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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Differential Equations for Probability - NMTP462
Title: Diferenciální rovnice pro pravděpodobnost
Guaranteed by: Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (32-KPMS)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2025
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English, Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: Mgr. Jakub Slavík, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Jakub Slavík, Ph.D.
Class: M Mgr. PMSE
M Mgr. PMSE > Povinně volitelné
Classification: Mathematics > Probability and Statistics
Is interchangeable with: NSTP186
Annotation -
In the lecture, some selected chapters from the theory of differential equations are dealt with. In particular, in the theory of ordinary differential equations: the notion of Caratheodory solution and its existence and uniqueness, continuous dependence on the initial datum, linear equations in a Euclidean space-structure of solutions, the fundamental matrix, variation of constants; in the theory of linear partial differential equations: 1st order equations, the method of characteristics, classification of equations of the 2nd order, parabolic equations, elliptic equations.
Last update: Zichová Jitka, RNDr., Dr. (20.05.2026)
Aim of the course -

The subject is aimed at the study of certain parts of ordinary differential equations, the heat equation and parabolic partial differential equations that are useful in probability theory.

Last update: Slavík Jakub, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.05.2026)
Course completion requirements -

Oral exam.

Last update: Zichová Jitka, RNDr., Dr. (25.04.2018)
Literature - Czech

J. Kurzweil: Obyčejné diferenciální rovnice. SNTL Praha, 1978.

A. Friedman: Partial Differential Equations of Parabolic Type. Prentice-Hall, N.J., 1964.

Last update: T_KPMS (16.05.2013)
Teaching methods -

Lecture.

Last update: T_KPMS (16.05.2013)
Requirements to the exam -

The examination is oral. Requirements (may be modified based on current material):

Rigorous and correct formulations of all definitions and statements:

ODE part: generalized solution (in the Carathéodory sense), theorems on local existence, nonexplosion, continuous dependence on initial data, definition of dynamical system, stability, asymptotic and exponential stability.

PDE part: concept of solution of heat equation and parabolic PDEs, fundamental solution, existence theorem for heat equation and parabolic PDEs, uniqueness for heat equation.

Examples.

Proofs required:

ODE part: local existence (based on Schauder fixed point), extension to maximal solutions, sufficient conditions for nonexplosion, theorems on stability.

PDE part: existence of solutions of heat equation.

Last update: Slavík Jakub, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.05.2026)
Syllabus -

1) the theory of ordinary differential equations; the notion of Carathéodory solution and its existence and uniqueness, continuous dependence on the initial datum, linear equations in a Euclidean space-structure of solutions, the fundamental matrix, variation of constants, indirect and direct Lyapunov stability.

2) the theory of linear partial differential equations; classification of PDEs, heat equation (the Cauchy problem), parabolic equations.

Last update: Slavík Jakub, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.05.2026)
Entry requirements -

In order to enroll, basic knowledge of standard calculus including measure theory and Lebesgue integral are required.

Last update: Maslowski Bohdan, prof. RNDr., DrSc. (24.05.2018)
 
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