Questions tagged [ap.analysis-of-pdes]
Partial differential equations (PDEs): Existence and uniqueness, regularity, boundary conditions, linear and non-linear operators, stability, soliton theory, integrable PDEs, conservation laws, qualitative dynamics.
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Solving a parabolic PDE with boundary conditions given over ranges
How can one solve a Parabolic PDE (like the wave or diffusion equations) if the boundary conditions were given over ranges?
Here is an example: How to solve the equation $u_{xx}+u_{yy}-\alpha^{2}u_{t}...
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A heat equation approach to the perturbation of vector field with center
Edit: According to the comment of Willie Wong I realize that the previous version was trivial. I thank him for his comment. Now I revise it.
We consider the heat equation $$U_{t}=\Delta U\\U(x,y,0)=...
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Regularity of solutions to $u' + Au = f$ for nonlinear monotone operator $A$
Consider the equation
$$u' + Au = f$$
$$u|_{\partial \Omega} = 0$$
$$u(0) = u_0$$
where $A:L^p(0,T;W^{1,p}_0) \to L^q(0,T;W^{-1,q})$ is some monotone nonlinear operator (with additional assumptions). ...
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Conformal changes of metric and geodesics
Suppose $(M,g)$ is a Riemannian manifold. Let us assume that $X$ denotes a vector field in this manifold and consider the integral curves of this vector field.
Does there exist a conformal factor $c$ ...
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A question about viscosity solutions
Let $A:=[a,b]$ be a closed interval in $\mathbb{R}$. Let $F(x,p,q,r)$ be a function from $[a,b]\times \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R} \times\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ describing a second order ...
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Are Sobolev trace spaces equal from both sides of the boundary?
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a bounded open set and $\Omega'$ the complement of its closure.
Assume $\partial\Omega=\partial\Omega'$.
Are the quotient spaces $W^{1,p}(\Omega)/W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)$ ...
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Regularity of $u$ in $u_t - \Delta \beta(t,u) = f$, can we get $u_t$ is a function?
I'm looking for reference discussing the regularity of the weak solution $u$ to the equation
$$u_t - \Delta \beta(t, u) = f$$
$$u(0) = u_0$$
where $\beta(t,\cdot)$ is a nonlinear function depending ...
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One parameter family differentiable dependence for linear parabolic pde's
Consider for example, the Black Schole's equation
$$
\partial_tu+0.5\sigma^2s^2\partial_{ss}u+rs\partial_su-ru=0
$$
on $[0,T]\times[0,\infty)$ subject to boundary conditions $u(s,T)=f(s)$.
The ...
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Proving compatibility of two Partial differential equations
Given two PDE(s): $F(x,y,z,p,q)=0$
and $G(x,y,z,p,q)=0$
In I.A.N Sneddon's "Elements of Partial Differential Equations",If every solution of $F=0$ is a solution of $G=0$,...
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Steklov averages in PDE: what to do when we have time-dependent elliptic operator
One may have an equation (with boundary conditions omitted below)
$$u_t - Au = f$$
$$u(0)=u_0$$
which has a weak solution $u \in L^2(0,T;V) \cap C([0,T];H)$ in the sense that
$$-\int_0^T \int_\Omega u(...
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Hypoelliptic pseudodifferential operators and Fredholm equations?
I read here
the following:
The parametrix is a useful concept in the study of elliptic
differential operators and, more generally, of hypoelliptic
pseudodifferential operators with variable ...
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Any reference in absorbing boundary conditions for non-abelian gauge fields?
Is there any paper on absorbing boundary conditions for non-abelian gauge fields?
Currently I only saw some on elastic wave equations and some on EM fields.
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A question on the integrability of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian
Let $(M,g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold. Let $\lambda$ and $u$ be (the $k$-th) eigenvalue and eigenfunction,
$$\Delta u=-\lambda u.$$
I was wondering under what condition (for example, spaces ...
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A Question about compactness of an embedding into $L^p$ spaces
Assume $ \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ is a smooth bounded domain. There is well known Hardy inequality that says
For any $ u \in W_0^{1,2}(\Omega) $, $N\geq3$ we have
$$ \Lambda \int_{\Omega} \frac{u^...
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Proof of regularity for bounded elliptic problem
We consider the boundary value problem for potential in the form:
$$-\Delta u(\boldsymbol{x})=0,\quad \boldsymbol{x}\in \mathbb R^3\smallsetminus S,$$
with boundary conditions
$$\nabla u(\...
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Space of p-harmonic functions
Let $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 2$, be a sufficiently nice set to make the following question meaningful.
I am interested in the space of p-harmonic functions on $\Omega$; that is, the ...
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Who is Petrov of the Petrov-Galerkin method?
