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30 Years of Calderón’s Problem

Gunther Uhlmann (2012-2013)

Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications

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In this article we survey some of the most important developments since the 1980 paper of A.P. Calderón in which he proposed the problem of determining the conductivity of a medium by making voltage and current measurements at the boundary.

On the boundary values of harmonic functions.

Paul R. Garabedian (1985)

Revista Matemática Iberoamericana

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Over the years many methods have been discovered to prove the existence of a solution of the Dirichlet problem for Laplace's equation. A fairly recent collection of proofs is based on representations of the Green's functions in terms of the Bergman kernel function or some equivalent linear operator [3]. Perhaps the most fundamental of these approaches involves the projection of an arbitrary function onto the class of harmonic functions in a Hilbert space whose norm is defined by the...

Naturphilosophie and its role in Riemann’s mathematics

Umberto Bottazzini, Rossana Tazzioli (1995)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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This paper sets out to examine some of Riemann’s papers and notes left by him, in the light of the “philosophical” standpoint expounded in his writings on . There is some evidence that many of Riemann’s works, including his of 1854 on the foundations of geometry, may have sprung from his attempts to find a unified explanation for natural phenomena, on the basis of his model of the ether.

Solution of the Neumann problem for the Laplace equation

Dagmar Medková (1998)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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For fairly general open sets it is shown that we can express a solution of the Neumann problem for the Laplace equation in the form of a single layer potential of a signed measure which is given by a concrete series. If the open set is simply connected and bounded then the solution of the Dirichlet problem is the double layer potential with a density given by a similar series.

Spectrum of the Laplacian in a narrow curved strip with combined Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions

David Krejčiřík (2008)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

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We consider the Laplacian in a domain squeezed between two parallel curves in the plane, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on one of the curves and Neumann boundary conditions on the other. We derive two-term asymptotics for eigenvalues in the limit when the distance between the curves tends to zero. The asymptotics are uniform and local in the sense that the coefficients depend only on the extremal points where the ratio of the curvature radii of the Neumann boundary to the...