Lyapunov-Schmidt methods in nonlinear analysis and applications

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The authors of this book are rooted in the tradition of the famous Russian school of bifurcation theory of V. I. Yudovich, M. M. Vainberg and V. A. Trenogin. With this work they summarize and unify their and their coworkers' results of the last 25 years. Chapter 1 concerns families of linear operators, generalized Jordan chains and regularization techniques for linear equations. Chapter 2 treats abstract stationary bifurcation problems (bifurcation from a given solution family) with one-dimensional bifurcation parameter. First, the main topic of the book, the Lyapunov-Schmidt procedure, is defined. Then, existence results for the solution of the Lyapunov-Schmidt bifurcation equations are derived by means of topological, algebraic and variational methods. Asymptotic expansions of the bifurcating solution branches are constructed by means of Newton diagrams. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with regularization and iteration techniques for the computation of bifurcating solutions. In particular, so-called interlaced equations (equations with ``free parameters) are considered. Such parameters occur, especially, if the problem is equivariant with respect to certain group representations. Chapter 5 is devoted to such equivariant bifurcation problems. Chapter 6 concerns singular differential equations in Banach spaces (Sobolev type equations). Finally, applications are presented (to capillary-gravity waves in fluid layers in Chapter 5 and to the Vlasov-Maxwell system in Chapter 7).




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