Multiscale Potential Theory: With Applications to Geoscience [Hardcover]

During the last few decades, the subject of potential theory has not been overly popular in the mathematics community. Neglected in favor of more abstract theories, it has been taught primarily where instructors have ac? tively engaged in research in this field. This situation has resulted in a scarcity of English language books of standard shape, size, and quality covering potential theory. The current book attempts to fill that gap in the literature. Since the rapid development of high-speed computers, the remarkable progress in highly advanced electronic measurement concepts, and, most of all, the significant impact of satellite technology, the flame of interest in potential theory has burned much brighter. The realization that more and more details of potential functions are adequately visualized by zooming? in procedures of modern approximation theory has added powerful fuel to the flame. It seems as if, all of a sudden, harmonic kernel functions such as splines and/or wavelets provide the impetus to offer appropriate means of assimilating and assessing the readily increasing flow of potential data, reducing it to comprehensible form, and providing an objective basis for scientific interpretation, classification, testing of concepts, and solutions of problems involving the Laplace operator.1 Introduction.- 2 Preliminary Tools.- 2.1 Basic Settings.- 2.2 Spherical Nomenclature.- 2.3 Sphere Oriented Potential Theory.- 2.4 Exercises.- I Well-Posed Problems.- 3 Boundary-Value Problems of Potential Theory.- 4 Boundary-Value Problems of Elasticity.- II Ill-Posed Problems.- 5 Satellite Problems.- 6 The Gravimetry Problem.- 7 Conclusion.- 8 Hints for the Solution of the Exercises.- References.

The book is devoted to well-posed and ill-posed boundary-value problems arising in geoscience, elasticity, gravimetry and other areas, including satellite problems. New mathematical methods and fast computational schemes based on harmonic analysis and wavelet transformsló_