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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Derivation of a stochastic Navier-Stokes equation under the assumption of perturbed particle trajectories
Let
$d\in\left\{2,3\right\}$
$\mathcal V_t\subseteq\mathbb R^d$ be the bounded domain occupied by an incompressible Newtonian fluid at time $t\ge 0$
$\Phi_t:\mathcal V_0\to\mathcal V_t$ such that $\...
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Methods of variational calculus in analytic number theory
What methods of calculus of variations have been used in analytic number theory?
I mean do Hamilton-Jacobi theory of PDE found usage in analytic number theory, which raises yet another question has ...
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Harmonic map heat flow in positive curvature
Suppose I wish to relax/smooth a map $\phi:M\rightarrow N$ between two surfaces $M,N$ embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. I could try flowing the map using harmonic heat flow, which (as I understand it) is ...
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What's the idea behind various equivalent norms on Besov spaces $B^{s}_{p,q}$?
I am trying to understand Besov spaces; and I am eager to see why the various norms are equivalent on it.
Let $\phi$ be a $C^{\infty}$ function on $\mathbb R^{n}$ with
$ \operatorname{supp} \phi \...
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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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planar mappings that preserve elliptic measure
Let $D_1$ and $D_2$ be two bounded simply connected Jordan domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$. By Carathéodory's Theorem there exists a homeomorphism $f:\bar{D}_1 \to \bar{D}_2$ such that the restriction $f:...
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Energy of harmonic maps from $\mathbb R^2$ to $S^2$ is quantized
Assume that $U:\mathbb R^2\to S^2=\{y\in\mathbb R^3:|y|=1\}$ is a smooth solution of the equation $\Delta U+|\nabla U|^2U=0$ in $\mathbb R^2$ with $\int_{\mathbb R^2}|\nabla U|^2\,dx<+\infty$. ...
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Dependence of Neumann eigenvalues on the domain
I have the following problem in hands, in the context of a broader investigation:
Let $V\in L^{n/2}$ compactly supported, where $n\geq 3$ is the dimension. I want to prove the following:
For any $\...
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Global well posedness of $\phi^4_1$
We consider the $\phi^4_1$ model: $\partial_t\phi=\Delta\phi-\phi^3+\xi$ on $[0,T] \times \mathbb{R},$ where $\xi$ is a space time white noise.
I know how to solve this equation locally on the torus, ...
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Gaussian lower heat kernel bounds on non-convex bounded domain
I am looking for a proof the following theorem.
Let $U \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded domain with $C^2$ boundary and $p(x,y,t)$ be the Neumann heat kernel. Then there exist a constant $C>0$ ...
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Reference request: Elliptic regularity estimate in domains with $C^{1,\alpha}$ boundary
I'm wondering if there is a reference for the following (or if it's not true). Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain with $C^{1,\alpha}$ boundary, where $0<\alpha<1$. For the inhomogeneous Dirichlet ...
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Can two eigenfunctions be almost linearly dependent in a region?
Consider the Schrödinger operator $H=-\Delta+|x|^a$ on $\mathbb{R}$, where $a>0$. Since the potential is growing at $\infty$, we have compact resolvent thus the eigenvalues are discrete and tend to ...
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Entire solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equation in the plane
Question. Are all solutions $u: \mathbf{R}^2 \to \mathbf{C}$ of the Ginzburg-Landau equation (1) radially symmetric? What if one imposes additionally that $\int_{\mathbf{R}^2} ( 1 - \lvert u \rvert^2)^...
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Heat Flows and spatial singularities
While working on an abstract problem, I came up with the following question:
Let $\Omega_1 := \mathrm B(-1, 1)$ and $\Omega_2 := \mathrm B(1, 1)$, where $\mathrm B(x, r) \subseteq \mathbb R^2$ denotes ...
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Nonlinear-PDE arising from flat conformal Chebyshev nets
Consider a flat, simply connected surface endowed with the Riemannian metric $g_0=e^{2\Omega(u,v)}\left(\mathbb{d}^2u +\mathbb{d}^2v \right)$, so that $\Omega(u,v)$ is an arbitrary harmonic function. ...
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Regularity of $|u|^{\alpha}$ when $u$ is Schwartz
Let $0<\alpha<1$. Let $D_x^{\alpha}$ denote the Fourier multiplier given by $\xi\to |\xi|^{\alpha}$. Suppose $u:\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{C}$ is Schwartz (or even just smooth with compact support). ...
