Mathematical Methods in Physics: Distributions, Hilbert Space Operators, and Variational Methods - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Preface * Introduction * Spaces of test functions * Schwartz distributions * Calculus for distributions * Distributions as derivatives of functions * Tensor products * Convolution products * Applications of convolution * Holomorphic functions * Fourier Transformation * Distributions and analytic functions * Other spaces of generalized functions * Hilbert spaces: A brief historical introduction * Inner product spaces and Hilbert spaces * Geometry of Hilbert spaces * Separable Hilbert spaces * Direct sums and tensor products * Topological aspects * Linear operators * Quadratic forms * Bounded linear operators * Special classes of bounded operators * Self-adjoint Hamilton operators * Elements of spectral theory * Spectral theory of compact operators * The spectral theorem * Some applications of the spectral representation * Introduction * The direct methods in the calculus of variations * Differential calculus on Banach spaces and extrema of differentiable functions * Constrained minimization problems (Method of Lagrange multipliers) * Boundary and eigenvalue problems * Density functional theory of atoms and molecules * Appendices * References * Index

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