Köln, Universiẗat, Diss., 2003.

University, Diss., 2005--Bonn.

We show that the usual variational formulation of the problem of analytic continuation from an arc on the boundary of a plane domain does not lead to a relaxation of this overdetermined problem. To attain such a relaxation, we bound the domain of the functional, thus changing the Euler equations.

Techn. University, Diss., 2000--Braunschweig.

As a first aspect the thesis treats existence results of the perturbed eigenvalue problem of the 1-Laplace operator. This is done with the aid of a quite general critical point theory results with the genus as topological index. Moreover we show that the eigenvalues of the perturbed 1-Laplace operator converge to the eigenvalues of the unperturebed 1-Laplace operator when the perturbation goes to zero. As a second aspect we treat the eigenvalue problems of the vectorial 1-Laplace operator and the symmetrized 1-Laplace operator. And as a third aspect certain related parabolic problems are considered.

Yes / The Poisson's equation is an essential entity of applied mathematics for modelling many phenomena of importance. They include the theory of gravitation, electromagnetism, fluid flows and geometric design. In this regard, finding efficient solution methods for the Poisson's equation is a significant problem that requires addressing. In this paper, we show how it is possible to generate approximate solutions of the Poisson's equation subject to various boundary conditions. We make use of the discrete finite difference operator, which, in many ways, is similar to the standard finite difference method for numerically solving partial differential equations. Our approach is based upon the Laplacian averaging operator which, as we show, can be elegantly applied over many folds in a computationally efficient manner to obtain a close approximation to the solution of the equation at hand. We compare our method by way of examples with the solutions arising from the analytic variants as well as the numerical variants of the Poisson's equation subject to a given set of boundary conditions. Thus, we show that our method, though simple to implement yet computationally very efficient, is powerful enough to generate approximate solutions of the Poisson's equation. / Supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017, under the project PDE-GIR with grant number 778035.

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This paper derives explicit eigensolutions of the Laplace operator, whose eigenvalue problem is also called the Helmholtz equation. Specifically, the paper showcases all geometries through which the solutions to the Helmholtz equation can be represented in a finite sinusoidal form. These geometries are the rectangle, the square, the isosceles right triangle, the equilateral triangle, and the hemi-equilateral triangle. As a counterexample, the paper also proves that the parallelogram cannot yield a product form of a solution through the method of separation of variables. The solutions for the isosceles triangle and the hemi-equilateral triangle are derived using symmetric properties of the square and the equilateral triangle.  The paper concludes that symmetry is crucial to solving the Laplacian for these geometries and that this symmetry is also reflected in their respective spectra. However, importantly, the spectrum is unique for the examined geometries.

Es werden hybride Mannigfaltigkeiten untersucht, d.h. Systeme von zweidimensionalen Mannigfaltigkeiten, die durch eindimensionale Intervalle miteinander verknuepft sind. In einer solchen Struktur definieren wir einen Laplace-Operator, der sich aus den Laplace-Beltrami-Operatoren auf den glatten Teilen und Randbedingungen an den Verknuepfungspunkten zusammenstellt. Durch Verwendung der Kreinschen Theorie selbstadjungierter Erweiterungen wird es gezeigt, dass alle moeglichen Laplace-Operatoren durch hermitsche Matrizen einer speziellen Form parametrisiert werden koennen. Wir berechnen die Entwicklung der Spur der quadrirten Resolvent eines Laplace-Operators fuer grosse Spectralparameter vermittels der Randbedingungen und der Waermeleitungskoeffizienten der glatten Teilen der hybriden Mannigfaltigkeit. Unter gewissen zusaetzlichen Annahmen is es moeglich, aus dieser Entwicklung einige geometrische Invarianten und einige Information ueber den Randbedingungen zu gewinnen. / We consider a hybrid manifold (i.e. some two-dimensional manifolds connected with each other by some segments) and a Laplace operator on it. Such an operator can be constructed by using the Laplace-Beltrami operators on each part of the hybrid manifold with some boundary conditions in the points of gluing. We use the Krein theory of self-adjoint extensions to show that all possible Laplace operators are parameterized by some Hermitian matrices. We find the large spectral parameter expansion of the trace of the second power of the resolvent of a fixed Laplace operator in terms of the boundary condition matrix and heat kernel coefficients for the parts of the hybrid manifold. If we assume that we already have such an expansion for some hybrid manifold then we can find some data about this manifold (inverse spectral problem). Under some additional conditions it is possible to find some geometric invariants of the hybrid space and some information about the boundary conditions matrix. We apply the same technique also to two degenerate cases of hybrid manifolds: quantum graphs and the manifolds glued without segments.

We introduce renormalized integrals which generalize conventional measure theoretic integrals. One approximates the integration domain by measure spaces and defines the integral as the limit of integrals over the approximating spaces. This concept is implicitly present in many mathematical contexts such as Cauchy's principal value, the determinant of operators on a Hilbert space and the Fourier transform of an L^p function. We use renormalized integrals to define a path integral on manifolds by approximation via geodesic polygons. The main part of the paper is dedicated to the proof of a path integral formula for the heat kernel of any self-adjoint generalized Laplace operator acting on sections of a vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold.