Classical and Modern Potential Theory and Applications

This is a collection of research papers based on the talks given at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held at Château de Bonas in France in July of 1993 and approved for publication by a panel of referees. The contributions are by some of the most prominent and active research workers in the subject from the NATO countries and a limited number of selected invitees from the rest of the mathematical world. The workshop brought together mathematicians doing work in the classical and the modern aspects of the subject for mutual interaction, and the articles in the volume bear evidence to this fact. This is a valuable book for all the mathematicians with research interest in potential theory. There are 33 research papers on several aspects of the current research in potential theory. Besides the latest research work of some of the most prominent and respected researchers in the subject, it contains a very valuable and thoroughly researched article on the mean value property of harmonic functions by I. Netuka and J. Vesely. The article by T. Murai on ozone depletion and its study through certain differential equations is very topical and undoubtedly of great interest to many. The volume also contains a large number of state-of-the-art research problems posed by the participants at the workshop.