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Classification of PDE
Recently I have been attending a course on PDE's. I was totally ignorant of the subject and wasn't that motivated to be honest. But I was intrigued and felt I had to take the course seriously both for ...
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Physical interpretation of Robin boundary conditions
In a (bounded) domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, if we're studying the Laplace equation or heat equation or such PDE's we can impose the Dirichlet
$u|_{\partial\Omega} \equiv 0$,
Neumann
$D_{\nu} ...
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Textbooks for PDE between Strauss and Folland
Walter A. Strauss's Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction is a classic PDE textbook for the undergraduate students. While Folland's Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, is a nice ...
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Regularity of the Maxwell equations
As is well-known, the Maxwell equations can be phrased vectorially as,
\begin{align}
\nabla \cdot \mathbf E &= \frac{\rho_f}{\varepsilon}, &\text{Gauss's law,}\\\
\nabla \cdot \mathbf ...
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Moduli space of linear partial differential equations
Is there a way to view "the space of all possible linear PDE's" as an algebraic variety with singularities?
This is in connection with a quote from someone on the web that I saw a long time ago. At ...
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Short time existence on nonlinear parabolic PDE
I saw several papers that without proof accept the fact "Short time existence on nonlinear parabolic PDE" is there any affirmative proof of this fact?
in which book we have this fact, the number of ...
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Fundamental solution of an elliptic PDE in divergence form with non-symmetric matrix
I am looking for the fundamental solution of the following PDE
$$\partial_i (a^{ij}\partial_j u)=f$$
where $a^{ij}(x)$ is a non-symmetric matrix with possibly non-constant coefficients.
I could find a ...
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Poincaré lemma for distributions
Let us consider a current on $\mathbb R^n$, that is a differential form whose coefficients are distributions. For simplicity, let us check the case of a $1$-form
$$
u=\sum_{1\le j\le n} u_j dx_j,\quad ...
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A singular differential equation
In a neighbourhood of $0$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ a smooth function $h=h(x)$, $h(0)=0$, is given. Take arbitrary real numbers $w,\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_n\in\mathbb{R}$.
The problem is to find a smooth ...
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Research topics in microlocal analysis
Before asking this question here I did some research on web but I would like to get the opinion of those directly interested if there are any , (as I did in this thread Research topics in distribution ...
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Feynman-Kac theorem: probabilistic proof of existence of solution to parabolic PDE
Friedman (in his book: PDEs of Parabolic Type) shows how to construct a solution to the Cauchy problem
$$
\partial_t u(t,x) = b(x) \partial_x u(t,x) + \frac{1}{2} \sigma(x)^2 \partial_{x,x} u(t,x)
$$
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Sobolev's PDE Scottish Book Problem (Problem 188)
In 1940 Sobolev recorded the following problem in the Scottish Book, and offered a bottle of wine for a solution.
In 2015, when the second edition of the Scottish Book with updates and commentary on ...
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Special Second-Order PDE
Let $\Phi$ be a given smooth function on a neighborhood of zero in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with
$$\Phi(0) = 0, ~~~~D \Phi(0) = 0, ~~~~ D^2\Phi(0) >0,$$
the latter meaning that the Hessian is positive ...
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Well-posedness of Fokker-Planck equation
Consider the following equation on $[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^n$
\begin{eqnarray}
&\partial_t\rho=\mathrm{div}(\rho\nabla V)+\Delta\rho\\
&\rho|_{t=0}=\rho^0,
\end{eqnarray}
where $V\in C^2(\...
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Evolution operator for a linear parabolic equation
Let $A(t)$ be a smooth family of positive definite operators on a Hilbert space $H$. Consider the operator
$$D:= \frac{d}{dt}+A(t)$$
and let $U(t):H\to H$ be the evolution operator, i.e., $U(0)=I$ and ...
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Reference Request for global Hölder continuity of solutions to elliptic PDEs
This is question that was also posted on MathStackExchange Link, where it was suggested I post this question on MathOverflow. Please note that the answer given in Link does not help as I do not have ...
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What does the flow of the principal symbol of the differential operator tell us about the PDE?
Disclaimer: Let me apologize in advance for asking this slightly vague question
Let $M$ be a manifold and let $P$ be a partial differential operator acting on $C^{\infty}(M)$. Associated to $P$ there'...
