Download or read book An Invitation to Hypoelliptic Operators and Hörmander's Vector Fields written by Marco Bramanti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​Hörmander's operators are an important class of linear elliptic-parabolic degenerate partial differential operators with smooth coefficients, which have been intensively studied since the late 1960s and are still an active field of research. This text provides the reader with a general overview of the field, with its motivations and problems, some of its fundamental results, and some recent lines of development.