Introduction to variational problems

• Grant number: 13/24123-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2014
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Mathematics - Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Waldemar Donizete Bastos
• Grantee: Wender dos Santos Lagoin
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The student will study the Lebesgue Integral, notions of distribuitions and Sobolev Spaces on the real line. He will use such notions to study the variational formulation of boundary value problems for some ordinary differential equations of second order.