【Plenary Lecture】Streamlines and "Soft Shocks" for the Infinity Laplacian PDE

Date

Monday, August 5, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00

Location

L4E48

Description

Speaker: Prof. Lawrence C Evans (University of Carfornia, Berkeley)

Title: Streamlines and "Soft Shocks" for the Infinity Laplacian PDE

Abstract: I will  first discuss how to linearize the two-dimensional Infinity Laplacian PDE, a very strange nonlinear equation arising from sup-norm variational problems.

I will then show how this linearization lets us describe in some detail the geometry of gradient streamlines and their intersections at cusps, forming patterns of  ``soft shocks''.

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