On the well-posedness of 3-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with variable viscosity

In this paper, we mainly study the well-posedness for the 3-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with variable viscosity. With some smallness assumption on the BMO-norm of the initial density, we first get the local well-posedness of (1.1) in the critical Besov spaces. Moreover, if the viscosity coefficient is a constant, we can extend this local solution to be a global one. Our theorem implies that we have successfully extended the integrability index p of the initial velocity which has been obtained by Abidi, Gui and Zhang in [3], Burtea in [8] and Zhai and Yin in [32] to approach the ideal one i.e. $1<p<6$. The main novelty of this work is to apply the CRW theorem obtained by Coifman, Rochberg, Weiss in [11] to get a new a priori estimate for an elliptic equation with variable coefficients. The uniqueness of the solution also relies on a Lagrangian approach as in [16], [17], [18].     

Singularities and semistable degenerations for symplectic topology

We overview our work [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [6] defining and studying normal crossings varieties and subvarieties in symplectic topology. This work answers a question of Gromov on the feasibility of introducing singular (sub)varieties into symplectic topology in the case of normal crossings singularities. It also provides a necessary and sufficient condition for smoothing normal crossings symplectic varieties. In addition, we explain some connections with other areas of mathematics and discuss a few directions for further research.     

Laplace equations,Lefschetz properties and line arrangements

In this note we extend the main result in [6] on artinian ideals failing Lefschetz properties, varieties satisfying Laplace equations and existence of suitable singular hypersurfaces. Moreover we characterize the minimal generation of ideals generated by powers of linear forms by the configuration of their dual points in the projective plane and we use this result to improve some propositions on line arrangements and Strong Lefschetz Property at range 2 in [6]. The starting point was an example in [3]. Finally we show the equivalence among failing SLP, Laplace equations and some unexpected curves introduced in [3].     

Existence,uniqueness and positivity of solutions for BGK models for mixtures

We consider kinetic models for a multi component gas mixture without chemical reactions. In the literature, one can find two types of BGK models in order to describe gas mixtures. One type has a sum of BGK type interaction terms in the relaxation operator, for example the model described by Klingenberg, Pirner and Puppo [20] which contains well-known models of physicists and engineers for example Hamel [16] and Gross and Krook [15] as special cases. The other type contains only one collision term on the right-hand side, for example the well-known model of Andries, Aoki and Perthame [1]. For each of these two models [20] and [1], we prove existence, uniqueness and positivity of solutions in the first part of the paper. In the second part, we use the first model [20] in order to determine an unknown function in the energy exchange of the macroscopic equations for gas mixtures described by Dellacherie [11].     

Simulation de la propagation de fracture dans un solide élastique

We consider a brittle elastic solid (prone to develop fractures) as the limit of a damage model and propose a numerical method to determine its quasi-static evolution in the spirit of Francfort and Marigo [3] and Allaire et al. [1], [2].     

Sur une correction non linéaire et un principe du minimum local pour la discrétisation d'opérateurs de diffusion en différences finies

We describe a nonlinear correction that suppresses oscillations appearing in the discretization of diffusion operators. We prove that the scheme is convergent without assumptions as in [2] or [6].     

Incomplete financial markets model with nominal assets: Variational approach

We deal with the analysis of the general equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets and nominal assets. We assume that there are 2 periods of time, say today and tomorrow. We define a consumption, portfolio holding, commodity and asset price vector as an equilibrium vector associated with a given economy if at those prices and economies households maximize utility under a budget constraints and markets clear. While the path breaking proofs of existence by Cass [6] and Werner [25] use a fixed point argument, we provide an independent existence proof in terms of variational inequalities (about the variational approach for the analysis of general equilibrium models see for example [9] and [10]). The analysis presented in this paper indicates that the variational inequality approach promises to be applicable in many specifications of the incomplete market model.     

On an inequality of Brendle in the hyperbolic space

We give a spinorial proof of a Heintze–Karcher-type inequality in the hyperbolic space proved by Brendle [4]. The proof relies on a generalized Reilly formula on spinors recently obtained in [7].     

Cohen–Macaulay,Gorenstein, complete intersection and regular defect for the tensor product of algebras

The main goal of this paper is to measure the defect of Cohen–Macaulay, Gorenstein, complete intersection and regularity for the tensor product of algebras over a ring. For this sake, we determine the homological invariants which are inherent to these notions, such as the Krull dimension, depth, injective dimension, type and embedding dimension of the tensor product constructions in terms of those of their components. Our results allow to generalize various theorems in this topic especially [4, Theorem 2.1], [21, Theorem 6] and [14, Theorems 1 and 2] as well as two Grothendieck's theorems on the transfer of Cohen–Macaulayness and regularity to tensor products over a field issued from finite field extensions. To prove our theorems on the defect of complete intersection and regularity, the homology theory introduced by André and Quillen for commutative rings turns out to be an adequate and efficient tool in this respect.     

On center singularity for compressible spherically symmetric nematic liquid crystal flows

The paper is concerned with a simplified system, proposed by Ericksen [6] and Leslie [20], modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals. In the first part, we give a new Serrin's continuation principle for strong solutions of general compressible liquid crystal flows. Based on new observations, we establish a localized Serrin's regularity criterion for the 3D compressible spherically symmetric flows. It is proved that the classical solution loses its regularity in finite time if and only if, either the concentration or vanishing of mass forms or the norm inflammation of gradient of orientation field occurs around the center.