Non-existence of extremals for the Adimurthi–Druet inequality

The Adimurthi–Druet [1] inequality is an improvement of the standard Moser–Trudinger inequality by adding a $L^2$-type perturbation, quantified by $\alpha \in [0,{\lambda }_1)$, where ${\lambda }_1$ is the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of Δ on a smooth bounded domain. It is known [3], [10], [14], [19] that this inequality admits extremal functions, when the perturbation parameter α is small. By contrast, we prove here that the Adimurthi–Druet inequality does not admit any extremal, when the perturbation parameter α approaches ${\lambda }_1$. Our result is based on sharp expansions of the Dirichlet energy for blowing sequences of solutions of the corresponding Euler–Lagrange equation, which take into account the fact that the problem becomes singular as $\alpha \to {\lambda }_1$.     

Blow-up of solutions to critical semilinear wave equations with variable coefficients

We verify the critical case $p=p_0(n)$ of Strauss' conjecture [30] concerning the blow-up of solutions to semilinear wave equations with variable coefficients in ${\mathbf{R}}^n$, where $n\ge 2$. The perturbations of Laplace operator are assumed to be smooth and decay exponentially fast at infinity. We also obtain a sharp lifespan upper bound for solutions with compactly supported data when $p=p_0(n)$. The unified approach to blow-up problems in all dimensions combines several classical ideas in order to generalize and simplify the method of Zhou [43] and Zhou & Han [45]: exponential “eigenfunctions” of the Laplacian [37] are used to construct the test function ${?}_q$ for linear wave equation with variable coefficients and John's method of iterations [13] is augmented with the “slicing method” of Agemi, Kurokawa and Takamura [1] for lower bounds in the critical case.     

Local well-posedness of the incompressible Euler equations in B∞,11 and the inviscid limit of the Navier–Stokes equations

We prove the inviscid limit of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in the same topology of Besov spaces as the initial data. The proof is based on proving the continuous dependence of the Navier–Stokes equations uniformly with respect to the viscosity. To show the latter, we rely on some Bona–Smith type argument in the $L^p$ setting. Our obtained result implies a new result that the Cauchy problem of the Euler equations is locally well-posed in the borderline Besov space $B_{\infty ,1}^1({\mathbb{R}}^d)$, $d\ge 2$, in the sense of Hadmard, which is an open problem left in recent works by Bourgain and Li in [3], [4] and by Misio?ek and Yoneda in [12], [13], [14].     

Ill-posedness of the Camassa–Holm and related equations in the critical space

We prove norm inflation and hence ill-posedness for a class of shallow water wave equations, such as the Camassa–Holm equation, Degasperis–Procesi equation and Novikov equation etc., in the critical Sobolev space $H^{3/2}$ and even in the Besov space $B_{p,r}^{1+1/p}$ for $p\in [1,\infty ],r\in (1,\infty ]$. Our results cover both real-line and torus cases (only real-line case for Novikov), solving an open problem left in the previous works ([5], [14], [16]).     

Global,decaying solutions of a focusing energy-critical heat equation in R4

We study solutions of the focusing energy-critical nonlinear heat equation $u_t=\mathrm{\Delta }u?|u{|}^{2}u$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^4$. We show that solutions emanating from initial data with energy and ${\dot{H}}^1$-norm below those of the stationary solution W are global and decay to zero, via the “concentration-compactness plus rigidity” strategy of Kenig–Merle [33], [34]. First, global such solutions are shown to dissipate to zero, using a refinement of the small data theory and the $L^2$-dissipation relation. Finite-time blow-up is then ruled out using the backwards-uniqueness of Escauriaza–Seregin–Sverak [17], [18] in an argument similar to that of Kenig–Koch [32] for the Navier–Stokes equations.     

