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In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for systems of 3-D quasilinear wave equations satisfying the null condition with initial data of low regularity. In the radially symmetric case, we prove the global existence for every small data in H 3 × H 2 with a low weight. To achieve this goal, we will show how to extend the global iteration method first suggested by Li and Chen (1988) [32] to the low regularity case, which is also another purpose of this paper. Finally, we apply our result to 3-D nonlinear elastic waves.

International audience; In this paper, we consider a semi-linear fourth order parabolic equation in a bounded smooth domain Ω with homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The main result of this paper is the null controllability and the exact controllability to the trajectories at any time T > 0 for the associated control system with a control function acting at the interior.; Dans ce papier, on considère uneéquation parabolique semi-linéaire de quatrième ordre dans un domaine borné régulier Ω avec des conditions aux limites de type Dirichlet et Neumann homogènes. Le résultat principal de ce papier concerne la contrôlabilitéà zéro et la contrôlabilité exacte pour tout T > 0 du système de contrôle associé avec un contrôle agissantà l'interieur.

We investigate a steady planar flow of an ideal fluid in a bounded simply connected domain and focus on the vortex patch problem with prescribed vorticity strength. There are two methods to deal with the existence of solutions for this problem: the vorticity method and the stream function method. A long standing open problem is whether these two entirely different methods result in the same solution. In this paper, we will give a positive answer to this problem by studying the local uniqueness of the solutions. Another result obtained in this paper is that if the domain is convex, then the vortex patch problem has a unique solution.

The purpose of this paper is to show well-posedness results in L 2 -based Sobolev spaces for transmission, Dirichlet, Neumann, and mixed boundary value problems for the Brinkman system with L ∞ coefficients in Lipschitz domains on a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension m ≥ 2 . The Dirichlet, transmission, and mixed problems for the nonlinear Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman system with L ∞ coefficients are also analyzed. First, we focus on the well-posedness of linear transmission, Dirichlet and mixed boundary value problems for the Brinkman system with L ∞ coefficients in Lipschitz domains on compact Riemannian manifolds by using a variational approach that reduces such a boundary value problem to a mixed variational formulation defined in terms of two bilinear continuous forms, one of them satisfying a coercivity condition and another one the inf-sup condition. Further, we show the equivalence between each boundary value problem for the Brinkman system with L ∞ coefficients and its mixed variational counterpart, and then the well posedness in L 2 -based Sobolev spaces by using the Necas-Babuska-Brezzi technique. The second goal of this paper is the construction of the Newtonian and layer potential operators for the Brinkman system with L ∞ coefficients in Lipschitz domains on compact Riemannian manifolds by using the well-posedness results for the analyzed linear transmission problems. Various mapping properties of these operators are also obtained and used to describe the weak solutions of the Poisson problems with Dirichlet and Neumann conditions for the nonsmooth Brinkman system in terms of such potentials. Finally, we combine the well-posedness results of the Poisson problems of Dirichlet, transmission, and mixed type for the nonsmooth Brinkman system with a fixed point theorem in order to show the existence of a weak solution of the Poisson problem of Dirichlet, transmission, or mixed type for the (nonlinear) Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman system with L ∞ coefficients in L 2 -based Sobolev spaces in Lipschitz domains on compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension m ∈ { 2 , 3 } .

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of bounded solutions of the Cauchy problem { u t = u x x + f ( t , u ) , x ∈ R , t > 0 , u ( x , 0 ) = u 0 , x ∈ R , where u 0 is a nonnegative bounded function with compact support and f is a rather general nonlinearity that is periodic in t and satisfies f ( ⋅ , 0 ) = 0 . In the autonomous case where f = f ( u ) , the convergence of every bounded solution to an equilibrium has been established by Du and Matano (2010). However, the presence of periodic forcing makes the problem significantly more difficult, partly because the structure of time periodic solutions is much less understood than that of steady states. In this paper, we first prove that any ω-limit solution is either spatially constant or symmetrically decreasing. Furthermore, we show that the set of ω-limit solutions either consists of a single time-periodic solution or it consists of multiple time-periodic solutions and heteroclinic connections among them. Next, under a mild non-degenerate assumption on the corresponding ODE, we prove that the ω-limit set is a singleton, which implies the solution converges to a time-periodic solution. Lastly, we apply these results to equations with bistable nonlinearity and combustion nonlinearity, and specify more precisely which time-periodic solutions can possibly be selected as the limit.

Though the boundary layer formation in the chemotactic process has been observed in experiment (cf. [63] ), the mathematical study on the boundary layer solutions of chemotaxis models is just in its infant stage. Apart from the sophisticated theoretical tools involved in the analysis, how to impose/derive physical boundary conditions is a state-of-the-art in studying the boundary layer problem of chemotaxis models. This paper will proceed with a previous work [24] in one dimension to establish the convergence of boundary layer solutions of the Keller–Segel model with singular sensitivity in a two-dimensional space (half-plane) with respect to the chemical diffusion rate denoted by e ≥ 0 . Compared to the one-dimensional boundary layer problem, there are many new issues arising from multi-dimensions such as possible Prandtl type degeneracy, curl-free preservation and well-posedness of large-data solutions. In this paper, we shall derive appropriate physical boundary conditions and gradually overcome these barriers and hence establish the convergence of boundary layer solutions of the singular Keller–Segel system in the half-plane as the chemical diffusion rate vanishes. Specially speaking, we justify that the boundary layer converges to the outer layer (solution with e = 0 ) plus the inner layer as e → 0 , where both outer and inner layer profiles are precisely derived and well understood. By doing this, the structure of boundary layer solutions is clearly characterized. We hope that our results and methods can shed lights on the understanding of underlying mechanisms of the boundary layer patterns observed in the experiment for chemotaxis such as the work by Tuval et al. [63] , and open a new window in the future theoretical study of chemotaxis models.

From spline theory it is well-known that univariate cubic spline interpolation, if carried out in its natural Hilbert space W 2 2 [ a , b ] and on point sets with fill distance h , converges only like O ( h 2 ) in L 2 [ a , b ] if no additional assumptions are made. But superconvergence up to order h 4 occurs if more smoothness is assumed and if certain additional boundary conditions are satisfied. This phenomenon was generalized in 1999 to multivariate interpolation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces on domains Ω ⊂ R d for continuous positive definite Fourier-transformable shift-invariant kernels on R d . But the sufficient condition for superconvergence given in 1999 still needs further analysis, because the interplay between smoothness and boundary conditions is not clear at all. Furthermore, if only additional smoothness is assumed, superconvergence is numerically observed in the interior of the domain, but a theoretical foundation still is a challenging open problem. This paper first generalizes the “improved error bounds” of 1999 by an abstract theory that includes the Aubin–Nitsche trick and the known superconvergence results for univariate polynomial splines. Then the paper analyzes what is behind the sufficient conditions for superconvergence. They split into conditions on smoothness and localization, and these are investigated independently. If sufficient smoothness is present, but no additional localization conditions are assumed, it is numerically observed that superconvergence always occurs in the interior of the domain, and some supporting arguments are provided. If smoothness and localization interact in the kernel-based case on R d , weak and strong boundary conditions in terms of pseudodifferential operators occur. A special section on Mercer expansions is added, because Mercer eigenfunctions always satisfy the sufficient conditions for superconvergence. Numerical examples illustrate the theoretical findings.

In this paper, we present and analyze a prey-predator system, in which prey species can be infected with some disease. The model presented in this paper is motivated from D. Mukherjee’s model in which he has considered an SI model for the prey species. There are substantial evidences that infected individuals have the ability to recover from the disease if vaccinated/ treated properly. In this regard, Mukherjee’s model is modified by considering SIS model for prey species. Theoretical and numerical simulations show that the recovery of infected prey species plays a crucial role in eliminating the limit cycle oscillations and thus making the interior equilibrium point stable. The possibility of Hopf bifurcation around non zero equilibrium point using the recovery rate as a bifurcation parameter, is discussed. Further, the model is extended by incorporating the harvesting of predator population. A monitory agency has been introduced which monitors the exploitation of resources by implementing certain taxes for each unit biomass of the predator population. The main purpose of the present research is to explore the effect of recovery rate of prey on the dynamics of the system and to optimize the total economical net profits from harvesting of predator species, taking taxation as control parameter.

This paper deals with the existence of multiple solutions for the quasilinear equation − div A ( x , ∇ u ) + V ( x ) | u | α ( x ) − 2 u = f ( x , u ) in R N , which involves a general variable exponent elliptic operator in divergence form. The problem corresponds to double phase anisotropic phenomena, in the sense that the differential operator has behaviors like | ξ | q ( x ) − 2 ξ for small | ξ | and like | ξ | p ( x ) − 2 ξ for large | ξ | , where 1 α ( ⋅ ) ≤ p ( ⋅ ) q ( ⋅ ) N . Our aim is to approach variationally the problem by using the tools of critical points theory in generalized Orlicz–Sobolev spaces with variable exponent. Our results extend the previous works A. Azzollini et al. (2014) [4] and N. Chorfi and V. Radulescu (2016) [11] from cases where the exponents p and q are constant, to the case where p ( ⋅ ) and q ( ⋅ ) are functions. We also substantially weaken some of the hypotheses in these papers and we overcome the lack of compactness by using the Cerami compactness condition.

This paper develops the analytical conditions for the existence of periodic solutions of a second-order,time-delayed, discontinuous dynamical system. A sample model consists of two linear delayed sub-systems with a switching boundary. The defined G-functions for the delayed, discontinuous systems are introduced, and sufficient and necessary conditions for a flow crossing, sliding and grazing along the switch boundary are developed for such a delayed, discontinuous system. Furthermore, nine (9) regular basic mappings in phase plane and thirty-three (33) delay-related mappings for the second-order, time-delayed, discontinuous systems are classified. Constraint equations are predicted analytically for two periodic orbits with initial functions provided posteriorly. Finally, three numerical examples are illustrated to verify the existence of generalized slowly oscillating periodic orbits without and with sliding portions. This paper improves and extends motion switchability conditions at the boundary in discontinuous dynamical systems without delay.

Motivated by the paper Gerard-Varet and Dormy (2010) [6] [JAMS, 2010] about the linear ill-posedness for the Prandtl equations around a shear flow with exponential decay in normal variable, and the recent study of well-posedness on the Prandtl equations in Sobolev spaces, this paper aims to extend the result in [6] to the case when the shear flow has general decay. The key observation is to construct an approximate solution that captures the initial layer to the linearized problem motivated by the precise formulation of solutions to the inviscid Prandtl equations.

In this paper, we study the effect of stochastic noise on the virus infection model with nonlytic immune response. Firstly, the mathematical model describing the virus infection with nonlytic immune response is presented. The basic reproduction number is derived and the stability of disease-free state E0 and disease state E1 are analysed. Then the threshold conditions for extinction and persistence of the virus are derived by the rigorous theoretical proofs. It is found that when the noise is large enough, the virus will die out without constraint. When the noise is small, the virus will become extinct under the condition R 0 * 1 and persistence under R 0 * * > 1 . Besides, the upper bound and lower bound for persistence have been given. At last, some numerical simulations are carried out to support our results. The conclusion of this paper could help provide the theoretical basis for the further study of the virus infection.

In this paper we introduce Laguerre expansions to approximate vector-valued functions. We apply this result to approximate C 0 -semigroups and resolvent operators in abstract Banach spaces. We study certain Laguerre functions in order to estimate the rate of convergence of these expansions. Finally, we illustrate the main results of this paper with some examples: shift, convolution and holomorphic semigroups, where the rate of convergence is improved.

This paper concerns approximate cloaking by mapping for a full, but scalar wave equation, when one allows for physically relevant frequency dependence of the material properties of the cloak. The paper is a natural continuation of [20] , but here we employ the Drude–Lorentz model in the cloaking layer, that is otherwise constructed by an approximate blow up transformation of the type introduced in [10] . The central mathematical problem is to analyze the effect of a small inhomogeneity in the context of this non-local full wave equation.

The paper explores an eco-epidemiological model with weak Allee in predator, and the disease in the prey population. We consider a predator-prey model with type II functional response. The curiosity of this paper is to consider different competition coefficients within the prey population, which leads to the emergent carrying capacity. We perform the local and global stability analysis of the equilibrium points and the Hopf bifurcation analysis around the endemic equilibrium point. Further we pay attention to the chaotic dynamics which is produced by disease. Our numerical simulations reveal that the three species eco-epidemiological system without weak-Allee induced chaos from stable focus for increasing the force of infection, whereas in the presence of the weak-Allee effect, it exhibits stable solution. We conclude that chaotic dynamics can be controlled by the Allee parameter as well as the competition coefficients. We apply basic tools of non-linear dynamics such as Poincare section and maximum Lyapunov exponent to identify chaotic behavior of the system.

We consider nonlinear diffusion problems of the form ut=Δu+f(u) with Stefan type free boundary conditions, where the nonlinear term f(u) is of monostable, bistable or combustion type. Such problems are used as an alternative model (to the corresponding Cauchy problem) to describe the spreading of a biological or chemical species, where the free boundary represents the expanding front. We are interested in its long-time spreading behavior which, by recent results of Du, Matano and Wang [10], is largely determined by radially symmetric solutions. Therefore we will examine the radially symmetric case, where the equation is satisfied in |x| 0. Subsequently, sharper estimate of the spreading speed was obtained by the authors of the current paper in [11], in the form that limt→∞⁡[h(t)−c⁎t]=Hˆ∈R1. In this paper, we consider the case N≥2 and show that a logarithmic shifting occurs, namely there exists c⁎>0 independent of N such that limt→∞⁡[h(t)−c⁎t+(N−1)c⁎log⁡t]=hˆ∈R1. At the same time, we also obtain a rather clear description of the spreading profile of u(t,r). These results reveal striking differences from the spreading behavior modeled by the corresponding Cauchy problem.

