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Equivalence of Wind Forces: Intensity vs. Duration [closed]
The strongest tornado in the world happened recently in Greenfield Iowa with winds over 318 mph: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2176728102678237&vanity=reedtimmer2.0
I am curious, are less ...
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Rigorous analysis of phase transitions and universality in a non-linear model of interacting oscillators
Consider a system of interacting non-linear oscillators governed by the McKean-Vlasov equation:
$$\frac{\partial p(x,t)}{\partial t} = \frac{\partial}{\partial x}\left[\frac{\partial V(x)}{\partial x}...
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Any solution of an evolution problem tends to a steady state in $L^2$?
I have a general question. Suppose that we have the following simple evolution problem $\begin{cases} \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\Delta u=f(u), & (t,x)\in (0,\infty)\times\Omega\\ \dfrac{\...
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Exponential map for tangent space of space of distributions $\mathscr{P}_2(X)$
In Chapter 8 of the book Gradient Flows In Metric Spaces and in the Space of Probability Measures by Ambrosio et al., the tangent space to the space of distributions on $X$ (let's say $X=\mathbb{R}^d$)...
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Dynamical obstruction for a vector field to have a Harmonic divergence
Let $(M,g)$ be an analytic Riemannian manifold and $X$ be an analytic vector field on $M$. Can we always have a volume form $\Omega$ such that $\operatorname{Div}_{\Omega} X$ is a harmonic ...
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The logistic elliptic equation
Studying the Fisher-KPP evolution equation I came across the steady state elliptic problem which can be written in the following form:
$$
\begin{cases} -d\Delta Y(x)=r(x)Y(x)\left (1-\dfrac{Y(x)}{K(x)}...
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Examples of chaotic self-similar blowup in PDEs
When the Cauchy problem to a PDE blows up, it can often be analyzed using self-similar variables. In the reference:
Eggers, J., & Fontelos, M. A. (2008). The role of self-similarity in ...
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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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Critical Reynolds numbers for turbulence in 3D and 2D planar Couette flows
In 3 spatial dimensions, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are:
$$
\begin{split}
\frac{\partial u_i}{\partial t} + \sum_{j=1}^3 u_j \frac{\partial u_i}{\partial x_j} &= - \frac{\partial p}...
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Equicontinuity, Beltrami coefficients and Sequence of top/bottom semi-annuli
In the Beltrami equation literature, one approach to showing equicontinuity for pairs $(f_{n},\mu_{n})$ (where $\partial_{\bar{z}}f_{n}=\mu_{n}(z)\partial_{z}f_{n}$) is via the relations of moduli and ...
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How to approach this semilinear system of PDEs?
This question is cross-posted from Math StackExchange (link). I'm not sure it qualifies as research-level mathematics (although the application is to research) but it has been on MSE for several days, ...
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Maximal Lyapunov exponent of Schrödinger-Newton equation
I am trying to determine the sign of the maximal Lyapunov exponent of the Schrödinger-Newton equation
$$
\partial_t \psi(t,\vec{x}) = i\left(a\nabla^2 + \int_{\mathbb{R}^3} \frac{|\psi(t,\vec{y})|^2}{|...
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Compressible Ebin-Marsden?
In Ebin and Marsden's paper Groups of Diffeomorphisms and the Motion of an Incompressible Fluid, there is a footnote on the first page indicating that non-homogeneous cases and the case of ...
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Intuition for almost periodic solution and Poincaré recurrence theorem
I would like to ask a question that I had asked yesterday on the site math.stackexchange and I still have not received an answer.
Suppose that we have a PDE that admit a solution $u$ that can be ...
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Solve $(A(x).\nabla)u+cu=0$
ِDoes the equation
$y\partial_x u(x,y)-x\partial_y u(x,y)+cu=0$
have complex-valued compact-supported or vanishing-at-infinity $C^1$ solution defined on the whole plane without any singularity? Here $...
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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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Reaction-diffusion systems treated as dynamical systems
I wonder if there is a good reference on reaction-diffusion systems on $\mathbb{R}^N$, that treats them as dynamical systems.
I have the books of Alain Haraux – Systèmes dynamiques dissipatifs et ...
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Does $P_xP_y+Q_xQ_y=0 \implies$ "non-existence of limit cycle" for $P\partial_x+Q\partial_y$"? (Complex dilatation and limit cycle theory)
Let $X=P\partial_x+Q\partial_y$ be a vector field on the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$. Assume that we have :$$P_xP_y+Q_xQ_y=0$$ Does this imply that the vector field $X$ is a divergence-free vector field ...
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Can the methods of algebra characterize nonlinear PDE blow-ups?
Consider 2 simple differential equations: $x'(t)=x(t)^2, x(0)=1$ and $x'(t)=-x(t)^2, x(0)=1$.
As $t$ goes from $0$ to $\infty$, the first equation ($x(t)=1/(1-t)$) will lead to a finite-time blow-up, ...
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Rigorous stability analysis of infinite dimensional ODEs : How to bound the tails?
My question is about linear stability analysis of dynamical systems obtained by discretizing linear(ized) partial differential equations. Consider,
$\dot{x}=Ax$, where $x$ is the infinite dimensional ...
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A vector field whose flow has constant singular values
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Let $D \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$ be the closed unit disk. Given a vector field $X$ on $D$, let $\psi_t$ be its flow.
Does ...
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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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Bound on number of linearly independent eigenvectors of adjoint of composition operator
Fix $N>1$. Let $f\in C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})$ be such that the composition operator via
$$
\begin{aligned}
C_f:C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R}) &\rightarrow C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R},\...
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Elliptic foliations of the plane
A $1$ dimensional foliation of the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$is called elliptic if it admits a non vanishing smooth tangent vector field $X$ with the following properties:
The differential operator ...
