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The goal of this article is twofold. First, we investigate the linearized Vlasov-Poisson system around a family of spatially homogeneous equilibria in $\mathbb{R}^3$ (the unconfined setting). Our analysis follows classical strategies from physics and their subsequent mathematical extensions. The main novelties are a unified treatment of a broad class of analytic equilibria and the study of a class of generalized Poisson equilibria. For the former, this provides a detailed description of the associated Green's functions, including in particular precise dissipation rates (which appear to be new), whereas for the latter we exhibit explicit formulas. Second, we review the main result and ideas in our recent work on the full global nonlinear asymptotic stability of the Poisson equilibrium in $\mathbb{R}^3$., Comment: 33 pages, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity, Focus Issue on the Mathematics of gravitation in the non-vacuum regime

Our goal in this monograph is twofold. First, we would like to develop a robust method to construct global time-quasiperiodic solutions of large families of quasilinear evolution equations. The method we present here expands on earlier work of many people and combines elements from KAM theory, normal forms, pseudo-differential calculus and a Nash-Moser scheme. One of our main objectives is to avoid the use of any external parameters, and exploit instead the genericity of the initial data to generate large families of quasiperiodic solutions. As a concrete application we prove the existence of linearly stable, quasiperiodic patch solutions of the generalized SQG equation for all parameters $\alpha \in (1,2)$, and for almost all initial data in a neighborhood of the disk solution., Comment: 259 pages

We give a proof of linear inviscid damping and vorticity depletion for non-monotonic shear flows with one critical point in a bounded periodic channel. In particular, we obtain quantitative depletion rates for the vorticity function without any symmetry assumptions., Comment: 32 pages, final version, to appear

We discuss some of our work on averages along polynomial sequences in nilpotent groups of step 2. Our main results include boundedness of associated maximal functions and singular integrals operators, an almost everywhere pointwise convergence theorem for ergodic averages along polynomial sequences, and a nilpotent Waring theorem. Our proofs are based on analytical tools, such as a nilpotent Weyl inequality, and on complex almost-orthogonality arguments that are designed to replace Fourier transform tools, which are not available in the non-commutative nilpotent setting. In particular, we present what we call a "nilpotent circle method" that allows us to adapt some of the ideas of the classical circle method to the setting of nilpotent groups., Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2112.03322

Our goal in this paper is to initiate the rigorous investigation of wave turbulence and derivation of wave kinetic equations (WKE) for water waves models. This problem has received intense attention in recent years in the context of semilinear models, such as semilinear Schr\"odinger equations or multi-dimensional KdV-type equations. However, our situation here is different since the water waves equations are quasilinear and the solutions cannot be constructed by iteration of the Duhamel formula due to unavoidable derivative loss. This is the first of two papers in which we design a new strategy to address this issue, in the context of 2D gravity waves.

We establish pointwise almost everywhere convergence for ergodic averages along polynomial sequences in nilpotent groups of step two of measure-preserving transformations on $\sigma$-finite measure spaces. We also establish corresponding maximal inequalities on $L^p$ for $1

We investigate solutions of the 2d incompressible Euler equations, linearized around steady states which are radially decreasing vortices. Our main goal is to understand the smoothness of what we call the spectral density function associated with the linearized operator, which we hope will be a step towards proving full nonlinear asymptotic stability of radially decreasing vortices. The motivation for considering the spectral density function is that it is not possible to describe the vorticity or the stream function in terms of one modulated profile. There are in fact two profiles, both at the level of the physical vorticity and at the level of the stream function. The spectral density function allows us to identify these profiles, and its smoothness leads to pointwise decay of the stream function which is consistent with the decay estimates first proved in Bedrossian-Coti Zelati-Vicol in [5]., Comment: 64 pages

We prove small data modified scattering for the Vlasov-Poisson system in dimension $d=3$ using a method inspired from dispersive analysis. In particular, we identify a simple asymptotic dynamic related to the scattering mass.