We study the behaviour of the steady-state voltage potential in a material composed of a two-dimensional object surrounded by a very rough thin layer and embedded in an ambient medium. The roughness of the layer is described by a quasi ε-periodic function, ε being a small parameter, while the mean thickness of the layer is of magnitude εβ, where β∈(0,1). Using the two-scale analysis, we replace the very rough thin layer by appropriate transmission conditions on the boundary of the object, which lead to an explicit characterization of the polarization tensor as defined in Vogelius and Capdeboscq [Y. Capdeboscq, M.S. Vogelius, A general representation formula for boundary voltage perturbations caused by internal conductivity inhomogeneities of low volume fraction, M2AN Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 37 (2003) 159–173]. The main result of this paper is quite unexpected, and the approximate transmission conditions are not intuitive since they mix in a complex way both conductivities of the exterior medium and of the membrane. This paper extends the previous works of Poignard [C. Poignard, Approximate transmission conditions through a weakly oscillating thin layer, Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. 32 (2009) 435–453] and of Ciuperca et al. [I. Ciuperca, M. Jai, C. Poignard, Approximate transmission conditions through a rough thin layer. The case of periodic roughness, Euro. J. Appl. Math. 21 (2010) 51–75], in which β⩾1.

Many papers study polynomial tractability for multivariate problems. Let n(@?,d) be the minimal number of information evaluations needed to reduce the initial error by a factor of @? for a multivariate problem defined on a space of d-variate functions. Here, the initial error is the minimal error that can be achieved without sampling the function. Polynomial tractability means that n(@?,d) is bounded by a polynomial in @?^-^1 and d and this holds for all (@?^-^1,d)@?[1,~)xN. In this paper we study generalized tractability by verifying when n(@?,d) can be bounded by a power of T(@?^-^1,d) for all (@?^-^1,d)@[email protected], where @W can be a proper subset of [1,~)xN. Here T is a tractability function, which is non-decreasing in both variables and grows slower than exponentially to infinity. In this article we consider the set @W=[1,~)x{1,2,...,d^*}@?[1,@?"0^-^1)xN for some d^*>=1 and @?"[email protected]?(0,1). We study linear tensor product problems for which we can compute arbitrary linear functionals as information evaluations. We present necessary and sufficient conditions on T such that generalized tractability holds for linear tensor product problems. We show a number of examples for which polynomial tractability does not hold but generalized tractability does.

The starting point of this work is a paper by Alvarez, Lasry and Lions (1997) concerning the convexity and the partial convexity of solutions of fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations. We extend their results in two directions. First, we deal with possibly sublinear (but epi-pointed) solutions instead of 1-coercive ones; secondly, the partial convexity of C 2 solutions is extended to the class of continuous viscosity solutions. A third contribution of this paper concerns C 1 , 1 estimates for convex viscosity solutions of strictly elliptic nonlinear equations. To finish with, all the tools and techniques introduced here permit us to give a new proof of the Alexandroff estimate obtained by Trudinger (1988) and Caffarelli (1989).

We consider the problem of approximating fixed points of contractive functions whose contraction factor is close to 1. In a previous paper (1993, K. Sikorski et al. , J. Complexity 9 , 181–200), we proved that for the absolute error criterion, the upper bound on the number of function evaluations to compute e -approximations is O( n 3 (ln(1/ e )+ln(1/(1− q ))+ln n )) in the worst case, where 0 q n is the dimension of the problem. This upper bound is achieved by the circumscribed ellipsoid (CE) algorithm combined with a dimensional deflation process. In this paper we present an inscribed ellipsoid (IE) algorithm that enjoys O( n (ln(1/ e )+ln(1/(1− q )))) bound. For q close to 1, the IE algorithm thus runs in many fewer iterations than the simple iteration method, that requires ⌈ln(1/ e )/ln(1/ q )⌉ function evaluations. Our analysis also implies that: (1) The dimensional deflation procedure in the CE algorithm is not necessary and that the resulting “plain” CE algorithm enjoys O( n 2 (log(1/ e )+log(1/(1− q )))) upper bound on the number of function evaluations. (2) The IE algorithm solves the problem in the residual sense, i.e., computes x such that ‖ f ( x )− x ‖⩽ δ , with O( n ln(1/ δ )) function evaluations for every q ⩽1.

The main result of this paper provides uniform decay rates obtained for the energy function associated with a three-dimensional structural acoustic model described by coupled system consisting of the wave equation and plate equation with the coupling on the interface between the acoustic chamber and the wall. The uniform stabilization is achieved by introducing a nonlinear dissipation acting via boundary forces applied at the edge of the plate and viscous or boundary damping applied to the wave equation. The results obtained in this paper extend, to the non-analytic, hyperbolic-like setting, the results obtained previously in the literature for acoustic problems modeled by structurally damped plates (governed by analytic semigroups). As a bypass product, we also obtain optimal uniform decay rates for the Euler Bernoulli plate equations with nonlinear boundary dissipation acting via shear forces only and without (i) any geometric conditions imposed on the domain ,(ii) any growth conditions at the origin imposed on the nonlinear function. This is in contrast with the results obtained previously in the literature ([22] and references therein).

