On the Palais–Smale condition

We present a new sufficient assumption weaker than the classical Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition which guarantees the boundedness of (PS) sequences. Moreover, we relax the standard subcritical polynomial growth condition ensuring the compactness of a bounded (PS) sequences. We also revise the Costa–Magalhaes condition [8] to obtain Cerami condition. As a consequence, some existence results derived by minimax methods were proved. Finally, we establish the existence of positive solution under the subcritical polynomial growth condition, while the strong superlinear condition is only required along an unbounded sequence. In other words, a certain degraded oscillation is allowed.     

Origin and evolution of the Palais–Smale condition in critical point theory

In 1963–64, Palais and Smale have introduced a compactness condition, namely condition (C), on real functions of class C ¹ defined on a Riemannian manifold modeled upon a Hilbert space, in order to extend Morse theory to this frame and study nonlinear partial differential equations. This condition and some of its variants have been essential in the development of critical point theory on Banach spaces or Banach manifolds, and are referred as Palais–Smale-type conditions. The paper describes their evolution.     

Palais–Smale sequences for the fractional CR Yamabe functional and multiplicity results

In this paper we consider the functional whose critical points are solutions of the fractional CR Yamabe type equation on the sphere. We firstly study the behaviour of the Palais–Smale sequences characterizing the bubbling phenomena and therefore we prove a multiplicity type result by showing the existence of infinitely many solutions to the related equation.     

Characterization of the Palais–Smale sequences for the conformal Dirac–Einstein problem and applications

In this paper we study the Palais–Smale sequences of the conformal Dirac–Einstein problem. After we characterize the bubbling phenomena, we prove an Aubin type result leading to the existence of a positive solution. Then we show the existence of infinitely many solutions to the problem provided that the underlying manifold exhibits certain symmetries.     

Poincaré inequality and Palais–Smale condition for the <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian

An improved Poincaré inequality and validity of the Palais-Smale condition are investigated for the energy functional on , 1 < p < ∞, where Ω is a bounded domain in , is a spectral (control) parameter, and is a given function, in Ω. Analysis is focused on the case λ = λ₁, where −λ₁ is the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet p-Laplacian Δ _p on , λ₁ > 0, and on the “quadratization” of within an arbitrarily small cone in around the axis spanned by , where stands for the first eigenfunction of Δ _p associated with −λ₁.     

Global attractor for the Cahn–Hilliard/Allen–Cahn system

We study the coupled Cahn–Hilliard/Allen–Cahn problem with constraints, which describes the isothermal diffusion-driven phase transition phenomena in binary systems. Our aim is to show the existence–uniqueness result and to construct the global attractor for the related dynamical system.     

Global existence of strong solution for the Cucker–Smale–Navier–Stokes system

We present a global existence theory for strong solution to the Cucker–Smale–Navier–Stokes system in a periodic domain, when initial data is sufficiently small. To model interactions between flocking particles and an incompressible viscous fluid, we couple the kinetic Cucker–Smale model and the incompressible Navier–Stokes system using a drag force mechanism that is responsible for the global flocking between particles and fluids. We also revisit the emergence of time-asymptotic flocking via new functionals measuring local variances of particles and fluid around their local averages and the distance between local averages velocities. We show that the particle and fluid velocities are asymptotically aligned to the common velocity, when the viscosity of the incompressible fluid is sufficiently large compared to the sup-norm of the particles' local mass density.     

Lyapunov dimension formula for the attractor of the Glukhovsky–Dolzhansky system

Exact formulas for the Lyapunov dimension of attractors of the generalized Lorenz system and the Glukhovsky–Dolzhansky system are obtained.     

Local bifurcations and a global attractor for two versions of the weakly dissipative Ginzburg–Landau equation

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics - We consider the periodic boundary value problem for two variants of a weakly dissipative complex Ginzburg–Landau equation. In the first case, we study a...     

The attractor of a parabolic–elliptic system

Following Coclite, Holden and Karlsen [G.M. Coclite, H. Holden and K.H. Karlsen, Well-posedness for a parabolic-elliptic system, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 13 (3) (2005) 659–682] and Tian and Fan [Lixin Tian, Jinling Fan, The attractor on viscosity Degasperis-Procesi equation, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 2007], we study the dynamical behaviors of the parabolic–elliptic system

_ut+_(f(t,x,u))x+g(t,x,u)+_Px−ε_uxx=0$u_t+{\left(f(t,x,u)\right)}_x+g(t,x,u)+P_x-\epsilon u_{xx}=0$

Analyticity of the global attractor for damped forced periodic Korteweg–de Vries equation

We consider here a weakly damped forced periodic KdV equation. We prove that if the forcing term is analytic in space, then the global attractor is also contained into a space of analytic functions. This result was conjectured in [23].     

An adaptive nonmonotone global Barzilai–Borwein gradient method for unconstrained optimization

The Barzilai–Borwein (BB) gradient method has received many studies due to its simplicity and numerical efficiency. By incorporating a nonmonotone line search, Raydan (SIAM J Optim. 1997;7:26–33) has successfully extended the BB gradient method for solving general unconstrained optimization problems so that it is competitive with conjugate gradient methods. However, the numerical results reported by Raydan are poor for very ill-conditioned problems because the effect of the degree of nonmonotonicity may be noticeable. In this paper, we focus more on the nonmonotone line search technique used in the global Barzilai–Borwein (GBB) gradient method. We improve the performance of the GBB gradient method by proposing an adaptive nonmonotone line search based on the morphology of the objective function. We also prove the global convergence and the R-linear convergence rate of the proposed method under reasonable assumptions. Finally, we give some numerical experiments made on a set of unconstrained optimization test problems of the CUTEr collection. The results show the efficiency of the proposed method in the sense of the performance profile introduced (Math Program. 2002;91:201–213) by Dolan and Moré.     

Wave breaking and global existence for the generalized periodic two-component Hunter–Saxton system

In this paper, we study the wave-breaking phenomena and global existence for the generalized two-component Hunter–Saxton system in the periodic setting. We first establish local well-posedness for the generalized two-component Hunter–Saxton system. We obtain a wave-breaking criterion for solutions and results of wave-breaking solutions with certain initial profiles. We also determine the exact blow-up rate of strong solutions. Finally, we give a sufficient condition for global solutions.     

The global existence and asymptotic stability of solutions for a reaction–diffusion system

This paper studies the solutions of a reaction–diffusion system with nonlinearities that generalize the Lengyel–Epstein and FitzHugh–Nagumo nonlinearities. Sufficient conditions are derived for the global asymptotic stability of the solutions. Furthermore, we present some numerical examples.