Book Description

In these proceedings of the international conference held in Kyoto in memoryof the late Professor K saku Yosida, twenty six invited speakers display in their many facets of functional analysis and its applications in the research tradition of Yosida's school. Many of the topics are related tolinear and non-linear partial differential equations, including the Schr|dinger equations, the Navier-Stokes equations and quasilinear hyperbolic equations. Several of the papers are survey articles, the others are original (unpublished) and refereed research articles. Also included is a full listing of the publications of K. Yosida. Recommendedto students and research workers looking for a bird's-eye view of current research activity in functional analysis and its applications. FROM THE CONTENTS: K. Ito: Semigroups in probability theory.- T. Kato: Abstract evolution equations, linear and quasilinear, revisited.- J.L. Lions: Remarkson systems with incompletely given initial data and incompletely given part of the boundary.- H. Brezis: New energies for harmonic maps and liquid crystals.- D. Fujiwara: Some Feynman path integrals as oscillatory integrals over a Sobolev manifold.- M. Giga, Y. Giga, H. Sohr: L estimates for the Stokes system.- Y. Kawahigashi: Exactly solvable orbifold models and subfactors.- H. Kitada: Asymptotic completeness of N-body wave operators II. A new proof for the short-range case and the asymptotic clustering for the long-range systems. Y. Kobayashi, S. Oharu: Semigroups oflocally Lipschitzian operators and applications.- H. Komatsu: Operational calculus and semi-groups of operators.