Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: Let $s \in (0,1)$ and $N \geq 2$. In this paper, we consider the following class of nonlocal semipositone problems: \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^s u= g(x)f_a(u) \text { in } \mathbb{R}^N, \; u > 0 \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^N, \end{align*} where the weight $g \in L^1(\mathbb{R}^N) \cap L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^N)$ is positive, $a>0$ is a parameter, and $f_a \in C(\mathbb{R})$ is negative on $\mathbb{R}^{-}$. For $f_a$ having subcritical growth and weaker Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz type nonlinearity, we prove that the above problem admits a mountain pass solution $u_a$, provided `$a$' is near the origin. To obtain the positivity of $u_a$, we establish a Brezis-Kato type uniform estimate of $(u_a)$ in $L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^N)$.

Abstract: In this paper, we establish the global boundedness of oscillatory integral operators on Besov-Lipschitz and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces, with amplitudes in general $S^m_{\rho,\delta}(\mathbb{R}^n)$-classes and non-degenerate phase functions in the class $\textart F^k$. Our results hold for a wide range of parameters $0\leq\rho\leq1$, $0\leq\delta<1$, $0<p\leq\infty$, $0<q\leq\infty$ and $k>0$. We also provide a sufficient condition for the boundedness of operators with amplitudes in the forbidden class $S^m_{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ in Triebel-Lizorkin spaces.

Abstract: In this work, we study the deterministic Cucker-Smale model with topological interaction.Focusing on the solutions of the corresponding Liouville equation, we show that propagation of chaos holds.Moreover, by looking at the monokinetic solutions, we also obtain a rigorous derivation of the hydrodynamic description given by a pressureless Euler-type system.

Abstract: We obtain new estimates for the solution of both the porous medium and the fast diffusion equations by studying the evolution of suitable Lipschitz norms. Our results include instantaneous regularization for all positive times, long-time decay rates of the norms which are sharp and independent of the initial support, and new convergence results to the Barenblatt profile. Moreover, we address nonlinear diffusion equations including quadratic or bounded potentials as well. In the slow diffusion case, our strategy requires exponents close enough to 1, while in the fast diffusion case, our results cover any exponent for which the problem is well-posed and mass-preserving in the whole space.

Abstract: We prove stability for a class of heterogeneous catalysis models in the $L_p$-setting. We consider a setting in a finite three-dimensional pore of cylinder-like geometry, with the lateral walls acting as a catalytic surface. Under a reasonable condition on the involved parameters, we show that given equilibria are normally stable, i.e. solutions are attracted at an exponential rate. The potential incidence of instability is discussed as well.

Abstract: We consider nonlinear elliptic inclusion having a measure in the right-hand side of the type $\beta(u)-div a(x,Du)\ni \mu$ in $\Omega$ a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N},$ with $\beta$ is a maximal monotone graph in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $a(x,Du)$ is a Leray-Lions type operator. We study a suitable notion of solution for this kind of problem. The functional setting involves anisotropic Sobolev spaces.

Abstract: We prove the incompressible limit of compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows in a reference domain where the magnetic field is tangential to the boundary. Unlike the case of transversal magnetic fields, the linearized problem of our case is not well-posed in standard Sobolev space $H^m~(m\geq 2)$, while the incompressible problem is still well-posed in $H^m$. The key observation to overcome the difficulty is a hidden structure contributed by Lorentz force in the vorticity analysis, which reveals that one should trade one normal derivative for two tangential derivatives together with a gain of Mach number weight $\varepsilon^2$. Thus, the energy functional should be defined by using the anisotropic Sobolev space $H_*^{2m}$. The weights of Mach number should be carefully chosen according to the number of tangential derivatives, such that the energy estimates are uniform in Mach number. Besides, part of the proof is parallel to the study of compressible water waves, so our result opens the possibility to study the incompressible limit of free-boundary problems in ideal MHD such as current-vortex sheets.

Abstract: The elastic energy of a bending-resistant interface depends both on its geometry and its material composition. We consider such a heterogeneous interface in the plane, modeled by a curve equipped with an additional density function. The resulting energy captures the complex interplay between curvature and density effects, resembling the Canham-Helfrich functional. We describe the curve by its inclination angle, so that the equilibrium equations reduce to an elliptic system of second order. After a brief variational discussion, we investigate the associated nonlocal $L^2$-gradient flow evolution, a coupled quasilinear parabolic problem. We analyze the (non)preservation of quantities such as convexity, positivity, and symmetry, as well as the asymptotic behavior of the system. The results are illustrated by numerical experiments.

