Joel Spruck
Joel Spruck (born 1946
Mathematical contributions
Spruck is well known in the field of elliptic
With Basilis Gidas, Spruck studied positive solutions of subcritical second-order elliptic partial differential equations of Yamabe type. With Caffarelli, they studied the Yamabe equation on Euclidean space, proving a positive mass-style theorem on the asymptotic behavior of isolated singularities.
In 1974, Spruck and
In the late 80s, Stanley Osher and James Sethian developed the level-set method as a computational tool in numerical analysis.[7] In collaboration with Lawrence Evans, Spruck pioneered the rigorous study of the level-set flow, as adapted to the mean curvature flow. The level-set approach to mean curvature flow is important in the technical ease with topological change that can occur along the flow. The same approach was independently developed by Yun Gang Chen, Yoshikazu Giga, and Shun'ichi Goto.[8] The works of Evans–Spruck and Chen–Giga–Goto found significant application in Gerhard Huisken and Tom Ilmanen's solution of the Riemannian Penrose inequality of general relativity and differential geometry, where they adopted the level-set approach to the inverse mean curvature flow.[9][10]
In 1994 Spruck was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.[11]
Major publications
- Hoffman, David; Spruck, Joel. Sobolev and isoperimetric inequalities for Riemannian submanifolds. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 27 (1974), 715–727.
- Gidas, B.; Spruck, J. A priori bounds for positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations. Comm. Partial Differential Equations 6 (1981), no. 8, 883–901.
- Gidas, B.; Spruck, J. Global and local behavior of positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 34 (1981), no. 4, 525–598.
- Caffarelli, L.; Nirenberg, L.; Spruck, J. The Dirichlet problem for nonlinear second-order elliptic equations. I. Monge-Ampère equation. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 37 (1984), no. 3, 369–402.
- Caffarelli, L.; Kohn, J.J.; Nirenberg, L.; Spruck, J. The Dirichlet problem for nonlinear second-order elliptic equations. II. Complex Monge-Ampère, and uniformly elliptic, equations. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 38 (1985), no. 2, 209–252.
- Caffarelli, L.; Nirenberg, L.; Spruck, J. The Dirichlet problem for nonlinear second-order elliptic equations. III. Functions of the eigenvalues of the Hessian. Acta Math. 155 (1985), no. 3–4, 261–301.
- Caffarelli, Luis A.; Gidas, Basilis; Spruck, Joel. Asymptotic symmetry and local behavior of semilinear elliptic equations with critical Sobolev growth. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 42 (1989), no. 3, 271–297.
- Evans, L.C.; Spruck, J. Motion of level sets by mean curvature. I. J. Differential Geom. 33 (1991), no. 3, 635–681.
- Spruck, Joel; Yang, Yi Song. Topological solutions in the self-dual Chern-Simons theory: existence and approximation. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 12 (1995), no. 1, 75–97.
Prizes
- Simons Fellowship (2012–2013)[12]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013 inauguration)[13]
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1999–2000)[14]
References
- ISBN 9783642051951– via Google Books.
- ^ "Joel Spruck". Mathematics.
- ^ Joel Spruck at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Michael, J.H.; Simon, L.M. Sobolev and mean-value inequalities on generalized submanifolds of Rn. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 26 (1973), 361–379.
- ^ Huisken, Gerhard. Contracting convex hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds by their mean curvature. Invent. Math. 84 (1986), no. 3, 463–480.
- ^ Schoen, Richard; Yau, Shing Tung. Proof of the positive mass theorem. II. Comm. Math. Phys. 79 (1981), no. 2, 231–260.
- ^ Osher, Stanley; Sethian, James A. Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations. J. Comput. Phys. 79 (1988), no. 1, 12–49.
- ^ Chen, Yun Gang; Giga, Yoshikazu; Goto, Shun'ichi. Uniqueness and existence of viscosity solutions of generalized mean curvature flow equations. J. Differential Geom. 33 (1991), no. 3, 749–786.
- ^ Huisken, Gerhard; Ilmanen, Tom. The inverse mean curvature flow and the Riemannian Penrose inequality. J. Differential Geom. 59 (2001), no. 3, 353–437.
- ^ A more general version of the Riemannian Penrose inequality was found at the same time by Hubert Bray, who did not make use of level-set methods.
- ISBN 3-7643-5153-5, pp. 1145–1152.
- ^ "Joel Spruck". Simons Foundation. July 13, 2017.
- ^ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Home Page". October 24, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-10-24.
External links
- Joel Spruck publications indexed by Google Scholar