This paper is dedicated to the effective viscosity of suspensions without inertia, at low solid volume fraction ϕ. The goal is to derive rigorously a o ( ϕ 2 ) formula for the effective viscosity. In [17] , [19] , such formula was given for rigid spheres satisfying the strong separation assumption d m i n ≥ c ϕ − 1 3 r , where d m i n is the minimal distance between the spheres and r their radius. It was then applied to both periodic and random configurations with separation, to yield explicit values for the O ( ϕ 2 ) coefficient. We consider here complementary (and certainly more realistic) random configurations, satisfying softer assumptions of separation, and long range decorrelation. We justify in this setting the famous Batchelor-Green formula [3] . Our result applies for instance to hardcore Poisson point process with almost minimal hardcore assumption d m i n > ( 2 + e ) r , e > 0 .

In this paper, we consider the exact boundary controllability of nodal profile for Saint-Venant systems on a network with loops. In the case with one object-node, the proposed cut-off method not only contains the results obtained in [13] on a special network with a triangle-like loop in a unified way, but also generalizes these results to general networks with loops. Based on the results in the case with one object-node, the proposed cut-off method can also be applied successfully to the case with several object-nodes.

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationships between the support of a refinable distributionφand the global and local linear independence of the integer translates ofφ. It has been shown elsewhere that a compactly supported distributionφhas globally independent integer translates if and only ifφhas minimal convex support. However, such a distribution may have “holes” in its support. By insisting thatφ∈L2(R) and generates a multiresolution analysis, Lemarié and Malgouyres have ensured that no such holes can occur. In this article we generalize this result to refinable distributions. We also give a result on the local linear independence of the integer translates ofφ. We work with integer dilation factorN⩾2 throughout this paper.

This paper studies a dissipative heat equation with Delta sources of non-linear strength located on a periodic lattice. The model arises from intracellular waves in continuum excitable media with discrete release sites. Due to the presence of Delta sources, the solution of the model has discontinuous spatial derivatives. We focus on the bistable regime of the model, determined by the decay strength parameter a and the separation distance L between release sites, in which the model admits exactly three L-periodic steady states. We establish the existence of pulsating waves spatially connecting them. For the case of waves connecting two stable L-periodic steady states, the uniqueness and global exponential stability of pulsating waves are shown. Also a new technique is introduced to find the fine structure of the tails of pulsating waves.

We use geometric microlocal methods to compute an asymptotic expansion of mean first arrival time for Brownian particles on Riemannian manifolds. This approach provides a robust way to treat this problem, which has thus far been limited to very special geometries. This paper can be seen as the Riemannian 3-manifold version of the planar result of [1] and thus enable us to see the full effect of the local extrinsic boundary geometry on the mean arrival time of the Brownian particles. Our approach also connects this question to some of the recent progress on boundary rigidity and integral geometry [21] and [18] .

In composite materials, the stress may be arbitrarily large in the narrow region between two close-to-touching hard inclusions. The stress is represented by the gradient of a solution to the Lame system of linear elasticity. The aim of this paper is to establish lower bounds of the gradients of solutions of the Lame system with partially infinite coefficients as the distance between the surfaces of discontinuity of the coefficients of the system tends to zero. Combining it with the pointwise upper bounds obtained in our previous work, the optimality of the blow-up rate of gradients is proved for inclusions with arbitrary shape in dimensions two and three. The key to show this is that we find a blow-up factor, a linear functional of the boundary data, to determine whether the blow-up will occur or not.

We consider the initial boundary value problem for the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with cylindrical symmetry. The existence of boundary layers is well-known when the shear viscosity vanishes. In this paper, we derive explicit Prandtl type boundary layer equations and prove the global in time stability of the boundary layer profile together with the optimal convergence rate of the vanishing shear viscosity limit without any smallness assumption on the initial and boundary data.

We establish the first partial regularity results for (strongly) symmetric quasiconvex functionals of linear growth on BD, the space of functions of bounded deformation. By Rindler's foundational work (Lower semicontinuity for integral functionals in the space of functions of bounded deformation via rigidity and Young measures, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 202 (2011), no. 1, 63-113), symmetric quasiconvexity is the foremost notion as to sequential weak*-lower semicontinuity of functionals on BD. The overarching main difficulty here is Ornstein's Non-Inequality, implying that the BD-case is genuinely different from the study of variational integrals on BV. In particular, this paper extends the recent work of Kristensen and the author (Partial regularity for BV-Minimizers, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 232 (2019), Issue 3, 1429-1473) from the BV- to the BD-situation. Alongside, we establish partial regularity results for strongly quasiconvex functionals of superlinear growth by reduction to the full gradient case, which might be of independent interest., Comment: Version 2, 40 pages, 1 figure, final version to appear at J. Math. Pures Appl

