This book presents the topological and analytical foundations of the theory of Maslov's canonical operator for finding asymptotic solutions of a wide class of pseudodifferential equations. The topology and geometry of Lagrangian manifolds are studied in detail and the connections between Fourier integral operators and canonical operators established. Applications are proposed for the asymptotic solutions to the Cauchy problem and for the asymptotics of the spectra of non-self-dual operators. The authors set out to make more accessible to a wider readership - of specialists in topology, differential equations and functional analysis, including research students - the ideas of Maslov which were much more difficult and opaque in their original published form (1965). The book has been updated, as compared with the Russian edition, by numerous revisions within the text and the addition of two new chapters on more recent work.
- ISBN10 3540136134
- ISBN13 9783540136132
- Publish Date 14 September 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 November 2010
- Publish Country DE
- Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
- Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 405
- Language English