Existence of semiclassical states for a quasilinear Schrödinger equation with critical exponent in {\mathbb{R}^N}

We consider the following perturbed version of quasilinear Schrödinger equation $$\begin{array}{lll}-\varepsilon^2\Delta u +V(x)u-\varepsilon^2\Delta (u^2)u=h(x,u)u+K(x)|u|^{22^*-2}u\end{array}$$ in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ , where N ≥ 3, 22* = 4N/(N ? 2), V(x) is a nonnegative potential, and K(x) is a bounded positive function. Using minimax methods, we show that this equation has at least one positive solution provided that ${\varepsilon \leq \mathcal{E}}$ ; for any ${m\in\mathbb{N}}$ , it has m pairs of solutions if ${\varepsilon \leq \mathcal{E}_m}$ , where ${\mathcal{E}}$ and ${\mathcal{E}_m}$ are sufficiently small positive numbers. Moreover, these solutions ${u_\varepsilon \to 0}$ in ${H^1(\mathbb{R}^N)}$ as ${\varepsilon \to 0}$ .     

1D Schrödinger Operators with Short Range Interactions: Two-Scale Regularization of Distributional Potentials

For real ${L_\infty(\mathbb{R})}$ -functions ${\Phi}$ and ${\Psi}$ of compact support, we prove the norm resolvent convergence, as ${\varepsilon}$ and ${\nu}$ tend to 0, of a family ${S_{\varepsilon \nu}}$ of one-dimensional Schrödinger operators on the line of the form $$S_{\varepsilon \nu} = -\frac{d^2}{dx^2} + \frac{\alpha}{\varepsilon^2} \Phi \left( \frac{x}{\varepsilon} \right) + \frac{\beta}{\nu} \Psi \left(\frac{x}{\nu} \right),$$ provided the ratio ${\nu/\varepsilon}$ has a finite or infinite limit. The limit operator S ₀ depends on the shape of ${\Phi}$ and ${\Psi}$ as well as on the limit of ratio ${\nu/\varepsilon}$ . If the potential ${\alpha\Phi}$ possesses a zero-energy resonance, then S ₀ describes a non trivial point interaction at the origin. Otherwise S ₀ is the direct sum of the Dirichlet half-line Schrödinger operators.     

Profile of the least energy solution of a singular perturbed Neumann problem with mixed powers

We consider the problem ${\varepsilon^{2}\Delta u - u^q + u^p = 0\,{\rm in}\,\Omega,\,u > 0\,{\rm in}\,\Omega,\,\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} = 0\,{\rm on}\,\partial\Omega }$ where Ω is a smooth bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ , ${1 < q < p < {N+2\over N-2}}$ if N ≥ 2 and ${\varepsilon}$ is a small positive parameter. We determine the location and shape of the least energy solution when ${\varepsilon \rightarrow 0.}$      

Interface foliation for an inhomogeneous Allen–Cahn equation in Riemannian manifolds

Let ${(\mathcal{M}, \tilde{g})}$ be an N-dimensional smooth compact Riemannian manifold. We consider the problem ${\varepsilon^2 \triangle_{\tilde{g}} \tilde{u} + V(\tilde{z})\tilde{u}(1-\tilde{u}^2)=0\; {\rm in}\; \mathcal{M}}$ , where ${\varepsilon > 0}$ is a small parameter and V is a positive, smooth function in ${\mathcal{M}}$ . Let ${\kappa \subset \mathcal{M}}$ be an (N ? 1)-dimensional smooth submanifold that divides ${\mathcal{M}}$ into two disjoint components ${\mathcal{M}_{\pm}}$ . We assume κ is stationary and non-degenerate relative to the weighted area functional ${\int_{\kappa}V^{\frac{1}{2}}}$ . For each integer m ≥ 2, we prove the existence of a sequence ${\varepsilon = \varepsilon_\ell \rightarrow 0}$ , and two opposite directional solutions with m-transition layers near κ, whose mutual distance is ${{\rm O}(\varepsilon | \log \varepsilon | )}$ . Moreover, the interaction between neighboring layers is governed by a type of Jacobi–Toda system.     

Changing-sign bubble solutions for an anisotropic sinh-Poisson equation

We consider the following anisotropic sinh-Poisson equation $${\rm div} (a(x) \nabla u)+ 2\varepsilon^2 a(x) {\rm sinh}\,u=0\ \ {\rm in}\ \Omega, \quad u=0 \ \ {\rm on}\ \partial \Omega,$$ where ${\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2}$ is a bounded smooth domain and a(x) is a positive smooth function. We investigate the effect of anisotropic coefficient ${a(x)}$ on the existence of bubbling solutions. We show that there exists a family of solutions u _?? concentrating positively and negatively at ${\bar{x}}$ , a given local critical point of a(x), for ?? sufficiently small, for which with the property $$2\varepsilon^2a(x){\rm sinh} u_\varepsilon \rightharpoonup 8\pi\sum\limits_{j=1}^{m}b_j\delta_{\bar{x}},$$ where ${b_j=\pm 1}$ . This result shows a striking difference with the isotropic case (a(x) ?? Constant) in Bartolucci and Pistoia (IMA J Appl Math 72(6):706?C729, 2007), Jost et?al. (Calc Var Partial Differ Equ 31:263?C276, 2008) and Esposito and Wei (Calc Var Partial Differ Equ 34:341?C375, 2009).     

