Large time behavior of solutions to the generalized damped wave equation $u_{tt}+A{u}_t+\nu Bu+F(x,t,u,u_t,\nabla u)=0$ for $(x,t)\in {ℝ}^n\times [0,\infty )$ is studied. First, we consider the linear nonhomogeneous equation, i.e. with F = F(x,t) independent of u. We impose conditions on the operators A and B, on F, as well as on the initial data which lead to the selfsimilar large time asymptotics of solutions. Next, this abstract result is applied to the equation where $A{u}_t=u_t$, $Bu=-\Delta u$, and the nonlinear term is either $|u_t{|}^{q-1}{u}_t$ or ${\left|u\right|}^{\alpha -1}u$. In this case, the asymptotic profile of solutions...

We prove the existence of rotating solitary waves (vortices) for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with nonnegative potential, by finding nonnegative cylindrical solutions to the standing equation where $x=(y,z)\in {ℝ}^k\times {ℝ}^{N-k}$, $N>k\ge 2$, $\mu >0$ and $\lambda \ge 0$. The nonnegativity of the potential makes the equation suitable for physical models and guarantees the wellposedness of the corresponding Cauchy problem, but it prevents the use of standard arguments in providing the functional associated to $(†)$ with bounded Palais-Smale...

We study the Cauchy problem for the 3D MHD system with damping terms ${\epsilon \left|u\right|}^{\alpha -1}u$ and ${\delta \left|b\right|}^{\beta -1}b$ (ε, δ > 0 and α, β ≥ 1), and show that the strong solution exists globally for any α, β > 3. This improves the previous results significantly.

The nonlinear dissipative wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+{\left|u_t\right|}^{h-1}{u}_t=0$ in dimension $d\>1$ has strong solutions with the following structure. In $0\le t\<1$ the solutions have a focusing wave of singularity on the incoming light cone $\left|x\right|=1-t$. In $\{t\ge 1\}$ that is after the focusing time, they are smoother than they were in $\{0\le t\<1\}$. The examples are radial and piecewise smooth in $\{0\le t\<1\}$

A pneumatic tyre in rotating motion with a constant angular velocity $\Omega$ is assimilated to a torus whose generating circle has a radius $R$. The contact of the tyre with the ground is schematized as an ellipse with semi-major axis $a$. When $(\Omega R/C_0)\ll 1$ and $(a/R)\ll 1$ (where $C_0$ is the velocity of the sound), we show that at the rapid time scale $R/C_0$, the air motion within a torus periodically excited on its surface generates an acoustic wave $h$. A study of this acoustic wave is conducted and shows that the mode associated...

The semilinear differential equation (1), (2), (3), in $ℝ\times \mathrm{\Omega }$ with $\mathrm{\Omega }\in {ℝ}^N$, (a nonlinear wave equation) is studied. In particular for $\mathrm{\Omega }={ℝ}^3$, the existence is shown of a weak solution $u(t,x)$, periodic with period $T$, non-constant with respect to $t$, and radially symmetric in the spatial variables, that is of the form $u(t,x)=\nu (t,|x|)$. The proof is based on a distributional interpretation for a linear equation corresponding to the given problem, on the Paley-Wiener criterion for the Laplace Transform, and on the alternative...

The semilinear differential equation (1), (2), (3), in $ℝ\times \mathrm{\Omega }$ with $\mathrm{\Omega }\in {ℝ}^N$, (a nonlinear wave equation) is studied. In particular for $\mathrm{\Omega }={ℝ}^3$, the existence is shown of a weak solution $u(t,x)$, periodic with period $T$, non-constant with respect to $t$, and radially symmetric in the spatial variables, that is of the form $u(t,x)=\nu (t,|x|)$. The proof is based on a distributional interpretation for a linear equation corresponding to the given problem, on the Paley-Wiener criterion for the Laplace Transform, and on the alternative...

We consider the Cauchy problem for the focusing Hartree equation $i{u}_t+\Delta u+{\left(\right|·|}^{-3}\ast \left|u\right|²)u=0$ in ℝ⁵ with initial data in H¹, and study the divergence property of infinite-variance and nonradial solutions. For the ground state solution of $-Q+\Delta Q+\left(\right|·{|}^{-3}\ast \left|Q\right|²)Q=0$ in ℝ⁵, we prove that if u₀ ∈ H¹ satisfies M(u₀)E(u₀) < M(Q)E(Q) and ||∇u₀||₂||u₀||₂ > ||∇Q||₂||Q||₂, then the corresponding solution u(t) either blows up in finite forward time, or exists globally for positive time and there exists a time sequence tₙ → ∞ such that ||∇u(tₙ)||₂...

