| Preface | |
| Sobolev Spaces | |
| Notation, basic properties, distributions | |
| Geometric assumptions for the domain | |
| Definitions and density properties for the Sobolev-Slobodeckii spaces | |
| The transformation theorem and Sobolev spaces on differentiable manifolds | |
| Definition of Sobolev spaces by the Fourier transformation and extension theorems | |
| Continuous embeddings and Sobolev's lemma | |
| Compact embeddings | |
| The trace operator | |
| Weak sequential compactness and approximation of derivatives by difference quotients | |
| Elliptic Differential Operators | |
| Linear differential operators | |
| The Lopatinskil-Sapiro condition and examples | |
| Fredholm operators | |
| The main theorem and some theorems on the index of elliptic boundary value problems | |
| Green's formulae | |
| The adjoint boundary value problem and the connection with the image space of the original operator | |
| Examples | |
| Strongly Elliptic Differential Operators and the Method of Variations | |
| Gelfand triples, the Law-Milgram, V-elliptic and V-coercive operators | |
| Agmon's condition | |
| Agmon's theorem: conditions for the V-coercion of strongly elliptic differential operators | |
| Regularity of the solutions of strongly elliptic equations | |
| The solution theorem for strongly elliptic equations and examples | |
| The Schauder fixed point theorem and a non-linear problem | |
| Elliptic boundary value problemss for unbounded regions | |
| Parabolic Differential Operators | |
| The Bochner integral | |
| Distributions with values in a Hilbert space H and the space W | |
| The existence and uniqueness of the solution of a parabolic differential equation | |
| The regularity of solutions of the parabolic differential equation | |
| Examples | |
| Hyperbolic Differential Operators | |
| Existence and uniqueness of the solution | |
| Regularity of the solutions of the hyperbolic differential equation | |
| Difference Processes for the Calculation of the Solution of the Partial Differential Equation | |
| Functional analytic concepts for difference processes | |
| Difference processes for elliptic differential equations and for the wave equation | |
| Evolution equations | |
| References | |
| Function and distribution spaces | |
| Index | |
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