I was not able to find the origin of the name Petrov in the Petrov-Galerkin method for the numerical approximation of PDEs.
Wikipedia refers to a certain Alexander G. Petrov, but it is still not ...
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One parameter family of elliptic equations
Consider the following 2nd order nonlinear elliptic equation on $\mathbb{R}^n$: $$-\Delta \varphi_\varepsilon + \sum_i a_i(x, \varepsilon)\partial_i \varphi_\varepsilon + \varphi_\varepsilon = N(\...
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ricci flow on surfaces
In Hamiltons paper "Ricci flow on surfaces" there is an estimate on $|\nabla R|^2$ which shows that $|\nabla R|^2 \leq C_1 \exp{\frac{rt}{2}}$ for some constant $C_1$.
Actually for any solution of the ...
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Semi-continuity of the dimension of the null space
Suppose $T_n : X \rightarrow X$ is a sequence of Fredholm operators on a Banach space such that $T_k \rightarrow T$ strongly (in the induced operator norm). If $N_k$ and $N$ denote the dimensions of ...
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Mixed norm estimate for the heat equation
Consider the inhomogeneous linear heat equation
$$\partial_tu-\Delta u=F$$
on $\mathbb R^n\times [0,1]$ (say) with zero initial data. Assume $F$ is very nice (say Schwarz), so that we have a nice ...
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Does this PDE only have the trivial solution?
Let $(M,g)$ be a closed Einstein manifold of dimension $m>2$ and
$$
\mathrm{Ricc}(g)=\lambda g,
$$
$h$ a symmetric $2$-covariant tensor, $\Delta=\nabla^*\nabla$ the Laplacian on functions as well ...
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Harmonic function with Dirichlet boundary condition
Consider the domain $D = \{(x_1, x_2,.., x_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n : 0 \leq x_i \leq 1\}$. Let $D$ be divided into two parts $D_1$ and $D_2$ by the hyperplane $H = \{x_1 = \frac{1}{2}\}$. My question is: ...
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A space of distributions vanishing on the boundary
The revised question
After more reflection on the problem, I might have found the answer by myself. Let $U$ be an open subset of $M$, irrespective of whether it has a boundary or not. Let
$$\mathcal ...
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Rellich's theorem from compact resolvent
On a compact Riemannian manifold, we know that the Laplacian $\Delta$ has compact resolvent. In proving this, one typical way is to use Rellich's theorem about the compact embedding of $H^1(M)$ into $...
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Literature on Lateral cauchy problem
Can you please provide me with books that deal with lateral cauchy problem?
Also introductory articles are fine by me.
Is this topic covered in books like Evans', Taylor's, Hilbert-Courant's or ...
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Are solutions of the Beltrami Equations necessarily smooth?
Let $ a $, $ b $ and $ c $ be real constants such that $ \Delta \stackrel{\text{df}}{=} a c - b^{2} > 0 $. The Beltrami Equations are defined as the following system of PDE’s on the domain $ \Bbb{R}...
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Zeta-Determinant Theorem
Recently, someone asked on MO about lecture notes from Graeme Segal's "Stanford lectures" on TQFT, and the answer was to check here.
When scrolling over the notes, I stumpled of Prop. 2.8.2 in ...
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Minimisers and critical points of variational integrals
In the following we consider $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n\ (n\geq2)$ to be open, bounded and with Lipschitz boundary. Consider the following regular variational integral:
\begin{equation*}
I[u]=\int_{\...
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Multivalued solution of PDE ${v_{xx}v_{yy}-v_{xy}^{2}}={(1+v_{x}^{2}+v_{y}^{2})^2}$
Let's start with a definition:
Definition: A scalar k-th order differential equation on a smooth manifold $M$,
is $F(x,v,\frac{\partial {^\left | \sigma \right |}v}{\partial x^\sigma })=0 $
for $\...
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elliptic regularity for Neumann BVP on square
I am interested in the regularity of ellitpic equations like
$$ -\Delta u(x) +a(x) \cdot \nabla u(x) + C(x) u(x) =f(x) \quad \Omega$$ with $ \partial_\nu u =0$ on $ \partial \Omega$ where $ \Omega=(...
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Estimate the smallest eigenvalue of a Schrodinger operator
There are several results on the estimate of the number of negative eigenvalues of a Schrodinger operator, see a recent paper of Grigor'yan-Nadirashvili-Sire and references therein. I wonder how to ...
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Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on singular spaces
Consider a compact manifold $M$ with boundary and corner. As an example, we could have the cube $\{(x_1, x_2,..x_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n : x_i \in [0,1]\}$. We could very well define the Laplacian $\Delta$...