We prove nonlinear asymptotic stability of a large class of monotonic shear flows among solutions of the 2D Euler equations in the channel $\mathbb{T}\times[0,1]$. More precisely, we consider shear flows $(b(y),0)$ given by a function $b$ which is Gevrey smooth, strictly increasing, and linear outside a compact subset of the interval $(0,1)$ (to avoid boundary contributions which are incompatible with inviscid damping). We also assume that the associated linearized operator satisfies a suitable spectral condition, which is needed to prove linear inviscid damping. Under these assumptions, we show that if $u$ is a solution which is a small and Gevrey smooth perturbation of such a shear flow $(b(y),0)$ at time $t=0$, then the velocity field $u$ converges strongly to a nearby shear flow as the time goes to infinity. This is the first nonlinear asymptotic stability result for Euler equations around general steady solutions for which the linearized flow cannot be explicitly solved., Comment: 54 pages, comments welcome

We prove definitive results on the global stability of the flat space among solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system. Our main theorems in this monograph include: (1) A proof of global regularity (in wave coordinates) of solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon coupled system, in the case of small, smooth, and localized perturbations of the stationary Minkowski solution; (2) Precise asymptotics of the metric components and the Klein-Gordon field as the time goes to infinity, including the construction of modified (nonlinear) scattering profiles and quantitative bounds for convergence; (3) Classical estimates on the solutions at null and timelike infinity, such as bounds on the metric components, weak peeling estimates of the Riemann curvature tensor, ADM and Bondi energy identities and estimates, and asymptotic description of null and timelike geodesics., Comment: 193 pages, 3 references added

We prove local existence and uniqueness results for the (space-homogeneous) 4-wave kinetic equation in wave turbulence theory. We consider collision operators defined by radial, but general dispersion relations satisfying suitable bounds, and we prove two local well-posedness theorems in nearly critical weighted spaces.

We review recent progress on the long-time regularity of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the water waves equations, in two and three dimensions. We begin by introducing the free boundary Euler equations and discussing the local existence of solutions using the paradifferential approach, as in [7, 1, 2]. We then describe in a unified framework, using the Eulerian formulation, global existence results for three dimensional and two dimensional gravity waves, see [70, 146, 145, 87, 5, 6, 79, 80, 136], and our joint result with Deng and Pausader [60] on global regularity for the 3D gravity-capillary model. We conclude this review with a short discussion about the formation of singularities, and give a few additional references to other interesting topics in the theory., Comment: 28 pages, 5 figures, 154 references. To appear in Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. A. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1601.05685

We consider the inviscid generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equation (gSQG) in a patch setting, where the parameter $\alpha \in (1,2)$. The cases $\alpha = 0$ and $\alpha = 1$ correspond to 2d Euler and SQG respectively, and our choice of the parameter $\alpha$ results in a velocity more singular than in the SQG case. Our main result concerns the global stability of the half-plane patch stationary solution, under small and localized perturbations. Our theorem appears to be the first construction of stable global solutions for the gSQG-patch equations. The only other nontrivial global solutions known so far in the patch setting are the so-called V-states, which are uniformly rotating and periodic in time solutions., Comment: 33 pages

We consider a coupled Wave-Klein-Gordon system in 3D, and prove global regularity and modified scattering for small and smooth initial data with suitable decay at infinity. This system was derived by Wang and LeFloch-Ma as a simplified model for the global nonlinear stability of the Minkowski space-time for self-gravitating massive fields., Comment: 55 pages, final version

A basic model for describing plasma dynamics is given by the Euler-Maxwell system, in which compressible ion and electron fluids interact with their own self-consistent electromagnetic field. In this paper we consider the "one-fluid" Euler--Maxwell model for electrons, in 2 spatial dimensions, and prove global stability of a constant neutral background., Comment: Revised version

We consider the full irrotational water waves system with surface tension and no gravity in dimension two (the capillary waves system), and prove global regularity and modified scattering for suitably small and localized perturbations of a flat interface. An important point of our analysis is to develop a sufficiently robust method, based on energy estimates and dispersive analysis, which allows us to deal with strong singularities arising from time resonances in the applications of the normal form method and nonlinear scattering. As a result, we are able to consider a suitable class of perturbations with finite energy, but no other momentum conditions. Part of our analysis relies on a new treatment of the Dirichlet-Neumann operator in dimension two which is of independent interest. As a consequence, the results in this paper are self-contained., Comment: 100 pages. References updated

In this paper we prove a global regularity result for a quadratic quasilinear model associated to the water waves system with surface tension and no gravity in dimension two (the capillary waves system). The model we consider here retains most of the difficulties of the full capillary water waves system, including the delicate time-resonance structure and modified scattering. It is slightly simpler, however, at the technical level and our goal here is to present our method in this simplified situation. The full system is the subject of a forthcoming paper., Comment: 44 pages. References updated

