Graduate Student Seminar, 4:30pm September 30, 2002, Hayes-Healy 229
Speaker:
Phil Harrington
Title:
An Introduction to the d-bar Neumann Problem
Abstract:
In several complex variables, we can characterize holomorphic functions as
the solutions to the Cauchy-Riemann equations (appropriately generalized
from one variable). In order to understand the properties of holomorphic
functions, it is helpful to be able to "solve" the Cauchy-Riemann equations,
which amounts to solving a first-order partial differential equation. The
first successful solution to this problem was Kohn's solution in the 1960's.
Kohn solved the problem by first solving an equivalent problem: the d-bar
Neumann problem, which was of independent interest in the theory of partial
differential equations. I will attempt to provide a gentle introduction to
the d-bar Neumann problem in order to show how it can be used to "solve" the
Cauchy-Riemann equations.
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