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Isoperimetric Inequalities in Riemannian Manifolds
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ISBN: 9783031379017 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Birkhäuser

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This work gives a coherent introduction to isoperimetric inequalities in Riemannian manifolds, featuring many of the results obtained during the last 25 years and discussing different techniques in the area. Written in a clear and appealing style, the book includes sufficient introductory material, making it also accessible to graduate students. It will be of interest to researchers working on geometric inequalities either from a geometric or analytic point of view, but also to those interested in applying the described techniques to their field.


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Discrete Diversity and Dispersion Maximization : A Tutorial on Metaheuristic Optimization
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ISBN: 3031383109 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book demonstrates the metaheuristic methodologies that apply to maximum diversity problems to solve them. Maximum diversity problems arise in many practical settings from facility location to social network analysis and constitute an important class of NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. In fact, this volume presents a “missing link” in the combinatorial optimization-related literature. In providing the basic principles and fundamental ideas of the most successful methodologies for discrete optimization, this book allows readers to create their own applications for other discrete optimization problems. Additionally, the book is designed to be useful and accessible to researchers and practitioners in management science, industrial engineering, economics, and computer science, while also extending value to non-experts in combinatorial optimization. Owed to the tutorials presented in each chapter, this book may be used in a master course, a doctoral seminar, or as supplementary to a primary text in upper undergraduate courses. The chapters are divided into three main sections. The first section describes a metaheuristic methodology in a tutorial style, offering generic descriptions that, when applied, create an implementation of the methodology for any optimization problem. The second section presents the customization of the methodology to a given diversity problem, showing how to go from theory to application in creating a heuristic. The final part of the chapters is devoted to experimentation, describing the results obtained with the heuristic when solving the diversity problem. Experiments in the book target the so-called MDPLIB set of instances as a benchmark to evaluate the performance of the methods.


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Functions of Least Gradient
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ISBN: 3031518810 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Birkhäuser,

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This book is devoted to the least gradient problem and its variants. The least gradient problem concerns minimization of the total variation of a function with prescribed values on the boundary of a Lipschitz domain. It is the model problem for studying minimization problems involving functionals with linear growth. Functions which solve the least gradient problem for their own boundary data, which arise naturally in the study of minimal surfaces, are called functions of least gradient. The main part of the book is dedicated to presenting the recent advances in this theory. Among others are presented an Euler–Lagrange characterization of least gradient functions, an anisotropic counterpart of the least gradient problem motivated by an inverse problem in medical imaging, and state-of-the-art results concerning existence, regularity, and structure of solutions. Moreover, the authors present a surprising connection between the least gradient problem and the Monge–Kantorovich optimal transport problem and some of its consequences, and discuss formulations of the least gradient problem in the nonlocal and metric settings. Each chapter is followed by a discussion section concerning other research directions, generalizations of presented results, and presentation of some open problems. The book is intended as an introduction to the theory of least gradient functions and a reference tool for a general audience in analysis and PDEs. The readers are assumed to have a basic understanding of functional analysis and partial differential equations. Apart from this, the text is self-contained, and the book ends with five appendices on functions of bounded variation, geometric measure theory, convex analysis, optimal transport, and analysis in metric spaces.


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Mathematical Methods in Liquid Crystal Optics and Lens Design
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ISBN: 9783031466144 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,

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This book fills a gap in mathematical literature and attracts focus to liquid crystals for freeform lens design. It provides a rigorous mathematical perspective on liquid crystal optics, focusing on ray tracing in the geometric optics regime. A mathematical foundation is set to study lens design and ray tracing problems in liquid crystals. Additionally, it addresses absolute instruments, which cannot be designed through transformation optics and, until recently, only a handful of examples were known. Mathematically, this is a largely untapped area of research, yet the applications are profound. Finally, the book describes several open directions, revealing the richness of the intersection of liquid crystal optics and mathematical analysis. The content of this book will prove invaluable for researchers of mathematical optics as well as those interested in liquid crystal theory, in addition to those mathematics graduate students aiming to understand the physical basis of light propagation in liquid crystals.


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Modeling Calcium Signaling : A Fractional Perspective
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ISBN: 9789819716517 Year: 2024 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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This book focuses on the fundamental processes involved in calcium signaling through fractional mathematical modeling. The intended reader of the book is mathematically proficient students of cell biology, applied mathematics and mathematical biology who are interested in learning about modeling in cell biology. The book inspires the graduate students and researchers to collaborate with experimentalists while studying the direction needed to explore the modeling literature. Organized into four chapters, the book introduces fractional calculus and is devoted to understanding the receptor activation by the ligand, that is Thrombin via fractional model incorporating the Caputo-Fabrizio fractional operator. It studies the calcium profile in red blood cells with the help of the advection-diffusion equation. The book further studies the process of buffering, aiding the lowering of the calcium concentration in the cytosol, which rises due to calcium influx from extracellular space and intracellular storage. It explains the concept of anomalous diffusion—a mathematical model is proposed to characterize the anomalous subdiffusion of cytosolic calcium.