We show that "splash" singularities cannot develop in the case of locally smooth solutions of the two-fluid interface in two dimensions. More precisely, we show that the scenario of formation of singularities discovered by Castro-C\'{o}rdoba-Fefferman-Gancedo-G\'{o}mez-Serrano in the case of the water waves system, in which the interface remains locally smooth but self-intersects in finite time, is completely prevented in the case of two-fluid interfaces with positive densities., Comment: Replaced the file to correct misprints

We consider the gravity water waves system in the case of a one dimensional interface, for sufficiently smooth and localized initial data, and prove global existence of small solutions. This improves the almost global existence result of Wu \cite{WuAG}. We also prove that the asymptotic behavior of solutions as time goes to infinity is different from linear, unlike the three dimensional case \cite{GMS2,Wu3DWW}. In particular, we identify a suitable nonlinear logarithmic correction and show modified scattering. The solutions we construct in this paper appear to be the first global smooth nontrivial solutions of the gravity water waves system in 2d., Comment: final version to be published

The fundamental "two-fluid" model for describing plasma dynamics is given by the Euler-Maxwell system, in which compressible ion and electron fluids interact with their own self-consistent electromagnetic field. We prove global stability of a constant neutral background, in the sense that irrotational, smooth and localized perturbations of a constant background with small amplitude lead to global smooth solutions in three space dimensions for the Euler-Maxwell system. Our construction applies equally well to other plasma models such as the Euler-Poisson system for two-fluids and a relativistic Euler-Maxwell system for two fluids. Our solutions appear to be the first nontrivial global smooth solutions in all of these models., Comment: 108 pages

We consider the question of global existence of small, smooth, and localized solutions of a certain fractional semilinear cubic NLS in one dimension, $$i\partial_t u - \Lambda u = c_0{|u|}^2 u + c_1 u^3 + c_2 u \bar{u}^2 + c_3 \bar{u}^3, \qquad \Lambda = \Lambda(\partial_x) = {|\partial_x|}^(1/2)$$, where $c_0\in\mathbb{R}$ and $c_1,c_2,c_3\in\mathbb{C}$. This model is motivated by the two-dimensional water waves equations, which have a somewhat similar structure in the Eulerian formulation, in the case of irrotational flows. We show that one cannot expect linear scattering, even in this simplified model. More precisely, we identify a suitable nonlinear logarithmic correction, and prove global existence and modified scattering of solutions.

We prove small data global existence and scattering for quasilinear systems of Klein-Gordon equations with different speeds, in dimension three. As an application, we obtain a robust global stability result for the Euler-Maxwell equations for electrons.

We consider a class of operators defined by taking averages along polynomial sequences in discrete nilpotent groups. In this paper we prove $L^2$ boundedness of discrete singular Radon transforms along general polynomial sequences in discrete nilpotent groups of step 2.

We consider the (repulsive) Euler-Poisson system for the electrons in two dimensions and prove that small smooth perturbations of a constant background exist for all time and remain smooth (never develop shocks). This extends to 2D the work of Guo., Comment: 39 pages

We revisit the problem of extension of Killing vector-fields in smooth Ricci flat manifolds, and its relevance to the black hole rigidity problem.

In this paper we prove global well-posedness in $H^1$ for the energy-critical defocusing initial-value problem \begin{equation*} (i\partial_t+\Delta_x)u=u|u|^2,\qquad u(0)=\phi, \end{equation*} in the semiperiodic setting $x\in\R\times\T^3$., Comment: 51 pages; v2: introduction reworked and references added

In this paper we present a method to study global regularity properties of solutions of large-data critical Schrodinger equations on certain noncompact Riemannian manifolds. We rely on concentration compactness arguments and a global Morawetz inequality adapted to the geometry of the manifold (in other words we adapt the method of Kenig-Merle to the variable coefficient case), and a good understanding of the corresponding Euclidean problem (in our case the main theorem of Colliander-Keel-Staffilani-Takaoka-Tao). As an application we prove global well-posedness and scattering in $H^1$ for the energy-critical defocusing initial-value problem (i\partial_t+\Delta_\g)u=u|u|^{4} on the hyperbolic space $H^3$., Comment: 43 pages, references added

