Global Jacobian and Γ-convergence in a two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau model for boundary vortices

In the theory of 2D Ginzburg-Landau vortices, the Jacobian plays a crucial role for the detection of topological singularities. We introduce a related distributional quantity, called the global Jacobian that can detect both interior and boundary vortices for a 2D map u. We point out several features of the global Jacobian, in particular, we prove an important stability property. This property allows us to study boundary vortices in a 2D Ginzburg-Landau model arising in thin ferromagnetic films, where a weak anchoring boundary energy penalising the normal component of u at the boundary competes with the usual bulk potential energy. We prove an asymptotic expansion by Γ-convergence at the second order for this mixed boundary/interior energy in a regime where boundary vortices are preferred. More precisely, at the first order of the limiting expansion, the energy is quantised and determined by the number of boundary vortices detected by the global Jacobian, while the second order term in the limiting energy expansion accounts for the interaction between the boundary vortices.     

Positive solution of singularly perturbed Dirichlet problem with singularities

A class of singularly perturbed boundary value problem with singularities is considered. Introducing the stretched variables, the boundary layer corrective terms near x = 0 and x = 1 are constructed. Under suitable conditions, by using the theory of differential inequalities the existence and asymptotic behavior of solution for boundary value problem are proved, uniformly valid asymptotic expansion of solution with boundary layers are obtained,     

Asymptotic expansions of the eigenvalues of a 2-D boundary-value problem relative to two cavities linked by a hole of small size

This Note presents the derivation of the 2nd-order asymptotic expansion of the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions of the operator associated to an interior elliptic equation supplemented by a Dirichlet boundary condition on a domain consisting of two cavities linked by a hole of small size. The asymptotic expansion is carried out with respect to the size of the hole. The main feature of the method is to yield a robust numerical procedure making it possible to compute the eigenvalues without resorting to a refined mesh around the hole. To cite this article: A. Bendali et al., C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 347 (2009).     

Asymptotic analysis of a volterra integral equation

A uniformly valid aymptotic solution is obtained for a class of perturbed Volterra integral equations, in which a naive expansion breaks down as t → ∞. The procedure used is an adaption of the formal methodology presented in [1] for the construction of a uniform asymptotic solution to Volterra equations which possess a boundary layer near t = 0.     

A method of asymptotic constructions with improved accuracy for a quasilinear singularly perturbed parabolic convection-diffusion equation

The Dirichlet problem on an interval for quasilinear singularly perturbed parabolic convection-diffusion equation is considered. The higher order derivative of the equation is multiplied by a parameter ε that takes any values from the half-open interval (0, 1]. For this type of linear problems, the order of the ε-uniform convergence (with respect to x and t) for the well-known schemes is not higher than unity (in the maximum norm). For the boundary value problem under consideration, grid approximations are constructed that converge ε-uniformly at the rate of O(N ^?2ln² N + N ^?2 ₀), where N + 1 and N ₀ + 1 are the numbers of the mesh points with respect to x and t, respectively. On the x axis, piecewise uniform meshes that condense in the boundary layer are used. If the parameter value is small compared to the effective step of the spatial grid, the domain decomposition method is used, which is motivated by “asymptotic constructions.” Monotone approximations of “auxiliary” subproblems describing the main terms of the asymptotic expansion of the solution outside a neighborhood of the boundary layer neighborhood are used. In the neighborhood of the boundary layer (of the width O(ε ln N)) the first derivative with respect to x is approximated by the central difference derivative. These subproblems are successively solved in the subdomains on uniform grids. If the parameter values are not sufficiently small (compared to the effective step of the mesh with respect to x), the classical implicit difference schemes approximating the first derivative with respect to x by the central difference derivative are applied. To improve the accuracy in t, the defect correction technique is used. Notice that the calculation of the solution of the constructed difference scheme (the scheme based on the method of asymptotic constructions) can be considerably simplified for sufficiently small values of the parameter ε.     

