- Series
- PDE Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Jeffrey Langford – Bucknell University
- Organizer
- Geng Chen
In a comparison theorem, one compares the solution of a given
PDE to a solution of a second PDE where the data are "rearranged." In this
talk, we begin by discussing some of the classical comparison results,
starting with Talenti's Theorem. We then discuss Neumann comparison
results, including a conjecture of Kawohl, and end with some new results in
balls and shells involving cap symmetrization.