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Continuous right inverse to the Laplacian operator on $C^\infty$
For each $f\in C^\infty(\mathbb R^n)$, there exists $u\in C^\infty(\mathbb R^n)$ such that $\Delta u=f$. This, I guess, has been known well before the more general Malgrange-Ehrenpreis theorem that ...
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Mountain Pass theorem for minimization problems with constraints
Let $I[u]$ be a functional on a (possibly infinite dimensional) Hilbert space. Then, under some conditions, the Mountain Pass theorem guarantees the existence of a saddle point (see http://en....
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Bounded input Bounded output stability for heat equation
This is a cross-post from Computational Science.
I am interested in proving or obtaining a counterexample to the following conjecture.
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded open domain. Let ...
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Failure of Fredholm property of elliptic PDE systems
Roughly speaking, a PDE operator satisfies the Fredholm property if its principal symbol is elliptic and the information provided on the boundary satisfies the Shapiro-Lopatinskii condition.
What can ...
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Are smooth solutions to a PDE dense in the space of $L^2$ solutions to the PDE?
Let's say I have a linear differential operator $P$ with smooth coefficients between bundles $E$ and $F$ over a smooth compact manifold $X$ with smooth boundary. Let's consider $P$ as an operator ...
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System of linear pde with non constant coefficients
I'm a physicist and during my research work, I found a system of linear pde with non constant coefficients that I have to study, since I have totally no experience about systems of pde and I have even ...
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Intuition for Agmon-Douglis-Nirenberg ellipticity
First of all, I am sorry if this is a too basic question, but I stumbled over this notion of ellipticity only very recently.
I am trying to understand the definition of ellipticity of systems due to ...
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Uniform bound on the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian
Is it possibly to have $L_\infty$ bounds on the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian operator on bounded regular domains with Dirichlet condition? I found several papers by Sogge but these are pretty ...
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Fredholm alternative result for general elliptic system?
Now I have known that Fredholm alternative result is valid for the strong elliptic system. But I'm not sure that is it still valid for the general elliptic system, in which the second-order heading ...
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A very basic question about projections in formal PDE theory
I am learning formal PDE theory for my research and I am currently struggling to have a basic understanding of the operations involved in completing a (say, linear) PDE system to an involutive one (...
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Lax pairs for linear PDEs
I'm trying to understand the discussion around equation (2.1) of the paper http://www.jstor.org/stable/53053. It says that the linear PDE $M(\partial_x,\partial_y)q=0$ with constant coefficients has ...
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Regularity of solutions to a linear degenerate parabolic pde
I've encountered the following problem which is causing me some trouble :
Let $(M^2,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian surface (with constant curvature for instance) and consider a smooth function $u:...
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Vacuum region with positive measure for the Schrödinger equation
Let us consider the free Schrödinger equation $(i\partial_t+\Delta_x)\psi=0$ in $\mathbb{R}_t\times\mathbb{R}_x^d$. I'm trying to understand the structure of the vacuum region
$$\Omega(\psi):=\{(t,x)\...
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Analytical solution to a Linear advection-reaction PDE
I am looking for an analytical solution for the linear PDE
$(1)\qquad\qquad \qquad f_t+ A f_x + B f = 0, $
Where $A$ and $B$ are constant matrices and $f=f(x,t)$ is a vector.
Clearly each one of $...
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How do solutions of a PDE depend on parameters?
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a bounded smooth domain and $\sigma_1,\sigma_2:\Omega\to(c^{-1},c)$ measurable (for some constant $1<c<\infty$).
Let $f\in H^{1/2}(\partial\Omega)=H^1(\Omega)/H^...
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Minimal assumptions for existence of solutions of First order PDE
I'm looking for a reference about existence of linear homogeneous first order PDE, in particular about the minimal assumption on the data. In literature I found that one require $C^1$-regularity on ...
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Space of solutions to a fourth order wave equation
I'm interested in finding solutions a fourth order version of the standard wave equation in $d$ dimensional Minkowski spacetime $\mathcal{M}^d$. Defining $\Box := \partial_0^2 - \sum_{i = 1}^{d-1} \...
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Gradient estimate for elliptic equation
Given:
1)a bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb R^n$ of class $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$
2) the function $f\in L^{\infty}(\Omega)$ with $\int_{\Omega} f=0$
3)$g=(g_i,\ldots,g_n)\in \mathcal{C}^\alpha(\...
