Selected Chapters in the Calculus of Var
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JΓΌrgen Moser
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Library
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2002
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BirkhΓ€user
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English
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These lecture notes describe a new development in the calculus of variations called Aubry-Mather-Theory. The starting point for the theoretical physicist Aubry was the description of the motion of electrons in a two-dimensional crystal in terms of a simple model. To do so, Aubry investigated a discr