MATS424 Viskositeettiteoria, 9 op, kevät 2015
Viscosity theory, 9 cr, spring 2015
This course can be considered as 'Partial differential equations 3'. The theory of viscosity solutions provides a modern approach to partial differential equations and extends the classical concept of a solution. The course deals with existence, uniqueness and regularity of viscosity solutions, and introduces connections to optimal control and games.
Announcements
The course has been graded. To get back your exercises, visit MaD306.
Schedule
Lectures on Thursdays 10.15-12.00 at MaD381 and Fridays 10.15-12.00 at MaD380. The first lecture is on Thursday 22.1.
Korppi
Korppi
Lectures
Lecture notes. (Further material and details during the lectures. Please email typos in the material to the lecturer.)
- Week 1: Vanishing viscosity, definition, examples.
- Week 2: sub- and supersolutions, equivalent definitions, examples
in comparison and uniqueness
- Week 3: comparison, Thm of sums, parabolic case
- Week 4: comparison for p-Laplacian and Perron's existence method
- Week 5: Perron examples, solutions for discontinuous operator, stability, existence through stability principle, uniformly elliptic operators
- Week 6: Pucci operators, Examples of uniformly elliptic operators, ABP-max principle
- Week 7: Proof of Harnack, C^a, C^( 1,a)
- Week 8: Finished C^(1,a), started one controller deterministic optimal control, group discussion on infinity harmonic functions and connections between weak and viscosity theory for div(A(x,Du))=0.
- Week 9: End of one controller deterministic optimal control, started Evans-Krylov C^(2,a)
- Week 10: C^(1,1), C^(2,a)
- Week 11: Ishii-Lions method for Hölder continuity, started Bernstein method
- Week 12: Bernstein method, two player deterministic game
Lecturer
Mikko Parviainen,
mikko.j.parviainen@jyu.fi, MaD306
Course requirements
Course is passed by solving a sufficient number of exercises, and returning solutions to the lecturer. There will be three exercise sets (about 20-25 problems each). You can return exercises to the lecturer at the lectures, at lecturer's office MaD306 (mailbox outside the office), or you can scan exercises and send them via email.
The course will be graded as follows
50% problems solved -> grade 1
....
90% problems solved -> grade 5
In addition, at least 5 problems of each set must be solved.
Prerequisites: PDE1. Also some linear algebra and differential calculus will be required.
Exercise sets
Literature
Outline of lectures will appear on the website.
Additional reading
- Koike: Beginners guide to the theory of viscosity solutions
- Caffarelli, Cabre: Fully nonlinear elliptic equations
- Fleming, Soner: Controlled Markov processes and viscosity solutions