We prove an estimate for the difference of two solutions of the Schrödinger map equation for maps from $T^1$ to $S^2.$ This estimate yields some continuity properties of the flow map for the topology of $L^2(T^1,S^2)$, provided one takes its quotient by the continuous group action of $T^1$ given by translations. We also prove that without taking this quotient, for any $t\>0$ the flow map at time $t$ is discontinuous as a map from ${𝒞}^{\infty }(T^1,S^2)$, equipped with the weak topology of $H^{1/2},$ to the space of distributions ${\left({𝒞}^{\infty }(T^1,{ℝ}^3)\right)}^{*}.$ The argument relies...

We study the behavior of a continuous flow near a boundary. We prove that if φ is a flow on $E={ℝ}^{n+1}$ for which $\partial E={ℝ}^n\times 0$ is an invariant set and S ⊂ ∂E is an isolated invariant set, with non-zero homological Conley index, then there exists an x in EE such that either α(x) or ω(x) is in S. We also prove an index theorem for a flow on ${ℝ}^n\times [0,\infty )$.

We construct some nondecreasing quantities associated to the first eigenvalue of $-{\Delta }_{\phi }+cR$ $(c\ge \frac{1}{2}(n-2)/(n-1))$ along the Yamabe flow, where ${\Delta }_{\phi }$ is the Witten-Laplacian operator with a $C^2$ function $\phi$. We also prove a monotonic result on the first eigenvalue of $-{\Delta }_{\phi }+\frac{1}{4}(n/(n-1))R$ along the Yamabe flow. Moreover, we establish some nondecreasing quantities for the first eigenvalue of $-{\Delta }_{\phi }+c{R}^a$ with $a\in (0,1)$ along the Yamabe flow.

A space-time formulation for unsteady inviscid compressible flow computations in 2D moving geometries is presented. The governing equations in Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation (ALE) are discretized on two layers of space-time finite elements connecting levels $n$, $n+1/2$ and $n+1$. The solution is approximated with linear variation in space (P1 triangle) combined with linear variation in time. The space-time residual from the lower layer of elements is distributed to the nodes at level...

Significant information about the topology of a bounded domain $\Omega$ of a Riemannian manifold $M$ is encoded into the properties of the distance, $d_{\partial \Omega }$, from the boundary of $\Omega$. We discuss recent results showing the invariance of the singular set of the distance function with respect to the generalized gradient flow of $d_{\partial \Omega }$, as well as applications to homotopy equivalence.

We establish the local-in-time existence of a solution to the non-resistive magneto-micropolar fluids with the initial data $u_0\in H^{s-1+\epsilon }$, $w_0\in H^{s-1}$ and $b_0\in H^s$ for $s>\frac{3}{2}$ and any $0<\epsilon <1$. The initial regularity of the micro-rotational velocity $w$ is weaker than velocity of the fluid $u$.

We show that the only flow solving the stochastic differential equation (SDE) on $ℝ$ $$\mathrm{d}{X}_t=1_{\{X_{t}gt;0\}}{W}^{+}\left(\mathrm{d}t\right)+1_{\{X_{t}lt;0\}}\mathrm{d}{W}^{-}\left(\mathrm{d}t\right),$$ where $W^{+}$ and $W^{-}$ are two independent white noises, is a coalescing flow we will denote by ${\varphi }^{\pm }$. The flow ${\varphi }^{\pm }$ is a Wiener solution of the SDE. Moreover, $K^{+}=𝖤\left[{\delta }_{{\varphi }^{\pm }}\right|W^{+}]$ is the unique solution (it is also a Wiener solution) of the SDE $$K_{s,t}^{+}f\left(x\right)=f\left(x\right)+{\int }_s^t{K}_{s,u}\left(1_{ℝ}^{+}{f}^{\text{'}}\right)\left(x\right)W^{+}\left(\mathrm{d}u\right)+\frac{1}{2}{\int }_s^t{K}_{s,u}f``\left(x\right)\mathrm{d}u$$ for $slt;t$, $x\in ℝ$ and $f$ a twice continuously differentiable function. A third flow ${\varphi }^{+}$ can be constructed out of the $n$-point motions of $K^{+}$. This flow is coalescing and its $n$-point motion...

We present a novel approach for bounding the resolvent of $$H=-\Delta +i(A·\nabla +\nabla ·A)+V=:-\Delta +L1$$ for large energies. It is shown here that there exist a large integer $m$ and a large number ${\lambda }_0$ so that relative to the usual weighted $L^2$-norm, $$\parallel {\left(L{(-\Delta +(\lambda +i0))}^{-1}\right)}^m\parallel <\frac{1}{2}2$$ for all $\lambda >{\lambda }_0$. This requires suitable decay and smoothness conditions on $A,V$. The estimate (2) is trivial when $A=0$, but difficult for large $A$ since the gradient term exactly cancels the natural decay of the free resolvent. To obtain (2), we introduce a conical decomposition of the resolvent and...

We show the existence of weak solutions in the extended sense of the Cauchy problem for the cubic fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the initial data $u_0\in X$, where $X\in \{M_{2,q}^s\left(ℝ\right),H^{\sigma }\left(𝕋\right),H^{s_1}\left(ℝ\right)+H^{s_2}\left(𝕋\right)\}$ and $q\in [1,2]$, $s\ge 0$, or $\sigma \ge 0$, or $s_2\ge s_1\ge 0$. Moreover, if $M_{2,q}^s\left(ℝ\right)\hookrightarrow L^3\left(ℝ\right)$, or if $\sigma \ge \frac{1}{6}$, or if $s_1\ge \frac{1}{6}$ and $s_2>\frac{1}{2}$ we show that the Cauchy problem is unconditionally wellposed in $X$. Similar results hold true for all higher order nonlinear Schrödinger equations and mixed order NLS due to a factorization property of the corresponding phase factors. For the proof we employ...

