Self-adjointness of a generalized Camassa-Holm equation

It is well known that the Camassa-Holm equation possesses numerous remarkable properties characteristic for KdV type equations. In this paper we show that it shares one more property with the KdV equation. Namely, it is shown in [1] and [2] that the KdV and the modified KdV equations are self-adjoint. Starting from the generalization [3] of the Camassa-Holm equation [4], we prove that the Camassa-Holm equation is self-adjoint. This property is important, e.g. for constructing conservation laws associated with symmetries of the equation in question. Accordingly, we construct conservation laws for the generalized Camassa-Holm equation using its symmetries.     

Wave energy decay under fractional derivative controls

^** Present address: Division of Mathematics and Sciences, Rust College, 150 Rust Avenue, Holly Springs, MS 38635, USA In this article, we investigate the asymptotic behaviour ofsolutions of the 1D wave equation with a boundary viscoelasticdamper of the fractional derivative type. We show that the systemis well-posed in the sense of semigroup. We also prove thatthe associated semigroup is not exponentially stable, but onlystrongly asymptotically so. Finally, we establish the followingresult. Provided that the initial states of the system are chosensufficiently smooth and the relaxation function of the viscoelasticdamper is exponentially decreasing, then solutions of the systemwill decay, as time goes to infinity, as [graphic: see PDF] A > 0.     

动态边界条件下一类阻尼波动方程解的研究

本文研究了一类动态边界条件下阻尼波动方程解的问题.利用位势井理论,通过构造稳定集和不稳定集,并结合能量分析的方法,获得了如下结果.首先,当初值属于稳定集时该问题存在整体解,且E(0)相似文献   

Boundary Stabilization of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation and the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers Equation

In this article, we continue our study of a system described by a class of initial boundary value problem (IBVP) of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and the KdV Burgers (KdVB) equation posed on a finite interval with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. While the system is known to be locally well-posed (Kramer et al. , [2010]; Rivas et al. in Math. Control Relat. Fields 1:61–81, [2011]) and its small amplitude solutions are known to exist globally, it is not clear whether its large amplitude solutions would blow up in finite time or not. This problem is addressed in this article from control theory point of view: look for some appropriate feedback control laws (with boundary value functions as control inputs) to ensure that the finite time blow-up phenomena would never occur. In this article, a simple, but nonlinear, feedback control law is proposed and the resulting closed-loop system is shown not only to be globally well-posed, but also to be locally exponentially stable for the KdV equation and globally exponentially stable for the KdVB equation.     

Differential operator related to the generalized superradiance integral equation

In this paper we consider a class of problems which are generalized versions of the three-dimensional superradiance integral equation. A commuting differential operator will be found for this generalized problem. For the three-dimensional superradiance problem an alternative set of complete eigenfunctions will also be provided. The kernel for the superradiance problem when restricted to one-dimension is the same as appeared in the works of Slepian, Landau and Pollak (cf. Slepian and Pollak (1961) [1], Landau and Pollak (1961, 1962) [2] and [3], Slepian (1964, 1978) [4] and [5]). The uniqueness of the differential operator commuting with that kernel is indicated.     

Monotonic positive solution of a nonlinear quadratic functional integral equation

The existence of positive monotonic solutions, in the class of continuous functions, for some nonlinear quadratic integral equation have been studied in [4], [5], [6], [7] and [8]. Here we are concerning with a nonlinear quadratic integral equation of Volterra type and we shall prove the existence of at least one L₁-positive monotonic solution for that equation under Carathèodory condition.     

A unified approach via convexity for optimal energy decay rates of finite and infinite dimensional vibrating damped systems with applications to semi-discretized vibrating damped systems

The Liapunov method is celebrated for its strength to establish strong decay of solutions of damped equations. Extensions to infinite dimensional settings have been studied by several authors (see e.g. Haraux, 1991 [11], and Komornik and Zuazua, 1990 [17] and references therein). Results on optimal energy decay rates under general conditions of the feedback is far from being complete. The purpose of this paper is to show that general dissipative vibrating systems have structural properties due to dissipation. We present a general approach based on convexity arguments to establish sharp optimal or quasi-optimal upper energy decay rates for these systems, and on comparison principles based on the dissipation property, and interpolation inequalities (in the infinite dimensional case) for lower bounds of the energy. We stress the fact that this method works for finite as well as infinite dimensional vibrating systems and as well as for applications to semi-discretized nonlinear damped vibrating PDE's. A part of this approach has been introduced in Alabau-Boussouira (2004, 2005) [1] and [2]. In the present paper, we identify a new, simple and explicit criteria to select a class of nonlinear feedbacks, for which we prove a simplified explicit energy decay formula comparatively to the more general but also more complex formula we give in Alabau-Boussouira (2004, 2005) [1] and [2]. Moreover, we prove optimality of the decay rates for this class, in the finite dimensional case. This class includes a wide range of feedbacks, ranging from very weak nonlinear dissipation (exponentially decaying in a neighborhood of zero), to polynomial, or polynomial-logarithmic decaying feedbacks at the origin. In the infinite dimensional case, we establish a comparison principle on the energy of sufficiently smooth solutions through the dissipation relation. This principle relies on suitable interpolation inequalities. It allows us to give lower bounds for the energy of smooth initial data for the one-dimensional wave equation with a distributed polynomial damping, which improves Haraux (1995) [12] lower estimate of the energy for this case. We also establish lower bounds in the multi-dimensional case for sufficiently smooth solutions when such solutions exist. We further mention applications of these various results to several classes of PDE's, namely: the locally and boundary damped multi-dimensional wave equation, the locally damped plate equation and the globally damped coupled Timoshenko beams system but it applies to several other examples. Furthermore, we show that these optimal energy decay results apply to finite dimensional systems obtained from spatial discretization of infinite dimensional damped systems. We illustrate these results on the one-dimensional locally damped wave and plate equations discretized by finite differences and give the optimal energy decay rates for these two examples. These optimal rates are not uniform with respect to the discretization parameter. We also discuss and explain why optimality results have to be stated differently for feedbacks close to linear behavior at the origin.     

Unbounded critical points for a class of lower semicontinuous functionals

For a general class of lower semicontinuous functionals, we prove existence and multiplicity of critical points, which turn out to be unbounded solutions to the associated Euler equation. We apply a nonsmooth critical point theory developed in [10], [12] and [13] and applied in [8], [9] and [20] to treat the case of continuous functionals.     

On some nonlinear evolution equations with the strong dissipation,II

In this paper we continue the existence theories of classical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations with the strong dissipation studied in a previous paper [5]. In particular, we give sufficient conditions under which some of the equations have global solutions and at the same time we find steady state solutions of these equations which are exponentially stable as t → ∞. In the application, we improve the existence results to the equations which describe a local statement of balance of momentum for materials for which the stress is related to strain and strain rate through some constitutive equation (cf. Greenberg et al. [6], Greenberg [7], Davis [2], Clements [1], etc.).     

Exponential decay for the eigenfunctions of the two body relativistic hamiltonian

An exponential decay result for the solutionsu of the equation is proved under the hypotheses thatV converges to zero at infinity andf decays exponentially. This ensures that the eigenfunctions of the two body relativistic spinless Hamiltonian decay exponentially: this result parallels the well-known one valid in the non-relativistic case. Partially supported by M.P.I., fondi 40%, titolare Prof. L. Cattabriga.