Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: We investigate the existence of two nontrivial solutions for a poly-Laplacian system involving concave-convex nonlinearity and parameters with Dirichlet boundary value condition on the locally finite graph. By using the mountain pass theorem and Ekeland's variational principle, we obtain that system has at least one non-semi-trivial solution of positive energy and one non-semi-trivial solution of negative energy, respectively. We also obtain an estimate about semi-trivial solutions. Moreover, by using a result in [10] which is based on the fibering maps and the method of Nehari manifold, we obtain the existence of ground state solution to the single equation corresponding to poly-Laplacian system. Especially, we present the concrete range of parameters in all of results.

Abstract: A conjecture about the existence or nonexistence of solutions to the curvature equation (1.1) defined on a rectangle torus $E_{\tau},$ $\tau\in i\mathbb{R}_{>0}$ with four conical singularties at its symmetric points is proposed in [3]. See Conjecture 1. For the purposes to understand this problem, in this paper, we study the following equation: \[ \Delta u+e^{u}=8\pi(\delta_{0}+\delta_{\frac{\omega_{k}}{2}})\text{in}E_{\tau}\,\tau\in\mathbb{H}\, \label{a} \] where $\frac{\omega_{k}}{2}$ is one of the half periods of $E_{\tau}$, i.e., the case $(m_{0},m_{1},$ $m_{2},m_{3})$ $=(1,1,0,0)$, $(1,0,1,0)$, $(1,0,0,1)$ for $k=1,2,3,$ respectively. Among others, we prove that the existence of \textit{non-even family of solutions} (see the definition in Section 1 ) is related to the existence of solutions for the equation with single conical singularity: \[ \Delta u+e^{u}=8\pi\delta_{0}\text{ in }E_{\tau}\text{, }\tau\in \mathbb{H}\text{.} \] Consequently, equation (0.1) does not have any non-even family of solutions for all $k=1,2,3$. As an application, we completely understand the solution structure of the equation (0.1) for rectangle torus and give a confirmative answer for this conjecture in this three cases. See Theorem 1.3.

Abstract: We study the asymptotic stability of the sine-Gordon kinks under small perturbations in weighted Sobolev norms. Our main tool is the B\"acklund transform which reduces the study of the asymptotic stability of the kinks to the study of the asymptotic decay of solutions near zero. Our results consist of two parts. First, we present a different proof of the local asymptotic stability result in arXiv:2009.04260. In its proof, we apply a result obtained by the inverse scattering method on the local decay of the solutions with sufficiently small and localized initial data. Moreover, we prove an $L^\infty$-type asymptotic stability result which is similar to that in arXiv:2106.09605; the main difference is that we remove the assumptions on the spatial symmetry of the perturbations. In its proof, we apply a result obtained by the method of testing by wave packets on the pointwise decay of the solutions with small and localized data.

Abstract: In \cite{MRSC1} the authors proved some asymptotic results for the global solution of critical Quasi-geostrophic equation with a condition on the decay of $\widehat{\theta_0}$ near at zero. In this paper, we prove that this condition is not necessary. Fourier analysis and standard techniques are used.

Abstract: Inspired by a pineeor work of Andersson-Kapitanski \cite{AK}, we prove the local well-posedness of Cauchy problem of incompressible neo-Hookean equations if the initial deformation and velocity belong to $H^{\frac{n+2}{2}+}(\mathbb{R}^n) \times H^{\frac{n}{2}+}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ ($n=2,3$), where $\frac{n+2}{2}$ and $\frac{n}{2}$ is respectively a scaling-invariant exponent for deformation and velocity in Sobolev spaces. Our new observation relies on two folds: a reduction to a second-order wave-elliptic system of deformation and velocity; a "wave-map type" null form intrinsic in this coupled system. In particular the wave nature with "wave-map type" null form allows us to prove a bilinear estimate of Klainerman-Machedon type for nonlinear terms. So we can lower $\frac12$-order regularity in 3D and $\frac34$-order regularity in 2D for well-posedness compared with \cite{AK}. Moreover, as an application, we also prove a new local well-posedness result for the ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system in the presence of a strong magnetic field.

