Introduction -- The development of ideas about the mineral transformations and the facies of metamorphism -- Mineral geothermobarometry -- The causes, geodynamic factors and models of metamorphism -- Metamorphic processes in the rocks -- Conclusion.This book presents the genetic connections of metamorphism and geodynamics. It discusses the tectonic and magmatic processes as the reason of metamo…
Introduction -- Four Hamiltonian Systems -- Small Vibrations of Tetrahedral Molecules -- The Hydrogen Atom in Crossed Fields -- Quadratic Spherical Pendula -- Fractional Monodromy in the 1: - 2 Resonance System -- The Tetrahedral Group -- Local Properties of Equilibria -- References -- Index.Modern notions and important tools of classical mechanics are used in the study of concrete examples tha…
Random Closed Sets and Capacity Functionals -- Expectations of Random Sets -- Minkowski Addition -- Unions of Random Sets -- Random Sets and Random Functions. Appendices: Topological Spaces -- Linear Spaces -- Space of Closed Sets -- Compact Sets and the Hausdorff Metric -- Multifunctions and Continuity -- Measures and Probabilities -- Capacities -- Convex Sets -- Semigroups and Harmonic Analys…
Kinetic theory -- Related Markov processes -- Stochastic weighted particle method -- Numerical experiments.Stochastic numerical methods play an important role in large scale computations in the applied sciences. The first goal of this book is to give a mathematical description of classical direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) procedures for rarefied gases, using the theory of Markov processes a…
Inverse Problems and Interpretation of Measurements -- Classical Regularization Methods -- Statistical Inversion Theory -- Nonstationary Inverse Problems -- Classical Methods Revisited -- Model Problems -- Case Studies.The book develops the statistical approach to inverse problems with an emphasis on modeling and computations. The framework is the Bayesian paradigm, where all variables are mode…
Methods of Solving Ill-Posed Problems -- One-Dimensional Inverse Scattering and Spectral Problems -- Inverse Obstacle Scattering -- Stability of the Solutions to 3D Inverse Scattering Problems with Fixed-Energy Data -- Non-Uniqueness and Uniqueness Results -- Inverse Problems of Potential Theory and Other Inverse Source Problems -- Non-Overdetermined Inverse Problems -- Low-Frequency Inversion …
Foundational Material -- De Rham Cohomology and Harmonic Differential Forms -- Parallel Transport, Connections, and Covariant Derivatives -- Geodesics and Jacobi Fields -- Symmetric Spaces and Kähler Manifolds -- Morse Theory and Floer Homology -- Variational Problems from Quantum Field Theory -- Harmonic Maps.
Lévy Processes in Euclidean Spaces and Groups -- Locally Compact Quantum Groups -- Quantum Stochastic Analysis - an Introduction -- Dilations, Cocycles and Product Systems.This volume is the first of two volumes containing the revised and completed notes lectures given at the school "Quantum Independent Increment Processes: Structure and Applications to Physics". This school was held at the Al…
What is a Quadrature Domain? -- Recent Progress and Open Problems in the Bergman Space -- The Bergman Kernel and Quadrature Domains in the Plane -- The Cauchy Transform -- Quadrature Domains and Fluid Dynamics -- On Uniformly Discrete Sequences in the Disk -- Algebraic Aspects of the Dirichlet Problem -- Linear Analysis of Quadrature Domains. IV -- Restriction, Localization and Microlocalizatio…
Surveys -- An Introduction to Lattice Chiral Fermions -- Computing f(A)b for Matrix Functions f -- Computational Methods for the Fermion Determinant and the Link Between Overlap and Domain Wall Fermions -- Monte Carlo Simulations of Lattice QCD -- Lattice QCD -- Determinant and Order Statistics -- Monte Carlo Overrelaxation for SU(N) Gauge Theories -- Improved Staggered Fermions -- Perturbative…