On considère un système semi-linéaire du premier ordre de taille $2\times 2$ dans un ouvert de ${ℝ}^n$, une hypersurface $S$ non caractéristique et une hypersurface $\Gamma$ de $S$. On suppose que, par $\Gamma$, passent deux hypersurfaces caractéristiques ${\Sigma }_1$, ${\Sigma }_2$ transverses et que les bicaractéristiqiues sur ${\Sigma }_1$, ${\Sigma }_2$ sont transverses à $\Gamma$. Soit $u$ une solution dans une demi-région $\Omega$ délimitée par $\sigma$. On suppose que $u$ est la restriction à $\Omega$ d’une distribution conormale par morceaux par rapport à ${\Sigma }_1$, ${\Sigma }_2$. Pour le problème de Cauchy, on montre...

Dans cet article, on étudie la régularité d’une solution réelle, appartenant à $H^s$ pour $s$ assez grand, d’une équation aux dérivées partielles strictement hyperbolique et fortement non linéaire d’ordre deux. On suppose que les données de Cauchy sur une hypersurface spatiale lisse sont régulières en dehors d’un point, et ont une singularité conormale en ce point; on démontre alors que la réunion $\Gamma$ des bicaractéristiques nulles issues de ce point est, en dehors de ce point, une hypersurface lisse et...

Inspired by a problem in steel metallurgy, we prove the existence, regularity, uniqueness, and continuous data dependence of solutions to a coupled parabolic system in a smooth bounded 3D domain, with nonlinear and nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. The nonlinear coupling takes place in the diffusion coefficient. The proofs are based on anisotropic estimates in tangential and normal directions, and on a refined variant of the Gronwall lemma.

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for the thin one-phase problem which consists of minimizing the energy functional $E(u,\Omega )={\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{2}dX+{\mathscr{H}}^n(\{u>0\}\cap \{x_{n+1}=0\}),\Omega \subset {ℝ}^{n+1},$ among all functions $u\ge 0$ which are fixed on $\partial \Omega$.

We prove a Sobolev and a Morrey type inequality involving the mean curvature and the tangential gradient with respect to the level sets of the function that appears in the inequalities. Then, as an application, we establish a priori estimates for semistable solutions of $–{\Delta }_{p}u=g\left(u\right)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$. In particular, we obtain new $L^r$ and $W^{1,r}$ bounds for the extremal solution $u^{☆}$ when the domain is strictly convex. More precisely, we prove that $u^{☆}\in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ if $n\le p+2$ and $u^{☆}\in L^{\frac{np}{n-p-2}}\left(\Omega \right)\cap W_0^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)$ if $n>p+2$.

It was shown recently by Córdoba, Faraco and Gancedo in [1] that the 2D porous media equation admits weak solutions with compact support in time. The proof, based on the convex integration framework developed for the incompressible Euler equations in [4], uses ideas from the theory of laminates, in particular $T4$ configurations. In this note we calculate the explicit relaxation of IPM, thus avoiding $T4$ configurations. We then use this to construct weak solutions to the unstable interface problem (the...

Classical Gårding inequalities such as those of Hörmander, Hörmander-Melin or Fefferman-Phong are proved by pseudo-differential methods which do not allow to keep a good control on the supports of the functions under study nor on the smoothness of the coefficients of the operator. In this paper, we show by very simple calculations that in certain special situations, the results that can be obtained directly are much better than those expected thanks to the general theory.