On the domain derivative for scattering by impenetrable obstacles in chiral media

For scattering of electromagnetic waves in a chiral medium bysome perfectly conducting inclusions, we study the dependenceof the scattered field on the boundary of the inclusions andshow its Fréchet differentiability in appropriate spaces.Further, we derive a characterization of the derivative as asolution to some corresponding chiral boundary value problem.Our proof contains a new approach to rigorously derive thischaracterization.     

Critical cases of stability. Converse implicit function theorem for dynamical systems with cosymmetry

Stability criteria of boundary equilibria for dynamical systems in the three critical cases, (n, k)=(3, 0), (2, 1), and (1, 1), are obtained.Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 572–578, April, 1998.The author wishes to thank V. I. Yudovich for useful discussions.This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under grant No. 96-01-01791 and by the International Science Foundation under grant NRQ000.     

An Inverse Function Theorem for Fréchet Spaces Satisfying a Smoothing Property and (DN)

Classical inverse function theorems of Nash-Moser type are proved for Fréchet spaces that admit smoothing operators as introduced by Nash. In this note an inverse function theorem is proved for Fréchet spaces which only have to satisfy the condition (DN) of Vogt and the smoothing property (S_Ω)_t; for instance, any Fréchet-Hilbert space which is an (Ω)-space in standard form has property (S_Ω)_t. The main result of this paper generalizes a theorem of Lojasiewicz and Zehnder. It can be applied to the space C^∞(K) if the compact K ? ?^N is the closure of its interior and subanalytic; different from classical results the boundary of K may have singularities like cusps. The growth assumptions on the mappings are formulated in terms of the weighted multiseminorms [ ]m,k introduced in this paper; nonlinear smooth partial differential operators on C^∞(K) and their derivatives satisfy these formal assumptions.     

Asymptotic stability and instability with respect to part of variables for solutions to impulsive systems

We obtain sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability with respect to part of variables for the zero solution to an impulsive system with the fixed moments of impulse effects.     

Well-posedness and exponential stability for a nonlinear wave equation with acoustic boundary conditions

In this paper, we prove the well-posedness of a nonlinear wave equation coupled with boundary conditions of Dirichlet and acoustic type imposed on disjoints open boundary subsets. The proposed nonlinear equation models small vertical vibrations of an elastic medium with weak internal damping and a general nonlinear term. We also prove the exponential decay of the energy associated with the problem. Our results extend the ones obtained in previous results to allow weak internal dampings and removing the dimensional restriction $1\le n\le 4$. The method we use is based on a finite-dimensional approach by combining the Faedo-Galerkin method with suitable energy estimates and multiplier techniques.     

Strong stability and uniform decay of solutions to a wave equation with semilinear porous acoustic boundary conditions

We consider a wave equation with semilinear porous acoustic boundary conditions. This is a coupled system of second and first order in time partial differential equations, with possibly semilinear boundary conditions on the interface. The results obtained are (i) strong stability for the linear model, (ii) exponential decay rates for the energy of the linear model, and (iii) local exponential decay rates for the energy of the semilinear model. This work builds on a previous result showing generation of a well-posed dynamical system. The main tools used in the proofs are (i) the Stability Theorem of Arendt-Batty, (ii) energy methods used in the study of a wave equation with boundary damping, and (iii) an abstract result of I. Lasiecka applicable to hyperbolic-like systems with nonlinearly perturbed boundary conditions.