Stanford Spring 2024, 4Applied mathematics, Sobolev spaces, variational formulation, coercivity
Consider the following problem on with mixed boundary
condition
a. Identify an appropriate Sobolev space on and derive the
variational formulation of this problem using this space.
b. Show that the bilinear form of the variational formulation is
coercive and bounded.
Stanford Spring 2024, 5Applied mathematics, energy decay, divergence-form elliptic operators, parabolic PDE
Consider the equation
where is and satisfies
for
all and , with some . We define
the energy as .
a. Let be a bounded open set with smooth boundary
and let be a solution to this equation with the
boundary condition , and an initial condition
. Prove that there exists
(depending only on and ) such that
b. Let and be a solution
in . Show that there is a constant that depends
only on and the dimension so that
Hint: part (a) of problem 2 might be useful for part b.
Stanford Spring 2024, 5Applied mathematics, random covering, geometric probability, concentration bounds
Let be the closed ball of radius and center in
. Fix and let be a
sequence of points independently identically distributed according
to the uniform distribution in the ball . Consider
the random set
,
and let .
a. Show that almost surely.
b. Define . Show
that, for any , there is
such that
for all ,
.
c. Show that, for any , there exists
such that
for all ,
.