Questions tagged [existence-theorems]
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ODE in Banach space
Have I understood this correctly:
So originally we consider the following partial differential equation:
$$u_t= \frac{u_{xx}}{1+w}-\frac{1}{\epsilon}(1+w)u^3+\frac{wu}{\epsilon(1+w)} \text{ in } \...
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Conditions replacing compactness
Reading this book, the authors used the following "classic" idea:
Let $X$ be a Banach space and $C$ a nonempty, weakly compact, convex subset of $X$. Let $T: C \rightarrow C$ be a ...
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Existence and Uniqueness of lifting Hele-Shaw problem
I am researching for the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the equation in figure below
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$$\nabla\cdot u = \frac{\dot b(t)}{b(t)} \text{ in }\Omega(t) \tag{1}$$
The ...
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What is the most general Carathéodory-type global existence theorem?
I am looking for a general theorem that guarantees the existence of a global solution for an ODE system in $\mathbb{R}^n$
\begin{equation}
\left\{ \begin{aligned}
x'(t) &= f(t, x(t)), \qquad t \in ...
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Existence theory for geometric flow of space curves
Is there any existence theory applicable to general geometric flows of space curves in the following form?
$$
\partial_t \gamma = v_t t + v_n n + v_b b
$$
Here $\gamma$ is the evolving curve, $t$, $n$ ...
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Global existence for one Cauchy problem based on global existence of other two auxiliary Cauchy problems
I have a Cauchy problem for the differential equation
\begin{equation}
y' = f(t, y),
\end{equation}
with initial condition $y(0) = y^0$; here, $y$ and $f$ are two-dimensional vector-functions. The ...
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Reference request: existence/uniqueness of solutions to convection diffusion equations
I am looking for a reference wherein existence and uniqueness results are proven for a system of PDEs of the form
$$
\frac{\partial Q}{\partial t} + A \frac{\partial Q}{\partial x} = f(Q,x,t) + \frac{...
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Existence of Markov chain on nonnegative integers with specified rates
Let $\lambda_k,\mu_k\in\mathbb R_{\ge0}$ $(k\ge1)$ be nonnegative real numbers, let $S=\mathbb Z_{\ge0}$ be the nonnegative integers, let $T=\mathbb R_{\ge0}$ be the nonnegative real numbers and ...
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The existence of a copy of a random variable with conditional expectation constraint
Let there be two random variables 𝑋 and 𝑌 with a certain joint copula. Is it always true that there is another random variable 𝑍 independent from 𝑌 such as the vectors $(X,Y)$ and $(X,Z)$ have the ...
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Simplest diophantine equation with open solvability
What is the simplest diophantine equation for which we (collectively) don't know whether it has any solutions? I'm aware of many simple ones where we don't know (whether we know) all the solutions, ...
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(maximal) antichains with respect to two different partial orders on the same set
In my recent work I stumbled across a problem of this type:
G with two partial oders $\leq$ and $\preceq$ on every set, i.e. for every $n \in \mathbb{N}$ $A_n \subset A_{n+1}$ and $(A_n, \leq) $ and $...
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Do functions $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ with these properties exist?
Basically, I am trying to determine how exactly and in which ways everywhere discontinuous bijections $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ "behave when they are unusual".
More precisely, I am trying to ...
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Maximum Principles in Parabolic PDE with Neumann Condition
I am looking for some maximum principles and comparison results for parabolic equations. The most complete book I've found on this subject is: Murray Protter, Hans Weinberger - Maximum Principles in ...
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Given convex l.s.c. function $f$, find decreasing convex function $\phi$ such that $f(x) \equiv \sup_y x\phi(y)-\phi(-y)$
Let $f: \mathbb R \rightarrow (-\infty,+\infty]$ be a lower-semicontinuous convex function.
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Under what futher conditions does there exists a convex decreasing function $\phi: \mathbb R \...
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Why should we give special attention to at most polynomially growing solutions of PDEs?
The equation
\begin{gather}
\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} (t,x) = \frac{1}{2} \text{Trace}[\sigma(x) \sigma(x) (\text{Hessian}_x u)(x,t)] + \langle \mu (x) , (\nabla_x u) (t,x) \rangle, \\
u(0,x) = \...
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Interesting geometric flow of space curves with non-vanishing torsion
Recently, while thinking about CMC surfaces, I came up with an interesting geometric flow for curves in $\mathbb{R}^3$ given by
\begin{equation}
\partial_t \gamma = \tau^{-\frac{1}{2}} n,
\end{...
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Lotka Volterra existence of Caratheodory solution
I strive to prove that the following system of differential equations:
$$\begin{cases} x'=x-u(t)xy\\ y'= -y+u(t)xy \\ x(0)=x_0>0\\ y(0)=y_0>0 \end{cases}$$
has a unique Caratheodory solution ...
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Reference for Existence and uniqueness of an Integro-Differential Equation
I have an Integro-Differential Equation (IDE) of the following form:
$$
x'(t) = f(t,x(t)) + \int_0^t K(t-s, x(s), x(t)) ds,
$$
I have found this classical reference, but the IDEs considered therein ...
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Existence of solutions to first-order PDE involving convolution
Let $f(x,\alpha)$ be a smooth function of compact support in $x$. Now, let its $\alpha$-dependence be determined by the following first-order equation,
\begin{align}
\frac{\partial}{\partial \alpha} ...
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Is there a relationship between a quotient group of the fundamental group of X and the fundamental group of a quotient topology of X?
