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The energy of a semilinear ODE

I'm currently reading Caffarelli, Gidas, Spruck's paper "Asymptotic Symmetry and Local Behavior of Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Critical Sobolev Growth". For some background, we ...
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What is known about discrete versions of the spatially homogenous Boltzmann equation with finitely many (but arbitrarily many) velocities?

Consider a discrete version of spatially homogenous Boltzmann equation with finitely many (but arbitrarily many) velocities $v_i \in \mathbb R^n$ with $i \in I$. Equivalently, consider a system of ...
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A differential inequality involving gradient and laplacian

Let $V:\mathbb{R}^{n}\to\mathbb{R}$ smooth, such that $\lim_{|x|\to\infty}V(x)=+\infty$. What are conditions on $V$ that guarantee the existence of a function $U:\mathbb{R}^{n}\to\mathbb{R}$ such that ...
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Discrete dynamical system and bound on norm

Let $z \in \mathbb R\backslash \left\{2 \right\}$ then I would like to understand the following: Consider the dynamical system with $x_i \in \mathbb C^2:$ $$ x_{i} = \left(\begin{matrix} z &&...
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The flow of Harmonic vector fields

A map or a vector field $g: \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^n $ is called a harmonic map if all its components are harmonic functions. Motivated by conversations on this questions we ask: ...
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Regularity of a nonlinear ODE [Traveling wave solutions of parabolic systems]

In the book of Volpert on Traveling wave solutions of Parabolic Systems (AMS), one reads "the following assertion is readily proved and we shall not discuss it in detail". The same result is tacitely ...
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Replacing large-dimensional ODE systems with one PDE [closed]

Is it possible to replace a large-dimensional system of differential equations with one partial differential equation?