Solitary waves in Abelian Gauge Theories with strongly nonlinear potentials

We study the existence of radially symmetric solitary waves for a system of a nonlinear Klein–Gordon equation coupled with Maxwell's equation in presence of a positive mass. The nonlinear potential appearing in the system is assumed to be positive and with more than quadratical growth at infinity.     

Existence and regularity for generalised harmonic maps associated to a nonlocal polyconvex energy of Skyrme type

We prove existence and regularity of critical points of arbitrary degree for a generalised harmonic map problem, in which there is an additional nonlocal polyconvex term in the energy, heuristically of the same order as the Dirichlet term. The proof of regularity hinges upon a special nonlinear structure in the Euler–Lagrange equation similar to that possessed by the harmonic map equation. The functional is of a type appearing in certain models of the quantum Hall effect describing nonlocal Skyrmions.     

Existence of Solutions to a Semilinear Elliptic System through Orlicz-Sobolev Spaces

Using Orlicz-Sobolev spaces and a variant of the Mountain-Pass Lemma of Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz we obtain existence of a (positive) solution to a semilinear system of elliptic equations. The admissible nonlinearities are such that the system is superlinear and subcritical. The Orlicz setting used here allows us to consider nonlinearities which are not (asymptotically) pure powers. Moreover, by an interpolation theorem of Boyd we find an elliptic regularity result in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. A bootstrapping argument implies that the above mentioned solutions are classical.     

On the Chern–Simons–Higgs vortex equation without gauge fields

This paper is concerned with the nonself-dual Chern–Simons–Higgs model on R²${\mathbb{R}}^2$ with vanishing gauge fields. We prove the existence of radial solutions with the topological boundary condition, and the nonexistence of radial solutions with the nontopological boundary condition. We also establish the asymptotic properties of solutions and derive the quantization of the potential energy.     

Multiplicity of solutions for gradient systems with strong resonance at higher eigenvalues

In this paper we establish existence and multiplicity of solutions for an elliptic system which has strong resonance at higher eigenvalues. We describe the resonance using an eigenvalue problem with indefinite weights. In all results we use Variational Methods and the Morse theory.     

Twisted Yangians and Mickelsson algebras I

We introduce an analogue of the composition of the Cherednik and Drinfeld functors for twisted Yangians. Our definition is based on the Howe duality, and originates from the centralizer construction of twisted Yangians due to Olshanski. Using our functor, we establish a correspondence between intertwining operators on the tensor products of certain modules over twisted Yangians, and the extremal cocycle on the hyperoctahedral group.     

An analogue of the classical Yang-Baxter equation for general algebraic structures

In this paper, we introduce an analogue of the classical Yang-Baxter equation for general algebraic structures (including nonassociative algebras and vertex operator algebras). Moreover, we give several ways to construct solutions of the equation in case the algebraic structure is graded by an abelian group. In particular, we construct some unitary nondegenerate trignometric solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation for affine Lie algebras by means of our equation.This paper was written while the author was a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, U.S.A.     

The existence and asymptotics of solutions for the Abelian Chern–Simons system with two Higgs fields and two gauge fields

In this paper, we study a system of elliptic equations in R² which arises from the self-dual equations for the Abelian Chern–Simons system with two Higgs fields and two gauge fields. We provide a new proof for the existence of topological solutions by constructing explicit supersolutions and subsolutions. We also study the asymptotic behavior of condensate solutions on the torus. It is shown that the maximal solutions converge uniformly to zero away from the vortex points, and the convergence rate is computed.     

