Course Content (Syllabus)
i) Introductory material from Functional Analysis: weak topologies, weak convergence, weak compactness.
ii) Sobolev spaces: Definitions, approximations, extensions, traces. The Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev inequality, the Morrey estimate, general Sobolev inequalities. Compactness, Poincare inequalities, differnce quotients. Dual spaces.
iii) Second order elliptic equations: weak solutions, the Lax-Milgram theorem, energy estimates. Smoothness, maximum principle, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
iv) Second order parabolic equations: weak solutions, the Galerkin method, smoothness, maximum principle.