Fundamental points of potential theory.

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Potential theory

In this chapter we will introduce the reader to the techniques of the Boundary Element Method applied to simple Laplacian problems. Most classical applications refer to electrostatic and magnetic fields, but the Laplacian operator also governs problems such as Saint-Venant torsion, irrotational flow, fluid flow through porous media and the added fluid mass in fluidstructure interaction problems. This short list, to which it would be possible to add many other physical problems governed by the same equation, is an indication of the importance of the numerical treatment of the Laplacian operator. Potential theory has pioneered the use of BEM since the papers of Jaswon and Hess. An interesting introduction to the topic is given by Cruse. In the last five years a renaissance of integral methods has been detected. This can be followed in the books by Jaswon and Symm and by Brebbia or Brebbia and Walker.In this chapter we shall maintain an elementary level and follow a classical scheme in order to make the content accessible to the reader who has just started to study the technique. The whole emphasis has been put on the socalled "direct" method because it is the one which appears to offer more advantages. In this section we recall the classical concepts of potential theory and establish the basic equations of the method. Later on we discuss the discretization philosophy, the implementation of different kinds of elements and the advantages of substructuring which is unavoidable when dealing with heterogeneous materials.

Die potentialfunction und das potential. Ein beitrag zur mathematischen physik,

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Potential theory on metric spaces

This work revolves around potential theory in metric spaces, focusing on applications of dyadic potential theory to general problems associated to functional analysis and harmonic analysis. In the first part of this work we consider the weighted dual dyadic Hardy's inequality over dyadic trees and we use the Bellman function method to characterize the weights for which the inequality holds, and find the optimal constant for which our statement holds. We also show that our Bellman function is the solution to a stochastic optimal control problem. In the second part of this work we consider the problem of quasi-additivity formulas for the Riesz capacity in metric spaces and we prove formulas of quasi-additivity in the setting of the tree boundaries and in the setting of Ahlfors-regular spaces. We also consider a proper Harmonic extension to one additional variable of Riesz potentials of functions on a compact Ahlfors-regular space and we use our quasi-additivity formula to prove a result of tangential convergence of the harmonic extension of the Riesz potential up to an exceptional set of null measure

Beurling-Landau densities of weighted Fekete sets and correlation kernel estimates

Let $Q$ be a suitable real function on $C$. An $n$-Fekete set corresponding to $Q$ is a subset ${Z_{n1}},\dotsb, Z_{nn}}$ of $C$ which maximizes the expression $\Pi^n_i_{potential $Q=|Z|^2$ we obtain results which hold globally, and we conjecture that such global results are true for a wide range of potentials.

On Lundh's percolation diffusion

A collection of spherical obstacles in the unit ball in Euclidean space is said to be avoidable for Brownian motion if there is a positive probability that Brownian motion diffusing from some point in the ball will avoid all the obstacles and reach the boundary of the ball. The centres of the spherical obstacles are generated according to a Poisson point process while the radius of an obstacle is a deterministic function. If avoidable configurations are generated with positive probability, Lundh calls this percolation diffusion. An integral condition for percolation diffusion is derived in terms of the intensity of the point process and the function that determines the radii of the obstacles.

Beiträge zum studium der randwertaufgaben, von C. Neumann ... Mit 59 figuren im text.

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Potentiel du temps de parcours.

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Die Grundlagen der Theorie des logarithmischen Potentiales und der eindeutigen Potentialfunktion in der Ebene /

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Allgemeine Untersuchungen über das Newton'sche Princip der Fernwirkungen, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die elektrischen Wirkungen.

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Théorie du potentiel et ses applications à l'électrostatique et au magnétisme,

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Théorie du potentiel Newtonien. Leçons professés [à la Sorbonne] pendant le premier semestre 1894-1895

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Vorlesungen über die im umgekehrten Verhältniss des Quadrats der Entfernung wirkenden Kräfte /

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