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Quantum Mechanics and bilinear optimal control theory
I was wondering whether there are any rigorous results about the optimal controllability of Schrödinger operators.
So my question is something like this:
Let $i \partial_t \psi(x,t) = H_0(x)\psi(x,t)...
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Changing frames of the tangent bundle with Schwartz functions [closed]
Let's consider two global frames $\{v_{1},....v_{N}\}$ and $\{u_{1},....u_{N}\}$ of the tangent bundle $T\mathbb{R}^N$.
Now consider the matrix $\{f_{i,j}\}$that change the frame $\{v_k\}$ to $\{u_k\...
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Solution of Helmholtz-Equation where Phase is restricted by additional PDE
Hello!
Let's say I have
$(\partial_x^2 + \partial_y^2 + a)f(x,y)=0$
with $f(x,y) \in \mathbb{C}$, ($\lim_{x,y \to \infty} f(x,y)=0$).
Now separate the Amplitude and Phase of the solution:
$$f(x,y)=...
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Application of inverse function theorem to get short time existence
I am reading a book on curve shortening flow. Optionally, please see this image for the page that is confusing me (I am not allowed to include it in this post since I'm new): https://i.sstatic.net/...
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Connection between the p and q Laplacians
I'm just looking for some quick and dirty intuition(and/or reading material) about the following:
I read that Hodge duality provides a way to interchange the p-Laplacian $ \Delta_p = \nabla\cdot( |\...
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Schrodinger equation with magnetic vector potential
In many papers dealing with the Schrodinger equation with magnetic potential
$$u_t=i(\nabla+iA(t,x))^2u$$
the authors say that this equation can be studied with Kato's methods for abstract evolution ...
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The Spectrum of certain differential operators
We fix a Hilbert space isomorphism $\phi:H^{1}\to H^{2}$. Here by $H^{s},\;s=1,2,\;$ we mean the sobolev space on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ or $S^{2}$.
We consider the following polynomial vector field on ...
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A question on theorem 1.1 of Fritz John ultrahyperbolic pde
I have the following paper:
Fritz John, The ultrahyperbolic differential equation with four independent variables, Duke Math. J. 4 (1938), no. 2, pages 300-322
doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-38-00423-5
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Numerical methods for solving a hyperbolic nonlinear PDE
What type of numercial methods are there to solve PDE of the sorts of:
$$f(x,t,u(x,t))u_{xx} - g(x,t,u(x,t))u_{tt} = F(x,t,u(x,t))$$
$$u(x,0)=G_1(x) , \frac{\partial u(x,0)}{\partial t}=H_1(x) ,u(0,t)...
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Reference request for the focussing example
I was reading "From Rotating Needles to Stability of Waves: Emerging Connections between Combinatorics, Analysis, and PDE" by Terence Tao, which is a Notice of the American Mathematical Society Vol. ...
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Second order estimates of Monge-Ampere equations
In order to prove existence of solutions of real and complex Monge-Ampere equations in various modifications (e.g. as in the Calabi problem) one often uses the method of a priori estimates. One of the ...
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Matrix equation
Let $A$ be $k\times n$ matrix i.e., $A=(a_{1},\ldots, a_{n})$ where $a_{j} \in \mathbb{R}^{k}$, $rank(A)=k$ and $1\leq k \leq n$. Let $q=(q_{1},\ldots, q_{n})\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$ be such that $0<q_{j}...
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Existence of at least one positive solution for semilinear biharmonic equation with critical exponent
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 5$. Now assume the biharmonic problem with singular term as follow
\begin{cases} \Delta^2u=\lambda \dfrac{u}{|x|^4}+u^{p} & \mathrm{in}\hspace{...
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Theorems that tell if an explicit analytical solution is possible for nonlinear PDEs
Are there any theorems that tell if a particular nonlinear PDE can be solved explicitly by analytical methods?
Where analytical methods I refer to methods such as power series or any methods that use ...
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Survey papers on the role played by PDE in mathematics
There are already several questions on MathOverflow that inquire about the many diverse relationships between PDE and several other 'areas' of mathematics (e.g., algebraic and differential geometry ...
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Can Mumford-Shah functional be adapted to lower $L^1$ space?
The well know Mumford-Shah functional functional
$$
F(u)=\int_\Omega|\nabla u|^2+\mathcal H^{N-1}(S_u) \tag 1
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where $u\in SBV(\Omega)$ and $\nabla u$ is the absolutely continuous part of ...
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Construct a PDE solution from a net of approximations
Consider $P$ a linear partial differential operator in $\Bbb R ^n$. Consider some boundary condition given in the generic form $C(u) = 0$, that guarantees a unique solution (if any) of $Pu = 0$.
Let $...
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