Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: The behavior of simple eigenvalues of Aharonov-Bohm operators with many coalescing poles is discussed. In the case of half-integer circulation, a gauge transformation makes the problem equivalent to an eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian in a domain with straight cracks, laying along the moving directions of poles. For this problem, we obtain an asymptotic expansion for eigenvalues, in which the dominant term is related to the minimum of an energy functional associated with the configuration of poles and defined on a space of functions suitably jumping through the cracks. Concerning configurations with an odd number of poles, an accurate blow-up analysis identifies the exact asymptotic behaviour of eigenvalues and the sign of the variation in some cases. An application to the special case of two poles is also discussed.

Abstract: In this paper, we study the stability and instability of the ground states for the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with inverse-square potential (for short, INLS$_c$ equation): \[iu_{t} +\Delta u+c|x|^{-2}u+|x|^{-b} |u|^{\sigma } u=0,\; u(0)=u_{0}(x) \in H^{1},\;(t,x)\in \mathbb R\times\mathbb R^{d},\] where $d\ge3$, $0<b<2$, $0<\sigma<\frac{4-2b}{d-2}$ and $c\neq 0$ be such that $c<c(d):=\left(\frac{d-2}{2}\right)^{2}$. In the mass-subcritical case $0<\sigma<\frac{4-2b}{d}$, we prove the stability of the set of ground states for the INLS$_{c}$ equation. In the mass-critical case $\sigma=\frac{4-2b}{d}$, we first prove that the solution of the INLS$_c$ equation with initial data $u_{0}$ satisfying $E(u_0)<0$ blows up in finite or infinite time. Using this fact, we then prove that the ground state standing waves are unstable by blow-up. In the intercritical case $\frac{4-2b}{d}<\sigma<\frac{4-2b}{d-2}$, we finally show the instability of ground state standing waves for the INLS$_c$ equation.

Abstract: In 2007, Constantin and Ramos proved a result on the vanishing long time average enstrophy dissipation rate in the inviscid limit of the 2D damped Navier-Stokes equations. In this work, we prove a generalization of this for the p-enstrophy, sequences of distributions of initial data and sequences of strongly converging right-hand sides. We simplify their approach by working with invariant measures on the global attractors which can be characterized via bounded complete solution trajectories. Then, working on the level of trajectories allows us to directly employ some recent results on strong convergence of the vorticity in the inviscid limit.

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate properties of unique continuation for hyperbolic Schr\"odinger equations with time-dependent complex-valued electric fields and time-independent real magnetic fields. We show that positive masses inside of a bounded region at a single time propagate outside the region and prove gaussian lower bounds for the solutions, provided a suitable average in space-time cylinders is taken.

Abstract: We perform a stochastic-homogenization analysis for composite materials exhibiting a random microstructure. Under the assumptions of stationarity and ergodicity, we characterize the Gamma-limit of a micromagnetic energy functional defined on magnetizations taking value in the unit sphere, and including both symmetric and antisymmetric exchange contributions. This Gamma-limit corresponds to a micromagnetic energy functional with homogeneous coefficients. We provide explicit formulas for the effective magnetic properties of the composite material in terms of homogenization correctors. Additionally, the variational analysis of the two exchange energy terms is performed in the more general setting of functionals defined on manifold-valued maps with Sobolev regularity, in the case in which the target manifold is a bounded, orientable smooth surface with tubular neighborhood of uniform thickness. Eventually, we present an explicit characterization of minimizers of the effective exchange in the case of magnetic multilayers, providing quantitative evidence of Dzyaloshinskii's predictions on the emergence of helical structures in composite ferromagnetic materials with stochastic microstructure.

Abstract: Solutions with scaling-invariant bounds such as self-similar solutions, play an important role in the understanding of the regularity and the asymptotic structure of solutions for the Navier-Stokes problem. In this paper, we prove that any steady solutions satisfying $|\bodysymbol{u}(x)|\leq C/|x|$ in $\mathbb{R}^n\setminus \{0\}, n \geq 4$, are trivial. Our main idea is to analyze the velocity field and the total head pressure via weighted energy estimates with suitable multipliers so that the proof is pretty elementary and short. These results not only give the Liouville-type theorem for steady solutions in higher dimensions with neither smallness nor self-similarity assumptions but also help remove the possible singularities of the solutions.

Abstract: This sequel continues our exploration arxiv:2302.12531 of a deceptively ``simple'' class of global attractors, called Sturm due to nodal properties. They arise for the semilinear scalar parabolic PDE \begin{equation}\label{eq:*} u_t = u_{xx} + f(x,u,u_x) \tag{$*$} \end{equation} on the unit interval $0 < x<1$, under Neumann boundary conditions. This models the interplay of reaction, advection, and diffusion. Our classification is based on the Sturm meanders, which arise from a shooting approach to the ODE boundary value problem of equilibrium solutions $u=v(x)$. Specifically, we address meanders with only three ``noses'', each of which is innermost to a nested family of upper or lower meander arcs. The Chafee-Infante paradigm of 1974, with cubic nonlinearity $f=f(u)$, features just two noses. We present, and fully prove, a precise description of global PDE connection graphs, graded by Morse index, for such gradient-like Morse-Smale systems \eqref{eq:*}. The directed edges denote PDE heteroclinic orbits $v_1 \leadsto v_2$ between equilibrium vertices $v_1, v_2$ of adjacent Morse index. The connection graphs can be described as a lattice-like structure of Chafee-Infante subgraphs. However, this simple description requires us to adjoin a single ``equilibrium'' vertex, formally, at Morse level -1. Surprisingly, for parabolic PDEs based on irreversible diffusion, the connection graphs then also exhibit global time reversibility.

Abstract: We investigate different problems regarding wave turbulence for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation in the context of discrete turbulence regime. In the part I, we investigate the behaviour of the correlations between the solution to the BBM equation at latter times with the initial datum.

Abstract: We study the anisotropic Forchheimer-typed flows for compressible fluids in porous media. The first half of the paper is devoted to understanding the nonlinear structure of the anisotropic momentum equations. Unlike the isotropic flows, the important monotonicity properties are not automatically satisfied in this case. Therefore, various sufficient conditions for them are derived and applied to the experimental data. In the second half of the paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the steady state flows subject to a nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. It is also established that these steady states, in appropriate functional spaces, have local H\"older continuous dependence on the forcing function and the boundary data.

Abstract: Unlike the case for classical particles, the literature on BGK type models for relativistic gas mixture is extremely limited. There are a few results %\cite{Kremer,Kremer3,KP} in which such relativistic BGK models for gas mixture are employed to compute transport coefficients. However, to the best knowledge of authors, relativistic BGK models for gas mixtures with complete presentation of the relaxation operators are missing in the literature. In this paper, we fill this gap by suggesting a BGK model for relativistic gas mixtures for which the existence of each equilibrium coefficients in the relaxation operator is rigorously guaranteed in a way that all the essential physical properties are satisfied such as the conservation laws, the H-theorem, the capturing of the correct equilibrium state, the indifferentiability principle, and the recovery of the classical BGK model in the Newtonian limit.