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A Fourier elliptic vector field on a Riemannian manifold
Motivation for this question:
Let $X$ be a vector field on a manifold $M$. Obviously the differential operator $D:C^{\infty}(M)\to C^{\infty}(M)$ with $D(f)=X.f$ is not an elliptic opetator when $\...
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Global first integral for certain $3$ dimensional system
A physicist colleague asks me the following question. I have no idea to answer him. Your answer is very appreciated.
Is there a global first integral on $\mathbb{R}^3$ for the following vector field?
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On equation $\Delta \circ \partial/\partial X=\partial/\partial X \circ \Delta$ on a Riemannian manifold
Assume that $M$ is a compact Riemannian manifold whose Laplacian is denoted by $\Delta$. Assume that the Euler characteristic of $M$ is zero. Does $M$ admit a non vanishing vector field ...
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Discrete dynamical system and bound on norm
Let $z \in \mathbb R\backslash \left\{2 \right\}$ then I would like to understand the following:
Consider the dynamical system with $x_i \in \mathbb C^2:$
$$ x_{i} = \left(\begin{matrix} z &&...
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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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Adjoint of differential equation
Motivation: Consider the ODE
$$y'(t)=Ay(t)$$ then it is true that the flow satisfies $\Phi(t)y_0=e^{tA}y_0$ and the adjoint of the flow is a solution to the adjoint equation
$$y'(t)=A^*y(t).$$
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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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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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The study of dynamics of a polynomial vector field via Green's function methods
In the litterature, in particular in the papers on dynamical investigation of polynomial vector fields on the plane, are there some research devoting to study the Green's function for the PDE which is ...
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Long wavelength instability: Linear Vs nonlinear phenomenon
I am looking into stability for certain nonlinear PDE on $\mathbb{R}$ around a specific steady solution, $f_0(x)$. The nonlinear Cauchy PDE is given by:
$\dfrac{\partial f(x,t)}{\partial t}=\mathbf{N}...
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Is the space of harmonic functions invariant under the derivational operator associated with a geodesible flow?
Assume that $V$ is a vector field on a
Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with natural volume form $\Omega$ arising from $g$.
Assume that the solution curves of $V$ are parametrized geodesics of the ...
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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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Fredholm index vs. Limit cycle theory
Let $A$ be the algebra of all smooth functions $f: \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $f$ is flat at the origin and is real analytic on $\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus \{0\}$.
Let $B $ be ...
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Stability of Fokker plank solutions with drift not coming from potential: Lyapunov analysis
Consider the FP equation on two dimensional space:
$\dfrac{\partial{\rho(x,y,t)}}{{\partial t}}+u(x,y)\dfrac{\partial\rho}{\partial x}+v(x,y)\dfrac{\partial\rho}{\partial y}=D\Delta\rho(x,y,t)$.
It ...
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References on nonlinear evolution equations treated as infinite-dimensional systems for nonexperts
In many cases of interest a nonlinear evolution partial differential equation can be written as an infinite-dimensional dynamical system
$$
du/dt+A(t)u=0
$$
on a suitable functional space $X$, where $...
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When do finite dimensional approximations approximate the spectral absicssa of a linear operator?
I apologize if the following is trivial for experts in the field. If so, please feel free to refer me instead to any proper references.
I would like to compute the spectrum of a known non-normal, ...
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Hyperbolic PDE from total derivative?
Given a density function $p(t, \boldsymbol{x})$, where $t$ is time and the vector $\boldsymbol{x}$ represents a point in $n$ dimensional space, a hyperbolic PDE describing the time evolution of the ...
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Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a system of first order PDEs [closed]
Which results can be applied and which conditions are needed, to ensure the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of the first order of PDEs:
A$\dfrac{\partial}{\partial t}\pmb{v}(t,x)=B(t,x,\pmb{...
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Reconstructing a vector field on the circle
Consider a ODE on the circle of the form
\begin{align*}
\frac{d}{dt} \begin{pmatrix} x_1 \\ x_2 \end{pmatrix} = \omega(x) \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0\end{pmatrix} \begin{pmatrix} x_1 \\ ...
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How to prove Liouville measure is invariant under geodesic flow?
Let $M$ be a complete n dimensional Riemannian manifold. $vol$ denotes the n dimensional Hausdorff measure. Let
$$
SM=\{(x,v)|x\in M, v\in T_xM, \|v\|=1\}
$$
be the unit tangent bundle of $M$. Then $...
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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 $$U_{t}=\Delta U\\U(x,y,0)=...
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Conformal changes of metric and geodesics
Suppose $(M,g)$ is a Riemannian manifold. Let us assume that $X$ denotes a vector field in this manifold and consider the integral curves of this vector field.
Does there exist a conformal factor $c$ ...
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The Spectrum of certain differential operators
We fix a Hilbert space isomorphism $\phi:H^{1}\to H^{2}$. Here by $H^{s},\;s=1,2,\;$ we mean the sobolev space on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ or $S^{2}$.
We consider the following polynomial vector field on ...
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Integrability of Continuous Tangent Subbundles
Are there any field of mathematics, except dynamical systems, where one needs to integrate continuous sub-bundles of the tangent space?
More specifically given a smooth manifold of $M$ and a ...
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Size of the eigenfunction of Laplacian (reference request)
It is a classical Sobolev inequality that if $\phi$ is an eigenfunction of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a $n$-dim compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with eigenvalue $\lambda$ then
$$||\phi||_{L^\...
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A Lie algebra associated with a one dimensional foliation
A non vanishing vector field $X$ on a manifold is called "well behaved" if for every non vanishing smooth function $f$ we have $$C(X)\simeq C(fX)$$ This means that the centralizer Lie algebras $C(...
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