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This survey paper grows out of the lecture notes of the nine-hour lectures that the authors delivered in the special semester on Hamiltonian dynamics at MSRI in the fall of 2018. It can be considered as an introduction to our work on Arnold diffusion.
This paper investigates the separation property in binary phase-segregation processes modelled by Cahn-Hilliard type equations with constant mobility, singular entropy densities and different particle interactions. Under general assumptions on the entropy potential, we prove the strict separation property in both two and three-space dimensions. Namely, in 2D, we notably extend the minimal assumptions on the potential adopted so far in the literature, by only requiring a mild growth condition of its first derivative near the singular points $\pm 1$, without any pointwise additional assumption on its second derivative. For all cases, we provide a compact proof using De Giorgi’s iterations. In 3D, we also extend the validity of the asymptotic strict separation property to the case of fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation, as well as show the validity of the separation when the initial datum is close to an ‘energy minimizer’. Our framework offers insights into statistical factors like particle interactions, entropy choices and correlations governing separation, with broad applicability.
The purpose of this text is to present a symplectic approach to Arnold diffusion problems, that is, the existence of orbits of perturbed integrable systems along which the action variables experience a drift whose length is independent of the size of the perturbation. We chose to focus on the construction of orbits drifting along “chains of cylinders”, taking for granted the existence of the chains. We however give a rather complete description of these chains, together with some elements on their symplectic features and some main ideas
to prove their existence. We adopt the setting introduced by John Mather to prove the Arnold conjecture for perturbations of Tonelli Hamiltonians, which we see as the good one to set out the various (and numerous) problems of the construction, and give some ideas to show how the symplectic approach may enable one to enlarge its scope.
We prove the Girth Alternative for finitely generated subgroups of $PL_o(I)$. We also prove that a finitely generated subgroup of Homeo$_{+}(I)$ which is sufficiently rich with hyperbolic-like elements has infinite girth.
We prove that for $C^{1+\theta }$, $\theta $-bunched, dynamically coherent partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms, the stable and unstable holonomies between center leaves are $C^1$, and the derivative depends continuously on the points and on the map. Also for $C^{1+\theta }$, $\theta $-bunched partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms, the derivative cocycle restricted to the center bundle has invariant continuous holonomies which depend continuously on the map. This generalizes previous results by Pugh, Shub, and Wilkinson; Burns and Wilkinson; Brown; Obata; Avila, Santamaria, and Viana; and Marin.
Feng and Huang [Variational principle for weighted topological pressure. J. Math. Pures Appl. (9)106 (2016), 411–452] introduced weighted topological entropy and pressure for factor maps between dynamical systems and established its variational principle. Tsukamoto [New approach to weighted topological entropy and pressure. Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys.43 (2023), 1004–1034] redefined those invariants quite differently for the simplest case and showed via the variational principle that the two definitions coincide. We generalize Tsukamoto’s approach, redefine the weighted topological entropy and pressure for higher dimensions, and prove the variational principle. Our result allows for an elementary calculation of the Hausdorff dimension of affine-invariant sets such as self-affine sponges and certain sofic sets that reside in Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension.
Flowering plants depend on some animals for pollination and contribute to nourish the animals in natural environments. We call these animals pollinators and build a plants-pollinators cooperative model with impulsive effect on a periodically evolving domain. Next, we define the ecological reproduction index for single plant model and plants-pollinators system, respectively, whose threshold dynamics, including the extinction, persistence and coexistence, is established by the method of upper and lower solutions. Theoretical analysis shows that a large domain evolution rate has a positive influence on the survival of pollinators whether or not the impulsive effect occurs, and the pulse eliminates the pollinators even when the evolution rate is high. Moreover, some selective numerical simulations are still performed to explain our theoretical results.
We introduce a new non-abelian quantum synchronisation model over the unitary group, represented as a gradient flow, where state matrices asymptotically converge to a common one up to phase translation. We provide a sufficient framework leading to quantum synchronisation based on Riccati-type differential inequalities. In addition, uniform time-delayed interaction is considered for modelling realistic communication, and we demonstrate that quantum synchronisation is persistent when a small time delay is allowed. Finally, numerical simulation is performed to visualise qualitative behaviours and support theoretical results.
In this paper, we present a sufficient framework to exhibit the sample path-wise asymptotic flocking dynamics of the Cucker–Smale model with unit-speed constraint and the randomly switching network topology. We employ a matrix formulation of the given equation, which allows us to evaluate the diameter of velocities with respect to the adjacency matrix of the network. Unlike the previous result on the randomly switching Cucker–Smale model, the unit-speed constraint disallows the system to be considered as a nonautonomous linear ordinary differential equation on velocity vector, which forces us to get a weaker form of the flocking estimate than the result for the original Cucker–Smale model.
in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^N(N=3,\,4,\,5)$ with smooth boundary $\partial \Omega$. It is shown that if $m>\max \{1,\,\frac {3N-2}{2N+2}\}$, for any reasonably smooth nonnegative initial data, the corresponding no-flux type initial-boundary value problem possesses a globally bounded weak solution. Furthermore, we prove that the solution converges to the spatially homogeneous equilibrium $(\bar {u}_0,\,0)$ in an appropriate sense as $t\rightarrow \infty$, where $\bar {u}_0=\frac {1}{|\Omega |}\int _\Omega u_0$. This result not only partly extends the previous global boundedness result in Fan and Jin (J. Math. Phys.58 (2017), 011503) and Wang and Xiang (Z. Angew. Math. Phys.66 (2015), 3159–3179) to $m>\frac {3N-2}{2N}$ in the case $N\geq 3$, but also partly improves the global existence result in Zheng and Wang (Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B22 (2017), 669–686) to $m>\frac {3N}{2N+2}$ when $N\geq 2$.
In this paper, we consider the existence and limiting behaviour of solutions to a semilinear elliptic equation arising from confined plasma problem in dimension two
where $D\subseteq \mathbb {R}^2$ is a smooth bounded domain, $\nu$ is the outward unit normal to the boundary $\partial D$, $\lambda$ and $I$ are given constants and $c$ is an unknown constant. Under some assumptions on $f$ and $k$, we prove that there exists a family of solutions concentrating near strict local minimum points of $\Gamma (x)=({1}/{2})h(x,\,x)- ({1}/{8\pi })\ln k(x)$ as $\lambda \to +\infty$. Here $h(x,\,x)$ is the Robin function of $-\Delta$ in $D$. The prescribed functions $f$ and $k$ can be very general. The result is proved by regarding $k$ as a $measure$ and using the vorticity method, that is, solving a maximization problem for vorticity and analysing the asymptotic behaviour of maximizers. Existence of solutions concentrating near several points is also obtained.
We generalize the influential $C^*$-algebraic results of Kawamura–Tomiyama and Archbold–Spielberg for crossed products of discrete groups actions to the realm of Banach algebras and twisted actions. We prove that topological freeness is equivalent to the intersection property for all reduced twisted Banach algebra crossed products coming from subgroups, and in the untwisted case to a generalized intersection property for a full $L^p$-operator algebra crossed product for any $p\in [1,\,\infty ]$. This gives efficient simplicity criteria for various Banach algebra crossed products. We also use it to identify the prime ideal space of some crossed products as the quasi-orbit space of the action. For amenable actions we prove that the full and reduced twisted $L^p$-operator algebras coincide.