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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Are Besov spaces $B^{s}_{p,q}$ invariant under Fourier transform?
(This may be very easy question for MO; as I am just trying to understand Besov spaces)
Let $\phi \in C^{\infty}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with
$ \operatorname{supp} \phi \subset \{\xi \in \mathbb R^{n}: |\xi|...
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Pointwise a.e. formulation of parabolic PDE, what if null set depends on test function?
Let $u \in L^2(0,T;V)$ with $u_t \in L^2(0,T;V^*)$ be a solution of
$$\langle u_t(t), v \rangle + a(t;u(t), v) = \langle f(t), v \rangle$$
where $f \in L^2(0,T;V^*)$ and we have the usual assumptions ...
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First order pde with characteristics [closed]
Consider a first order pde of the type $$u_y+b(x)u_x=0$$ and suppose that the coefficient $b$ is not necessairly continuous (for instance with a jump in some point).
Is it still possible to apply in ...
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eigenvalues of a Möbius strip
Consider the Möbius strip as the unit square with two opposite sides identified (with opposite directions). Consider the eigenvalue equation $\Delta u = \lambda u$ with boundary condition $u=0$. ...
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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,}\\\
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Why Does a quadratic phase term in BNLS causes collapse?
I've heard a couple of times that in the Biharmonic Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation,
$i\psi_z + \Delta ^2 \psi + |\psi | ^{2\sigma } \psi =0 $, $\psi (x, 0) = \psi _0 (x) \in H^2( \mathbb{R} ^d ) $
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Hardy-type inequality for point boundary
Let $f$ be in $W^{2,p}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ for $n\geq 3$ and $p>n/2$, with $f=0$ at the origin. I want to show that the integral $$\int_{B(0,r)} (f |x|^{-2})^p dV <\infty$$ for some small $r>0$. A ...
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Reference for Hodge decomposition
Let $U$ be a bounded open subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ with Lipschitz boundary, and $g \in L^2(U,\mathbb{R}^d)$ be a solenoidal vector field (i.e. $\nabla \cdot g = 0$). Then $g$ can be written in the ...
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Liouville type theorems; linear PDE with decaying potential
Dear Mathoverflowers,
I am interested in the following pde:
$$ -\Delta u(x) + C(x) u(x) = 0 $$ in $ R^N$. Lets assume that $ C(x)$ is bounded and (smooth if you like) and satisfies the following:...
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A linear operator equation (PDE) with non-monotone term
I'm interested in the existence and/or uniqueness to the following problem. Let $V$ and $H$ be Hilbert spaces and $V \subset H \subset V^*$ form a Gelfand triple.
There is a linear operator $L:{D}(L) ...
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Partial differential Equation over characteristic p
I want some references on partial differential equations over characteristic $p$. If we have a first order partial differential equation, how can we check whether there exists polynomials or rational ...
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Inverse of partial differential operator as a smooth tame map
Tameness for maps is one of the main ingredients for the Nash-Moser inverse function theorem. A linear map $f: X \to Y$ between Fŕechet spaces with fixed seminorms is called tame if we have an ...
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Solve a PDE related to free boundary problem
I would like to solve the following system for my problem:
$$\max\Big(\frac{1}{2}u_{ss}+u_l\delta(s-s_0), F(l)-\lambda(s)-u(s,l)\Big)=0.$$
where $u=u(s,l): R\times R_+\to R$ is the unknown function ...
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Decay of weak solutions to degenerate parabolic PDEs on manifolds without boundary [closed]
I'm interested in degenerate parabolic equations posed on compact manifolds without boundaries and in particular decay estimates of the weak solution of such equations of the form
$$|u(t)|_{L^p} \leq ...
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presence of turbulent phenomena in systems of linear pde?
Are there linear systems of PDE that are known to have solutions which exhibit turbulence, or can turbulence be firmly classified as a fundamentally non-linear phenomenon, similar to solitons or shock ...
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Does the following measurable Halmilton-Jacobian equation admit a Lipschitz solution?
I have the following question:
Let $F:\Omega\times \mathbb{R}^n\to [0,\infty)$ be a convex Finsler norm, which means that
$F(x,\cdot)$ is convex with respect to the second variable.
$F(\cdot,v)$ is ...
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Half Laplacian; (definitions of) and regularity
I have a question regarding the half Laplacian $ (-\Delta )^\frac{1}{2}$ on some smooth bounded domain $ \Omega$ in $R^N$. I am attempting to clarify some confusion with the various definitions. ...
