Pointwise asymptotic behavior of modulated periodic reaction–diffusion waves

By working with the periodic resolvent kernel and the Bloch-decomposition, we establish pointwise bounds for the Green function of the linearized equation associated with spatially periodic traveling waves of a system of reaction–diffusion equations. With our linearized estimates together with a nonlinear iteration scheme developed by Johnson–Zumbrun, we obtain $L^p$-behavior ($p?1$) of a nonlinear solution to a perturbation equation of a reaction–diffusion equation with respect to initial data in $L^1\cap H^2$ recovering and slightly sharpening results obtained by Schneider using weighted energy and renormalization techniques. We obtain also pointwise nonlinear estimates with respect to two different initial perturbations $|u_0|?E_0{e}^{?{|x|}^2/M}$, ${|u_0|}_{H^2}?E_0$ and $|u_0|?E_0{(1+|x|)}^{?r}$, $r>2$, ${|u_0|}_{H^2}?E_0$ respectively, $E_0>0$ sufficiently small and $M>1$ sufficiently large, showing that behavior is that of a heat kernel. These pointwise bounds have not been obtained elsewhere, and do not appear to be accessible by previous techniques.     

Weak solutions of semilinear elliptic equation involving Dirac mass

In this paper, we study the elliptic problem with Dirac mass

(1)$\{\begin{array}{c}?\mathrm{\Delta }u=V{u}^p+k{\delta }_0\text{in}{\mathbb{R}}^N,\hfill \\ \underset{|x|\to +\infty }{\lim }?u(x)=0,\hfill \end{array}$

where $N>2$, $p>0$, $k>0$, ${\delta }_0$ is the Dirac mass at the origin and the potential V is locally Lipchitz continuous in ${\mathbb{R}}^N?\{0\}$, with non-empty support and satisfying

$0\le V(x)\le \frac{{\sigma }_1}{|x{|}^{a_0}(1+|x{|}^{a_{\infty }?a_0})},$

with $a_0<N$, $a_0<a_{\infty }$ and ${\sigma }_1>0$. We obtain two positive solutions of (1) with additional conditions for parameters on $a_{\infty },a_0$, p and k. The first solution is a minimal positive solution and the second solution is constructed via Mountain Pass Theorem.     

Uniqueness of degree-one Ginzburg–Landau vortex in the unit ball in dimensions N ≥ 7

For $\epsilon >0$, we consider the Ginzburg–Landau functional for ${\mathbb{R}}^N$-valued maps defined in the unit ball $B^N?{\mathbb{R}}^N$ with the vortex boundary data x on $?B^N$. In dimensions $N\ge 7$, we prove that, for every $\epsilon >0$, there exists a unique global minimizer $u_{\epsilon }$ of this problem; moreover, $u_{\epsilon }$ is symmetric and of the form $u_{\epsilon }(x)=f_{\epsilon }(|x|)\frac{x}{|x|}$ for $x\in B^N$.     

Nodal standing waves for a gauged nonlinear Schrödinger equation in R2

This paper investigates the existence and asymptotic behavior of nodal solutions to the following gauged nonlinear Schrödinger equation

$\{\begin{array}{c}?\mathrm{\Delta }u+\omega u+(\frac{h^2(\left|x\right|)}{{\left|x\right|}^2}+\underset{\left|x\right|}{\overset{+\infty }{\int }}\frac{h(s)}{s}{u}^2(s)ds)u=\lambda {\left|u\right|}^{p?2}u,x\in {\mathbb{R}}^2,\hfill \\ u(x)=u(|x|)\in H^1({\mathbb{R}}^2),\hfill \end{array}$

where $\omega ,\lambda >0$, $p>6$ and

$h(s)=\frac{1}{2}\underset{0}{\overset{s}{\int }}r{u}^2(r)dr$

is the so-called Chern–Simons term. We prove that for any positive integer k, the problem has a sign-changing solution ${u^{\lambda }}_k$ which changes sign exactly k times. Moreover, the energy of $u_k^{\lambda }$ is strictly increasing in k, and for any sequence $\{{\lambda }_n\}\to +\infty (n\to \infty )$, there exists a subsequence $\{{\lambda }_{n_s}\}$, such that ${({\lambda }_{n_s})}^{\frac{1}{p?2}}{u}_k^{{\lambda }_{n_s}}$ converges in $H^1({\mathbb{R}}^2)$ to $w_k$ as $s\to \infty$, where $w_k$ also changes sign exactly k times and solves the following equation

$?\mathrm{\Delta }u+\omega u=|u{|}^{p?2}u,u\in H^1({\mathbb{R}}^2).$

     

Construction and stability of blowup solutions for a non-variational semilinear parabolic systemConstruction et stabilité de solutions explosives pour un système parabolique sémilinéaire non-variationel

We consider the following parabolic system whose nonlinearity has no gradient structure:

