A nonlinear functional for general scalar hyperbolic conservation laws

A generalized entropy functional was introduced in [T.-P. Liu, T. Yang, A new entropy functional for scalar conservation laws, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 52 (1999) 1427-1442] for the scalar hyperbolic conservation laws with convex flux function. This functional was crucially used in the functional approach to the L¹ stability study on the system of hyperbolic conservation laws when each characteristic field is either genuinely nonlinear or linearly degenerate. However, how to construct the generalized entropy functional for scalar conservation laws with general flux, and then how to apply the functional approach to the L¹ study on general systems are still open. In this paper, we construct a new nonlinear functional which gives some partial answer to this question and we expect the analysis will shed some light on the future investigation in this direction.     

The Dirichlet problem of higher order quasilinear elliptic equation

The paper is concerned with the Dirichlet problem of higher order quasilinear elliptic equation:

     

Strong convergence of approximate solutions for nonlinear hyperbolic equation without convexity

Schonbek [M.E. Schonbek, Convergence of solutions to nonlinear dispersive equations, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 7 (1982) 959-1000] obtained the strong convergence of uniform bounded approximate solutions to hyperbolic scalar equation under the assumption that the flux function is strictly convex. While in this paper, by constructing four families of Lax entropies, we succeed in dealing with the non-convexity with the aid of the well-known Bernstein-Weierstrass theorem, and obtaining the strong convergence of uniform L^∞ or bounded viscosity solutions for scalar conservation law without convexity.     

Riemann theta functions periodic wave solutions and rational characteristics for the nonlinear equations

In this paper, based on a multidimensional Riemann theta function, a lucid and straightforward generalization of the Hirota-Riemann method is presented to explicitly construct multiperiodic Riemann theta functions periodic wave solutions for nonlinear equations such as the Caudrey-Dodd-Gibbon-Sawada-Kotera equation and (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton equation. Among these periodic waves, the one-periodic waves are well-known cnoidal waves, their surface pattern is one-dimensional, and often they are used as one-dimensional models of periodic waves. The two-periodic waves are a direct generalization of one-periodic waves, their surface pattern is two-dimensional so that they have two independent spatial periods in two independent horizontal directions. A limiting procedure is presented to analyze in detail, asymptotic behavior of the multiperiodic waves and the relations between the periodic wave solutions and soliton solutions are rigorously established. This generalized Hirota-Riemann method can also be demonstrated on a class variety of nonlinear difference equations such as Toeplitz lattice equation.     

Global bifurcation for a class of degenerate elliptic equations with variable exponents

We are concerned with the following nonlinear problem

     

The Cauchy problem for the elliptic-hyperbolic Davey-Stewartson system in Sobolev space

We study the initial value problem for the elliptic-hyperbolic Davey-Stewartson systems

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Entropy solutions for a doubly nonlinear elliptic problem with variable exponent

We study the boundary value problem in Ω, u=0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a smooth bounded domain in RN (N?3) and is a p(x)-Laplace type operator with p(.):Ω→[1,+∞) a measurable function and b a continuous and nondecreasing function from R→R. We prove the existence and uniqueness of an entropy solution for L¹-data f.     

The Neumann boundary value problem of higher order quasilinear elliptic equation

This paper is concerned with the generalized solution to the Neumann boundary value problem of higher order quasilinear elliptic equation:

     

Solutions of nonlinear evolution inclusions

In this paper, the solution of the nonlinear evolution inclusion problem of the form u^′(t)+B(t,u(t))∋f(t) is studied. In this problem, the operators are of type (M) or type (S₊), which are different from those of pseudo-monotone operators that had been studied by many authors. At the same time, we study the perturbation problem. In fact, many kinds of evolution equations can be generalized by this problem. The former results are improved and generalized by our conclusions, and we will give more applications.     

