REGULARITY OF THE SOLUTIONS FOR NONLINEAR BIHARMONIC EQUATIONS IN RN

The purpose of this article is to establish the regularity of the weak solutions for the nonlinear biharmonic equation
{△^2u ＋ a（x）u = g（x, u）
u∈ H^2（R^N）,
where the condition u∈ H^2（R^N） plays the role of a boundary value condition, and as well expresses explicitly that the differential equation is to be satisfied in the weak sense.     

Very Singular Similarity Solutions and Hermitian Spectral Theory for Semilinear Odd-order PDEs

Asymptotic large- and short-time behavior of solutions of the linear dispersion equation μt = Uxxx in IR× IR＋, and its （2k＋l）th-order extensions are studied. Such a refined scattering is based on a ＂Hermitian＂ spectral theory for a pair {B,B＊} of non self-adjoint rescaled operators     

INFINITELY MANY SOLUTIONS FOR AN ELLIPTIC PROBLEM INVOLVING CRITICAL NONLINEARITY

We study the following elliptic problem:{-div(a(x)Du)=Q(x)|u|2-2u+λu x ∈Ω ,u=0 on ΩUnder certain assumptions on a and Q, we obtain existence of infinitely many solutions by variational method.     

BRUNN-MINKOWSKI INEQUALITY FOR VARIATIONAL FUNCTIONAL INVOLVING THE P-LAPLACIAN OPERATOR

In this paper, we investigate the following elliptic problem involving the P- Laplacian
where p 〉 1,0 〈 q 〈 p- 1, K R^n with K∈K^n and prove that the energy integral of the problem （P） satisfies a Brunn-Minkowski type inequality.     

EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO SEMILINEAR ELLIPTIC SYSTEMS IN IRN WITH ZERO MASS

In this paper, we prove the existence of at least one positive solution pairto the following semilinear elliptic systemby using a linking theorem, where K（x）is a positive function in L^s（R^N） for some s 〉 1and the nonnegative functions f, g ∈ C（R, R） are of quasicritical growth, superlinear atinfinity. We do not assume that f or g satisfies the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition as usual. Our main result can be viewed as a partial extension of a recent result of Alves, Souto and Montenegro in [1] concerning the existence of a positive solution to the following semilinear elliptic problemand a recent result of Li and Wang in [22] concerning the existence of nontrivial solutions to a semilinear elliptic system of Hamiltonian type in R^N.     

EXISTENCE OF ENTROPY SOLUTIONS TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL STEADY EXOTHERMICALLY REACTING EULER EQUATIONS

We are concerned with the global existence of entropy solutions of the twodimensional steady Euler equations for an ideal gas, which undergoes a one-step exothermic chemical reaction under the Arrhenius-type kinetics. The reaction rate function φ(T) is assumed to have a positive lower bound. We first consider the Cauchy problem(the initial value problem), that is, seek a supersonic downstream reacting flow when the incoming flow is supersonic, and establish the global existence of entropy solutions when the total variation of the initial data is suffciently small. Then we analyze the problem of steady supersonic, exothermically reacting Euler flow past a Lipschitz wedge, generating an additional detonation wave attached to the wedge vertex, which can be then formulated as an initial-boundary value problem. We establish the global existence of entropy solutions containing the additional detonation wave(weak or strong, determined by the wedge angle at the wedge vertex) when the total variation of both the slope of the wedge boundary and the incoming flow is suitably small. The downstream asymptotic behavior of the global solutions is also obtained.     

Nonradial Solutions of a Mixed Concave-Convex Elliptic Problem

We study the homogeneous Dirichlet problem in a ball for semi-linear elliptic problems derived from the Brezis-Nirenberg one with concave-convex nonlinearities. We are interested in determining non-radial solutions which are invariant with respect to some subgroup of the orthogonal group. We prove that unlike separated nonlinearities, there are two types of solutions, one converging to zero and one diverging. We conclude at the end on the classification of non radial solutions related to the nonlinearity used.     

THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS WITH THE KINEMATIC AND VORTICITY BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON NON-FLAT BOUNDARIES

We study the initial-boundary value problem of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids in a general domain in R^n with compact and smooth boundary, subject to the kinematic and vorticity boundary conditions on the non-flat boundary. We observe that, under the nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, the pressure p can be still recovered by solving the Neumann problem for the Poisson equation. Then we establish the well-posedness of the unsteady Stokes equations and employ the solution to reduce our initial-boundary value problem into an initial-boundary value problem with absolute boundary conditions. Based on this, we first establish the well-posedness for an appropriate local linearized problem with the absolute boundary conditions and the initial condition （without the incompressibility condition）, which establishes a velocity mapping. Then we develop apriori estimates for the velocity mapping, especially involving the Sobolev norm for the time-derivative of the mapping to deal with the complicated boundary conditions, which leads to the existence of the fixed point of the mapping and the existence of solutions to our initial-boundary value problem. Finally, we establish that, when the viscosity coefficient tends zero, the strong solutions of the initial-boundary value problem in R^n（n ≥ 3） with nonhomogeneous vorticity boundary condition converge in L^2 to the corresponding Euler equations satisfying the kinematic condition.     

OPTIMAL INTERIOR PARTIAL REGULARITY FOR NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC SYSTEMS WITH DINI CONTINUOUS COEFFICIENTS

In this article,we consider nonlinear elliptic systems of divergence type with Dini continuous coefficients.The authors use a new method introduced by Duzaar and Grotowski,to prove partial regularity for weak solutions,based on a generalization of the technique of harmonic approximation and directly establish the optimal Ho¨lder exponent for the derivative of a weak solution on its regular set.     

UNIQUENESS, ERGODICITY AND UNIDIMENSIONALITY OF INVARIANT MEASURES UNDER A MARKOV OPERATOR

Let X be a compact metric space and C（X） be the space of all continuous functions on X. In this article, the authors consider the Markov operator T ： C（X）N C（X）N defined by
for any f = （f1,f2,… ,fN）, where （pij） is a N x N transition probability matrix and {wij } is an family of continuous transformations on X. The authors study the uniqueness, ergodicity and unidimensionality of T＊-invariant measures where T＊ is the adjoint operator of T.     

HOLDER ESTIMATES FOR A CLASS OF DEGENERATE ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

In this paper we study the regularity theory of the solutions of a class of degenerate elliptic equations in divergence form. By introducing a proper distance and applying the compactness method we establish the HSlder type estimates for the weak solutions.     

WELL-POSEDNESS OF A COMPRESSIBLE GAS-LIQUID MODEL FOR DEEPWATER OIL WELL OPERATIONS

The main purpose of this paper is two-fold:(i) to generalize an existence result for a compressible gas-liquid model with a friction term recently published by Friis and Evje [SIAM J. Appl. Math., 71(2011), pp. 2014–2047];(ii) to derive a uniqueness result for the same model. A main ingredient in the existence part is the observation that we can consider weaker assumptions on the initial liquid and gas mass, and still obtain an existence result. Compared to the above mentioned work, we rely on a more refined application of the estimates provided by the basic energy estimate. Concerning the uniqueness result, we borrow ideas from Fang and Zhang [Nonlinear Anal. TMA, 58(2004), pp. 719–731] and derive a stability result under appropriate constraints on parameters that determine rate of decay toward zero at the boundary for gas and liquid masses, and growth rate of masses associated with the friction term and viscous coefficient.     

COMPOSITION TYPE OPERATORS FROM HARDY SPACES TO μ-BLOCH SPACES ON THE UNIT BALL

Let φ be a holomorphic self-map of Bn and ψ ∈ H（Hn）. A composition type operator is defined by Tψ,φ（f） = ψf o φ for f ∈ H（Bn）, which is a generalization of the multiplication operator and the composition operator. In this article, the necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the composition type operator Tψ,φ to be bounded or compact from Hardy space HP（Bn） to μ-Bloch space Bμ（Bn）. The conditions are some supremums concerned with ψ,φ, their derivatives and Bergman metric of Bn. At the same time, two corollaries are obtained.     

THE ACCELERATED SEARCH-EXTENSION METHOD FOR COMPUTING MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS OF SEMILINEAR PDEs

In this paper, we propose an accelerated search-extension method （ASEM） based on the interpolated coefficient finite element method, the search-extension method （SEM） and the two-grid method to obtain the multiple solutions for semilinear elliptic equations. This strategy is not only successfully implemented to obtain multiple solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems, but also reduces the expensive computation greatly. The numerical results in I-D and 2-D cases will show the efficiency of our approach.     