Asymptotic expansions of the ordered spectrum of symmetric matrices

In this work, we build on ideas of Torki (2001 [6]) and show that if a symmetric matrix-valued map t?A(t) has a one-sided asymptotic expansion at t=0⁺ of order K then so does t?λ_m(A(t)), where λ_m is the mth largest eigenvalue. We derive formulas for computing the coefficients A₀,A₁,…,A_K in the asymptotic expansion. As an application of the approach we give a new proof of a classical result due to Kato (1976 [3]) about the one-sided analyticity of the ordered spectrum under analytic perturbations. Finally, as a demonstration of the derived formulas, we compute the first three terms in the asymptotic expansion of λ_m(A+tE) for any fixed symmetric matrices A and E.     

A compactness result for perturbed semigroups and application to a transport model

In this paper we are concerned with the compactness properties of remainder terms of the Dyson-Phillips expansion of perturbed semigroups on general Banach spaces. More specifically, we derive conditions which ensure the compactness of the remainder term Rn(t) for some integer n. Our result applies directly to discuss the time asymptotic behaviour (for large times) of the solution of a one-dimensional transport equation with reentry boundary conditions on L¹-spaces without regularity conditions on the initial data.     

A singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion problem in a polygonal domain

The semilinear reaction-diffusion equation −ε²Δu+b(x,u)=0 with Dirichlet boundary conditions is considered in a convex polygonal domain. The singular perturbation parameter ε is arbitrarily small, and the “reduced equation” b(x,u₀(x))=0 may have multiple solutions. An asymptotic expansion for u is constructed that involves boundary and corner layer functions. By perturbing this asymptotic expansion, we obtain certain sub- and super-solutions and thus show the existence of a solution u that is close to the constructed asymptotic expansion. The polygonal boundary forces the study of the nonlinear autonomous elliptic equation −Δz+f(z)=0 posed in an infinite sector, and then well-posedness of the corresponding linearized problem.     

The inviscid limit of the incompressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations with the non-slip boundary condition

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior for the incompressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations with the non-slip boundary condition in a half space of ${\mathbb{R}^3}$ when the vertical viscosity goes to zero. Firstly, by multi-scale analysis, we formally deduce an asymptotic expansion of the solution to the problem with respect to the vertical viscosity, which shows that the boundary layer appears in the tangential velocity field and satisfies a nonlinear parabolic–elliptic coupled system. Also from the expansion, it is observed that away from the boundary the solution of the anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations formally converges to a solution of a degenerate incompressible Navier–Stokes equation. Secondly, we study the well-posedness of the problems for the boundary layer equations and then rigorously justify the asymptotic expansion by using the energy method. We obtain the convergence results of the vanishing vertical viscosity limit, that is, the solution to the incompressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations tends to the solution to degenerate incompressible Navier–Stokes equations away from the boundary, while near the boundary, it tends to the boundary layer profile, in both the energy space and the L ^∞ space.     

On the smallest eigenvalue of the Stokes operator in a domain with fine-grained random boundary

This article deals with a problem arising in localization of the principal eigenvalue (PE) of the Stokes operator under the Dirichlet condition on the fine-grained random boundary of a domain contained in a cube of size t ? 1. The random microstructure is assumed identically distributed in distinct unit cubic cells and, in essence, independent. In this setting, the asymptotic behavior of the PE as t → ∞ is deterministic: it proves possible to find nonrandom upper and lower bounds on the PE which apply with probability that converges to 1. It was proved earlier that in two dimensions the nonrandom unilateral bounds on the PE can be chosen asymptotically equivalent, which implies the convergence in probability to a nonrandom limit of the appropriately normalized PE. The present article extends this result to higher dimensions.     

两参数非线性反应扩散积分微分方程的内层激波渐近解

研究了一类两参数非线性反应扩散积分微分奇摄动问题.利用奇摄动方法,构造了问题的外部解、内部激波层、边界层及初始层校正项,由此得到了问题解的形式渐近展开式.最后利用积分微分方程的比较定理证明了该问题解的渐近展开式的一致有效性.     

Boundary displacement control at one end of a string in the presence of a nonlocal boundary condition of one of four types,and its optimization

In the present paper, we exhaustively solve the problem of boundary control by the displacement u(0, t) = µ(t) at the end x = 0 of the string in the presence of a model nonlocal boundary condition of one of four types relating the values of the displacement u(x, t) or its derivative u _x (x, t) at the boundary point x = l of the string to their values at some interior point \(\mathop x\limits^ \circ\).     