For \alpha \in (1,2) we prove that the initial-value problem \partial_t u+D^\alpha\partial_x u+\partial_x(u^2/2)=0 on \mathbb{R}_x\times\mathbb{R}_t; u(0)=\phi, is globally well-posed in the space of real-valued L^2-functions. We use a frequency dependent renormalization method to control the strong low-high frequency interactions., Comment: 42 pages, no figures

We consider the Schr\"{o}dinger map initial-value problem in dimension two or greater. We prove that the Schr\"{o}dinger map initial-value problem admits a unique global smooth solution, provided that the initial data is smooth and small in the critical Sobolev space. We prove also that the solution operator extends continuously to the critical Sobolev space., Comment: 60 pages

We prove global well-posedness and scattering in $H^1$ for the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} &(i\partial_t+\Delta_\g)u=u|u|^{2\sigma}; &u(0)=\phi, \end{cases} \end{equation*} on the hyperbolic spaces $\H^d$, $d\geq 2$, for exponents $\sigma\in(0,2/(d-2))$. The main unexpected conclusion is scattering to linear solutions in the case of small exponents $\sigma$; for comparison, on Euclidean spaces scattering in $H^1$ is not known for any exponent $\sigma\in(1/d,2/d]$ and is known to fail for $\sigma\in(0,1/d]$. Our main ingredients are certain noneuclidean global in time Strichartz estimates and noneuclidean Morawetz inequalities.

We prove two uniqueness theorems for solutions of linear and nonlinear wave equations; the first theorem is in the Minkowski space while the second is in the domain of outer communication of a Kerr black hole. Both theorems concern ill posed Cauchy problems on smooth, bifurcate, characteristic hypersurfaces. In the case of the Kerr space-time this hypersurface is the event horizon of the black hole., Comment: Various corrections

We prove a conditional "no hair" theorem for smooth manifolds: if $E$ is the domain of outer communication of a smooth, regular, stationary Einstein vacuum, and if a technical condition relating the Ernst potential and Killing scalar is satisfied on the bifurcate sphere, then $E$ is locally isometric to the domain of outer communication of a Kerr space-time., Comment: Various corrections

We study some basic analytic questions related to differential operators on Lie manifolds, which are manifolds whose large scale geometry can be described by a a Lie algebra of vector fields on a compactification. We extend to Lie manifolds several classical results on Sobolev spaces, elliptic regularity, and mapping properties of pseudodifferential operators. A tubular neighborhood theorem for Lie submanifolds allows us also to extend to regular open subsets of Lie manifolds the classical results on traces of functions in suitable Sobolev spaces. Our main application is a regularity result on polyhedral domains $\PP \subset \RR^3$ using the weighted Sobolev spaces $\Kond{m}a(\PP)$. In particular, we show that there is no loss of $\Kond{m}a$--regularity for solutions of strongly elliptic systems with smooth coefficients. For the proof, we identify $\Kond{m}a(\PP)$ with the Sobolev spaces on $\PP$ associated to the metric $r_{\PP}^{-2} g_E$, where $g_E$ is the Euclidean metric and $r_{\PP}(x)$ is a smoothing of the Euclidean distance from $x$ to the set of singular points of $\PP$. A suitable compactification of the interior of $\PP$ then becomes a regular open subset of a Lie manifold. We also obtain the well-posedness of a non-standard boundary value problem on a smooth, bounded domain with boundary $\maO \subset \RR^n$ using weighted Sobolev spaces, where the weight is the distance to the boundary., Comment: 32 pages, uses pstricks latex package, this version is essentially the printed version

One of the purposes of this paper is to prove that if G is a noncompact connected semisimple Lie group of real rank one with finite center, then L^{2,1}(G)\ast L^{2,1}({G})\subseteq L^{2,\infty}({G}). Let {K} be a maximal compact subgroup of {G} and X=G/K a symmetric space of real rank one. We will also prove that the noncentered maximal operator {\cal M}_2f(z) = \sup_{z\in B} \frac{1}{|B|} \int_{B}|f(z')|\,dz' is bounded from L^{2,1}(X) to L^{2,\infty}(X) and from L^p(X) to L^p(X) in the sharp range of exponents p\in(2,\infty]. The supremum in the definition of {\cal M}_2f(z) is taken over all balls containing the point z., Comment: 17 pages, published version