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One-dimensional symmetry for solutions of quasilinear equations in R 2

Alberto Farina (2003)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

In this paper we consider two-dimensional quasilinear equations of the form div a u u + f u = 0 and study the properties of the solutions u with bounded and non-vanishing gradient. Under a weak assumption involving the growth of the argument of u (notice that arg u is a well-defined real function since u > 0 on R 2 ) we prove that u is one-dimensional, i.e., u = u ν x for some unit vector ν . As a consequence of our result we obtain that any solution u having one positive derivative is one-dimensional. This result provides a proof of...

One-dimensional symmetry of periodic minimizers for a mean field equation

Chang-Shou Lin, Marcello Lucia (2007)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

We consider on a two-dimensional flat torus T defined by a rectangular periodic cell the following equation Δ u + ρ e u T e u - 1 | T | = 0 , T u = 0 . It is well-known that the associated energy functional admits a minimizer for each ρ 8 π . The present paper shows that these minimizers depend actually only on one variable. As a consequence, setting λ 1 ( T ) to be the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on the torus, the minimizers are identically zero whenever ρ min { 8 π , λ 1 ( T ) | T | } . Our results hold more generally for solutions that are Steiner symmetric, up to a translation....

Opening gaps in the spectrum of strictly ergodic Schrödinger operators

Artur Avila, Jairo Bochi, David Damanik (2012)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We consider Schrödinger operators with dynamically defined potentials arising from continuous sampling along orbits of strictly ergodic transformations. The Gap Labeling Theorem states that the possible gaps in the spectrum can be canonically labelled by an at most countable set defined purely in terms of the dynamics. Which labels actually appear depends on the choice of the sampling function; the missing labels are said to correspond to collapsed gaps. Here we show that for any collapsed gap,...

Operator preconditioning with efficient applications for nonlinear elliptic problems

Janos Karátson (2012)

Open Mathematics

This paper is devoted to the numerical solution of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. Such problems describe various phenomena in science. An approach that exploits Hilbert space theory in the numerical study of elliptic PDEs is the idea of preconditioning operators. In this survey paper we briefly summarize the main lines of this theory with various applications.

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