We study the question of the existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on parameters of the Carathéodory solutions to the Cauchy problem for linear partial functional-differential equations of hyperbolic type. A theorem on the Fredholm alternative is also proved. The results obtained are new even in the case of equations without argument deviations, because we do not suppose absolute continuity of the function the Cauchy problem is prescribed on, which is rather usual assumption in the existing...

We present an existence theorem for the Cauchy problem related to linear partial differential-functional equations of an arbitrary order. The equations considered include the cases of retarded and deviated arguments at the derivatives of the unknown function. In the proof we use Tonelli's constructive method. We also give uniqueness criteria valid in a wide class of admissible functions. We present a set of examples to illustrate the theory.

We study the generalized Oldroyd model with viscosity depending on the shear stress behaving like ${\mu \left(D\right)\sim \left|D\right|}^{p-2}$ (p > 6/5), regularized by a nonlinear stress diffusion. Using the Lipschitz truncation method we prove global existence of a weak solution to the corresponding system of partial differential equations.

The Muskat problem models the dynamics of the interface between two incompressible immiscible fluids with different constant densities. In this work we prove three results. First we prove an $L^2\left(ℝ\right)$ maximum principle, in the form of a new “log” conservation law which is satisfied by the equation (1) for the interface. Our second result is a proof of global existence for unique strong solutions if the initial data is smaller than an explicitly computable constant, for instance ${∥f∥}_1\le 1/5$. Previous results of this...

The Cauchy problem for the higher order equations in the mKdV hierarchy is investigated with data in the spaces $${\widehat{H}}_s^r\left(ℝ\right)$$ defined by the norm $${∥v_0∥}_{{\widehat{H}}_s^r\left(ℝ\right)}:={∥{〈\xi 〉}^s\widehat{v_0}∥}_{L_{\xi }^{r^{\text{'}}}},〈\xi 〉={\left(1+{\xi }^2\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}},\frac{1}{r}+\frac{1}{r^{\text{'}}}=1$$ . Local well-posedness for the jth equation is shown in the parameter range 2 ≥ 1, r > 1, s ≥ $$\frac{2j-1}{2r^{\text{'}}}$$ . The proof uses an appropriate variant of the Fourier restriction norm method. A counterexample is discussed to show that the Cauchy problem for equations of this type is in general ill-posed in the C 0-uniform sense, if s < $$\frac{2j-1}{2r^{\text{'}}}$$ . The results for r = 2 - so far in...

We investigate the solvability of the linear Neumann problem (1.1) with L¹ data. The results are applied to obtain existence theorems for a semilinear Neumann problem.

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 between the...

We consider one-dimensional parabolic free boundary value problem with a nonlocal (integro-differential) condition on the free boundary. Results on Cm-smoothness of the free boundary are obtained. In particular, a necessary and sufficient condition for infinite differentiability of the free boundary is given.

Cet exposé présente les résultats de l’article [3] au sujet des ondes progressives pour l’équation de Gross-Pitaevskii : la construction d’une branche d’ondes progressives non constantes d’énergie finie en dimensions deux et trois par un argument variationnel de minimisation sous contraintes, ainsi que la non-existence d’ondes progressives non constantes d’énergie petite en dimension trois.

We study the flow of an incompressible homogeneous fluid whose material coefficients depend on the temperature and the shear-rate. For large class of models we establish the existence of a suitable weak solution for two-dimensional flows of fluid in a bounded domain. The proof relies on the reconstruction of the globally integrable pressure, available due to considered Navier’s slip boundary conditions, and on the so-called $L^{\infty }$-truncation method, used to obtain the strong convergence of the velocity...

In the present paper, we prove nonexistence results for the following nonlinear evolution equation, see works of T. Cazenave and A. Haraux (1990) and S. Zheng (2004), $$u_{tt}+f\left(x\right)u_t+{(-\Delta )}^{\alpha /2}\left(u^m\right)=h(t,x){\left|u\right|}^p,$$ posed in $(0,T)\times {ℝ}^N,$ where ${(-\Delta )}^{\alpha /2},0<\alpha \le 2$ is $\alpha /2$-fractional power of $-\Delta .$ Our method of proof is based on suitable choices of the test functions in the weak formulation of the sought solutions. Then, we extend this result to the case of a $2\times 2$ system of the same type.

We consider second order quasilinear evolution equations where also the main part contains functional dependence on the unknown function. First, existence of solutions in $(0,T)$ is proved and examples satisfying the assumptions of the existence theorem are formulated. Then a uniqueness theorem is proved. Finally, existence and some qualitative properties of the solutions in $(0,\infty )$ (boundedness and stabilization as $t\to \infty$) are shown.

For $0<p-1<q$ and either $ϵ=1$ or $ϵ=-1$, we prove the existence of solutions of $-{\Delta }_{p}u=ϵu^q$ in a cone $C_S$, with vertex 0 and opening $S$, vanishing on $\partial C_S$, of the form $u\left(x\right)={\left|x\right|}^{-\beta }\omega (x/\left|x\right|)$. The problem reduces to a quasilinear elliptic equation on $S$ and the existence proof is based upon degree theory and homotopy methods. We also obtain a nonexistence result in some critical case by making use of an integral type identity.