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...

The Cauchy problem for the system of linear generalized ordinary differential equations in the J. Kurzweil sense $\mathrm{d}x\left(t\right)=\mathrm{d}{A}_0\left(t\right)·x\left(t\right)+\mathrm{d}{f}_0\left(t\right)$, $x\left(t_0\right)=c_0$ $(t\in I)$ with a unique solution $x_0$ is considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for a sequence of the Cauchy problems $\mathrm{d}x\left(t\right)=\mathrm{d}{A}_k\left(t\right)·x\left(t\right)+\mathrm{d}{f}_k\left(t\right)$, $x\left(t_k\right)=c_k$ $(k=1,2,\cdots )$ to have a unique solution $x_k$ for any sufficiently large $k$ such that $x_k\left(t\right)\to x_0\left(t\right)$ uniformly on $I$. Presented results are analogous to the sufficient conditions due to Z. Opial for linear ordinary differential systems....

We study the statistical properties of the solutions of the Kadomstev-Petviashvili equations (KP-I and KP-II) on the torus when the initial datum is a random variable. We give ourselves a random variable $u_0$ with values in the Sobolev space $H^s$ with $s$ big enough such that its Fourier coefficients are independent from each other. We assume that the laws of these Fourier coefficients are invariant under multiplication by $e^{i\theta }$ for all $\theta \in ℝ$. We investigate about the persistence of the decorrelation...

Let ℒ be the sublaplacian on the Heisenberg group Hⁿ. A recent result of Müller and Stein shows that the operator ${ℒ}^{-1/2}sin\surd ℒ$ is bounded on $L^p\left(Hⁿ\right)$ for all p satisfying |1/p - 1/2| < 1/(2n). In this paper we show that the same operator is bounded on $L^p$ in the bigger range |1/p - 1/2| < 1/(2n-1) if we consider only functions which are band limited in the central variable.

We consider the damped wave equation $\alpha u_{tt}+u_t=u_{xx}-V^{\text{'}}\left(u\right)$ on the whole real line, where $V$ is a bistable potential. This equation has travelling front solutions of the form $u(x,t)=h(x-st)$ which describe a moving interface between two different steady states of the system, one of which being the global minimum of $V$. We show that, if the initial data are sufficiently close to the profile of a front for large $\left|x\right|$, the solution of the damped wave equation converges uniformly on $ℝ$ to a travelling front as $t\to +\infty$. The proof of this...

We propose a unified approach, based on methods from microlocal analysis, for characterizing the hypoellipticity and the local solvability in $C^{\mathrm{\infty }}$ and Gevrey $G^{\lambda }$ classes of semilinear anisotropic partial differential operators with Gevrey nonlinear perturbations, in dimension $n\ge 3$. The conditions for our results are imposed on the sign of the lower order terms of the linear part of the operator, see Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.3 below.

We prove the existence of cylindrical solutions to the semilinear elliptic problem $-\Delta u+\frac{u}{{\left|y\right|}^2}=f\left(u\right)$, $u\in H^1\left({ℝ}^N\right)$, $u\ge 0$, where $(y,z)\in {ℝ}^k\times {ℝ}^{N-k}$, $N>k\ge 2$ and $f$ has a double-power behaviour, subcritical at infinity and supercritical near the origin. This result also implies the existence of solitary waves with nonvanishing angular momentum for nonlinear Schr¨odinger and Klein–Gordon equations.

If the second order problem $\ddot{u}+\dot{u}+Au=f$ has $L^p$ maximal regularity for some $p\in (1,\mathrm{\infty })$, then it has $L^p$ maximal regularity for every $p\in (1,\mathrm{\infty })$.

We consider problem (P) of Kirchhoff-Carrier type with nonlinear terms containing a finite number of unknown values $u({\eta }_1,t),\cdots ,u({\eta }_q,t)$ with $0\le {\eta }_1<{\eta }_2<\cdots <{\eta }_q<1.$ By applying the linearization method together with the Faedo-Galerkin method and the weak compact method, we first prove the existence and uniqueness of a local weak solution of problem (P). Next, we consider a specific case $\left({\mathrm{P}}_q\right)$ of (P) in which the nonlinear term contains the sum $S_q\left[u^2\right]\left(t\right)=q^{-1}{\sum }_{i=1}^q{u}^2(\frac{(i-1)}{q},t)$. Under suitable conditions, we prove that the solution of $\left({\mathrm{P}}_q\right)$ converges to the solution...