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Linearization instability and singular points of algebraic varieties
In a well known 1973 paper, Fischer and Marsden pointed out (with similar, contemporary remarks made in the physics literature by Brill and Deser) that the space of solutions of some non-linear ...
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Uniqueness of weak solutions of a heat equation
Let $M$ be a smooth compact closed manifold.
Let $u \in H^1(0,T;H^{-1}(M)) \cap L^2(0,T;H^1(M))$ be a solution of
$$u_t - \Delta u - u = 0$$
$$u(0)=u(T)$$
satisfying $\int_M u(t) = 0$ for all $t$. Is ...
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Strong maximum principle for weak solutions
Suppose I have a linear parabolic equation with solutions in the Bochner-Sobolev spaces (eg. $L^2(0,T;H^1) \cap H^1(0,T;H^{-1})$). Is it possible to obtain a strong maximum principle with a proof that ...
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Vanishing eigenvalues of Jacobian
Let $f: \mathbb{R^2}\to \mathbb{R^2}$ be a Schwartz function. If the eigenvalues of $Df$ vanish everywhere, must $f$ be constant? Does an analogous result hold when we replace $2$ by $n$?
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properties of frequency-uniform decomposition operator $\square_{k}^{\sigma}$
Let $\rho \in S(\mathbb R^{n})= \text{Schwartz space}, \ \rho:\mathbb R^{n}\to [0,1]$ be smooth radial function verifying $\rho(\xi)=1$ for $|\xi|_{\infty}\leq \frac{1}{2}$ and $\rho(\xi)=0$ for $|\...
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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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Laplacian mapping on various function spaces
I have a question related to a certain elliptic operator on $R^N$ but I think i can clarify my confusion if I just consider the Laplacian $\Delta$ on the unit ball in $R^N$.
If $ 1 <p< \infty$...
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Coarea formula in a subelliptic context
Consider smooth vector fields $X_1,..,X_k$ in ${\mathbb R}^n$, satisfying the H\"ormander condition, i.e. for all $x$, the Lie algebra generated by $X_1(x),...,X_k(x)$ is ${\mathbb R}^n$. Do you know ...
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Besov Characterization of Strichartz Estimate.
On page 4 of this paper of Ibrahim, Majdoub, and Masmoudi, the authors claim in Proposition 2 that solutions to
$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}\square u=F(t,x)\\ u(0,x)=f(x), \partial_tu(0,x)=g(x)\end{...
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Weak solution of a heat equation is zero?
I work on a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $u \in H^1(0,T;H^{-1})\cap L^2(0,T;H^1)$ be a solution of the heat equation:
$$\langle u', v \rangle + \int \nabla u \nabla v = 0$$
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Reference request: density of $C_c^{\infty}(\mathbb R^d)$ in $L^2(\mathbb R^d,d\rho)$
My question is motivated by an optimal transportation approach to PDE's and gradient flows in metric spaces (see e.g Otto's geometry of dissipative evolution equations: the porous media equation and ...
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Newtonian potential for continuous $f$
Suppose $f(x)$ is a continuous compactly supported function in $ R^N$ where $N \ge 3$.
Consider the Newtonian potential of $f$ (at least I think this is what it is called)
$$ v(x)=\int_{R^N} \...
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heat kernel on n-sphere
I'm interested in diffusion, a.k.a. the heat kernel driven by the Laplace-Beltrami operator, on the $n$-dimensional sphere. There are lots of bounds showing that, for small times, it behaves in a way ...
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Compact embedding
Let $\Omega$ be a domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (not necessarily bounded, no regularity assumption) and $K \subset \Omega$ a compact.
Is it true that the embedding $H^1_0(\Omega) \rightarrow L^2_K(\Omega)$...
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Weak convergence of a sequence
I have a sequence $(u_k) \in L^2_{loc}(\mathbb{R}^+; H^1_0(\Omega) )$ and $u \in L^2_{loc}(\mathbb{R}^+\times \Omega )$ such that for any $T >0$ and any compact $K \subset \Omega$ we have : $\int_{[...
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Spectral multipliers vis-a-vis Differential geometry
Let us mention two papers for examples: this one by Seeger and Sogge and this by Cheeger, Gromov and Taylor. One can also mention papers by Stein, for example, this one. There are also many others of ...
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Decay of Solutions to the Heat equation
Consider the heat equation
$$ (\partial_t + \Delta + V)u = 0$$
on a complete (open) Riemannian manifold with bounded geometry, where $V$ is a smooth and bounded potential.
Consider the semigroup ...