Abstract: In this article, we study the ill-posedness of the viscous nonlinear wave equation for any polynomial nonlinearity in negative Sobolev spaces. In particular, we prove a norm inflation result above the scaling critical regularity in some cases. We also show failure of $C^k$-continuity, for $k$ the power of the nonlinearity, up to some regularity threshold.

Abstract: In this article, we verify the low Mach number limit of strong solutions to the non-isentropic compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations with zero magnetic diffusivity and ill-prepared initial data in three-dimensional bounded domains, when the density and the temperature vary around constant states. Invoking a new weighted energy functional, we establish the uniform estimates with respect to the Mach number, especially for the spatial derivatives of high order. Due to the vorticity-slip boundary condition of the velocity, we decompose the uniform estimates into the part for the fast variables and the other one for the slow variables. In particular, the weighted estimates of highest-order spatial derivatives of the fast variables are crucial for the uniform bounds. Finally, the low Mach number limit is justified by the strong convergence of the density and the temperature, the divergence-free component of the velocity, and the weak convergence of other variables. The methods in this paper can be applied to singular limits of general hydrodynamic equations of hyperbolic-parabolic type, including the full Navier-Stokes equations.

Abstract: We propose and study several inverse problems associated with the nonlinear progressive waves that arise in infrasonic inversions. The nonlinear progressive equation (NPE) is of a quasilinear form $\partial_t^2 u=\Delta f(x, u)$ with $f(x, u)=c_1(x) u+c_2(x) u^n$, $n\geq 2$, and can be derived from the hyperbolic system of conservation laws associated with the Euler equations. We establish unique identifiability results in determining $f(x, u)$ as well as the associated initial data by the boundary measurement. Our analysis relies on high-order linearisation and construction of proper Gaussian beam solutions for the underlying wave equations. In addition to its theoretical interest, we connect our study to applications of practical importance in infrasound waveform inversion.

Abstract: In this paper we prove that the Benjamin-Ono equation is globally in time $C^0$-well-posed in the Hilbert space $H^{-1/2,\sqrt{\log}}(\mathbb{T},\mathbb{R})$ of periodic distributions in $H^{-1/2}(\mathbb{T},\mathbb{R})$ with $\sqrt{\log}$-weights. The space $H^{-1/2,\sqrt{\log}}(\mathbb{T},\mathbb{R})$ can thus be considered as a maximal low regularity phase space for the Benjamin-Ono equation corresponding to the scale $H^s(\mathbb{T},\mathbb{R})$, $s>-1/2$.

Abstract: We prove some abstract multiplicity theorems that can be used to obtain multiple nontrivial solutions of critical growth $p$-Laplacian and $(p,q)$-Laplacian type problems. We show that the problems considered here have arbitrarily many solutions for all sufficiently large values of a certain parameter $\lambda > 0$. In particular, the number of solutions goes to infinity as $\lambda \to \infty$. Moreover, we give an explicit lower bound on $\lambda$ in order to have a given number of solutions. This lower bound is in terms of a sequence of eigenvalues constructed using the ${\mathbb Z}_2$-cohomological index. This is a consequence of the fact that our abstract multiplicity results make essential use of the piercing property of the cohomological index, which is not shared by the genus.

Abstract: We show that the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg (CKN) inequality holds with a remainder term that is quartic in the distance to the set of optimizers for the full parameter range of the Felli-Schneider (FS) curve. The fourth power is best possible. This is due to the presence of non-trivial zero modes of the Hessian of the deficit functional along the FS-curve. Following an iterated Bianchi-Egnell strategy, the heart of our proof is verifying a `secondary non-degeneracy condition'. Our result completes the stability analysis for the CKN-inequality to leading order started by Wei and Wu. Moreover, it is the first instance of degenerate stability for non-constant optimizers and for a non-compact domain.