A new path to the non blow-up of incompressible flows

One of the most challenging questions in fluid dynamics is whether the three-dimensional (3D) incompressible Navier-Stokes, 3D Euler and two-dimensional Quasi-Geostrophic (2D QG) equations can develop a finite-time singularity from smooth initial data. Recently, from a numerical point of view, Luo & Hou presented a class of potentially singular solutions to the Euler equations in a fluid with solid boundary [1], [2]. Furthermore, in two recent papers [3], [4], Tao indicates a significant barrier to establishing global regularity for the 3D Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, in that any method for achieving this, must use the finer geometric structure of these equations. In this paper, we show that the singularity discovered by Luo & Hou which lies right on the boundary is not relevant in the case of the whole domain ${\mathbb{R}}^3$. We reveal also that the translation and rotation invariance present in the Euler, Navier-Stokes and 2D QG equations are the key for the non blow-up in finite time of the solutions. The translation and rotation invariance of these equations combined with the anisotropic structure of regions of high vorticity allowed to establish a new geometric non blow-up criterion which yield us to the non blow-up of the solutions in all the Kerr's numerical experiments and to show that the potential mechanism of blow-up introduced in [5] cannot lead to the blow-up in finite time of solutions of Euler equations.     

Approximation locale précisée dans des problèmes multi-échelles avec défauts localisés

We proceed here with our systematic study, initiated in [3], of multiscale problems with defects, within the context of homogenization theory. The case under consideration here is that of a diffusion equation with a diffusion coefficient of the form of a periodic function perturbed by an $L^r({\mathbb{R}}^d)$, $1<r<+\infty$, function modelling a localized defect. We outline the proof of the following approximation result: the corrector function, the existence of which has been established in [3], [4], allows us to approximate the solution to the original multiscale equation with essentially the same accuracy as in the purely periodic case. The rates of convergence may however vary, and are made precise, depending upon the $L^r$ integrability of the defect. The generalization to an abstract setting is mentioned. Our proof exactly follows, step by step, the pattern of the original proof of Avellaneda and Lin in [1] in the periodic case, extended in the works of Kenig and collaborators [12], and borrows a lot from it. The details of the results announced in this Note are given in our publications [2], [11].     

Exact rates of convergence in some martingale central limit theorems

Renz [14], Ouchti [13], El Machkouri and Ouchti [3] and Mourrat [12] have established some tight bounds on the rate of convergence in the central limit theorem for martingales. In the present paper a modification of the methods, developed by Bolthausen [1] and Grama and Haeusler [7], is applied for obtaining exact rates of convergence in the central limit theorem for martingales with differences having conditional moments of order $2+\rho ,\rho >0$. Our results generalise and strengthen the bounds mentioned above.     

Existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for a static Schrödinger–Poisson–Slater equation

In this paper we study the following type of the Schrödinger–Poisson–Slater equation with critical growth

$?△u+(u^2?\frac{1}{|4\pi x|})u=\mu |u{|}^{p?1}u+|u{|}^{4}u,\text{in}{\mathbb{R}}^3,$

where $\mu >0$ and $p\in (11/7,5)$. For the case of $p\in (2,5)$. We develop a novel perturbation approach, together with the well-known Mountion–Pass theorem, to prove the existence of positive ground states. For the case of $p=2$, we obtain the nonexistence of nontrivial solutions by restricting the range of μ and also study the existence of positive solutions by the constrained minimization method. For the case of $p\in (11/7,2)$, we use a truncation technique developed by Brezis and Oswald [9] together with a measure representation concentration-compactness principle due to Lions [27] to prove the existence of radial symmetrical positive solutions for $\mu \in (0,{\mu }^{?})$ with some ${\mu }^{?}>0$. The above results nontrivially extend some theorems on the subcritical case obtained by Ianni and Ruiz [18] to the critical case.     

Proof of the Hénon–Lane–Emden conjecture in R3

We study the Hénon–Lane–Emden conjecture, which states that there is no non-trivial non-negative solution for the Hénon–Lane–Emden elliptic system whenever the pair of exponents is subcritical. By scale invariance of the solutions and Sobolev embedding on $S^{N?1}$, we prove this conjecture is true for space dimension $N=3$; which also implies the single elliptic equation has no positive classical solutions in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ when the exponent lies below the Hardy–Sobolev exponent, this covers the conjecture of Phan–Souplet [22] for ${\mathbb{R}}^3$.     

