Uniqueness of positive radial solutions for quasilinear elliptic equations in an annulus

Extending a previous result of Tang [1] we prove the uniqueness of positive radial solutions of Δ_pu+f(u)=0, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on an annulus in Rⁿ with 2<p≤n, under suitable hypotheses on the nonlinearity f. This argument also provides an alternative proof for the uniqueness of positive solutions of the same problem in a finite ball (see [9]), in the complement of a ball or in the whole space Rⁿ (see [10], [3] and [11]).     

Dynamical bifurcation for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

In this paper, by using the center manifold reduction method, together with the eigenvalue analysis, we made bifurcation analysis for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, and proved that the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with constraint condition bifurcates an attractor A_λ as λ crossed the first critical value λ₀=1 under the two cases. Our analysis was based on a new and mature attractor bifurcation theory developed by Ma and Wang (2005) [17] and [18].     

Optimal weighted estimates of the flows in exterior domains

In this paper, we prove some decay properties of global solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations in an exterior domain Ω⊂Rⁿ, n=2,3.When a domain has a boundary, the pressure term is troublesome since we do not have enough information on the pressure near the boundary. To overcome this difficulty, by multiplying a special form of test functions, we obtain an integral equation. He-Xin (2000) [12] first introduced this method and then Bae-Jin (2006, 2007) [1] and [13] modified their method to obtain better decay rates. Also, Bae-Roh (2009) [11] improved Bae-Jin’s results. Unfortunately, their results were not optimal, because there exists an unpleasant positive small δ in their rates.In this paper, we obtain the following optimal rate without δ,

     

Two-Dimensional Infinite Prandtl Number Convection: Structure of Bifurcated Solutions

This paper examines the bifurcation and structure of the bifurcated solutions of the two-dimensional infinite Prandtl number convection problem. The existence of a bifurcation from the trivial solution to an attractor Σ _R was proved by Park (Disc. Cont. Dynam. Syst. B [2005]). We prove in this paper that the bifurcated attractor Σ _R consists of only one cycle of steady-state solutions and that it is homeomorphic to S¹. By thoroughly investigating the structure and transitions of the solutions of the infinite randtl number convection problem in physical space, we confirm that the bifurcated solutions are indeed structurally stable. In turn, this will corroborate and justify the suggested results with the physical findings about the presence of the roll structure. This bifurcation analysis is based on a new notion of bifurcation, called attractor bifurcation, and structural stability is derived using a new geometric theory of incompressible flows. Both theories were developed by Ma and Wang; see Bifurcation Theory and Applications (World Scientific, 2005) and Geometric Theory of Incompressible Flows with Applications to Fluid Dynamics (American Mathematical Society, 2005).     

Global existence and asymptotic convergence of weak solutions for the one-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with capillarity and nonmonotonic pressure

We construct global weak solution of the Navier-Stokes equations with capillarity and nonmonotonic pressure. The volume variable v₀ is initially assumed to be in H¹ and the velocity variable u₀ to be in L² on a finite interval [0,1]. We show that both variables become smooth in positive time and that asymptotically in time u→0 strongly in L²([0,1]) and v approaches the set of stationary solutions in H¹([0,1]).     

On ground state solutions for singular and semi-linear problems including super-linear terms at infinity

We establish a result concerning the existence of entire, positive, classical and bounded solutions which converge to zero at infinity for the semi-linear equation −Δu=λf(x,u),x∈R^N, where f:R^N×(0,∞)→[0,∞) is a suitable function and λ>0 is a real parameter. This result completes the principal theorem of A. Mohammed [A. Mohammed, Ground state solutions for singular semi-linear elliptic equations, Nonlinear Analysis (2008) doi:10.1016/j.na.2008.11.080] mainly because his result does not address the super-linear terms at infinity. Penalty arguments, lower-upper solutions and an approximation procedure will be used.     

Fixed point theorems for some generalized multivalued nonexpansive mappings

In this paper, we introduce a condition on multivalued mappings which is a multivalued version of condition (C_λ) defined by Garcia-Falset et al. (2011) [3]. It is shown here that some of the classical fixed point theorems for multivalued nonexpansive mappings can be extended to mappings satisfying this condition. Our results generalize the results in Lim (1974), Lami Dozo (1973), Kirk and Massa (1990), Garcia-Falset et al. (2011), Dhompongsa et al. (2009) and Abkar and Eslamian (2010) [4], [5], [6], [3], [7] and [8] and many others.     

Common fixed point results in CAT(0) spaces

Let X be a complete CAT(0) space, T be a generalized multivalued nonexpansive mapping, and t be a single valued quasi-nonexpansive mapping. Under the assumption that T and t commute weakly, we shall prove the existence of a common fixed point for them. In this way, we extend and improve a number of recent results obtained by Shahzad (2009) [7] and [12], Shahzad and Markin (2008) [6], and Dhompongsa et al. (2005) [5].     

Commutativity and self-duality: Two tales of one equation

The mathematical expressions for the commutativity or self-duality of an increasing [0, 1]² → [0, 1] function F involve the transposition of its arguments. We unite both properties in a single functional equation. The solutions of this functional equation are discussed. Special attention goes to the geometrical construction of these solutions and their characterization in terms of contour lines. Furthermore, it is shown how ‘rotating’ the arguments of F allows to convert the results into properties for [0, 1]² → [0, 1] functions having monotone partial functions.     

