Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Mathematics & Nonlinear Science

Geometric Sturmian Theory of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations and Applications

1st Edition

By Victor A. Galaktionov
May 24, 2004

Unlike the classical Sturm theorems on the zeros of solutions of second-order ODEs, Sturm's evolution zero set analysis for parabolic PDEs did not attract much attention in the 19th century, and, in fact, it was lost or forgotten for almost a century. Briefly revived by Pólya in the 1930's and ...