Semi-classical spectral estimates for Schrödinger operators at a critical level. Case of a degenerate maximum of the potential

We study the semi-classical trace formula at a critical energy level for a Schrödinger operator on Rn. We assume here that the potential has a totally degenerate critical point associated to a local maximum. The main result, which establishes the contribution of the associated equilibrium in the trace formula, is valid for all time in a compact subset of R and includes the singularity in t=0. For these new contributions the asymptotic expansion involves the logarithm of the parameter h. Depending on an explicit arithmetic condition on the dimension and the order of the critical point, this logarithmic contribution can appear in the leading term.     

Radiation condition and uniqueness for the outgoing elastic wave in a half-plane with free boundary

In this Note we deduce an explicit Sommerfeld-type radiation condition which is convenient to prove the uniqueness for the time-harmonic outgoing wave problem in an isotropic elastic half-plane with free boundary condition. The expression is obtained from a rigorous asymptotic analysis of the associated Green's function. The main difficulty is that the free boundary condition allows the propagation of a Rayleigh wave which cannot be neglected in the far field expansion. We also give the existence result for this problem. To cite this article: M. Durán et al., C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 347 (2009).     

Boundary behaviour for solutions of boundary blow-up problems in a borderline case

We investigate boundary blow-up solutions of the equation Δu=f(u) in a bounded domain Ω⊂RN under the condition that f(t) has a relatively slow growth as t goes to infinity. We show how the mean curvature of the boundary ∂Ω appears in the asymptotic expansion of the solution u(x) in terms of the distance of x from ∂Ω.     

关于边界层方法

本文指出传统的边界层方法(包括匹配法和Vi?ik—Lyusternik方法)的不足:不能作出边界层项的渐近展开式.提出多重尺度构造边界层项的方法,得到符合实情的结果.又与Levinson所用的方法比较,本方法能更简单地导出后一方法给出的边界层项的渐近展开式.又应用此方法研究现有的关于奇异摄动的某些成果,指出这些成果的局限性,并在一般情况下作出解的渐近展开式.     

Weighted stationary phase of higher orders

The subject matter of this paper is an integral with exponential oscillation of phase f(x) weighted by g(x) on a finite interval [α β]: When the phase f(x) has a single stationary point in (α β), an nth-order asymptotic expansion of this integral is proved for n ≥ 2: This asymptotic expansion sharpens the classical result for n = 1 by M. N. Huxley. A similar asymptotic expansion was proved by V. Blomer, R. Khan and M. Young under the assumptions that f(x) and g(x) are smooth and g(x) is compactly supported on R: In the present paper, however, these functions are only assumed to be continuously differentiable on [α β] 2n + 3 and 2n + 1 times, respectively. Because there are no requirements on the vanishing of g(x) and its derivatives at the endpoints α and β, the present asymptotic expansion contains explicit boundary terms in the main and error terms. The asymptotic expansion in this paper is thus applicable to a wider class of problems in analysis, analytic number theory, and other fields.     

一类非线性奇摄动Dirichlet边值问题的匹配解法

利用匹配渐近展开法,讨论一类形如εy″+(xn-k)(y′+ym)=0的非线性奇摄动方程的Dirichlet边值问题,并且通过对参数k的五种不同取值的分类探讨,得到了该问题必有左边界层、右边界层或内部层之一的结论(其中左、右边界层又各分为两种类型).进而给出该问题解的零次渐近展开式,推广并改进了已有的结果.     

On the trace of symmetric stable processes on Lipschitz domains

It is shown that the second term in the asymptotic expansion as t→0 of the trace of the semigroup of symmetric stable processes (fractional powers of the Laplacian) of order α, for any 0<α<2, in Lipschitz domains is given by the surface area of the boundary of the domain. This brings the asymptotics for the trace of stable processes in domains of Euclidean space on par with those of Brownian motion (the Laplacian), as far as boundary smoothness is concerned.     

Asymptotics of the Gurevich-Pitaevskii universal special solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation as |<Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis>| → ∞

A complete asymptotic expansion as x → ±∞ of the Gurevich-Pitaevskii universal special solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation u _t + u _xxx + u _ux = 0 is constructed and justified. The expansion is infinitely differentiable with respect to the variables t and x and, together with the asymptotic expansions of all its derivatives with respect to independent variables, is uniform on any compact interval of variation of the time t.