$\{\begin{array}{cc}{?}_{t}u=\mathrm{\Delta }u+|v{|}^{p?1}v,\hfill & {?}_{t}v=\mu \mathrm{\Delta }v+|u{|}^{q?1}u,\hfill \\ u(?,0)=u_0,\hfill & v(?,0)=v_0,\hfill \end{array}$

in the whole space ${\mathbb{R}}^N$, where $p,q>1$ and $\mu >0$. We show the existence of initial data such that the corresponding solution to this system blows up in finite time $T(u_0,v_0)$ simultaneously in u and v only at one blowup point a, according to the following asymptotic dynamics:

$\{\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & u(x,t)～\mathrm{\Gamma }{[(T?t)(1+\frac{b|x?a{|}^2}{(T?t)|\log ?(T?t)|})]}^{?\frac{(p+1)}{pq?1}},\hfill \\ \hfill & v(x,t)～\gamma {[(T?t)(1+\frac{b|x?a{|}^2}{(T?t)|\log ?(T?t)|})]}^{?\frac{(q+1)}{pq?1}},\hfill \end{array}$

with $b=b(p,q,\mu )>0$ and $(\mathrm{\Gamma },\gamma )=(\mathrm{\Gamma }(p,q),\gamma (p,q))$. The construction relies on the reduction of the problem to a finite dimensional one and a topological argument based on the index theory to conclude. Two major difficulties arise in the proof: the linearized operator around the profile is not self-adjoint even in the case $\mu =1$; and the fact that the case $\mu \ne 1$ breaks any symmetry in the problem. In the last section, through a geometrical interpretation of quantities of blowup parameters whose dimension is equal to the dimension of the finite dimensional problem, we are able to show the stability of these blowup behaviors with respect to perturbations in initial data.     

Inviscid limit for the derivative Ginzburg–Landau equation with small data in modulation and Sobolev spaces

Applying the frequency-uniform decomposition technique, we study the Cauchy problem for derivative Ginzburg–Landau equation $u_t=(\nu +\mathrm{i})\mathrm{\Delta }u+{\overrightarrow{\lambda }}_1?\mathrm{?}({|u|}^{2}u)+({\overrightarrow{\lambda }}_2?\mathrm{?}u){|u|}^2+\alpha {|u|}^{2\delta }u$, where $\delta \in \mathbb{N}$, ${\overrightarrow{\lambda }}_1,{\overrightarrow{\lambda }}_2$ are complex constant vectors, $\nu \in [0,1]$, $\alpha \in \mathbb{C}$. For $n\ge 3$, we show that it is uniformly global well posed for all $\nu \in [0,1]$ if initial data $u_0$ in modulation space $M_{2,1}^s$ and Sobolev spaces $H^{s+n/2}$ ($s>3$) and $6u_0{6}_{L^2}$ is small enough. Moreover, we show that its solution will converge to that of the derivative Schrödinger equation in $C(0,T;L^2)$ if $\nu \to 0$ and $u_0$ in $M_{2,1}^s$ or $H^{s+n/2}$ with $s>4$. For $n=2$, we obtain the local well-posedness results and inviscid limit with the Cauchy data in $M_{1,1}^s$ ($s>3$) and $6u_0{6}_{L^1}?1$.     

Topological bounds for Fourier coefficients and applications to torsion

Let $\mathrm{\Omega }?{\mathbb{R}}^2$ be a bounded convex domain in the plane and consider

$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill ?\mathrm{\Delta }u& =1\text{in}\mathrm{\Omega }\hfill \\ \hfill u& =0\text{on}?\mathrm{\Omega }.\hfill \end{array}$

If u assumes its maximum in $x_0\in \mathrm{\Omega }$, then the eccentricity of level sets close to the maximum is determined by the Hessian $D^{2}u(x_0)$. We prove that $D^{2}u(x_0)$ is negative definite and give a quantitative bound on the spectral gap

$\begin{array}{c}{\lambda }_{\max }(D^{2}u(x_0))\le ?c_1\exp ?(?c_2\frac{\mathrm{diam}(\mathrm{\Omega })}{\mathrm{inrad}(\mathrm{\Omega })})\hfill \\ \text{for universal}{c}_1,c_2>0.\hfill \end{array}$

This is sharp up to constants. The proof is based on a new lower bound for Fourier coefficients whose proof has a topological component: if $f:\mathbb{T}\to \mathbb{R}$ is continuous and has n sign changes, then

$\sum _{k=0}^{n/2}\left|〈f,\sin ?kx〉\right|+\left|〈f,\cos ?kx〉\right|{?}_n\frac{{|f6}_{L^1(\mathbb{T})}^{n+1}}{{6f6}_{L^{\infty }(\mathbb{T})}^n}.$

This statement immediately implies estimates on higher derivatives of harmonic functions u in the unit ball: if u is very flat in the origin, then the boundary function $u(\cos ?t,\sin ?t):\mathbb{T}\to \mathbb{R}$ has to have either large amplitude or many roots. It also implies that the solution of the heat equation starting with $f:\mathbb{T}\to \mathbb{R}$ cannot decay faster than $～\exp ?(?{(\mathrm{\#}\text{sign changes})}^{2}t/4)$.