In this talk we describe the propagation of ${𝒞}^{\infty }$ and Sobolev singularities for the wave equation on ${𝒞}^{\infty }$ manifolds with corners $M$ equipped with a Riemannian metric $g$. That is, for $X=M\times {ℝ}_t$, $P=D_t^2-{\Delta }_M$, and $u\in H_{\text{loc}}^1\left(X\right)$ solving $Pu=0$ with homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, we show that ${WF}_{\text{b}}\left(u\right)$ is a union of maximally extended generalized broken bicharacteristics. This result is a ${𝒞}^{\infty }$ counterpart of Lebeau’s results for the propagation of analytic singularities on real analytic manifolds with appropriately stratified boundary,...

In these lecture notes we describe the propagation of singularities of tempered distributional solutions $u\in {𝒮}^{\text{'}}$ of $(H-\lambda )u=0$, where $H$ is a many-body hamiltonian $H=\Delta +V$, $\Delta \ge 0$, $V={\sum }_a{V}_a$, and $\lambda$ is not a threshold of $H$, under the assumption that the inter-particle (e.g. two-body) interactions $V_a$ are real-valued polyhomogeneous symbols of order $-1$ (e.g. Coulomb-type with the singularity at the origin removed). Here the term “singularity” provides a microlocal description of the lack of decay at infinity. Our result is then that the...

We investigate the propagation of the uniform spatial Gevrey $G^{\sigma }$, σ ≥ 1, regularity for t → +∞ of solutions to evolution equations like generalizations of the Euler equation and the semilinear Schrödinger equation with polynomial nonlinearities. The proofs are based on direct iterative arguments and nonlinear Gevrey estimates.

The propagation of weak discontinuities for quasilinear systems with coefficients functionally dependent on the solution is studied. We demonstrate that, similarly to the case of usual quasilinear systems, the transport equation for the intensity of weak discontinuity is quadratic in this intensity. However, the contribution from the (nonlocal) functional dependence appears to be in principle linear in the jump intensity (with some exceptions). For illustration, several examples, including two hyperbolic...

In this paper we propose a new concept of quasi-uniform monotonicity weaker than the uniform monotonicity which has been developed in the study of nonlinear operator equation $Au=b$. We prove that if $A$ is a quasi-uniformly monotone and hemi-continuous operator, then $A^{-1}$ is strictly monotone, bounded and continuous, and thus the Galerkin approximations converge. Also we show an application of a quasi-uniformly monotone and hemi-continuous operator to the proof of the well-posedness and convergence...

We construct fundamental solutions of some partial differential equations of order higher than two and examine properties of these solutions and of some related integrals. The results will be used in our next paper concerning boundary-value problems for these equations.

Given a measurable set $A\subset {ℝ}^n$ of positive measure, it is not difficult to show that $|A+A|=\left|2A\right|$ if and only if $A$ is equal to its convex hull minus a set of measure zero. We investigate the stability of this statement: If $\left(\right|A+A|-|2A\left|\right)/\left|A\right|$ is small, is $A$ close to its convex hull? Our main result is an explicit control, in arbitrary dimension, on the measure of the difference between $A$ and its convex hull in terms of $\left(\right|A+A|-|2A\left|\right)/\left|A\right|$.

In these notes, we will describe recent work on globally solving quasilinear wave equations in the presence of trapped rays, on Kerr-de Sitter space, and obtaining the asymptotic behavior of solutions. For the associated linear problem without trapping, one would consider a global, non-elliptic, Fredholm framework; in the presence of trapping the same framework is available for spaces of growing functions only. In order to solve the quasilinear problem we thus combine these frameworks with the normally...