The objective of this paper is to present a unified study of multivariate super vertex splines with emphasis on the construction procedure and an application to least-squares approximation with interpolatory constraints. Both simplicial and parallelepiped partitions are studied in some detail, and in the bivariate setting, even a partition consisting of both triangles and parallelograms is considered. When the polynomial degree is allowed to be sufficiently large as compared to the order of smoothness, it is clear that vertex splines can be constructed by working on each simplex or parallelepiped separately as long as certain suitable normal derivative constraints are imposed on the boundary faces. Our constructive procedure will take a different route. Instead of normal derivatives, we impose extra interpolatory conditions at the “vertices”. This gives rise to the notion of “super splines” introduced in this paper. It should also be emphasized that the view point of considering a basis of piecewise polynomials with smallest possible supports so that the full approximation order is preserved makes vertex splines different from the standard approach in finite elements. After all, if the polynomial degree is required to be lower, it is necessary to work on at least three adjacent simplices or parallelepipeds simultaneously in constructing a basis of vertex splines.

This paper investigates the relation between the boundary geometric properties and the boundary regularity of the solutions of elliptic equations. We prove by a new unified method the pointwise boundary Holder regularity under proper geometric conditions. “Unified” means that our method is applicable for the Laplace equation, linear elliptic equations in divergence and non-divergence form, fully nonlinear elliptic equations, the p−Laplace equations and the fractional Laplace equations etc. In addition, these geometric conditions are quite general. In particular, for local equations, the measure of the complement of the domain near the boundary point concerned could be zero. The key observation in the method is that the strong maximum principle implies a decay for the solution, then a scaling argument leads to the Holder regularity. Moreover, we also give a geometric condition, which guarantees the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation. The geometric meaning of this condition is more apparent than that of the Wiener criterion.

In this paper we study the structure of positive vector solutions for nonlinear Schrodinger systems with 3 components when all interspecies interaction forces are positive and large while all intraspecies interaction forces are positive and fixed. We will show that the structure strongly depends on some relation of large interspecies interaction forces.

The purpose of this paper is three-fold: the first is to determine the Campanato-Sobolev space I N ( L p , κ ) by means of ∑ | α | = N ‖ D α f ‖ L p , κ - the sum of the Campanato norms of the derivatives D α f with | α | = N ; the second is to characterize Morrey's fractional integrals { T f : f ∈ L p , κ } in the Campanato-Sobolev space I s ( L p , κ ) ; the third is to find a distributional solution F ∈ ( L q , λ ) n of the mean curvature type divergence equation div F = f ∈ L p , κ (the Morrey space). And yet, the here-established three theorems and their proofs are not only novel but also nontrivial.

We consider the following k-coupled nonlinear Schrodinger systems: { − Δ u j + λ j u j = μ j u j 3 + ∑ i = 1 , i ≠ j k β i , j u i 2 u j in R N , u j > 0 in R N , u j ( x ) → 0 as | x | → + ∞ , j = 1 , 2 , ⋯ , k , where N ≤ 3 , k ≥ 3 , λ j , μ j > 0 are constants and β i , j = β j , i ≠ 0 are parameters. There have been intensive studies for the above systems when k = 2 or the systems are purely attractive ( β i , j > 0 , ∀ i ≠ j ) or purely repulsive ( β i , j 0 , ∀ i ≠ j ); however very few results are available for k ≥ 3 when the systems admit mixed couplings and the components are organized into groups, i.e., there exist ( i 1 , j 1 ) and ( i 2 , j 2 ) such that β i 1 , j 1 > 0 and β i 2 , j 2 0 . In this paper we give the first systematic and an (almost) complete study on the existence of ground states when the systems admit mixed couplings and the components are organized into groups. We first divide these systems into repulsive-mixed and total-mixed cases. In the first case we prove nonexistence of ground states. In the second case we give a necessary condition for the existence of ground states and also provide estimates for Morse index. The key idea is the block decomposition of the systems (optimal block decompositions, eventual block decompositions), and the measure of total interaction forces between different blocks. Finally the assumptions on the existence of ground states are shown to be optimal in some special cases.

This paper is concerned with the Minkowski convolution of viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear parabolic equations. We adopt this convolution to compare viscosity solutions of initial-boundary value problems in different domains. As a consequence, we can for instance obtain parabolic power concavity of solutions to a general class of parabolic equations. Our results are applicable to the Pucci operator, the normalized q-Laplacians with 1 q ≤ ∞ , the Finsler Laplacian, and more general quasilinear operators.

In this paper, we consider the Neumann–Poincare type operator associated with the Lame system of linear elasticity. It is known that if the boundary of a planar domain is smooth enough, it has eigenvalues converging to two different points determined by Lame parameters. We show that eigenvalues converge at a polynomial rate on smooth boundaries and the convergence rate is determined by smoothness of the boundary. We also show that they converge at an exponential rate if the boundary of the domain is real analytic.

