Advanced Partial Differential Equations

A.Y. 2024/2025
6
Max ECTS
42
Overall hours
SSD
MAT/05
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
Getting acquainted with some regularity results for partial differential equations.
Expected learning outcomes
Basics methods which are used in the study of partial differential equations in order to obtain a priori estimates and which are at the base of the regularity theory.
Single course

This course can be attended as a single course.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
1. PDE examples
2. The basic model: harmonic functions.
3. Linear equations: Harnack's inequality, maximum principles and Schuder's estimates.
4. Geometrical properties of solutions to elliptic PDEs via the maximum principle.
5. Nonlinear variational problems: regularity and De Giorgi-Nash-Moser theory.
6. Some recent results and open problems.
Prerequisites for admission
Basic facts of real analysis.
Sobolev and Holder spaces (if needed, these topics will be briefly presented during the course).
Teaching methods
Traditional lessons.
Teaching Resources
1. Q. Han and F.H. Lin, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, Courant Lecture Notes in Math., v.1, 1997.
2. L. Ambrosio, A. Carlotto and A. Massaccesi, Lectures on Elliptic Partial Differen- tial Equations, Appunti. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa (N. S.) 18, Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, 2019.
3. Xavier Fernandez-Real and Xavier Ros-Oton, Regularity Theory for Elliptic PDE, available online.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of an oral examination. During the exam the student will have to give a seminar or discuss some results from the course's program as well as to solve some exercise in order to evaluate the knowledge of the student as well as his ability to apply them.
MAT/05 - MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor: Ciraolo Giulio
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Ciraolo Giulio