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Are the two-valued homogeneous harmonic functions classified?
Question. Is there a classification of homogeneous two-valued harmonic functions on $\mathbf{R}^n$, valid in dimensions $n \geq 3$?
For reference, multi-valued functions are familiar objects in ...
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Gap between consecutive Dirichlet eigenvalues
Suppose $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^2$ is a domain with a Lipschitz boundary and let $\{\lambda_k\}_{k=0}^n$ be the eigenvalues for the Laplacian operator on $\Omega$, that is to say
$$ -\Delta \phi_k = ...
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Determine the location of the boundary where the heat changes fastest
I am motivated by the following question:
Given a uniform heat source in a convex domain, and suppose that the outside temperature is equal to $0$, can we determine where the long-time temperature ...
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A continuity argument for a dispersive $gKdV$ estimate
I'm learning about the gKdV equation, following Schlag & Muscalu vol II. We're looking at
$$\begin{cases} u_t + u_{xxx} + F(u)_x = 0 \\ u_0 = g\end{cases}$$
where $F(u) = u^5$ (for example). The ...
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Interior regularity for parabolic systems in divergence form
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$, $n \in \mathbb N$, be a smooth, bounded domain. Suppose $N \in \mathbb N$, $D \subset \mathbb R^N$ and that $a_{ij} : D \to \mathbb R$ are smooth for $i, j \in \{1, \...
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Relations between $\mathcal D$-modules and Exterior Differential Systems?
As a followup of this answer, I wonder relations between $\mathcal D$-modules and Exterior Differential Systems, both of which could be used to describe systems of PDEs. If I understand correctly, $\...
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A question in elementary differential geometry
Let $M$ be a finite dimensional manifold of constant curvature $\kappa$. Consider a solution of the Hamilton--Jacobi equation
$$ \partial_t u + |\nabla u|^2 = 0. $$
Can we give a precise estimate of a ...
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Elliptic foliations of the plane
A $1$ dimensional foliation of the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$is called elliptic if it admits a non vanishing smooth tangent vector field $X$ with the following properties:
The differential operator ...
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Reference request: Existence and regularity for parabolic PDEs with smooth coefficients on compact manifolds with boundary
I'm looking for a reference for a statement like:
Let $M$ be a $n$-dimensional smooth compact manifold with smooth boundary $\partial M$. In coordinates, let $\mathcal L$ have the form
$\mathcal L ...
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A concept weaker than geodesibility of flows which is possibly useful in limit cycle theory
The main objective of this post is to apply the Gauss Bonnet Theorem to count the number of limit cycles of a polynomial vector field as described in this MO post and its linked MO posts But in this ...
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Hints on an expository article about Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ)
It seems the KPZ is the next big thing in mathematical physics and probability. The skeletal idea is probably that while classical averages are in the Gaussian universality class, lots of other ...
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Is a Sobolev map with invertible smooth minors smooth?
$\newcommand{\Cof}{\text{cof}}$
Let $k,d$ be even integers, such that $d\ge3$ and $2 \le k \le d-1$. Let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ be open, and let $f \in W^{1,p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^d)$, for ...
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Density of squares of radial eigenfunctions
The eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on the disc can be written in polar coordinates as $f(r,\theta)=R_{nk}(r)e^{ik\theta}$, where $k\in\mathbb Z$ and $n\in\mathbb N$ and the radial function is $...
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Spectral properties of Non-local Differential operators on real line
I am encountering non-local (and nonlinear) PDEs in my work. To compute stability, I am trying to numerically estimate the spectrum of linearized-but-nonlocal version of the said PDEs.
Definition: A ...
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$L^p$ estimates for solutions of strongly elliptic equations
Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a Lipschitz bounded domain. In $L_2(\Omega;{\mathbb C}^n)$, we consider a strongly elliptic second order operator $A$ with constant coefficients. Namely, it is ...
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Steklov eigenvalue problem for a planar region bounded by ellipse
The Steklov problem for a compact planar region $\Omega$ is
\begin{cases} \Delta u =0 &\text{in $\Omega$}, \\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial n} = \sigma u &\text{on $\partial \Omega$},
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Elliptic regularity for Robin boundary conditions
Suppose I have a (non-smooth) domain $\Omega$ on which I have a $H^1$ solution $u$ of a constant coefficient elliptic PDE $L$. Suppose also that $\Gamma$ is a smooth portion of the boundary $\partial\...
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Difference between parallel transport composed with exponential maps along two different geodesics starting at the same point?
