Hysteresis operators are illustrated, and a weak formulation is studied for an initial- and boundary-value problem associated to the equation $\left({\partial }^2/\partial t^2\right)\left[u+\mathcal{F}\left(u\right)\right]+Au=f$; here $\mathcal{F}$ is a (possibly discontinuous) hysteresis operator, $A$ is a second order elliptic operator, $f$ is a known function. Problems of this sort arise in plasticity, ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity, and so on. In particular an existence result is outlined.

In these notes, we will describe recent work on globally solving quasilinear wave equations in the presence of trapped rays, on Kerr-de Sitter space, and obtaining the asymptotic behavior of solutions. For the associated linear problem without trapping, one would consider a global, non-elliptic, Fredholm framework; in the presence of trapping the same framework is available for spaces of growing functions only. In order to solve the quasilinear problem we thus combine these frameworks with the normally...

Existence of quasi-periodic solutions with two frequencies of completely resonant, periodically forced, nonlinear wave equations with periodic spatial boundary conditions is established. We consider both the cases the forcing frequency is (Case A) a rational number and (Case B) an irrational number.

Dopo aver introdotto la nozione di quasi-simmetrizzatore per sistemi del prim'ordine debolmente iperbolici, si dimostra che ad ogni sistema di tipo Sylvester, cioè proveniente da un'equazione scalare di ordine superiore, si può associare in modo regolare un quasi-simmetrizzatore. Come applicazione di questo risultato si prova che, per qualunque sistema semi-lineare $N\times N$ debolmente iperbolico, le soluzioni Gevrey in x di ordine $s<N/\left(N-1\right)$ restano analitiche non appena lo siano all'istante iniziale.

In this paper, we consider the following initial-boundary value problem $$\left\}\begin{array}{c}{u}_{tt}(x,t)=\epsilon Lu(x,t)+f\left(u(x,t)\right)\text{in}\Omega \times (0,T),\hfill \\ u(x,t)=0\text{on}\partial \Omega \times (0,T),\hfill \\ u(x,0)=0\text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \\ u_t(x,0)=0\text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N$ with smooth boundary $\partial \Omega$, $L$ is an elliptic operator, $\epsilon$ is a positive parameter, $f\left(s\right)$ is a positive, increasing, convex function for $s\in (-\infty ,b)$, ${lim}_{s\to b}f\left(s\right)=\infty$ and ${\int }_0^b\frac{ds}{f\left(s\right)}<\infty$ with $b=const>0$. Under some assumptions, we show that the solution of the above problem quenches in a finite time and its quenching time goes to that of the solution of the following differential equation $$\left\}\begin{array}{cc}{\alpha }^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(t\right)=f\left(\alpha \left(t\right)\right),\hfill & t>0,\hfill \\ \alpha \left(0\right)=0,{\alpha }^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)=0,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ as $\epsilon$ goes to zero. We also show that the above result remains...