We consider the classical three-dimensional motion in a potential which is the sum of $n$ attracting or repelling Coulombic potentials. Assuming a non-collinear configuration of the $n$ centres, we find a universal behaviour for all energies $E$ above a positive threshold. Whereas for $n=1$ there are no bounded orbits, and for $n=2$ there is just one closed orbit, for $n\ge 3$ the bounded orbits form a Cantor set. We analyze the symbolic dynamics and estimate Hausdorff dimension and topological entropy of...

We investigate a coupled system of the Ricci flow on a closed manifold $M$ with the harmonic map flow of a map $\phi$ from $M$ to some closed target manifold $N$, $$\frac{\partial }{\partial t}g=-2\mathrm{Rc}+2\alpha \nabla \phi \otimes \nabla \phi ,\frac{\partial }{\partial t}\phi ={\tau }_g\phi ,$$ where $\alpha$ is a (possibly time-dependent) positive coupling constant. Surprisingly, the coupled system may be less singular than the Ricci flow or the harmonic map flow alone. In particular, we can always rule out energy concentration of $\phi$ a-priori by choosing $\alpha$ large enough. Moreover, it suffices to bound the curvature...

Let f: ℝⁿ → ℝ be a C² semialgebraic function and let c be an asymptotic critical value of f. We prove that there exists a smallest rational number ${\varrho }_c\le 1$ such that |x|·|∇f| and ${|f\left(x\right)-c|}^{{\varrho }_c}$ are separated at infinity. If c is a regular value and ${\varrho }_c<1$, then f is a locally trivial fibration over c, and the trivialisation is realised by the flow of the gradient field of f.

Let A = -Δ + V be a Schrödinger operator on ${ℝ}^d$, d ≥ 3, where V is a nonnegative potential satisfying the reverse Hölder inequality with an exponent q > d/2. We say that f is an element of $H_A^p$ if the maximal function $su{p}_{t>0}\left|T_{t}f\left(x\right)\right|$ belongs to $L^p\left({ℝ}^d\right)$, where ${T_t}_{t>0}$ is the semigroup generated by -A. It is proved that for d/(d+1) < p ≤ 1 the space $H_A^p$ admits a special atomic decomposition.

We address the problem of the existence of finite energy solitary waves for nonlinear Klein-Gordon or Schrödinger type equations $\Delta u-u+f\left(u\right)=0$ in ${ℝ}^N$, $u\in H^1\left({ℝ}^N\right)$, where $N\ge 2$. Under natural conditions on the nonlinearity $f$, we prove the existence of $\mathrm{𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠}$ in any dimension $N\ge 2$. Our result complements earlier works of Bartsch and Willem $(N=4\mathrm{𝚘𝚛}N\ge 6)$ and Lorca-Ubilla $(N=5)$ where solutions invariant under the action of $O\left(2\right)\times O(N-2)$ are constructed. In contrast, the solutions we construct are invariant under the action of $D_k\times O(N-2)$ where $D_k\subset O\left(2\right)$ denotes the dihedral...

We also prove a long time existence result; more precisely we prove that for fixed $T>0$ there exists a set ${\Sigma }_T$, $\mathbb{P}\left({\Sigma }_T\right)>0$ such that any data ${\phi }^{\omega }\left(x\right)\in H^{\gamma }\left({𝕋}^3\right),\gamma <1,\omega \in {\Sigma }_T$, evolves up to time $T$ into a solution $u\left(t\right)$ with $u\left(t\right)-e^{it\Delta }{\phi }^{\omega }\in C([0,T];H^s\left({𝕋}^3\right))$, $s=s\left(\gamma \right)>1$. In particular we find a nontrivial set of data which gives rise to long time solutions below the critical space $H^1\left({𝕋}^3\right)$, that is in the supercritical scaling regime.

Suppose M is a noncompact connected n-manifold and ω is a good Radon measure of M with ω(∂M) = 0. Let ℋ(M,ω) denote the group of ω-preserving homeomorphisms of M equipped with the compact-open topology, and ${\mathscr{H}}_E(M,\omega )$ the subgroup consisting of all h ∈ ℋ(M,ω) which fix the ends of M. S. R. Alpern and V. S. Prasad introduced the topological vector space (M,ω) of end charges of M and the end charge homomorphism $c^{\omega }:{\mathscr{H}}_E(M,\omega )\to (M,\omega )$, which measures for each $h\in {\mathscr{H}}_E(M,\omega )$ the mass flow toward ends induced by h. We show that the...

We investigate the connections between Ramsey properties of Fraïssé classes and the universal minimal flow $M(G_{)}$ of the automorphism group $G$ of their Fraïssé limits. As an extension of a result of Kechris, Pestov and Todorcevic (2005) we show that if the class has finite Ramsey degree for embeddings, then this degree equals the size of $M(G_{)}$. We give a partial answer to a question of Angel, Kechris and Lyons (2014) showing that if is a relational Ramsey class and $G$ is amenable, then $M(G_{)}$ admits...

We study the chemotaxis system with singular sensitivity and logistic-type source: $u_t=\Delta u-\chi \nabla ·(u\nabla v/v)+ru-\mu u^k$, $0=\Delta v-v+u$ under the non-flux boundary conditions in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$, $\chi ,r,\mu >0$, $k>1$ and $n\ge 1$. It is shown with $k\in (1,2)$ that the system possesses a global generalized solution for $n\ge 2$ which is bounded when $\chi >0$ is suitably small related to $r>0$ and the initial datum is properly small, and a global bounded classical solution for $n=1$.