I asked this question on math.stackexchange too: it's not a homework problem, but something that came to my mind while thinking of commutation:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1356518/...
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behaviour of first eigenfunction near the boundary
Consider $\Omega$ a smooth bounded domain in $R^N$ and suppose $ \phi_1(x)>0$ is the first eigenfunction of $ -\Delta$ in $H_0^1(\Omega)$ normalized however one chooses.
My interest is in how $ \...
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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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Laplacians associated to symplectic cohomologies
I am reading the paper"cohomology and Hodge theory on symplectic manifolds I" by Tseng and Yau. In this paper they consider several cohomologies on symplectic manifolds $(M,\omega)$based on the ...
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Lagrangean uniqueness versus Eulerian uniqueness
(1) Lagrangean description. Let us consider a $N\times N$ system of autonomous ODE:
$$
\dot x=a(x),\quad \mathbb R\ni t\mapsto x(t)\in \mathbb R^N,\quad a:\mathbb R^N\rightarrow \mathbb R^N.
$$
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Compactness of solutions to parabolic equations (parabolic regularity)
I am working on a Ricci flow $(\mathcal{M} , g(t))$, for which the conjugate heat operator is $\Box ^* := - \partial _t - \Delta + R$, where $R$ is the scalar curvature.
For each $s>0$, I have a ...
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How to estimate isoperimetric constant?
Suppose $(X^m, g)$ is a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $m$ with the following properties,
There is a constant $\kappa$ such that $\kappa r^m \leq Vol(B(x, r)) \leq \kappa^{-1} r^m$
for every ...
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Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on $C^{k,1}$ domains
I am interested in the mapping properties of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (also called the Poincare-Steklov operator) for $C^{k,1}$ domains, between Sobolev spaces on the boundary. What I know is in ...
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Harmonic maps into compact Lie groups
Consider locally minimizing harmonic maps from D-dimensional Euclidean space into a compact Lie group G. When $D=3$ the general regularity theory due to Schoen-Uhlenbeck,
Schoen, Richard; Uhlenbeck, ...
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A non-elliptic PDE
I wish to know if this PDE can be solved (for a real smooth function $\rho$) on a compact complex surface X :
$\bar{\partial}\partial \rho \wedge \bar{\partial}\partial \rho + \bar{\partial}\partial \...
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Regularity of stochastic heat equation
For the heat equation:
$$\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = \Delta u + \zeta(t,x)$$
where $u:\mathbb{R}^{+}\times \mathbb{R}^{n} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and $\zeta$ is a space-time white noise.
I'm ...
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Elliptic regularity and Sobolev spaces
Consider a linear partial differential operator $D:C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{d})\to C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{d})$, i.e.
$$D=\sum_{\alpha\in\mathbb{N}^{d}}a^{\alpha}(x)\partial^{\alpha}_{x}$$
where $a$ are ...
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Injectivity of div–curl operator
$\DeclareMathOperator\div{div}\DeclareMathOperator\curl{curl}$Consider a div–curl system
\begin{align*}
Lu &= (\div(u), \curl(u)) \text{ in } \Omega \subset M, \text{ a 3-manifold}, \\
u &= 0 \...
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Non-uniqueness of solutions to a simple nonlinear elliptic PDE in $\mathbb R^n$
My question is about non-uniqueness of solutions of an elliptic PDE in $\mathbb R^n$ with source term in a scaling-subcritical space (regular, but with too slow decay at infinity), and with some nice ...
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Regularity of convergent flow of parabolic PDE (Fokker-Planck equation)
Consider the divergence-type 2nd order linear PDE on $\mathbb{R}^d$
$$\partial_t u_t = Lu_t := \nabla\cdot(u_t\,\nabla V)+\Delta u_t,$$
representing the Fokker-Planck evolution equation for the ...
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Distinguishing the Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces
Theorem 2.3.9. in Triebel's Theory of Function Spaces states that the Besov space $B^{s_1, p_1}_{q_1} (\mathbb R^d)$ coincides with the Triebel-Lizorkin space $F^{s_2, p_2}_{q_2} (\mathbb R^d)$ if and ...
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Energy bounds (or the lack thereof) for a functional between almost Hermitian manifolds
Suppose that $(M,g,J_M)$ and $(N,h,J_N)$ are two almost Hermitian manifolds. For a differentiable function $f:M\to N$ define its pseudoholomorphic energy to be
$E_+(f)=\frac{1}{4}\int_M |Df+J_N Df J_M|...
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