Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: We consider the 3D Euler equations for incompressible homogeneous fluids and we study the problem of energy conservation for weak solutions in the space-periodic case. First, we prove the energy conservation for a full scale of Besov spaces, by extending some classical results to a wider range of exponents. Next, we consider the energy conservation in the case of conditions on the gradient, recovering some results which were known, up to now, only for the Navier-Stokes equations and for weak solutions of the Leray-Hopf type. Finally, we make some remarks on the Onsager singularity problem, identifying conditions which allow to pass to the limit from solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations to solution of the Euler ones, producing weak solutions which are energy conserving.

Abstract: The problem \begin{equation} \label{bn} -\Delta u=|u|^{4\over n-2}u+\lambda V u\ \hbox{in}\ \Omega,\ u=0\ \hbox{on}\ \partial\Omega \end{equation} where $\Omega$ is a bounded regular domain in $\mathbb R^n$, $\lambda\in \mathbb R$ and $V\in C^0(\overline \Omega),$ that was introduced by Brezis and Nirenberg in their famous paper, where they address the existence of positive solutions in the autonomous case, i.e. the potential $V$ is constant. Since then, a huge amount of work has been done. In the following we will make a brief history highlighting the results which are much closer to the problem we wish to study in the present paper.

Abstract: We study the periodic homogenization of a reaction-diffusion problem with large nonlinear drift and Robin boundary condition posed in an unbounded perforated domain. The nonlinear problem is associated with the hydrodynamic limit of a totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) governing a population of interacting particles crossing a domain with obstacle. We are interested in deriving rigorously the upscaled model equations and the corresponding effective coefficients for the case when the microscopic dynamics are linked to a particular choice of characteristic length and time scales that lead to an exploding nonlinear drift. The main mathematical difficulty lies in proving the two-scale compactness and strong convergence results needed for the passage to the homogenization limit. To cope with the situation, we use the concept of two-scale compactness with drift, which is similar to the more classical two-scale compactness result but it is defined now in moving coordinates. We provide as well a strong convergence result for the corrector function, starting this way the search for the order of the convergence rate of the homogenization process for our target nonlinear drift problem.

Abstract: The classical Dirichlet problem for a second-order strongly elliptic system with constant coefficients in a Jordan domain is considered. We show that the solution of the problem can be represented as a functional series in powers of the parameter, which determines the deviation of the system operator from the Laplacian. This series converges uniformly in the closure of the region under the assumption that the boundary of the region and the boundary function satisfy the sufficient regularity conditions: the trace of a conformal mapping of the domain onto a circle composed with the boundary function belongs to the Holder class with exponent greater than 1/2.

Abstract: In a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ over time interval $(0,T)$, we consider mean field game equations whose principal coefficients depend on the time and state variables with a general Hamiltonian. We attach the non-zero Robin boundary condition. We first prove the Lipschitz stability in $\Omega \times (\varepsilon, T-\varepsilon)$ with given $\varepsilon>0$ for the determination of the solutions by Dirichlet data on arbitrarily chosen subboundary of $\partial\Omega$. Next we prove the Lipschitz stability for an inverse problem of determining spatially varying factors of source terms and a coefficient by extra boundary data and spatial data at an intermediate time.

Abstract: In the present paper we consider a porous thermoelastic system with only one dissipative mechanism generated by the heat conductivity modelled by the Gurtin-Pipkin thermal law. By the use of a semigroup approach and the Lumer-Phillips theorem we prove the existence of a unique solution. We introduce a stability number $\chi_g$ depends on the coefficients of the system, and establish an exponential stability result provided that $\chi_g=0$. Otherwise, if $\chi_g\ne 0$, we prove the lack of exponential decay. Our result improves and generalizes the previous results in the literature obtained for Fourier's and Cattaneo's laws of thermal conductivity.

Abstract: Solutions in self-similar form, either global in time or presenting finite time blow-up, to the fast diffusion equation with spatially inhomogeneous source $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m+|x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed for $(x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\times(0,\infty)$, $N\geq1$, are classified with respect to the exponents $m\in(0,1)$, $\sigma\in(-2,\infty)$ and $p>\max\{1,p_L(\sigma)\}$, where $$ p_L(\sigma)=1+\frac{\sigma(1-m)}{2}. $$ In the supercritical range $m_c=(N-2)_{+}/N<m<1$, global solutions are classified with respect to their tail behavior as $|x|\to\infty$, proving that a specific tail behavior $$ u(x,t)\sim C(m)|x|^{-2/(1-m)}, \qquad {\rm as} \ |x|\to\infty $$ exists exactly for $p\in(p_F(\sigma),p_s(\sigma))$, where $$ p_F(\sigma)=m+\frac{\sigma+2}{N}, \qquad p_s(\sigma)=\left\{\begin{array}{ll}\frac{m(N+2\sigma+2)}{N-2}, & N\geq3,\\\infty, & N\in\{1,2\}, \end{array}\right. $$ are the renowned Fujita and Sobolev critical exponents. In contrast, it is shown that self-similar solutions presenting finite time blow-up exist for any $\sigma\in(-2,0)$ and $p>p_L(\sigma)$, but do not exist for any $\sigma\geq0$ and $p\in(p_F(\sigma),p_s(\sigma))$. In the subcritical range $0<m<m_c$, $N\geq3$, we introduce a new transformation between radially symmetric solutions to the equation, which can be understood as a kind of symmetry of the solutions with respect to the critical exponents $m_s=(N-2)/(N+2)$ and $p_s(\sigma)$, and we employ this symmetry to classify both global and blow-up self-similar solutions. We stress that all these results are new also in the homogeneous case $\sigma=0$.