DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
Stampa
Enrollment year
2013/2014
Academic year
2014/2015
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
MAT/05 (MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Course
Curriculum
DIDATTICA E STORIA DELLA FISICA
Year of study
Period
1st semester (13/10/2014 - 23/01/2015)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
56 lesson hours
Language
ITALIAN
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
SAVARE' GIUSEPPE (titolare) - 9 ECTS
Prerequisites
Differential and integral calculus for scalar and vector functions, matrices and linear transformations, sequences and series, power series, complex numbers, polar coordinates.
Learning outcomes
Learn the basic results and techniques of the theory of ordinary differential equations and dynamical systems.
Acquire skill in manipulation and transforms of complex numbers and understand the first but deep results of complex function theory.
Course contents
The course is divided into two parts: the first one is devoted to the theory of ordinary differential equations and systems, with an introduction to the study of dynamical systems. The second part is an introduction to the theory of functions of one complex variable.

Extended summary

Models and examples of ODE's. General results concerning existence, uniqueness, comparison and stability for Cauchy problems. Elementary techniques for solving simple differential equations.
Linear systems of ODE's: general results and structure, exponential matrix. The method of Laplace transform.

Asymptotic behaviour of dynamical systems, stability (linearisation and Lyapunov method).

Example of complex functions. Differentiability.
Power series and contour integrals. Olomorphic functions. Cauchy theorem. Singularities, Laurent expansion, and residues. Cauchy theorem. Application to the evaluation of integrals. Analytic extension. Argument principle. Open mapping theorem. Further properties.
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercise sessions.
Reccomended or required readings
M. W. Hirsch, S. Smale, R. L. Devaney: Differential equations, dynamical systems, and an introduction to chaos. Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 60. Elsevier/Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2004.

A. Ambrosetti: Appunti sulle equazioni differenziali ordinarie. Springer Verlag, 2011.

H. Amann: Ordinary differential equations. An introduction to nonlinear analysis. de
Gruyter Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 13. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, 1990.

V. I. Arnold: Ordinary differential equations. Universitext, Springer-Verlag, 2006. Second printing of the 1992 edition.

S. Salsa, A. Squellati: Esercizi di analisi matematica 2. Masson, 1994.

E. M. Stein - R. Shakarchi: Complex analysis, Princeton Lectures in Analysis II, Princeton University Press (2003)

T. Needham: Visual Complex Analysis. Oxford University Press, 1997.

S.G. Krantz: A guide to complex variables. Mathematical Association of America, 2008

Lecture notes written by prof. Enrico Vitali (available on line)
Assessment methods
Written and oral test.
Further information
Written and oral test.
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