Symmetry and rigidity for the hinged composite plate problem

The composite plate problem is an eigenvalue optimization problem related to the fourth order operator ${(?\mathrm{\Delta })}^2$. In this paper we continue the study started in [10], focusing on symmetry and rigidity issues in the case of the hinged composite plate problem, a specific situation that allows us to exploit classical techniques like the moving plane method.     

Asymptotic behavior toward nonlinear waves for radially symmetric solutions of the multi-dimensional Burgers equation

The present paper is concerned with the asymptotic behaviors of radially symmetric solutions for the multi-dimensional Burgers equation on the exterior domain in ${\mathbb{R}}^n,n\ge 3$, where the boundary and far field conditions are prescribed. We show that in some case where the corresponding 1-D Riemann problem for the non-viscous part admits a shock wave, the solution tends toward a linear superposition of stationary and rarefaction waves as time goes to infinity, and also show the decay rate estimates. Furthermore, we improve the results on the asymptotic stability of the stationary waves which are treated in the previous papers [2], [3]. Finally, for the case of $n=3$, we give the complete classification of the asymptotic behaviors, which includes even a linear superposition of stationary and viscous shock waves.     

Characterization of f-extremal disks

We show uniqueness for overdetermined elliptic problems defined on topological disks Ω with $C^2$ boundary, i.e., positive solutions u to $\mathrm{\Delta }u+f(u)=0$ in $\mathrm{\Omega }?(M^2,g)$ so that $u=0$ and $\frac{?u}{?\overrightarrow{\eta }}=cte$ along ?Ω, $\overrightarrow{\eta }$ the unit outward normal along ?Ω under the assumption of the existence of a candidate family. To do so, we adapt the Gálvez–Mira generalized Hopf-type Theorem [19] to the realm of overdetermined elliptic problem.When $(M^2,g)$ is the standard sphere ${\mathbb{S}}^2$ and f is a $C^1$ function so that $f(x)>0$ and $f(x)\ge x{f}^{\prime }(x)$ for any $x\in {\mathbb{R}}_{+}^{?}$, we construct such candidate family considering rotationally symmetric solutions. This proves the Berestycki–Caffarelli–Nirenberg conjecture in ${\mathbb{S}}^2$ for this choice of f. More precisely, this shows that if u is a positive solution to $\mathrm{\Delta }u+f(u)=0$ on a topological disk $\mathrm{\Omega }?{\mathbb{S}}^2$ with $C^2$ boundary so that $u=0$ and $\frac{?u}{?\overrightarrow{\eta }}=cte$ along ?Ω, then Ω must be a geodesic disk and u is rotationally symmetric. In particular, this gives a positive answer to the Schiffer conjecture D (cf. [33], [35]) for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue and classifies simply-connected harmonic domains (cf. [28], also called Serrin Problem) in ${\mathbb{S}}^2$.     

Interior regularity for fractional systems

We study the regularity of solutions of elliptic fractional systems of order 2s, $s\in (0,1)$, where the right hand side f depends on a nonlocal gradient and has the same scaling properties as the nonlocal operator. Under some structural conditions on the system we prove interior Hölder estimates in the spirit of [1]. Our results are stable in s allowing us to recover the classic results for elliptic systems due to S. Hildebrandt and K. Widman [11] and M. Wiegner [19].     

Asymptotic spreading of a diffusive competition model with different free boundaries

Recently, the authors of [22] studied a diffusive prey–predator model with two different free boundaries. They first obtained the existence, uniqueness, regularity, uniform estimates and long time behaviors of global solution, and then established the conditions for spreading and vanishing. Especially, when spreading occurs, they provided accurate limits of two species as $t\to +\infty$, and gave some estimates of asymptotic spreading speeds of two species and asymptotic speeds of two free boundaries. Motivated by the paper [22], in this paper we discuss the diffusive competition model with two different free boundaries, which had been investigated by [7], [11], [15], [21]. The main purpose of this paper is to establish much sharper estimates of asymptotic spreading speeds of two species and asymptotic speeds of two free boundaries when spreading occurs. Furthermore, how the solution approaches the semi-wave when spreading happens is also described.     

