A family of formal solutions of some type of nonlinear partial differential equations is found. Terms of such solutions are Laplace transforms of some Laplace distributions. The series of these distributions are locally finite.
We prove pointwise gradient bounds for entire solutions of pde’s of the form ℒu(x) = ψ(x, u(x), ∇u(x)), where ℒ is an elliptic operator (possibly singular or degenerate). Thus, we obtain some Liouville type rigidity results. Some classical results of J. Serrin are also recovered as particular cases of our approach.
Let be a weak solution of a quasilinear elliptic equation of the growth with a measure right hand term . We estimate at an interior point of the domain , or an irregular boundary point , in terms of a norm of , a nonlinear potential of and the Wiener integral of . This quantifies the result on necessity of the Wiener criterion.
We introduce a new variational method for the numerical homogenization of divergence form elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations with arbitrary rough (L∞) coefficients. Our method does not rely on concepts of ergodicity or scale-separation but on compactness properties of the solution space and a new variational approach to homogenization. The approximation space is generated by an interpolation basis (over scattered points forming a mesh of resolution H) minimizing the L2 norm of the source...
Resistance to chemotherapies, particularly to anticancer treatments, is an increasing medical concern. Among the many mechanisms at work in cancers, one of the most important is the selection of tumor cells expressing resistance genes or phenotypes. Motivated by the theory of mutation-selection in adaptive evolution, we propose a model based on a continuous variable that represents the expression level of a resistance gene (or genes, yielding a phenotype) influencing in healthy and tumor cells birth/death...