Global symmetric classical solutions of the full compressible Navier–Stokes equations with vacuum and large initial data

In this paper, we get a result on global existence of classical and strong solutions of the full compressible Navier–Stokes equations in three space dimensions with spherically or cylindrically symmetric initial data which may be large. The appearance of vacuum is allowed. In particular, if the initial data is spherically symmetric, the space dimension can be taken not less than two. The analysis is based on some delicate a priori   estimates globally in time which depend on the assumption κ=O(1+θ^q)$\kappa =O(1+{\theta }^q)$ where q>r$q>r$ (r   can be zero), which relaxes the condition q?2+2r$q?2+2r$ in ,  and . This could be viewed as an extensive work of [16] where the equations hold in the sense of distributions in the set where the density is positive with initial data which is large, discontinuous, and spherically or cylindrically symmetric in three space dimension.     

Uniform exponential attractors for first order non-autonomous lattice dynamical systems

In Abdallah (2008, 2009) [2] and [3], we have investigated the existence of exponential attractors for first and second order autonomous lattice dynamical systems. Within this work, in l², we carefully study the existence of a uniform exponential attractor for the family of processes associated with an abstract family of first order non-autonomous lattice dynamical systems with quasiperiodic symbols acting on a closed bounded set.     

Existence and regularity of extremal solutions for a mean-curvature equation

We study a class of mean curvature equations −Mu=H+λup where M denotes the mean curvature operator and for p?1. We show that there exists an extremal parameter λ^∗ such that this equation admits a minimal weak solutions for all λ∈[0,λ^∗], while no weak solutions exists for λ>λ^∗ (weak solutions will be defined as critical points of a suitable functional). In the radially symmetric case, we then show that minimal weak solutions are classical solutions for all λ∈[0,λ^∗] and that another branch of classical solutions exists in a neighborhood (λ_∗−η,λ^∗) of λ^∗.     

Global classical large solutions to 1D compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum

In this paper, we investigate an initial boundary value problem for 1D compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations with large initial data, density-dependent viscosity, external force, and vacuum. Making full use of the local estimates of the solutions in Cho and Kim (2006) [3] and the one-dimensional properties of the equations and the Sobolev inequalities, we get a unique global classical solution (ρ,u) where ρ∈C¹([0,T];H¹([0,1])) and u∈H¹([0,T];H²([0,1])) for any T>0. As it is pointed out in Xin (1998) [31] that the smooth solution (ρ,u)∈C¹([0,T];H³(R¹)) (T is large enough) of the Cauchy problem must blow up in finite time when the initial density is of nontrivial compact support. It seems that the regularities of the solutions we obtained can be improved, which motivates us to obtain some new estimates with the help of a new test function ρ²utt, such as Lemmas 3.2-3.6. This leads to further regularities of (ρ,u) where ρ∈C¹([0,T];H³([0,1])), u∈H¹([0,T];H³([0,1])). It is still open whether the regularity of u could be improved to C¹([0,T];H³([0,1])) with the appearance of vacuum, since it is not obvious that the solutions in C¹([0,T];H³([0,1])) to the initial boundary value problem must blow up in finite time.     

Dependence of variables construed as an atomic formula

We define a logic D capable of expressing dependence of a variable on designated variables only. Thus D has similar goals to the Henkin quantifiers of [4] and the independence friendly logic of [6] that it much resembles. The logic D achieves these goals by realizing the desired dependence declarations of variables on the level of atomic formulas. By [3] and [17], ability to limit dependence relations between variables leads to existential second order expressive power. Our D avoids some difficulties arising in the original independence friendly logic from coupling the dependence declarations with existential quantifiers. As is the case with independence friendly logic, truth of D is definable inside D. We give such a definition for D in the spirit of [11] and [2] and [1].     

Stability of Riemann solutions with large oscillation for the relativistic Euler equations

We are concerned with entropy solutions of the 2×2 relativistic Euler equations for perfect fluids in special relativity. We establish the uniqueness of Riemann solutions in the class of entropy solutions in L^∞∩BV_loc with arbitrarily large oscillation. Our proof for solutions with large oscillation is based on a detailed analysis of global behavior of shock curves in the phase space and on special features of centered rarefaction waves in the physical plane for this system. The uniqueness result does not require specific reference to any particular method for constructing the entropy solutions. Then the uniqueness of Riemann solutions yields their inviscid large-time stability under arbitrarily largeL¹∩L^∞∩BV_loc perturbation of the Riemann initial data, as long as the corresponding solutions are in L^∞ and have local bounded total variation that allows the linear growth in time. We also extend our approach to deal with the uniqueness and stability of Riemann solutions containing vacuum in the class of entropy solutions in L^∞ with arbitrarily large oscillation.     

Analysis of a two-phase cell division model

In this paper we mainly study an equal mitosis two-phase cell division model. By using the C₀-semigroup theory, we prove that this model is the well-posed in L¹[0, 1] × L¹[0, 1], and exhibits asynchronous exponential growth phenomenon as time goes to infinity. We also give a comparison between this two-phase model with the classical one-phase model. Finally, we briefly study the asymmetric two-phase cell division model, and show that similar results hold for it.     

Approximation of signals of class Lip(α, p) by linear operators

Mittal, Rhoades [5], [6], [7] and [8] and Mittal et al. [9] and [10] have initiated a study of error estimates E_n(f) through trigonometric-Fourier approximation (tfa) for the situations in which the summability matrix T does not have monotone rows. In this paper we continue the work. Here we extend two theorems of Leindler [4], where he has weakened the conditions on {p_n} given by Chandra [2], to more general classes of triangular matrix methods. Our Theorem also partially generalizes Theorem 4 of Mittal et al. [11] by dropping the monotonicity on the elements of matrix rows, which in turn generalize the results of Quade [15].     

A new comparison theorem on conditional quantiles

This paper studies the conditional quantile regression problem involving the pinball loss. We introduce a concept of τ-quantile of p-average logarithmic type q to complement the previous study by Steinwart and Christman (2008, 2011) [1] and [2]. A new comparison theorem is provided which can be used for further error analysis of some learning algorithms.