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In mathematics, Bochner spaces are a generalization of the concept of Lp spaces to more general domains and ranges than the initial definition, specifically by replacing the Lebesgue integral with the Bochner integral. They are often used in the functional analysis approach to the study of partial differential equations that depend on time, e.g. the heat equation. Bochner spaces are named for the Polish-American mathematician Salomon Bochner. [edit] DefinitionGiven a measure space (T, Σ, μ), a Banach space (X, || · ||X) and 1 ≤ p ≤ +∞, the Bochner space Lp(T; X) is defined to be the Kolmogorov quotient (by equality almost everywhere) of the space of all measurable functions u : T → X such that the corresponding norm is finite: In other words, as is usual in the study of Lp spaces, Lp(T; X) is a space of equivalence classes of functions, where two functions are defined to be equivalent if they are equal everywhere except upon a μ-measure zero subset of T. As is also usual in the study of such spaces, it is usual to abuse notation and speak of a "function" in Lp(T; X) rather than an equivalence class (which would be more technically correct). [edit] Application to PDE theoryVery often, the space T is an interval of time over which we wish to solve some partial differential equation, and μ will be one-dimensional Lebesgue measure. The idea is to regard a function of time and space as a collection of functions of space, this collection being parametrized by time. For example, in the solution of the heat equation on a region Ω in Rn and an interval of time [0, T], one seeks solutions with time derivative Here (The "partial derivative" with respect to time t above is actually a full derivative, since the use of Bochner spaces removes the space-dependence.) [edit] References
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