TY - BOOK ID - 14220935 TI - An invitation to hypoelliptic operators and Hormander's vector fields PY - 2014 SN - 3319020862 3319020870 PB - Cham, Switzerland : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Distribution (Probability theory) KW - Hypoelliptic operators. KW - Operators, Hypoelliptic KW - Distribution functions KW - Frequency distribution KW - Mathematics. KW - Mathematical analysis. KW - Analysis (Mathematics). KW - Operator theory. KW - Partial differential equations. KW - Partial Differential Equations. KW - Analysis. KW - Operator Theory. KW - Partial differential operators KW - Characteristic functions KW - Probabilities KW - Differential equations, partial. KW - Global analysis (Mathematics). KW - Functional analysis KW - Analysis, Global (Mathematics) KW - Differential topology KW - Functions of complex variables KW - Geometry, Algebraic KW - Partial differential equations KW - 517.1 Mathematical analysis KW - Mathematical analysis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14220935 AB - Hörmander's operators are an important class of linear elliptic-parabolic degenerate partial differential operators with smooth coefficients, which have been intensively studied since the late 1960s and are still an active field of research. This text provides the reader with a general overview of the field, with its motivations and problems, some of its fundamental results, and some recent lines of development. ER -