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Approximating a superharmonic function, by smooth superharmonic functions
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ be a bounded smooth domain. Assume that $u\in W_0^{1,2}(\Omega)$, $u\ge 0$ and $-\Delta u\ge 0$ in the sense of distributions ($u$ is superharmonic).
The standard ...
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BMO spaces on the torus
I was reading BMO spaces (John-Nirenberg) on wikipidia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_mean_oscillation. There they define BMO norm as
$$sup_{Q}\frac{1}{Q}\int_Q |u(y) - u_Q|dy$$
where $u_Q$ is ...
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Derivatives of infinite order [closed]
Is there any sense of taking an infinite number of derivatives? Is it discussed in the literature?
For example, can one make sense of
$$\frac{\partial^{\infty}f(x_1,x_2,\cdots)}{\partial x_1 \...
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Getting existence for $L^1$ data given existence for $L^\infty$ data and $L^1$ continuous dependence result
Let $F:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ be locally Lipschitz, monotone and continuous. For the sake of concreteness only let us suppose it is of porous medium type (eg. $F(r) = r^{\frac 1m}$.)
Let $\Omega \...
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A question about the first eigenvalue for two Kahler metrics
While reading the paper of Gang Tian, "Kähler-Einstein metrics with positive scalar curvature". In the proof of Theorem 1.6, he pointed that if two Kahler metrics $\omega $ and $\omega'$ satisfies $\...
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Galerkin approximations for parabolic PDE weak solution, getting a uniform bound
(As usual $V \subset H$ are separable Hilbert spaces)
In a book I read this about existence of the solutions to parabolic PDEs:
the approximate solution $u_n(t)$ solves the equation
$$(u_n', w_j)...
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$L^p$ regularity for wave equations with coercive boundary conditions
Suppose we have the wave type equation
$$\partial^2_tu - L u = 0$$ on a compact manifold with boundary, where $L$ is a second order strongly elliptic operator with coercive boundary conditions (not ...
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A question about PDE argument involving monotone convergence theorem and Sobolev space
I'm reading this paper. In it there is the following argument (see page 240).
Firstly, what precisely does the author mean by the displayed equation after 66? The PDE in (65) only holds weakly.. $b(\...
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Want to show rigorously $\frac{d}{dt}\int_{\Omega}|u(t)|^r = r\langle u_t(t), |u(t)|^{r-2}u(t)\rangle_{H^{-1}(\Omega), H^1(\Omega)}$
We have a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $$u \in L^2((0,T);H^1(\Omega)) \cap H^1((0,T);H^{-1}(\Omega))\cap L^\infty((0,T);L^\infty(\Omega)).$$
I want to show for $r \geq 2$ that
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When is separation of variables an acceptable assumption to solve a PDE?
We know that one of the classical methods for solving some PDEs is the method of separation of variables. It works for known types of PDEs and many examples of physical phenomena are successfully ...
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Variational Principle for a System of Differential Equations
I am studying a differential operator of the form $$ L\left(\begin{array}{c} u \\ v \end{array}\right) = -\Delta \left(\begin{array}{c} u \\ v \end{array}\right) + V(x)\left(\begin{array}{c} u \\ v \...
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Convergence rate of iterated nonlinear equations?
For $i=1, \dots, n$ ($n$ could be large) we have variables $x_i$ and $y_i$ relating to probability bounds s.t. $x_i, y_i \geq 0, x_i+y_i \leq 1 \; \forall i$. Each $i$ has a constant $\theta_i$, and ...
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The space of diffeomorphisms on a manifold
It is well known that given a compact connected smooth manifold without boundary $M$, the set of diffeomorphisms $Diff^{r}(M)$ of $M$ for $r≥1$, is open in $C^{r}(M)$, the set of continuous functions (...
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Quadratic PDE Systems
(First time asking question on this forum so please kindly let me know if this is out of scope/inappropriate etc.)
I have a problem that leads me to the following quadratic system of PDEs:-
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How can we formulate maximal time $T$ in Hyperbolic Kahler Ricci flow
In general, the exact maximal time $T$ of a Riemannian Ricci flow may not be easy to find. However, fortunately, for Kähler-Ricci flows, the maximal time of existence $T$ is explicitly determined by ...
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Is the universal constant in Caccioppoli's inequality one?
If you go through the classical proof of the fact that if $\Delta u= 0$ on $B_R$, then for every $R^\prime<R$ there holds
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\int_{B_{R^\prime}}|\nabla u|^2 \leq \frac{C}{(R-R^\prime)^2}\int_{B_{R}\...
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