Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: We investigate the inverse problem of retrieving the magnetic potential of an Iwatsuka Hamiltonian by knowledge of the second component of the quantum velocity. We show that knowledge of the quantum currents carried by a suitable set of states with energy concentration within the first spectral band of the Schr\"odinger operator, uniquely determines the magnetic field.

Abstract: This paper is a continuation of the recent work of Guo-Xiang-Zheng \cite{Guo-Xiang-Zheng-2021-CV}. We deduce sharp Morrey regularity theory for weak solutions to the fourth order nonhomogeneous Lamm-Rivi\`ere equation \begin{equation*} \Delta^{2}u=\Delta(V\nabla u)+div(w\nabla u)+(\nabla\omega+F)\cdot\nabla u+f\qquad\text{in }B^{4},\end{equation*} under smallest regularity assumptions of $V,w,\omega, F$ and that $f$ belongs to some Morrey spaces, which was motivated by many geometrical problems such as the flow of biharmonic mappings. Our results deepens the $L^p$ type regularity theory of \cite{Guo-Xiang-Zheng-2021-CV}, and generalizes the work of Du, Kang and Wang \cite{Du-Kang-Wang-2022} on a second order problem to our fourth order problems.

Abstract: We investigate a nonlinear parabolic reaction-diffusion equation describing the oxygen concentration in encapsulated pancreatic cells with a general core-shell geometry. This geometry introduces a discontinuous diffusion coefficient as the material properties of the core and shell differ. We apply monotone operator theory to show well-posedness of the problem in the strong form. Furthermore, the stationary solutions are unique and asymptotically stable. These results rely on the gradient structure of the underlying PDE.

Abstract: In this paper, we study the overdetermined problem for the $p$-Laplacian equation on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. We prove that the regularity results of weak solutions of the $p$-Laplacian equation and obtain some integral identities. As their applications, we give the proof of the $p$-Laplacian overdetermined problem and obtain some well known results such as the Heintze-Karcher inequality and the Soap Bubble Theorem.

Abstract: We obtain existence of minimizers for the $p$-capacity functional defined with respect to a centrally symmetric anisotropy for $1 < p<\infty$, including the case of a crystalline norm in $\mathbb R^N$. The result is obtained by a characterization of the corresponding subdifferential and it applies for unbounded domains of the form $\mathbb R^N \setminus \overline{\Omega}$ under mild regularity assumptions (Lipschitz-continuous boundary) and no convexity requirements on the bounded domain $\Omega$. If we further assume an interior ball condition (where the Wulff shape plays the role of a ball), then any minimizer is shown to be Lipschitz continuous.

Abstract: We study the radial relaxation dynamics toward equilibrium and time-periodic pulsating spherically symmetric gas bubbles in an incompressible liquid due to thermal effects. The asymptotic model ([A. Prosperetti, J. Fluid Mech., 1991] and [Z. Biro and J. J. L. Velazquez, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 2000]) is one where the pressure within the gas bubble is spatially uniform and satisfies an ideal gas law, relating the pressure, density and temperature of the gas. The temperature of the surrounding liquid is taken to be constant and the behavior of the liquid pressure at infinity is prescribed to be constant or periodic in time. In arXiv:2207.04079, for the case where the liquid pressure at infinity is a positive constant, we proved the existence of a one-parameter manifold of spherical equilibria, parameterized by the bubble mass, and further proved that it is a nonlinearly and exponentially asymptotically stable center manifold. In the present article, we first refine the exponential time-decay estimates, via a study of the linearized dynamics subject to the constraint of fixed mass. We obtain, in particular, estimates for the exponential decay rate constant, which highlight the interplay between the effects of thermal diffusivity and the liquid viscosity. We then study the nonlinear radial dynamics of the bubble-fluid system subject to a pressure field at infinity which is a small-amplitude and time-periodic perturbation about a positive constant. We prove that nonlinearly and exponentially asymptotically stable time-periodically pulsating solutions of the nonlinear (asymptotic) model exist for all sufficiently small forcing amplitudes. The existence of such states is formulated as a fixed point problem for the Poincar\'e return map, and the existence of a fixed point makes use of our (constant mass constrained) exponential time-decay estimates of the linearized problem.

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a reaction-diffusion system describing the propagation of flames under the assumption of ignition-temperature kinetics and fractional reaction order. It was shown in [3] that this system admits a traveling front solution. In the present work, we show that this traveling front is unique up to translations. We also study some qualitative properties of this solution using the combination of formal asymptotics and numerics. Our findings allow conjecture that the velocity of the propagation of the flame front is a decreasing function of all of the parameters of the problem: ignition temperature, reaction order and an inverse of the Lewis number.