This second edition explores the relationship between elliptic and parabolic initial boundary value problems, for undergraduate and graduate students.

Kazuaki Taira is a part-time professor at Waseda University, Japan. He previously worked as a professor of mathematics at Hiroshima University from 1995 until 1998 and at the University of Tsukuba from 1998 until 2009. Taira has authored many books, the most recent being the second edition of Semigroups, Boundary Value Problems and Markov Processes (2014).

1. Introduction and main results; 2. Preliminaries from functional analysis; 3. Theory of analytic semigroups; 4. Sobolev imbedding theorems; 5. Lp theory of pseudo-differential operators; 6. Lp approach to elliptic boundary value problems; 7. Proof of theorem 1.1; 8. Proof of theorem 1.2; 9. Proof of theorems 1.3 and 1.4; Appendix A. The Laplace Transform; Appendix B. The Maximum Principle; Appendix C. Vector bundles; References; Index.