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We give a survey on the Stokes structure of a good meromorphic flat bundle. We also show that a meromorphic flat bundle has the good formal structure if and only if it has a good lattice.
We consider large-time behaviour of global solutions of the Cauchy problem for a parabolic equation with a supercritical nonlinearity. It is known that the solution is global and unbounded if the initial value is bounded by a singular steady state and decays slowly. In this paper we show that the grow-up of solutions can be arbitrarily slow if the initial value is chosen appropriately.
We consider uniformly elliptic, second-order, linear partial differential equations depending on three variables in bounded domains. We obtain interior Hölder estimates for the first derivatives of the bounded solutions independent of the regularity assumptions of the differential operator.
In this paper we consider an initial-value problem for the nonlinear fourth-order partial differential equation ut+uux+γuxxxx=0, −∞<x<∞, t>0, where x and t represent dimensionless distance and time respectively and γ is a negative constant. In particular, we consider the case when the initial data has a discontinuous expansive step so that u(x,0)=u0(>0) for x≥0 and u(x,0)=0 for x<0. The method of matched asymptotic expansions is used to obtain the large-time asymptotic structure of the solution to this problem which exhibits the formation of an expansion wave. Whilst most physical applications of this type of equation have γ>0, our calculations show how it is possible to infer the large-time structure of a whole family of solutions for a range of related equations.
In this paper we consider an elliptic system with an inverse square potential and critical Sobolev exponent in a bounded domain of ${{\mathbb{R}}^{N}}$. By variational methods we study the existence results.
In this paper, some existence and uniqueness results for generalized solutions to a periodic-Dirichlet problem for semilinear wave equations are given, using a global inverse function theorem. These results extend those known in the literature.
We consider an eigenvalue problem for a divergence-form elliptic operator Aε that has high-contrast periodic coefficients with period ε in each coordinate, where ε is a small parameter. The coefficients are perturbed on a bounded domain of “order one” size. The local perturbation of coefficients for such an operator could result in the emergence of localized waves—eigenfunctions whose corresponding eigenvalues lie in the gaps of the Floquet–Bloch spectrum. For the so-called double porosity-type scaling, we prove that the eigenfunctions decay exponentially at infinity, uniformly in ε Then, using the tools of twoscale convergence for high-contrast homogenization, we prove the strong two-scale compactness of the eigenfunctions of Aε. This implies that the eigenfunctions converge in the sense of strong two-scale convergence to the eigenfunctions of a two-scale limit homogenized operator A0, consequently establishing “asymptotic one-to-one correspondence” between the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions of the operators Aε and A0. We also prove, by direct means, the stability of the essential spectrum of the homogenized operator with respect to local perturbation of its coefficients. This allows us to establish not only the strong two-scale resolvent convergence of Aε to A0 but also the Hausdorff convergence of the spectra of Aε to the spectrum of A0, preserving the multiplicity of the isolated eigenvalues.
We present conditions guaranteeing the existence of non-trivial unstable sets for compact invariant sets in semiflows with certain compactness conditions, and then establish the existence of such unstable sets for an unstable equilibrium or a minimal compact invariant set, not containing equilibria, in an essentially strongly order-preserving semiflow. By appealing to the limit-set dichotomy for essentially strongly order-preserving semiflows, we prove the existence of an orbit connection from an equilibrium to a minimal compact invariant set, not consisting of equilibria. As an application, we establish a new generic convergence principle for essentially strongly order-preserving semiflows with certain compactness conditions.
This paper is mainly concerned with the critical extinction and blow-up exponents for the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary-value problem of the fast diffusive polytropic filtration equation with reaction sources.
In this paper, a theory is developed of generalized oscillatory integrals (OIs) whose phase functions and amplitudes may be generalized functions of Colombeau type. Based on this, generalized Fourier integral operators (FIOs) acting on Colombeau algebras are defined. This is motivated by the need for a general framework for partial differential operators with non-smooth coefficients and distribution dataffi The mapping properties of these FIOs are studied, as is microlocal Colombeau regularity for OIs and the influence of the FIO action on generalized wavefront sets.
We study the sharp threshold for blow-up and global existence and the instability of standing wave eiωtuω(x) for the Davey–Stewartson system
in ℝ3, where uω is a ground state. By constructing a type of cross-constrained variational problem and establishing so-called cross-invariant manifolds of the evolution flow, we derive a sharp criterion for global existence and blow-up of the solutions to (DS), which can be used to show that there exist blow-up solutions of (DS) arbitrarily close to the standing waves.
We use the compensated compactness method coupled with some basic ideas of kinetic formulation developed by Lions, Perthame, Souganidis and Tadmor to give a refined proof for the existence of global bounded entropy solutions to the Le Roux system. This new method of the reduction of Young measures can be applied to solve other problems.
In this paper we consider the problem of finding standing waves – solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations with vanishing potential and sign-changing nonlinearities. This involves searching for solutions of the problem (1)We show that the problem has a solution, and the maximum point of the solution is concentrated on a minimum point of some function as ε→0.
We extend Penrose's peeling model for the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the scalar wave equation at null infinity on asymptotically flat backgrounds, which is well understood for flat space-time, to Schwarzschild and the asymptotically simple space-times of Corvino–Schoen/Chrusciel–Delay. We combine conformal techniques and vector field methods: a naive adaptation of the ‘Morawetz vector field’ to a conformal rescaling of the Schwarzschild metric yields a complete scattering theory on Corvino–Schoen/Chrusciel–Delay space-times. A good classification of solutions that peel arises from the use of a null vector field that is transverse to null infinity to raise the regularity in the estimates. We obtain a new characterization of solutions admitting a peeling at a given order that is valid for both Schwarzschild and Minkowski space-times. On flat space-time, this allows larger classes of solutions than the characterizations used since Penrose's work. Our results establish the validity of the peeling model at all orders for the scalar wave equation on the Schwarzschild metric and on the corresponding Corvino–Schoen/Chrusciel–Delay space-times.
Some new Gronwall–Ou-Iang type integral inequalities in two independent variables are established. We also present some of its application to the study of certain classes of integral and differential equations.