The radiation condition at infinity for the high-frequency Helmholtz equation with source term: a wave-packet approach

We consider the high-frequency Helmholtz equation with a given source term, and a small absorption parameter α>0. The high-frequency (or: semi-classical) parameter is ?>0. We let ? and α go to zero simultaneously. We assume that the zero energy is non-trapping for the underlying classical flow. We also assume that the classical trajectories starting from the origin satisfy a transversality condition, a generic assumption.Under these assumptions, we prove that the solution u^? radiates in the outgoing direction, uniformly in ?. In particular, the function u^?, when conveniently rescaled at the scale ? close to the origin, is shown to converge towards the outgoing solution of the Helmholtz equation, with coefficients frozen at the origin. This provides a uniform version (in ?) of the limiting absorption principle.Writing the resolvent of the Helmholtz equation as the integral in time of the associated semi-classical Schrödinger propagator, our analysis relies on the following tools: (i) for very large times, we prove and use a uniform version of the Egorov Theorem to estimate the time integral; (ii) for moderate times, we prove a uniform dispersive estimate that relies on a wave-packet approach, together with the above-mentioned transversality condition; (iii) for small times, we prove that the semi-classical Schrödinger operator with variable coefficients has the same dispersive properties as in the constant coefficients case, uniformly in ?.     

Existence of critical points in a general setting

The paper proves the existence of critical points for a general locally Lipschitz functional usually arising in nonlinear elliptic problems. It extends and unifies various results in the critical point theory. The applications treat new situations involving discontinuous elliptic equations containing both sublinear and superlinear terms, integro-differential equations and nonlinear elliptic systems.     

The limiting theorems for a random walk of two particles on the lattice ℤν

It is shown that the difference between the probability distributions of the particles positions at time t as t for homogeneous and inhomogeneous random walk of two particles on the lattice Z ³ has an order (>0 is a constant), if the distance |z| between the particles is large enough. As a consequence the integral limit theorem was proved in this case.partially supported by Russian Fund of Fundamental Research 93-011-1470.     

Existence and uniqueness for P-area minimizers in the Heisenberg group

In [3] we studied p-mean curvature and the associated p-minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group from the viewpoint of PDE and differential geometry. In this paper, we look into the problem through the variational formulation. We study a generalized p-area and associated ( p-) minimizers in general dimensions. We prove the existence and investigate the uniqueness of minimizers. Since this is reduced to solving a degenerate elliptic equation, we need to consider the effect of the singular set and this requires a careful study. We define the notion of weak solution and prove that in a certain Sobolev space, a weak solution is a minimizer and vice versa. We also give many interesting examples in dimension 2. An intriguing point is that, in dimension 2, a C ²-smooth solution from the PDE viewpoint may not be a minimizer. However, this statement is true for higher dimensions due to the relative smallness of the size of the singular set.     

Abelian groups with a vanishing homology group

An abelian group A is called absolutely abelian, if in every central extension N ? G ? A the group G is also abelian. The abelian group A is absolutely abelian precisely when the Schur multiplicator H₂A vanished. These groups, and more generally groups with H_nA = 0 for some n, are characterized by elementary internal properties. (Here H₁A denotes the integral homology of A.) The cases of even n and odd n behave strikingly different. There are 2^?ο different isomorphism types of abelian groups A with reduced torsion subgroup satisfying H_2nA = 0. The major tools are direct limit arguments and the Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre (L-H-S) spectral sequence, but the treatment of absolutely abelian groups does not use spectral sequences. All differentials d^r for r ≥ 2 in the L-H-S spectral sequence of a pure abelian extension vanish. Included is a proof of the folklore theorem, that homology of groups commutes with direct limits also in the group variable, and a discussion of the L-H-S spectral sequence for direct limits.     

On the blow-up set of the Yang–Mills flow on Kähler surfaces

The Yang–Mills flow on a Kähler surface with holomorphic initial data converges smoothly away from a singular set determined by the Harder–Narasimhan– Seshadri filtration of the initial holomorphic bundle.     

Semiclassical limit of the lowest eigenvalue of a Schrödinger operator on a Wiener space

We study a semiclassical limit of the lowest eigenvalue of a Schrödinger operator on a Wiener space. Key results are semiboundedness theorem of the Schrödinger operator, Laplace-type asymptotic formula and IMS localization formula. We also make a remark on the semiclassical problem of a Schrödinger operator on a path space over a Riemannian manifold.     

Existence of infinitely many large solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger-Maxwell equations

In this paper, we study the nonlinear stationary Schrödinger-Maxwell equations

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