Let ($X$, $x_0$) be a topological space with a base point, and denote the fundamental group of $X$ as $\pi_1(X)$. Let $N$ be a normal subgroup of $\pi_1(X)$.
Does there necessarily exist an ...
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Theory on interior Helmholtz Equation with mixed Neumann and Robin BC
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ bounded with smooth boundary $\partial \Omega$. Let k>0 and $\partial \Omega = \Gamma_1 \cup \Gamma_2$. Consider the problem
$\Delta u + k^2 u = 0$ in $\Omega$
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Finding a semi-sparse vertex in a grid
Let $H$ be a $r \times r$ grid. Suppose that at most $r/10^5$ vertices of this grid are colored red. For every vertex $v \in V(H)$, let $B_i(v)$ be the ball of radius $i$ centered at $v$. (Or for ...
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Existence and uniqueness of an elliptic equation coupled with a parabolic equation (mean curvature flow)
Given a parabolic equation on a simply connected smooth domain $\Omega(t)$ with boundary $\Gamma(t)$
$$
\Delta u = 1 \quad on \quad \Omega(t)
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\nabla u \cdot n + u = g \quad on \quad \Gamma(t)
$$
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Existence and uniqueness of solution for nonlinear system
Under what conditions will a solution $y \in \Re^n$ exist for this system of nonlinear equations? If it exists, will it be unique?
$$ \mu_k = \int_0^\infty g_k(x) \, f(x, y) \, dx \qquad \forall \, k ...
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Existence of a shift invariant selection map
Some time ago I asked this question, but now realise that it is harder than I anticipated. Therefore I am taking a step back to the following problem.
Let $X$ and $Y$ be two sets and $F$ a point to ...
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Existence of analysis regularization solution
I am interested in the optimization problem known as "analysis regularization":
$$ {\rm argmin}_{x \in \mathbb{R}^{p}}\frac{1}{2}\|y - Ax\|_2^2 + \lambda \|D^T x\|_1,$$
where $y \in \mathbb{R}^n$, $...
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Source of equation - theorems about solving quadratic matrix equations
I have seen outlined in this comment os mathoverflow how to solve quadratic matrix equations of the form
$$
XCX + AX = I
$$
where $X \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, $C = C^T > 0 \in \mathbb{R}^{n\...
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Positive existential theory of $(\mathbb{Z}; +, |_n)$
I am reading a paper and there is the following theorem:
Let $n$ be a fixed integer, and $n >1$.
Denote divisibility in $\mathbb{Z}[\frac{1}{n}]$ by $|_n$, thus for
all $x, y \in \...
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Probabilistic proof for expander existence [closed]
I am new to probabilistic proofs and trying to understand them better. Apparently, a common probabilistic proof focuses on the existence of expanders (eg. vertex expanders).
I've been using the search ...
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When does a "stable" assignment of buyers into goods exist?
Consider a setting of $n$ buyers and $m$ goods.
We have a value matrix $V\in[0,1]^{n\times m}$ specifying how much each buyer values each good (everything is open information here and there is no ...
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Does there exist this special kind of homeomorphism?
Let $A,B\subset\mathbb{R}^n, n\geq 2,$ are two different shaped spindles. One is thick and one is thin. (Sorry for my unprofessional statements. Unsure about how to say it rigorously.) So there are ...
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$L^\infty_\mathrm{loc}$ assumption in global existence for Boltzmann equation
In short:
In P. Gérard's paper on the existence of global solutions to the Boltzmann equation from 1988 (or equivalently Cercignani's book), why are the stated assumptions (especially $A_n \in L^\...
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Global Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations
Background
Let $f: [0, \infty) \times {\mathbb R}^n \rightarrow {\mathbb R}^n$ be a jointly measurable function satisfying,
$f(t, \cdot)$ is locally Lipschitz for every $t \geqslant 0$,
for every ...
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reference on existence result for nonlinear elliptic PDE
During my work, I came to the question of existence of weak solutions to the following elliptic equation
$$\triangle u + \partial_{1} u + \partial_2(f(x_1,x_2,u)) = 0 \hbox{ in } \Omega$$
with ...
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Existence and uniqueness of heteroclinic orbits
I am looking for conditions on a nonlinear dynamical system $\frac{d\vec{x}}{dt} = \vec{F}(\vec{x})$ that guarantee the existence of a unique heteroclinic orbit between a stable attractor of this ...
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Instances where an existence result precedes the constructive version
The basic motivation here is to encourage and inspire - via examples - the pursuit of alternate proofs of existing results that might be more accessible and intuitive by cataloging success stories. ...
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Are there cusp forms for the full modular group Sp(2,Z) and representations det^3 \otimes Sym^2j(\rho_standard)
What are modular forms or cusps forms, resp. ?
We start with defining their common domains $\mathbb{H}_g$ as the set of symmetric $g \times g$ matrices with positive definite imaginary parts.
The ...
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Existence of Rational Orthogonal Matrices
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Let $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ be an orthogonal matrix and let $\varepsilon>0$. Then does there exist a rational orthogonal matrix $B\in\mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ such that $\|A-B\|<\...
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Continuous variation from solution of easy problem to solution of hard problem
I asked this question a week ago over on math.stackexchange and got no reply, so I am asking here with slightly different wording. I am trying to prove that there exists a solution to a problem. I ...
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Is this 1974 claim still valid?
In G. F. Simmons' Differential Equations book (p.141), the following claim is made:
“... As a matter of fact, there is no known type of second order linear differential equation- apart from those with ...
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