In this paper, we study large time behavior of complex-valued solutions to nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a gauge invariant quadratic nonlinearity in two spatial dimensions. To find a possible asymptotic behavior, we consider the final value problem. It turns out that one possible behavior is a linear solution with a logarithmic phase correction as in the real-valued case. However, the shape of the logarithmic correction term has one more parameter which is also given by the final data. In the real case the parameter is constant so one cannot see its effect. However, in the complex case it varies in general. The one dimensional case is also discussed., Comment: 25 papges, 2 figures

In this paper, we establish the existence and uniqueness of both mild(/variational) solutions and weak (in the sense of PDE) solutions of coupled system of 2D stochastic Chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes equations. The mild/variational solution is obtained through introducing a new method of cutting off the stochastic system and using a fixed point argument in a carefully constructed Banach space. To get the weak solution we first prove the existence of a martingale weak solution and then we show that the pathwise uniqueness holds for the martingale solution.

We propose a general model to investigate the joint impact of viral diffusion and cell-to-cell transmission on viral dynamics. The mathematical challenge lies in the fact that the model system is partially degenerate and the solution map is not compact. While the simpler cases with only indirect transmission mode or weak cell-to-cell transmission mode have been extensively studied in the literature, it remains an open problem to understand the local and global dynamics of fully coupled viral infection model with partial degeneracy. In this paper, we identify the basic reproduction number as the spectral radius of the sum of two linear operators corresponding to direct and indirect transmission modes. It is well-known that viral mobility may induce infection in low-risk regions. However, as diffusion coefficient increases, we prove that the basic reproduction number actually decreases, which indicates that faster viral movements may result in a lower level of viral infection. By an innovative construction of Lyapunov functionals, we further demonstrate that the basic reproduction number is the threshold parameter which determines global picture of viral dynamics. In addition to the traditional dichonomy results of extinction and persistence as obtained in earlier works for many simpler models, we are able to prove global asymptotic stability of infection-free steady state and global attractiveness (as well as uniqueness) of chronic-infection steady state, depending on whether the basic reproduction number is smaller or greater than one. Numerical simulation supports our theoretical results and suggests an interesting phenomenon: boundary layer and internal layer may occur when the diffusion parameter tends to zero.

This paper is concerned with blowup in a parabolic-parabolic system describing chemotactic aggregation. In a disk, radial solutions blow up in finite time if their initial energy is less than some value. In the whole plane, the energy diverges to −∞ as time goes to +∞ for any forward selfsimilar solution. This implies that one cannot expect to get a sufficient condition for finite-time blowup using energy as in a disk. For a solution ( u , v ) , u and v denote density of cells and of chemical substance, respectively. Let τ be the coefficient of time derivative of v. We first prove that for τ > 0 there exists M ( τ ) > 0 with M ( τ ) → ∞ as τ → ∞ such that all radial solutions ( u , v ) with initial mass of u larger than M ( τ ) blow up in finite time. On the other hand, it was shown in [22] that any blowup in the system with τ = 1 is type II (not necessarily in radial case). Removing the restriction on τ, we get the conclusion for all τ > 0 .

In this paper, the global well-posedness of semirelativistic equations with a power type nonlinearity on Euclidean spaces is studied. In two dimensional H s scaling subcritical case with 1 ≤ s ≤ 2 , the local well-posedness follows from a Strichartz estimate. In higher dimensional H 1 scaling subcritical case, the local well-posedness for radial solutions follows from a weighted Strichartz estimate. Moreover, in three dimensional H 1 scaling critical case, the local well-posedness for radial solutions follows from a uniform bound of solutions which may be derived by the corresponding one dimensional problem. Local solutions may be extended by a priori estimates.

This paper studies sign-changing solutions and their concentration behaviors of logarithmic scalar field equations in the semiclassical setting. At a local minimum of the potential function we construct an unbounded sequence of sign-changing solutions concentrating near the local minimum. This resembles a localized phenomenon of an unbounded sequence of localized bound states in the studies of nonlinear eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.

The geometric properties of (almost) minimal sets, especially the regularity, is an interesting topic in geometric measure theory, which were often studied in the literature, for example [2] , [4] , [5] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [19] , [22] . Soap films as well as solutions to Plateau's Problem could be a typical example of such kind of minimal sets. In this paper, we will investigate the convergence of a sequence of such sets, and show that Hausdorff convergence and varifold convergence coincide on the class of almost minimal sets bounded by a uniform gauge function, and we will see that a large amount of sets, including all compact C 1 , 1 submanifolds in R n , are almost minimal.