Local regularity theorems for the stationary thermistor problem with oscillating degeneracy

In this paper we present some regularity results for solutions to the system −Δu=σ(u)²|∇φ|, div(σ(u)∇φ)=0 in the case where σ(u) is allowed to oscillate between 0 and a positive number as u→∞. In particular, we show that u is locally bounded if σ(u) is bounded below by a suitable exponential function.     

Multiple solutions for some nonlinear Schrödinger equations with indefinite linear part

We consider a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equation with indefinite linear part in RN. We prove that the problem has at least three nontrivial solutions by means of Linking Theorem and (∇)-Theorem.     

Convergence of a stochastic particle approximation for fractional scalar conservation laws

We are interested in a probabilistic approximation of the solution to scalar conservation laws with fractional diffusion and nonlinear drift. The probabilistic interpretation of this equation is based on a stochastic differential equation driven by an α-stable Lévy process and involving a nonlinear drift. The approximation is constructed using a system of particles following a time-discretized version of this stochastic differential equation, with nonlinearity replaced by interaction. We prove convergence of the particle approximation to the solution of the conservation law as the number of particles tends to infinity whereas the discretization step tends to 0 in some precise asymptotics.     

Multiple positive solutions for a critical quasilinear elliptic system

The existence of cat_Ω(Ω) positive solutions for the p-Laplacian system with convex and Sobolev critical nonlinearities is obtained by some standard variational methods, whose key is to construct homotopies between Ω and levels of the functional J_λ,μ, and some analytical techniques.     

Locating the peaks of least-energy solutions to a quasilinear elliptic Neumann problem, Part II

We continue our work (Y. Li, C. Zhao, Locating the peaks of least-energy solutions to a quasilinear elliptic Neumann problem, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 336 (2007) 1368-1383) to study the shape of least-energy solutions to the quasilinear problem ε^mΔ_mu−u^m−1+f(u)=0 with homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. In this paper we focus on the case 1<m<2 as a complement to our previous work on the case m≥2. We use an intrinsic variation method to show that as the case m≥2, when ε→0⁺, the global maximum point P_ε of least-energy solutions goes to a point on the boundary ∂Ω at a rate of o(ε) and this point on the boundary approaches a global maximum point of mean curvature of ∂Ω.     

Periodic solutions for a class of superquadratic Hamiltonian systems

We prove the existence of nontrivial critical points for a class of superquadratic nonautonomous second-order Hamiltonian systems by applying condition ^∗(C) to critical point theory, and some new solvability conditions of nontrivial periodic solutions are obtained.     

Global attractor for a nonlinear viscoelastic model

In this paper we establish the existence of global attractors of a semiflow and a semigroup for a nonlinear 1-d viscoelasticity in two frameworks. We exploit the properties of the analytic semigroup to show the compactness for the semiflow and semigroup generated by the weak global solutions.     

Conservation laws for some compacton equations using the multiplier approach

This paper is an application of the variational derivative method to the derivation of the conservation laws for partial differential equations. The conservation laws for (1+1) dimensional compacton k(2,2) and compacton k(3,3) equations are studied via multiplier approach. Also the conservation laws for (2+1) dimensional compacton Zk(2,2) equation are established by first computing the multipliers.     

A functional characterization of measures and the Banach-Ulam problem

For a measurable space (Ω,A), let ?_∞(A) be the closure of span{χA:A∈A} in ?_∞(Ω). In this paper we show that a sufficient and necessary condition for a real-valued finitely additive measure μ on (Ω,A) to be countably additive is that the corresponding functional ?μ defined by (for x∈?_∞(A)) is w^*-sequentially continuous. With help of the Yosida-Hewitt decomposition theorem of finitely additive measures, we show consequently that every continuous functional on ?_∞(A) can be uniquely decomposed into the ?₁-sum of a w^*-continuous functional, a purely w^*-sequentially continuous functional and a purely (strongly) continuous functional. Moreover, several applications of the results to measure extension are given.