Variations and irregularities

Publication date 15 April 1998

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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The present paper is a survey on variations and irregularities, focussing on a few basic concepts, such as mass, energy and length, and on the role they play in the mathematical description of some geometrical and physical objects, possibly very ``irregular or ``degenerate. First, the author recalls some classic notions: self-adjoint extensions of differential operators, generalized derivatives, finite difference schemes. Next, the author describes a few important metric, variational and measure theoretic tools, developed in recent years in connection with the mathematical description of various kinds of degenerate and irregular media, such as weighted operators, subelliptic metrics, spaces of homogeneous type, Dirichlet forms. Finally, some remarks are made on the contemporary theory of fractals. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0866.00047].

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