A refined convergence result in homogenization of second order parabolic systems

We derive the sharp $O(\epsilon )$ convergence rate in $L^2(0,T;L^{q_0}(\mathrm{\Omega })),q_0=2d/(d?1)$ in periodic homogenization of second order parabolic systems with bounded measurable coefficients in Lipschitz cylinders. This extends the corresponding result for elliptic systems established in [20] to parabolic systems and improves the corresponding result in $L^2$ settings derived in [7], [28] for second order parabolic systems with time-dependent coefficients.     

Nonlinear stability of 2-solitons of the sine-Gordon equation in the energy space

In this article we prove that 2-soliton solutions of the sine-Gordon equation (SG) are orbitally stable in the natural energy space of the problem $H^1\times L^2$. The solutions that we study are the 2-kink, kink–antikink and breather of SG. In order to prove this result, we will use Bäcklund transformations implemented by the Implicit Function Theorem. These transformations will allow us to reduce the stability of the three solutions to the case of the vacuum solution, in the spirit of previous results by Alejo and the first author [3], which was done for the case of the scalar modified Korteweg–de Vries equation. However, we will see that SG presents several difficulties because of its vector valued character. Our results improve those in [5], and give the first rigorous proof of the nonlinear stability in the energy space of the SG 2-solitons.     

Cyclotomic p-adic multi-zeta values

The cyclotomic p-adic multi-zeta values are the p-adic periods of ${\pi }_1^{uni}({\mathbb{G}}_m?{\mu }_M,?)$, the unipotent fundamental group of the multiplicative group minus the M-th roots of unity. In this paper, we compute the cyclotomic p-adic multi-zeta values at all depths. This paper generalizes the results in [9] and [10]. Since the main result gives quite explicit formulas we expect it to be useful in proving non-vanishing and transcendence results for these p-adic periods and also, through the use of p-adic Hodge theory, in proving non-triviality results for the corresponding p-adic Galois representations.     

Random attractor for the 3D viscous primitive equations driven by fractional noises

We develop a new and general method to prove the existence of the random attractor (strong attractor) for the primitive equations (PEs) of large-scale ocean and atmosphere dynamics under non-periodic boundary conditions and driven by infinite-dimensional additive fractional Wiener processes. In contrast to our new method, the common method, compact Sobolev embedding theorem, is to obtain the time-uniform a priori estimates in some Sobolev space whose regularity is higher than the solution space. But this method can not be applied to the 3D stochastic PEs with the non-periodic boundary conditions. Therefore, the existence of universal attractor (weak attractor) was established in previous works (see [15], [16]). The main idea of our method is that we first derive that $\mathbb{P}$-almost surely the solution operator of stochastic PEs is compact. Then we construct a compact absorbing set by virtue of the compact property of the solution operator and the existence of a absorbing set. We should point out that our method has some advantages over the common method of using compact Sobolev embedding theorem, i.e., using our method we only need to obtain time-uniform a priori estimates in the solution space to prove the existence of random attractor for the corresponding stochastic system, while the common method need to establish time-uniform a priori estimates in a more regular functional space than the solution space. Take the stochastic PEs for example, as the unique strong solution to the stochastic PEs belongs to $C([0,T];{(H^1(?))}^3)$, in view of our method, we only need to obtain the time-uniform a priori estimates in the solution space ${(H^1(?))}^3$ to prove the existence of random attractor for this stochastic system, while the common method need to establish time-uniform a priori estimates for the solution in the functional space ${(H^2(?))}^3$. However, time-uniform a priori estimates in ${(H^2(?))}^3$ for the solution to stochastic PEs are too difficult to be established. The present work provides a general way for proving the existence of random attractor for common classes of dissipative stochastic partial differential equations driven by Wiener noises, fractional noises and even jump noises. In a forth coming paper, using this new method we [46] prove the existence of random attractor for the stochastic nematic liquid crystals equations. This is the first result about the long-time behavior of stochastic nematic liquid crystals equations.