Abstract: We investigate some of the effects of the lack of compactness in the critical Folland-Stein-Sobolev embedding in very general (possible non-smooth) domains, by proving via De Giorgi's $\Gamma$-convergence techniques that optimal functions for a natural subcritical approximations of the Sobolev quotient concentrate energy at one point. In the second part of the paper, we try to restore the compactness by extending the celebrated Global Compactness result to the Heisenberg group via a completely different approach with respect to the original one by Struwe (Math. Z. 1984).

Abstract: We prove boundedness, H\"older continuity, Harnack inequality results for local quasiminima to elliptic double phase problems of $p$-Laplace type in the general context of metric measure spaces. The proofs follow a variational approach and they are based on the De Giorgi method, a careful phase analysis and estimates in the intrinsic geometries.

Abstract: In this article, we prove the existence of global weak solutions to the three-dimensional focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation in the non-radial case. Furthermore, we prove the weak-strong uniqueness for some class of initial data. The main ingredient of our new approach is to use solutions of an energy-critical Ginzburg-Landau equation as approximations for the corresponding nonlinear Sch\"ordinger equation. In our proofs, we first show the dichotomy of global well-posedness versus finite time blow-up of energy-critical Ginzburg-Landau equation in $\dot{H}^1( \mathbb{R}^d)$ for $d = 3,4 $ when the energy is less than the energy of the stationary solution $W$. We follow the strategy of C. E. Kenig and F. Merle [25,26], using a concentration-compactness/rigidity argument to reduce the global well-posedness to the exclusion of a critical element. The critical element is ruled out by dissipation of the Ginzburg-Landau equation, including local smoothness, backwards uniqueness and unique continuation. The existence of global weak solution of the three dimensional focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the non-radial case then follows from the global well-posedness of the energy-critical Ginzburg-Landau equation via a limitation argument. We also adapt the arguments of M. Struwe [37,38] to prove the weak-strong uniqueness when the $\dot{H}^1$-norm of the initial data is bounded by a constant depending on the stationary solution $W$.

Abstract: We study a bulk-surface coupled system that describes the processes of lipid-phase separation and lipid-cholesterol interaction on cell membranes, in which cholesterol exchange between cytosol and cell membrane is also incorporated. The PDE system consists of a surface Cahn-Hilliard equation for the relative concentration of saturated/unsaturated lipids and a surface diffusion-reaction equation for the cholesterol concentration on the membrane, together with a diffusion equation for the cytosolic cholesterol concentration in the bulk. The detailed coupling between bulk and surface evolutions is characterized by a mass exchange term $q$. For the system with a physically relevant singular potential, we first prove the existence, uniqueness and regularity of global weak solutions to the full bulk-surface coupled system under suitable assumptions on the initial data and the mass exchange term $q$. Next, we investigate the large cytosolic diffusion limit that gives a reduction of the full bulk-surface coupled system to a system of surface equations with non-local contributions. Afterwards, we study the long-time behavior of global solutions in two categories, i.e., the equilibrium and non-equilibrium models according to different choices of the mass exchange term $q$. For the full bulk-surface coupled system with a decreasing total free energy, we prove that every global weak solution converges to a single equilibrium as $t\to +\infty$. For the reduced surface system with a mass exchange term of reaction type, we establish the existence of a global attractor.

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study time-fractional pseudo-parabolic type equations generated by the Dunkl operator. The forward problem is considered and its well-posedness is established. In particular, a prior estimates are obtained in the Sobolev type spaces and, explicit formulas for solutions of the problems are derived. Here we also deal with the left-sided Caputo fractional time derivative. As an application, we investigate an inverse source problem. Existence and uniqueness of the solution is proved. Moreover, we show that a solution pair is continuously depending on the initial and additional data, finalizing with a numerical test.

Abstract: The article is devoted to investigating the initial boundary value problem for the damped wave equation in the scale-invariant case with time-dependent speed of propagation on the exterior domain. By presenting suitable multipliers and applying the test-function technique, we study the blow-up and the lifespan of the solutions to the problem with derivative-type nonlinearity $ \d u_{tt}-t^{2m}\Delta u+\frac{\mu}{t}u_t=|u_t|^p, \quad \mbox{in}\ \Omega^{c}\times[1,\infty), $ that we associate with appropriate small initial data.