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Research Topics in Analysis, Volume II : Applications
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ISBN: 9783031641893 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Birkhäuser,

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This book, the second of two volumes, presents significant applications for understanding modern analysis. It empowers young researchers with key techniques and applications to explore various subfields of this broad subject and introduces relevant frameworks for immediate deployment. The applications list begins with Degree Theory, a useful tool for studying nonlinear equations. Chapter 2 deals with Fixed Point Theory, and Chapter 3 introduces Critical Point Theory. Chapter 4 presents the main spectral properties of linear, nonlinear, anisotropic, and double-phase differential operators. Chapter 5 covers semilinear and nonlinear elliptic equations with different boundary conditions, while Chapter 6 addresses dynamic systems monitored by ordinary and partial differential equations. Chapter 7 delves into optimal control problems, and Chapter 8 discusses some economic models, providing a brief presentation of Game Theory and Nash equilibrium. By offering a clear and comprehensive overview of modern analysis tools and applications, this work can greatly benefit mature graduate students seeking research topics, as well as experienced researchers interested in this vast and rich field of mathematics.


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Research Topics in Analysis. : Applications
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ISBN: 3031641892 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Birkhäuser,

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This book, the second of two volumes, presents significant applications for understanding modern analysis. It empowers young researchers with key techniques and applications to explore various subfields of this broad subject and introduces relevant frameworks for immediate deployment. The applications list begins with Degree Theory, a useful tool for studying nonlinear equations. Chapter 2 deals with Fixed Point Theory, and Chapter 3 introduces Critical Point Theory. Chapter 4 presents the main spectral properties of linear, nonlinear, anisotropic, and double-phase differential operators. Chapter 5 covers semilinear and nonlinear elliptic equations with different boundary conditions, while Chapter 6 addresses dynamic systems monitored by ordinary and partial differential equations. Chapter 7 delves into optimal control problems, and Chapter 8 discusses some economic models, providing a brief presentation of Game Theory and Nash equilibrium. By offering a clear and comprehensive overview of modern analysis tools and applications, this work can greatly benefit mature graduate students seeking research topics, as well as experienced researchers interested in this vast and rich field of mathematics.


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Optimization, Simulation and Control : ICOSC 2022, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 20–22
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ISBN: 303141229X 3031412281 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed works presented at the 7th International Conference on Optimization, Simulation and Control, ICOSC 2022, held at the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, June 20–22, 2022. Topics covered include (but are not limited to) mathematical programming; network, global, linear, nonlinear, parametric, stochastic, and multi-objective optimization; control theory; biomathematics; and deep and machine learning, to name a few. Held every three years since 2002, the ICOSC conference has become a traditional gathering for experienced and young researchers in optimization and control to share recent findings in these fields and discuss novel applications in myriad sectors. Researchers and graduate students in the fields of mathematics, engineering, and computer science can greatly benefit from this book, which can also be enjoyed by advanced practitioners in research laboratories and the industry. The 2022 edition of the ICOSC conference was sponsored by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the National University of Mongolia and the German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology.


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Spectral Geometry of Graphs
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ISBN: 3662678721 3662678705 Year: 2024 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Birkhäuser,

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This open access book gives a systematic introduction into the spectral theory of differential operators on metric graphs. Main focus is on the fundamental relations between the spectrum and the geometry of the underlying graph. The book has two central themes: the trace formula and inverse problems. The trace formula is relating the spectrum to the set of periodic orbits and is comparable to the celebrated Selberg and Chazarain-Duistermaat-Guillemin-Melrose trace formulas. Unexpectedly this formula allows one to construct non-trivial crystalline measures and Fourier quasicrystals solving one of the long-standing problems in Fourier analysis. The remarkable story of this mathematical odyssey is presented in the first part of the book. To solve the inverse problem for Schrödinger operators on metric graphs the magnetic boundary control method is introduced. Spectral data depending on the magnetic flux allow one to solve the inverse problem in full generality, this means to reconstruct not only the potential on a given graph, but also the underlying graph itself and the vertex conditions. The book provides an excellent example of recent studies where the interplay between different fields like operator theory, algebraic geometry and number theory, leads to unexpected and sound mathematical results. The book is thought as a graduate course book where every chapter is suitable for a separate lecture and includes problems for home studies. Numerous illuminating examples make it easier to understand new concepts and develop the necessary intuition for further studies.


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Calculus II : Practice Problems, Methods, and Solutions
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ISBN: 3031453530 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This study guide is designed for students taking a Calculus II course. The textbook includes examples, questions, and practice problems that will help students to review and sharpen their knowledge of the subject and enhance their performance in the classroom. The material covered in the book includes applications of integration, sequences and series and their applications, polar coordinate systems, and complex numbers. Offering detailed solutions, multiple methods for solving problems, and clear explanations of concepts, this hands-on guide will improve students’ problem-solving skills and foster a solid understanding of calculus, which will benefit them in all of their calculus-based courses. Exercises cover a wide selection of basic and advanced questions and problems; Arranges problems by difficulty level, catering to both well-prepared and less-experienced student; Provides detailed and instructor-recommended solutions and methods, along with clear explanations.

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