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Variational problems in domains with cusp points

Alexander Ženíšek (1993)

Applications of Mathematics

The finite element analysis of linear elliptic problems in two-dimensional domains with cusp points (turning points) is presented. This analysis needs on one side a generalization of results concerning the existence and uniqueness of the solution of a constinuous elliptic variational problem in a domain the boundary of which is Lipschitz continuous and on the other side a presentation of a new finite element interpolation theorem and other new devices.

Vortex rings for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation

Fabrice Bethuel, G. Orlandi, Didier Smets (2004)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We provide a mathematical proof of the existence of traveling vortex rings solutions to the Gross–Pitaevskii (GP) equation in dimension N 3 . We also extend the asymptotic analysis of the free field Ginzburg–Landau equation to a larger class of equations, including the Ginzburg–Landau equation for superconductivity as well as the traveling wave equation for GP. In particular we rigorously derive a curvature equation for the concentration set (i.e. line vortices if N = 3 ).

Waves of Autocrine Signaling in Patterned Epithelia

C. B. Muratov, S. Y. Shvartsman (2010)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

A biophysical model describing long-range cell-to-cell communication by a diffusible signal mediated by autocrine loops in developing epithelia in the presence of a morphogenetic pre-pattern is introduced. Under a number of approximations, the model reduces to a particular kind of bistable reaction-diffusion equation with strong heterogeneity. In the case of the heterogeneity in the form of a long strip a detailed analysis of signal propagation is...

Wiener criterion for degenerate elliptic obstacle problem

Marco Biroli, Umberto Mosco (1989)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

We give a Wiener criterion for the continuity of an obstacle problem relative to an elliptic degenerate problem with a weight in the A 2 class.

Γ -convergence of concentration problems

Micol Amar, Adriana Garroni (2003)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

In this paper, we use Γ -convergence techniques to study the following variational problem S ε F ( Ω ) : = sup ε - 2 * Ω F ( u ) d x : Ω | u | 2 d x ε 2 , u = 0 on Ω , where 0 F ( t ) | t | 2 * , with 2 * = 2 n n - 2 , and Ω is a bounded domain of n , n 3 . We obtain a Γ -convergence result, on which one can easily read the usual concentration phenomena arising in critical growth problems. We extend the result to a non-homogeneous version of problem S ε F ( Ω ) . Finally, a second order expansion in Γ -convergence permits to identify the concentration points of the maximizing sequences, also in some non-homogeneous case.

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