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Publications and source records attributed to Sascha Trostorff.
We consider the Dirac equation in a real setting to show its close relationship to Maxwell's equation. In addition to analysing the classical Dirac mass term, we also inspect the alternative Majorana mass term and discuss their quaternionic structure and its consequences.
Using the theory of evolutionary equations, we consider abstract differential equations including non-local integral operators. After providing a condition for the well-posedness of the addressed equation we consider a numerical method of approximating its solution. We provide convergence proofs under conditions on the kernel of the integral operator and the solution and finish the paper with some simulation results.
We consider evolutionary equations as introduced by R.\ Picard in 2009 and develop a general theory for approximation which can be seen as a theoretical foundation for numerical analysis for evolutionary equations. To demonstrate the approximation result, we apply it to a spatial discretisation of the heat equation using spectral methods.
In silico testing of implant materials is a research area of high interest, as cost- and labour-intensive experiments may be omitted. However, assessing the tissue-material interaction mathematically and computationally can be very complex, in particular when functional, such as biodegradable, implant materials are investigated. In this work, we expand and refine suitable existing mathematical models of bone growth and magnesium-based implant degradation based on ordinary differential equations. We show that we can simulate the implant degradation, as well as the osseointegration in terms of relative bone volume fraction and changes in bone ultrastructure when applying the model to experimental data from titanium and magnesium-gadolinium implants for healing times up to 32 weeks. An additional sensitivity analysis highlights important parameters and their interactions. Moreover, we show that the model is predictive in terms of relative bone volume fraction with mean absolute errors below 6%.
Given an energy-dissipating port-Hamiltonian system, we characterise the exponential decay of the energy via the model ingredients under mild conditions on the Hamiltonian density $\mathcal{H}$. In passing, we obtain generalisations for sufficient criteria in the literature by making regularity requirements for the Hamiltonian density largely obsolete. The key assumption for the characterisation (and thus the sufficient critera) to work is a uniform bound for a family of fundamental solutions for some non-autonomous, finite-dimensional ODEs. Regularity conditions on $\mathcal{H}$ for previously known criteria such as bounded variation are shown to imply the key assumption. Exponentially stable port-Hamiltonian systems with irregular $L_{\infty}$-densities are provided.
We provide certain compatibility conditions for m-accretive operators such that the adjoint of the sum is given by the closure of the sum of the respective adjoint. We revisit the proof of well-posedness of the abstract class of partial differential-algebraic equations known as evolutionary equations. We show that the general mechanism provided here can be applied to establish well-posedness for non-autonomous evolutionary equations with $L_{\infty}$-coefficients thus not only generalising known results but opening up new directions other methods such as evolution families have a hard time to come by.
We consider skew-symmetric operators on a Hilbert space and study m-accretive restrictions of their negative adjoints. Using the theory of boundary systems, we provide a full characterisation of all those m-accretive restrictions, linear and nonlinear ones. The result is then applied to port-Hamiltonian systems of arbitrary order.
We consider two operators $A_{0},B_{0}$ between two Hilbert spaces satisfying $A_{0}\subseteq-B_{0}^{\ast}$ and $B_{0}\subseteq-A_{0}^{\ast}$ and inspect extensions $A^{\#}$ and $B^{\#}$ of $A_{0}$ and $B_{0}$, respectively, whose domain consists of those elements satisfying an abstract periodic boundary condition. The motivating example is the derivative on some interval, where the so-defined realisation gives the classical derivative with periodic boundary conditions. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the operator equality $A^{\#}=-\left(B^{\#}\right)^{\ast}$ and illustrate our findings by applications to the classical vector analytic operators $\mathrm{grad},\,\mathrm{div}$ and $\mathrm{curl}$. In particular, the realisation $\mathrm{curl}^{\#}$ naturally arises in the study of so-called Beltrami fields.
We consider skew-symmetric operators $A_{0}$ on a Hilbert space $H$ and characterise all (nonlinear) m-accretive restrictions of $A:=-A_{0}^{\ast}$ in terms of the "deficiency spaces" $\ker(1\pm A)$. The results are illustrated by several examples and applied to a partial differential equation with an impedance type boundary condition.
We study port-Hamiltonian systems on a familiy of intervals and characterise all boundary conditions leading to $m$-accretive realisations of the port-Hamiltonian operator and thus to generators of contractive semigroups. The proofs are based on a structural observation that the port-Hamiltonian operator can be transformed to the derivative on a familiy of reference intervals by suitable congruence relations allowing for studying the simpler case of a transport equation. Moreover, we provide well-posedness results for associated control problems without assuming any additional regularity of the operators involved.
An abstract first order differential equation of hyperbolic type with drift term on a Riemannian manifold is considered. For proving its well-posedness, transmutator and commutator relations are needed, which are studied in a general functional analytic setting.
We present an abstract framework for parabolic type equations which possibly degenerate on certain spatial regions. The degeneracies are such that the equations under investigation may admit a type change ranging from parabolic to elliptic type problems. The approach is an adaptation of the concept of so-called evolutionary equations in Hilbert spaces and is eventually applied to a degenerate eddy current type model. The functional analytic setting requires quite minimal assumptions on the boundary and interface regularity. The degenerate eddy current model is justified as a limit model of non-degenerate hyperbolic models of Maxwell's equations.
We discuss the issue of maximal regularity for evolutionary equations with non-autonomous coefficients. Here evolutionary equations are abstract partial-differential algebraic equations considered in Hilbert spaces. The catch is to consider time-dependent partial differential equations in an exponentially weighted Hilbert space. In passing, one establishes the time derivative as a continuously invertible, normal operator admitting a functional calculus with the Fourier--Laplace transformation providing the spectral representation. Here, the main result is then a regularity result for well-posed evolutionary equations solely based on an assumed parabolic-type structure of the equation and estimates of the commutator of the coefficients with the square root of the time derivative. We thus simultaneously generalise available results in the literature for non-smooth domains. Examples for equations in divergence form, integro-differential equations, perturbations with non-autonomous and rough coefficients as well as non-autonomous equations of eddy current type are considered.
This is the final version of the lecture notes of the 23rd Internet Seminar on Evolutionary Equations, see also https://www.mat.tuhh.de/isem23/.
We study fractional differential equations of Riemann-Liouville and Caputo type in Hilbert spaces. Using exponentially weighted spaces of functions defined on $\mathbb{R}$, we define fractional operators by means of a functional calculus using the Fourier transform. Main tools are extrapolation- and interpolation spaces. Main results are the existence and uniqueness of solutions and the causality of solution operators for non-linear fractional differential equations.
We consider differential-algebraic equations in infinite dimensional state spaces and study, under which conditions we can associate a $C_{0}$-semigroup with such equations. We determine the right space of initial values and characterise the existence of a $C_{0}$-semigroup in the case of operator pencils with polynomially bounded resolvents.
We show how strongly continuous semigroups can be associated with evolutionary equations. For doing so, we need to define the space of admissible history functions and initial states. Moreover, the initial value problem has to be formulated within the framework of evolutionary equations, which is done by using the theory of extrapolation spaces. The results are applied to two examples. First, differential-algebraic equations in infinite dimensions are treated and it is shown, how a C_{0}-semigroup can be associated with such problems. In the second example we treat a concrete hyperbolic delay equation.
We consider an abstract class of differential inclusions, which covers differential-algebraic and non-autonomous problems as well as problems with delay. Under weak assumptions on the operators involved, we prove the well-posedness of those differential inclusions in a pure Hilbert space setting. Moreover, we study the causality of the associated solution operator. The theory is illustrated by an application to a semistatic quasilinear variant of Maxwell's equations.