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Heat Equation with an integral boundary condition
I have been struggling with following Heat equation IBVP,
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial v\left(x, t\right)}{\partial t} = \alpha \frac{\partial^2 v\left(x, t\right)}{\partial x^2}, \quad t \in \left(...
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Regularity of solution to Fokker Planck equation
Suppose that $\rho \in L^1(\mathbb{R}^n \times (0,T))$ for every $T < \infty$ is a weak solution of the PDE
\begin{align}
\partial_t\rho &= \Delta \rho + \text{div}(\rho\nabla\Psi(x))\\
\rho(t =...
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Positivity for the mild solution of a heat equation on the torus
Consider the following linear parabolic equation in one spatial dimension for $u=u(x,t)$ on the one-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^1,$ meaning $x \in \mathbb{T}^1$ and $t \in (0, T]:$
$$ \partial_t u- ...
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Linear transport equation with unbounded coefficients
Consider the PDE
$$\partial_t f(x,t) = \langle q(x), \nabla \rangle f(t,x) + p(x),$$
with Schwartz initial data $f(0,x) = f_0(x) \in \mathscr S(\mathbb R^n).$
I am wondering then if $q$ and all its ...
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General solution to an ultrahyperbolic PDE
$\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}$The following PDE defined on $\mathbb{R}^2$ $$\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\frac{\partial}{\partial y}f(x,y) = 0,$$ has solution $$f(x,y) = g(x) + h(y),$$ where $g,h : \...
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Linear hyperbolic PDE on compact two dimensional domain
Consider the equation
$$
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial^2f}{\partial x\partial y}=f
\end{equation}
$$
on a Jordan domain (i.e. the interior of a simple, closed curve on the plane). The equation is ...
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Existence of second order potential for PDE
There is a statement in the literature (see the paragraph between equations (18) and (19) in http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.523863), which I would like to generalise, but I don't have a nice ...
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$L^\infty$ estimate on heat equation with a lower order term
Let $u$ be the weak solution on a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ (for $n \leq 3$) of
$$u_t - \Delta u = f$$
$$u(0) = u_0$$
$$\partial_\nu u = 0 \quad\text{on $\partial\Omega$}$$
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Analytic solution of a system of linear, hyperbolic, first order, partial differential equations
In a try to solve a physical problem, I've faced a system of first-order partial differential equations of the form
$$\cos\left(t\right)\partial_{x}\mathbf{u}+\sin\left(t\right)\partial_{y}\mathbf{u}+...
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$W^{k,1}$ regularity for elliptic equations
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded region in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and assume $u$ is a solutions of $\nabla \cdot (a \nabla u)=f$ with $a>c>0$ in $\Omega$, where $a\in C^k(\bar{\Omega})$. Is the following ...
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Reference request: Optimal $L^p$-decay for nonhomogenous heat equation in $\mathbb R^d$
Let $u$ be a classical solution for the nonhomogeneous heat equation in $\mathbb R_+ \times\mathbb R^d$:
$$
\begin{cases}
\partial_tu(t,x)-\Delta u(t,x) = f(t,x), \\
u(0,x)=u_0(x).
\end{cases}
$$
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Please recommend some literature on the systematical theory of the elliptic systems!
Now I'm interested in the theory of elliptic systems, for example, both the linear and nonlinear case, the exsitence and regularity results, and is there a Fredholm alternative result for the linear ...
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$L^2$ regularity theory for elliptic equations: Is there another method other that the difference quotient method? Reference request
So i'm interested in the following classical theorem or similar variants.
Consider the following elliptic PDE
$$
-D_\alpha(a^{ij}D_\beta u) = f.
$$
If we assume that the coefficients $a^{ij}$ are ...
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Regularity up to the boundary for the Poisson problem
It seems that the following assertion is widely accepted:
For $k\in\mathbb N$, $p\geq 2$, $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$ bounded with $\partial\Omega\in C^{k+2}$ and $f\in W^{k,p}(\Omega)$, the weak ...
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Structure of sign changes under the heat flow
Let $f$ be a smooth function on $R^2$, and define $N_f$ to be the set of points $p$ such that the nodal set of $f$ ($\{x\in R^2: f(x)=0\}$) divided every neighborhood of $p$ into four regions. Indeed, ...