Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: We derive four reduced two-dimensional models that describe, at different spatial scales, the micromagnetics of ultrathin ferromagnetic materials of finite spatial extent featuring perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Starting with a microscopic model that regularizes the stray field near the material's lateral edges, we carry out an asymptotic analysis of the energy by means of $\Gamma$-convergence. Depending on the scaling assumptions on the size of the material domain vs. the strength of dipolar interaction, we obtain a hierarchy of the limit energies that exhibit progressively stronger stray field effects of the material edges. These limit energies feature, respectively, a renormalization of the out-of-plane anisotropy, an additional local boundary penalty term forcing out-of-plane alignment of the magnetization at the edge, a pinned magnetization at the edge, and, finally, a pinned magnetization and an additional field-like term that blows up at the edge, as the sample's lateral size is increased. The pinning of the magnetization at the edge restores the topological protection and enables the existence of magnetic skyrmions in bounded samples.

Abstract: We consider the Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional periodic cubic nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger equation (FNLS) with initial data distributed via Gibbs measure. We construct global strong solutions with the flow property to FNLS on the support of the Gibbs measure in the full dispersive range, thus resolving a question proposed by Sun-Tzvetkov (2021). As a byproduct, we prove the invariance of the Gibbs measure and almost sure global well-posedness for FNLS.

Abstract: In this paper, we establish the sharp fractional subelliptic Sobolev inequalities and Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities on stratified Lie groups. The best constants are given in terms of a ground state solution of a fractional subelliptic equation involving the fractional $p$-sublaplacian ($1<p<\infty$) on stratified Lie groups. We also prove the existence of ground state (least energy) solutions to nonlinear subelliptic fractional Schr\"odinger equation on stratified Lie groups. Different from the proofs of analogous results in the setting of classical Sobolev spaces on Euclidean spaces given by Weinstein (Comm. Math. Phys. 87(4):576-676 (1982/1983)) using the rearrangement inequality which is not available in stratified Lie groups, we apply a subelliptic version of vanishing lemma due to Lions extended in the setting of stratified Lie groups combining it with the compact embedding theorem for subelliptic fractional Sobolev spaces obtained in our previous paper (Math. Ann. (2023)). We also present subelliptic fractional logarithmic Sobolev inequalities with explicit constants on stratified Lie groups. The main results are new for $p=2$ even in the context of the Heisenberg group.

Abstract: In this paper we study wave breaking in the unidirectional non-local wave model describing the motion of a collision-free plasma in a magnetic field. By analyzing the monotonicity and continuity properties of a system of the Riccati-type differential inequalities involving the extremal slopes of flows, we show a new sufficient condition on the initial data to exhibit wave breaking. Moreover, the estimates of life span and wave breaking rate are derived.

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the Gibbs measure for the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the one-dimensional torus, that was introduced in a seminal paper by Lebowitz, Rose and Speer (1988). We show that in the large torus limit, the measure exhibits a phase transition, depending on the size of the nonlinearity. This phase transition was originally conjectured on the basis of numerical simulation by Lebowitz, Rose and Speer (1988). Its existence is however striking in view of a series of negative results by McKean (1995) and Rider (2002).

Abstract: In the 50's Read and Shockley proposed a formula for the energy of small angle grain boundaries in polycrystals based on linearised elasticity and an ansazt on the distribution of incompatibilities of the lattice at the interface. In this paper we derive a sharp interface limiting functional starting from a nonlinear semidiscrete model for dislocations proposed by Lauteri--Luckhaus. Building upon their analysis we obtain, via $\Gamma$-convergence, an interfacial energy depending on the rotations of the grains and the relative orientation of the interface which agrees for small angle grain boundaries with the Read and Shockley logarithmic scaling.

Abstract: Following Parisi \& Wu's paradigm of stochastic quantization, we constructed in \cite{BDFT} a $\Phi^4$ measure on an arbitrary compact, boundaryless, Riemannian manifold as an invariant measure of a singular stochastic partial differential equation. The present work is a companion to \cite{BDFT}. We describe here in detail the harmonic and microlocal analysis tools that we used. We also introduce some new tools to treat the vectorial $\Phi^4_3$ model. This relies on a new Cole-Hopf transform involving random bundle maps. We do not aim here for the greatest generality; rather, we tried to keep our exposition relatively self-contained and pedagogical enough in the hope that the techniques we show can be used in other settings.

Abstract: The paper addresses an open problem raised in [Bartsch, Molle, Rizzi, Verzini: Normalized solutions of mass supercritical Schr\"odinger equations with potential, Comm. Part. Diff. Equ. 46 (2021), 1729-1756] on the existence of normalized solutions to Schr\"odinger equations with potentials and inhomogeneous nonlinearities. We consider the problem \[ -\Delta u+V(x)u+\lambda u = |u|^{q-2}u+\beta |u|^{p-2}u, \quad \|u\|^2_2=\int|u|^2dx = \alpha, \] both on $\mathbb{R}^N$ as well as on domains $r\Omega$ where $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ is an open bounded convex domain and $r>0$ is large. The exponents satisfy $2<p<2+\frac4N<q<2^*=\frac{2N}{N-2}$, so that the nonlinearity is a combination of a mass subcritical and a mass supercritical term. Due to the presence of the potential a by now standard approach based on the Pohozaev identity cannot be used. We develop a robust method to study the existence of normalized solutions of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with potential and find conditions on $V$ so that normalized solutions exist. Our results are new even in the case $\beta=0$.

Abstract: We consider a fractional nonlinear wave equations (fNLW) with a general power-type nonlinearity, on the two-dimensional torus. Our main goal is to construct invariant global-in-time Gibbs dynamics for a renormalized fNLW. We first construct the Gibbs measure associated with this equation by using the variational approach of Barashkov and Gubinelli. We then prove almost sure local well-posedness with respect to Gibbsian initial data, by exploiting the second order expansion. Finally, we extend solutions globally in time using Bourgain's invariant measure argument.