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Minimal surfaces in pseudohermitian geometry

Jih-Hsin Cheng, Jenn-Fang Hwang, Andrea Malchiodi, Paul Yang (2005)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

We consider surfaces immersed in three-dimensional pseudohermitian manifolds. We define the notion of (p-)mean curvature and of the associated (p-)minimal surfaces, extending some concepts previously given for the (flat) Heisenberg group. We interpret the p-mean curvature not only as the tangential sublaplacian of a defining function, but also as the curvature of a characteristic curve, and as a quantity in terms of calibration geometry. As a differential equation, the p-minimal surface equation...

New unilateral problems in stratigraphy

Stanislav N. Antontsev, Gérard Gagneux, Robert Luce, Guy Vallet (2006)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

This work deals with the study of some stratigraphic models for the formation of geological basins under a maximal erosion rate constrain. It leads to introduce differential inclusions of degenerated hyperbolic-parabolic type 0 t u - d i v { H ( t u + E ) u } , where H is the maximal monotonous graph of the Heaviside function and E is a given non-negative function. Firstly, we present the new and realistic models and an original mathematical formulation, taking into account the weather-limited rate constraint in the conservation...

On an ODE Relevant for the General Theory of the Hyperbolic Cauchy Problem

Bernardi, Enrico, Bove, Antonio (2008)

Serdica Mathematical Journal

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 34E20, 35L80, 35L15.In this paper we study an ODE in the complex plane. This is a key step in the search of new necessary conditions for the well posedness of the Cauchy Problem for hyperbolic operators with double characteristics.

On measure solutions to the Zero-pressure gas model and their uniqueness

Jiequan Li, Gerald G. Warnecke (2002)

Mathematica Bohemica

The system of zero-pressure gas dynamics conservation laws describes the dynamics of free particles sticking under collision while mass and momentum are conserved. The existence of such solutions was established some time ago. Here we report a uniqueness result that uses the Oleinik entropy condition and a cohesion condition. Both of these conditions are automatically satisfied by solutions obtained in previous existence results. Important tools in the proof of uniqueness are regularizations, generalized...

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