Acknowledgment
PrefacetotheSecondEdition
PrefacetotheFirstEdition
ListofFrequentlyUsedSymbols
PARTI
BasicLinearTheory
CHAPTER1
Ill-PosedProblems
A.SomeExamples
B.Lewy'sExample
CHAPTER2
CharacteristicsandInitial-ValueProblems
CHAPTER3
TheOne-DimensionalWaveEquation
CHAPTER4
UniquenessandEnergyIntegrals
CHAPTER5
Holmgren'sUniquenessTheorem
CHAPTER6
AnInitial-ValueProblemforaHyperbolicEquation
CHAPTER7
DistributionTheory
A.ACursoryView
B.FundamentalSolutions
C.Appendix
CHAPTER8
Second-OrderLinearEllipticEquations
A.TheStrongMaximumPrinciple
B.A-PrioriEstimates
C.ExistenceofSolutions
D.EllipticRegularity
CHAPTER9
Second-OrderLinearParabolicEquations
A.TheHeatEquation
B.StrongMaximumPrinciples
PARTII
Reaction-DiffusionEquations
CHAPTER10
ComparisonTheoremsandMonotonicityMethods
A.ComparisonTheoremsforNonlinearEquations
B.UpperandLowerSolutions
C.Applications
CHAPTER11
Linearization
A.SpectralTheoryforSelf-AdjointOperators
B.LinearizedStability
C.Appendix:TheKrein-RutmanTheorem
CHAPTER12
TopologicalMethods
A.DegreeTheoryinRn
B.TheLeray-SchauderDegree
C.AnIntroductiontoMorseTheory
D.ARapidCourseinTopology
CHAPTER13
BifurcationTheory
A.TheImplicitFunctionTheorem
B.StabilityofBifurcatingSolutions
C.SomeGeneralBifurcationTheorems
D.SpontaneousBifurcation;AnExample
CHAPTER14
SystemsofReaction-DiffusionEquations
A.LocalExistenceofSolutions
B.InvariantRegions
C.AComparisonTheorem
D.DecaytoSpatiallyHomogeneousSolutions
E.ALyapunovFunctionforContractingRectangles
F.ApplicationstotheEquationsofMathematicalEcology
PARTIII
TheTheoryofShockWaves
CHAPTER15
DiscontinuousSolutionsofConservationLaws
A.DiscontinuousSolutions
B.WeakSolutionsofConservationLaws
C.EvolutionarySystems
D.TheShockInequalities
E.Irreversibility
CHAPTER16
TheSingleConservationLaw
A.ExistenceofanEntropySolution
B.UniquenessoftheEntropySolution
C.AsymptoticBehavioroftheEntropySolution
D.TheRiemannProblemforaScalarConservationLaw
CHAPTER17
TheRiemannProblemforSystemsofConservationLaws
A.Thep-System
B.ShocksandSimpleWaves
C.SolutionoftheGeneralRiemannProblem
CHAPTER18
ApplicationstoGasDynamics
A.TheShockInequalities
B.TheRiemannProbleminGasDynamics
C.InteractionofShockWaves
CHAPTER19
TheGlimmDifferenceScheme
A.TheInteractionEstimate
B.TheDifferenceApproximation
C.Convergence
CHAPTER20
RiemannInvariants,Entropy,andUniqueness
A.Riemannlnvariants
B.AConceptofEntropy
C.Solutionswith"Big"Data
D.InstabilityofRarefactionShocks
E.Oleinik'sUniquenessTheorem
CHAPTER21
Quasi-LinearParabolicSystems
A.GradientSystems
B.ArtificialViscosity
C.IsentropicGasDynamics
PARTIV
TheConleyIndex
CHAPTER22
TheConleyIndex
A.AnImpressionisticOverview
B.IsolatedInvariantSetsandIsolatingBlocks
C.TheHomotopyIndex
CHAPTER23
IndexPairsandtheContinuationTheorem
A.MorseDecompositionsandIndexPairs
B.TheConleyIndexofanIsolatedInvariantSet
C.Continuation
D.SomeFurtherRemarks
CHAPTER24
TravellingWaves
A.TheStructureofWeakShockWaves
B.TheStructureofMagnetohydrodynamicShockWaves
C.PeriodicTravellingWaves
D.StabilityorSteady-StateSolutions
E.InstabilityofEquilibriumSolutionsortheNeumannProblem
F.Appendix:ACriterionforNondegeneracy
CHAPTER25
RecentResults
SectionI.Reaction-DiffusionEquations
A.StabilityoftheFitz-Hugh-NagumoTravellingPulse
B.Symmetry-Breaking
C.ABifurcationTheorem
D.EquivariantConleyIndex
E.ApplicationtoSemilinearEllipticEquations
ConcludingRemarks
SectionII.TheoryofShockWaves
A.CompensatedCompactness
B.StabilityofShockWaves
C.MiscellaneousResults
SectionIII.ConleyIndexTheory
A.TheConnectionIndex
B.Conley'sConnectionMatrix
C.MiscellaneousResults
SectionIV.StabilityofTravellingWaves--ATopologicalApproach
A.Introduction
B.TheSearchforp(L)
C.ApplicationstoFast-SlowSystems
References
Bibliography
AuthorIndex
SubjectIndex