ON THE ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF HOLOMORPHIC ISOMETRIES OF THE POINCARE DISK INTO BOUNDED SYMMETRIC DOMAINS

In this article we bounded symmetric domains study holomorphic isometries of the Poincare disk into Earlier we solved the problem of analytic continuation of germs of holomorphic maps between bounded domains which are isometrics up to normalizing constants with respect to the Bergman metric, showing in particular that the graph 170 of any germ of holomorphic isometry of the Poincar6 disk A into an irreducible bounded symmetric domain Ω belong to C^N in its Harish-Chandra realization must extend to an affinealgebraic subvariety V belong to C × C^N = C^N＋1, and that the irreducible component of V ∩ （△ × Ω） containing V0 is the graph of a proper holomorphic isometric embedding F ： A→ Ω. In this article we study holomorphie isometric embeddings which are asymptotically geodesic at a general boundary point b ∈ δ△. Starting with the structural equation for holomorphic isometrics arising from the Gauss equation, we obtain by covariant differentiation an identity relating certain holomorphic bisectional curvatures to the boundary behavior of the second fundamental form σ of the holomorphie isometric embedding. Using the nonpositivity of holomorphic bisectional curvatures on a bounded symmetric domain, we prove that ‖σ‖ must vanish at a general boundary point either to the order 1 or to the order 1/2, called a holomorphie isometry of the first resp. second kind. We deal with special cases of non-standard holomorphic isometric embeddings of such maps, showing that they must be asymptotically totally geodesic at a general boundary point and in fact of the first kind whenever the target domain is a Cartesian product of complex unit balls. We also study the boundary behavior of an example of holomorphic isometric embedding from the Poincare disk into a Siegel upper half-plane by an explicit determination of the boundary behavior of holomorphic sectional curvatures in the directions tangent to the embedded Poincare disk, showing that the map is indeed asymptotically totally geodesic at a general boundary point and of the first kind. For the metric computation we make use of formulas for symplectic geometry on Siegel upper half-planes.     

POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR PARAMETRIC EQUIDIFFUSIVE p-LAPLACIAN EQUATIONS

We consider a parametric Dirichlet problem driven by the p-Laplacian with a Carath′eodory reaction of equidiffusive type. Our hypotheses incorporate as a special case the equidiffusive p-logistic equation. We show that if λ1 0 is the principal eigenvalue of the Dirichlet negative p-Laplacian and λ λ1(λ being the parameter), the problem has a unique positive solution, while for λ∈(0,λ1], the problem has no positive solution.     

Existence and Nonexistence of Weak Positive Solution for a Class of p-Laplacian Systems

In this work, we are interested to obtain some result of existence and nonex- istence of positive weak solution for the following p-Laplacian system
{-△piui=λifi（u1,^…,um）,inΩ, i=1,...,m, ui=0,
on δΩ,Vi=1,…,m,
where △piz = div（｜△z｜^pi-2△Z）, Pi ≥ 1,λi,1 ≤ i ≤ m are a positive parameter, and Ω is a bounded domain in IR^N with smooth boundary δΩ. The proof of the main results is based to the method of sub-supersolutions.     

A REACTIVE DYNAMIC CONTINUUM USER EQUILIBRIUM MODEL FOR BI-DIRECTIONAL PEDESTRIAN FLOWS

In this paper, a reactive dynamic user equilibrium model is extended to simulate two groups of pedestrians traveling on crossing paths in a continuous walking facility. Each group makes path choices to minimize the travel cost to its destination in a reactive manner based on instantaneous information. The model consists of a conservation law equation coupled with an Eikonal-type equation for each group. The velocity-density relationship of pedestrian movement is obtained via an experimental method. The model is solved using a finite volume method for the conservation law equation and a fast-marching method for the Eikonal-type equation on unstructured grids. The numerical results verify the rationality of the model and the validity of the numerical method. Based on this continuum model, a number of results, e.g., the formation of strips or moving clusters composed of pedestrians walking to the same destination, are also observed.     

ON THE SINGULARITY OF LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATOR FOR MEAN-REVERTING α-STABLE MOTIONS

We study the problem of parameter estimation for mean-reverting α-stable motion, dXt = （a0 - θ0Xt）dt ＋ dZt, observed at discrete time instants. A least squares estimator is obtained and its asymptotics is discussed in the singular case （a0, θ0） = （0, 0）. If a0 = 0, then the mean-reverting α-stable motion becomes Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and is studied in [7] in the ergodic case θ0 〉 0. For the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, asymptotics of the least squares estimators for the singular case （θ0 = 0） and for ergodic case （θ0 〉 0） are completely different.     

SYMMETRY OF TRANSLATING SOLUTIONS TO MEAN CURVATURE FLOWS

First, we review the authors’ recent results on translating solutions to mean curvature flows in Euclidean space as well as in Minkowski space, emphasizing on the asymptotic expansion of rotationally symmetric solutions. Then we study the sufficient condition for which the translating solution is rotationally symmetric. We will use a moving plane method to show that this condition is optimal for the symmetry of solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic equations without ground state condition.