Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Notation; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 Rearrangements; 1.1 The Distribution Function; 1.2 The Decreasing Rearrangement; 1.3 Induced Measures; 1.4 Measure Preserving Transformations; 1.5 Nonatomic Measure Spaces; 1.6 Symmetric Decreasing Rearrangement on R[sup(n)]; 1.7 Polarization on R[sup(n)]; 1.8 Convergence Theorems for Rearrangements; 1.9 Notes and Comments; 2 Main Inequalities on R[sup(n)]; 2.1 Convex and AL Functions; 2.2 Main Inequalities for Two-Point Symmetrization
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3.4 Sobolev Spaces W[sup(1,p)](R[sup(n)])3.5 Weak Compactness; 3.6 Symmetrization Decreases the p-Dirichlet Integral in W[sup(1,p)](R[sup(n)]); 3.7 Continuity and Discontinuity of the Symmetric Decreasing Rearrangement Operator; 3.8 Notes and Comments; 4 Geometric Isoperimetric and Sharp Sobolev Inequalities; 4.1 Hausdorff Measures, Area Formula, and the Gauss-Green Theorem; 4.2 Functions of Bounded Variation in R[sup(n)]; 4.3 Isoperimetric Inequalities for Perimeter and Hausdorff Measure; 4.4 Isoperimetric Inequalities for Minkowski Content; 4.5 Coarea Formula
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5.8 Notes and Comments6 Steiner Symmetrization; 6.1 Definition of Steiner Symmetrization; 6.2 Steiner Counterparts for Results in Chapter 1; 6.3 Steiner Analogues for Two Simple Polarization Results; 6.4 Certain Integral Functionals Increase or Decrease under Steiner Symmetrization; 6.5 Steiner Symmetrization Decreases the Modulus of Continuity; 6.6 Steiner Symmetrization Decreases Dirichlet Integrals; 6.7 Proof of Lemma 6.18; 6.8 Steiner Symmetrization Decreases p-Dirichlet Integrals in W[sup(1,p)](R[sup(n)]); 6.9 Steiner Symmetrization Decreases Surface Area
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Symmetrization is a rich area of mathematical analysis whose history reaches back to antiquity. This book presents many aspects of the theory, including symmetric decreasing rearrangement and circular and Steiner symmetrization in Euclidean spaces, spheres and hyperbolic spaces. Many energies, frequencies, capacities, eigenvalues, perimeters and function norms are shown to either decrease or increase under symmetrization. The book begins by focusing on Euclidean space, building up from two-point polarization with respect to hyperplanes. Background material in geometric measure theory and analysis is carefully developed, yielding self-contained proofs of all the major theorems. This leads to the analysis of functions defined on spheres and hyperbolic spaces, and then to convolutions, multiple integrals and hypercontractivity of the Poisson semigroup. The author's 'star function' method, which preserves subharmonicity, is developed with applications to semilinear PDEs. The book concludes with a thorough self-contained account of the star function's role in complex analysis, covering value distribution theory, conformal mapping and the hyperbolic metric.