In this paper, we study different notions of solutions of nonlocal and nonlinear equations of fractional $p$-Laplace type $${\rm P.V.} \int_{\mathbb R^n}\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^{p-2}(u(x)-u(y))}{|x-y|^{n+sp}}\,dy = 0.$$ Solutions are defined via integration by parts with test functions, as viscosity solutions or via comparison. Our main result states that for bounded solutions, the three different notions coincide., Comment: 21 pages, to appear in Journal de Math\'ematiques Pures et Appliqu\'ees

The exact boundary controllability for hyperbolic systems can not be realized generally on a network with loops (see [16] ). In this paper we consider the exact boundary controllability of nodal profile on a network with loops. Precisely speaking, on a network with a triangle-like loop, when nodal profiles are given at various kinds of nodes, different constructive methods can be used to get the corresponding exact boundary controllability of nodal profile for Saint-Venant system by means of boundary controls acting on suitable nodes, respectively. This reveals that the exact boundary controllability of nodal profile is quite different from the usual exact boundary controllability, and has relatively distinctive behaviors and characters.

In this paper, we prove that the spectral curve Γ n of the generalized Lame equation with the Treibich–Verdier potential y ″ ( z ) = [ ∑ k = 0 3 n k ( n k + 1 ) ℘ ( z + ω k 2 | τ ) + B ] y ( z ) , n k ∈ Z ≥ 0 can be embedded into the symmetric space Sym N E τ of the N-th copy of the torus E τ , where N = ∑ n k . This embedding induces an addition map σ n ( ⋅ | τ ) from Γ n onto E τ . The main result is to prove that the degree of σ n ( ⋅ | τ ) is equal to ∑ k = 0 3 n k ( n k + 1 ) / 2 . This is the first step toward constructing the pre-modular form associated with this generalized Lame equation.

The Boussinesq a b c d system is a 4-parameter set of equations posed in R t × R x , originally derived by Bona, Chen and Saut [11] , [12] as first order 2-wave approximations of the incompressible and irrotational, two dimensional water wave equations in the shallow water wave regime, in the spirit of the original Boussinesq derivation [17] . Among many particular regimes, depending each of them in terms of the value of the parameters ( a , b , c , d ) present in the equations, the generic regime is characterized by the setting b , d > 0 and a , c 0 . If additionally b = d , the a b c d system is Hamiltonian. The equations in this regime are globally well-posed in the energy space H 1 × H 1 , provided one works with small solutions [12] . In this paper, we investigate decay and the scattering problem in this regime, which is characterized as having (quadratic) long-range nonlinearities, very weak linear decay O ( t − 1 / 3 ) because of the one dimensional setting, and existence of non scattering solutions (solitary waves). We prove, among other results, that for a sufficiently dispersive a b c d systems (characterized only in terms of parameters a , b and c), all small solutions must decay to zero, locally strongly in the energy space, in proper subset of the light cone | x | ≤ | t | . We prove this result by constructing three suitable virial functionals in the spirit of works [27] , [28] , and more precisely [42] (valid for the simpler scalar “good Boussinesq” model), leading to global in time decay and control of all local H 1 × H 1 terms. No parity nor extra decay assumptions are needed to prove decay, only small solutions in the energy space.

This paper studies connections among observable sets, the observability inequality, the Holder-type interpolation inequality and the spectral inequality for the heat equation in R n . We present the characteristic of observable sets for the heat equation. In more detail, we show that a measurable set in R n satisfies the observability inequality if and only if it is γ-thick at scale L for some γ > 0 and L > 0 . We also build up the equivalence among the above-mentioned three inequalities. More precisely, we obtain that if a measurable set in R n satisfies one of these inequalities, then it satisfies others. Finally, we get some weak observability inequalities and weak interpolation inequalities where observations are made over a ball.

In this paper we elucidate the connection between various notions of differentiability in the Wasserstein space: some have been introduced intrinsically (in the Wasserstein space, by using typical objects from the theory of Optimal Transport) and used by various authors to study gradient flows, Hamiltonian flows, and Hamilton–Jacobi equations in this context. Another notion is extrinsic and arises from the identification of the Wasserstein space with the Hilbert space of square-integrable random variables on a non-atomic probability space. As a consequence, the classical theory of well-posedness for viscosity solutions for Hamilton–Jacobi equations in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces is brought to bear on well-posedness for Hamilton–Jacobi equations in the Wasserstein space.

An important feature of the planetary oceanic dynamics is that the aspect ratio (the ratio of the depth to horizontal width) is very small. As a result, the hydrostatic approximation (balance), derived by performing the formal small aspect ratio limit to the Navier–Stokes equations, is considered as a fundamental component in the primitive equations of the large-scale ocean. In this paper, we justify rigorously the small aspect ratio limit of the Navier–Stokes equations to the primitive equations. Specifically, we prove that the Navier–Stokes equations, after being scaled appropriately by the small aspect ratio parameter of the physical domain, converge strongly to the primitive equations, globally and uniformly in time, and the convergence rate is of the same order as the aspect ratio parameter. This result validates the hydrostatic approximation for the large-scale oceanic dynamics. Notably, only the weak convergence of this small aspect ratio limit was rigorously justified before.