Solvability Of Operator Equations And Periodic Solutions Of Semilinear Hyperbolic Equations
We consider three types of semilinear second order PDEs on a cylindrical domain , where is a bounded domain in , . Among these, two are evolution problems of parabolic and hyperbolic types, in which the unbounded direction of is reserved for time , the third type is an elliptic equation with a singled out unbounded variable . We discuss the asymptotic behavior, as , of solutions which are defined and bounded on .
This article is a proceedings version of the ongoing work [1], and has been the object of a talk of the second author during the Journées “Équations aux Dérivées Partielles” (Biarritz, 2012).We address the decay rates of the energy of the damped wave equation when the damping coefficient does not satisfy the Geometric Control Condition (GCC). First, we give a link with the controllability of the associated Schrödinger equation. We prove that the observability of the Schrödinger group implies that...
We prove existence of positive solutions for the equation on , arising in the prescribed scalar curvature problem. is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on , is the critical Sobolev exponent, and is a small parameter. The problem can be reduced to a finite dimensional study which is performed with Morse theory.
Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold which is a Galois covering, that is, M is periodic under the action of a discrete group G of isometries. Assuming that G has polynomial volume growth, we provide a new proof of Gaussian upper bounds for the gradient of the heat kernel of the Laplace operator on M. Our method also yields a control on the gradient in case G does not have polynomial growth.