Aspects of Quantum Theory

Partialdifferentialequationsprovidemathematicalmodelsofmanyimportantproblemsinthephysicalsciencesandengineering.Thisbooktreatsoneclassofsuchequations,concentratingonmethodsinvolvingtheuseofsurfacepotentials.Itprovidesthefirstdetailedexpositionofthemathematicaltheoryofboundaryintegralequationsofthefirstkindonnon-smoothdomains.Includedarechaptersonthreespecificexamples:theLaplaceequation,theHelmholtzequationandtheequationsoflinearelasticity.Thebookisdesignedtoprovideanidealpreparationforstudyingthemodernresearchliteratureonboundaryelementmethods.