Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations | Proceedings of the Eighth Conference held at Dundee, Scotland, June 25-29, 1984 | ISBN 9783540396406

Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

Proceedings of the Eighth Conference held at Dundee, Scotland, June 25-29, 1984

herausgegeben von Brian D. Sleeman und Richard J. Jarvis
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonBrian D. Sleeman
Herausgegeben vonRichard J. Jarvis
Buchcover Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations  | EAN 9783540396406 | ISBN 3-540-39640-3 | ISBN 978-3-540-39640-6

Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

Proceedings of the Eighth Conference held at Dundee, Scotland, June 25-29, 1984

herausgegeben von Brian D. Sleeman und Richard J. Jarvis
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonBrian D. Sleeman
Herausgegeben vonRichard J. Jarvis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • A stability result for the solutions of a certain system of third-order differential equations.
  • A local existence theorem for the quasilinear wave equation with initial values of bounded variation.
  • Bifurcation problems associated with nonlinear wave propagation.
  • Conditions for a limit set to be a singleton.
  • A hydrodynamical model of the sea hare’s propulsive mechanism.
  • Periodic solutions of some second order nonlinear differential equations with periodic coefficients.
  • Wiener obstacles for the biharmonic operator.
  • Inverse methods for reflector imaging.
  • Travelling wave front solutions of a differential-difference equation arising in the modelling of myelinated nerve axon.
  • The non-parametric influence of light on mammalian circadian rhythms.
  • On bifurcation for nondifferentiable perturbations of selfadjoint operators.
  • On surfaces defined by ordinary differential equations: A new approach to Hilbert’s 16th problem.
  • Self-adjointness for general elliptic operators with Sobolev-type coefficients.
  • On a Nehari’s constant.
  • Asymptotics of eigenvalues for some „non-definite“ elliptic problems.
  • Optimal control of a system governed by hyperbolic operator.
  • A global study of a hamiltonian system with multi turning points.
  • Some further results on oscillatory behavior of solutions of nth order delay differential equations.
  • A model for a myelinated nerve axon.
  • Spatial patterning of the spruce budworm in the presence of defoliation.
  • Vector models for infectious diseases.
  • Multi-dimensional reaction-convection-diffusion equations.
  • On periodic solutions of forced second order differential equations with a deviating argument.
  • The theory of quasi periodic motions.
  • Stability criteria for linear integro-differential equations.
  • A mechanical model for biologicalpattern formation: A nonlinear bifurcation analysis.
  • Almost surely non-linear solutions of stochastic linear delay equations.
  • Properties of the set of global solutions for the cauchy problems in a locally convex topological vector space.
  • Boundary value problems for forced nonlinear equations at resonance.
  • Periodic-solutions of prescribed period for hamiltonian systems.
  • Bursting oscillations in an excitable membrane model.
  • Semilinear second order evolution equations and regular boundary conditions.
  • Symmetry-breaking for semilinear elliptic equations.
  • On a boundary value problem associated with some difference-differential equations.
  • A-proper maps and bifurcation theory.
  • On the singularities and asymptotic expansions of singular sturm-liouville expansions.