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Fuchsian reduction is a method for representing solutions of nonlinear PDEs near singularities. The technique has multiple applications including soliton theory, Einstein's equations and cosmology, stellar models, laser collapse, conformal geometry and combustion. Developed in the 1990s for semilinear wave equations, Fuchsian reduction research has grown in response to those problems in pure and applied mathematics where numerical computations fail.
This work unfolds systematically in four parts, interweaving theory and applications. The case studies examined in Part III illustrate the impact of reduction techniques, and may serve as prototypes for future new applications. In the same spirit, most chapters include a problem section. Background results and solutions to selected problems close the volume.
This book can be used as a text in graduate courses in pure or applied analysis, or as a resource for researchers working with singularities in geometry and mathematical physics.
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Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications Volume 71 Editor Haim Brezis Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie Paris and Rutgers University New Brunswick, N.J. Editorial Board Antonio Ambrosetti, Scuola Internationale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste A. Bahri, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Felix Browder, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Luis Caffarelli, The University of Texas, Austin Lawrence C. Evans, University of California, Berkeley Mariano Giaquinta, University of Pisa David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University Robert Kohn, New York University P. L. Lions, University of Paris IX Jean Mawhin, Universit´e Catholique de Louvain Louis Nirenberg, New York University Lambertus Peletier, University of Leiden Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin, Madison John Toland, University of B