of the book, consist of new material. The result is a significantly more substantial text. A brief indication of the contents is given below. Chapters 1--6 introduce the standard core of classical potential theory. They cover harmonic functions and the Poisson integral, superharmonic functions and the Dirichlet problem for bounded regions, Green functions and potentials, polar sets and capacity, sweeping and the fine topology, energy and the Wiener criterion for thinness. There is some re-ordering of the material from the earlier volume, and freshly written sections on capacity, the sweeping operation and the fine topology. (An error in the original book concerning thinness is reproduced in Theorem 5.7.2, which needs the additional hypothesis that \(u(x)<\infty \).) As before, the Dirichlet problem on unbounded regions is treated separately. The Martin boundary is now completely omitted, but new material is added concerning the Neumann problem on the ball. There are almost no references here to the potential theoretic literature of the past 50 years. The remaining chapters have a different flavour and are more advanced. They culminate in showing that the oblique derivative problem for second order elliptic operators can be solved for regions satisfying certain geometric conditions. Before that, Chapters 7 and 8 discuss interpolation inequalities and monotonicity properties for norms on Hölder spaces of functions, and smoothness properties of potentials arising from certain types of kernel. Chapters 9 and 10 then deal with elliptic operators, and cover Schauder estimates, maximum principles, the Dirichlet problem, and a priori bounds for solutions of the oblique derivative problem. Many of the intermediate results are established for functions defined on a ``spherical chip, by which is meant the intersection of a ball and a halfspace, on the understanding the intersection does not exceed half of the original ball. For example, Chapter 8 concludes by showing that, under appropriate hypotheses, there is a harmonic function on a spherical chip which has prescribed normal derivatives on the flat portion of the boundary and prescribed values elsewhere on the boundary. The purpose and intended readership of the book are best summarised in the words of the author: ``In planning this book, it became apparent that a deficiency in the 1969 book would have to be corrected to include a discussion of the Neumann problem, not only in preparation for a discussion of the oblique derivative boundary value problem but also to improve the basic part of the subject matter for the end user, engineers, physicists, etc. Generally speaking, the choice of topics was intended to make the book more pragmatic and less esoteric while exposing the reader to the major accomplishments by some of the most prominent mathematicians of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries\dots This book is targeted primarily at students with a background in a senior or graduate level course in real analysis which includes basic material on topology, measure theory, and Banach spaces.
- Concentration for Coulomb gases and Coulomb transport inequalities
- Newtonian potentials and subharmonic functions associated to root systems
- Riesz potentials of Radon measures associated to reflection groups
- Nonnegative entire bounded solutions to some semilinear equations involving the fractional Laplacian
- The trace triple for nonnegative solutions of the porous medium equation
- Riesz decompositions for Schrödinger operators on graphs
- Asymptotics of Chebyshev polynomials. IV: Comments on the complex case
- Regularity of the singular set in a two-phase problem for harmonic measure with Hölder data
- Vortex patches choreography for active scalar equations
- Foundations of Fatou theory and a tribute to the work of E. M. Stein on boundary behavior of holomorphic functions
- Phase transition of logarithmic capacity for the uniform \(G_\delta\)-sets
- Periodic Jacobi matrices on trees
- Higher order Poisson kernels and \(L^p\) polyharmonic boundary value problems in Lipschitz domains
- Equilibrium measures on a compact Riemann surface
- Polynomial approximation of polyharmonic functions on a complement of a John domain
- A generalized polar-coordinate integration formula with applications to the study of convolution powers of complex-valued functions on \(\mathbb{Z}^d\)
- Extremal polynomials on the \(n\)-grid
- Harmonic Function Theory
- A solution to the energy minimization problem constrained by a density function
- Introduction to heat potential theory
- Sets of absolute continuity for harmonic measure in NTA domains
- Movement of centers with respect to various potentials
- On the representation of biharmonic functions with singularities in \(\mathbb R^n\)
- Meromorphic continuation of functions and arbitrary distribution of interpolation points
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- First-order global asymptotics for confined particles with singular pair repulsion
- Positive solutions of a class of semilinear equations with absorption and Schrödinger equations
- Twelve tales in mathematical physics: An expanded Heineman prize lecture
- Asymptotics of Chebyshev polynomials. III: Sets saturating Szegő, Schiefermayr, and Totik-Widom bounds
- L^p polyharmonic Robin problems on Lipschitz domains
- Pluripotential theory on Teichmüller space I: Pluricomplex Green function
- Kármán vortex street in incompressible fluid models
- Potential theory
- PWB-method and Wiener criterion for boundary regularity under generalized Orlicz growth
- Asymptotics of Chebyshev polynomials. V: Residual polynomials
- Removable sets and \(L^p\)-uniqueness on manifolds and metric measure spaces
- Dynamical comparison and \(\mathcal{Z} \)-stability for crossed products of simple \(C^\ast \)-algebras
- Widom factors and Szegő-Widom asymptotics, a review
- Condenser capacity and meromorphic functions
- Reverse Khas'minskii condition
- Lower bounds on Bourgain's constant for harmonic measure
- On an interpolating problem in a generalized Hilbert Bargmann-Fock space
- Real variable methods in Bergman theory
- On m-order logarithmic Laplacians and the applications
- Isolated singularities for elliptic equations with convolution terms in a punctured ball
- Extremal polynomials and sets of minimal capacity
- Mean value characterizations of harmonic, subharmonic and metaharmonic functions associated with the Dunkl Laplacian
- On a sampling problem for a Bargmann-Fock space
- Exceptional boundary sets for fully nonlinear parabolic PDEs
- The Mercer-Young theorem for matrix-valued kernels on separable metric spaces
- A note on Dirichlet, Poisson and Neumann problems on infinite networks
- Hypercritical deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills equation
- Bounds for weighted Chebyshev and residual polynomials on subsets of \(\mathbb{R}\)
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