Continuity of solutions of a problem in the calculus of variations

We study the problem of minimizing ${\int_{\Omega} L(x,u(x),Du(x))\,{\rm d}x}$ over the functions ${u\in W^{1,p}(\Omega)}$ that assume given boundary values ${\phi}$ on ???. We assume that L(x, u, Du)?=?F(Du)?+?G(x, u) and that F is convex. We prove that if ${\phi}$ is continuous and ?? is convex, then any minimum u is continuous on the closure of ??. When ?? is not convex, the result holds true if F(Du)?=?f(|Du|). Moreover, if ${\phi}$ is Lipschitz continuous, then u is H?lder continuous.     

Convergence rate of the Allen-Cahn equation to generalized motion by mean curvature

We investigate the singular limit, as ${\varepsilon \to 0}$ , of the Allen-Cahn equation ${u^\varepsilon_t=\Delta u^\varepsilon+\varepsilon^{-2}f(u^\varepsilon)}$ , with f a balanced bistable nonlinearity. We consider rather general initial data u ₀ that is independent of ${{\varepsilon}}$ . It is known that this equation converges to the generalized motion by mean curvature ?? in the sense of viscosity solutions??defined by Evans, Spruck and Chen, Giga, Goto. However, the convergence rate has not been known. We prove that the transition layers of the solutions ${u^{\varepsilon}}$ are sandwiched between two sharp ??interfaces?? moving by mean curvature, provided that these ??interfaces?? sandwich at t?=?0 an ${\mathcal O({\varepsilon}|\,{\rm ln}\,{\varepsilon}|)}$ neighborhood of the initial layer. In some special cases, which allow both extinction and pinches off phenomenon, this enables to obtain an ${\mathcal O({\varepsilon}|\,{\rm ln}\,{\varepsilon}|)}$ estimate of the location and the thickness measured in space-time of the transition layers. A result on the regularity of the generalized motion by mean curvature is also provided in the Appendix.     

Singular limits solution for two-dimensional elliptic problems involving exponential nonlinearities with nonlinear gradient terms and singular weights

Given Ω bounded open regular set of ${\mathbb{R}^2}$ , ${q_1,\ldots, q_K \in \Omega}$ , ${\varrho : \Omega \longrightarrow [0,+\infty)}$ a regular bounded function and ${V: \Omega \longrightarrow [0,+\infty)}$ a bounded fuction. We give a sufficient condition for the model problem $$(P):\qquad-{\Delta}u -{\lambda}\varrho(x)|{\nabla}u|^2 = \varepsilon^{2}V(x)e^u$$ to have a positive weak solution in Ω with u = 0 on ?Ω, which is singular at each q _i as the parameters ${\varepsilon}$ and λ tend to 0, essentially when the set of concentration points q _i and the set of zeros of V are not necessarily disjoint.     

The universal Glivenko–Cantelli property

Let ${\mathcal{F}}$ be a separable uniformly bounded family of measurable functions on a standard measurable space ${(X, \mathcal{X})}$ , and let ${N_{[]}(\mathcal{F}, \varepsilon, \mu)}$ be the smallest number of ${\varepsilon}$ -brackets in L ¹(μ) needed to cover ${\mathcal{F}}$ . The following are equivalent:

1. ${\mathcal{F}}$ is a universal Glivenko–Cantelli class.
2. ${N_{[]}(\mathcal{F},\varepsilon,\mu) < \infty}$ for every ${\varepsilon > 0}$ and every probability measure μ.
3. ${\mathcal{F}}$ is totally bounded in L ¹(μ) for every probability measure μ.
4. ${\mathcal{F}}$ does not contain a Boolean σ-independent sequence.

It follows that universal Glivenko–Cantelli classes are uniformity classes for general sequences of almost surely convergent random measures.     

Sign-Changing Multi-Peak Solutions for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with Compactly Supported Potential

In this paper, we aim to prove the existence and concentration of sign-changing H ¹(? ^N ) solutions to the following nonlinear Schrödinger equations $$-\varepsilon^2\Delta u_{\varepsilon}+V(x)u_{\varepsilon}=K(x)|u_{\varepsilon}|^{p-1}u_{\varepsilon} $$ with N≥3, $1<p<\frac{N+2}{N-2}$ , and ε>0. When the potential function V(x) has compact support, $V(x)\not\equiv 0$ and V(x)≥0, K(x) is permitted to be unbounded under some necessary restrictions, we will show that one sign-changing H ¹(? ^N ) solution exists and exhibits concentration profile around local minimum points of the ground energy function $G(\xi)\equiv V^{\theta}(\xi) K^{-\frac{2}{p-1}}(\xi)$ with $\theta=\frac{p+1}{p-1}-\frac{N}{2}$ in the semiclassical limit ε→0.     

Real Clifford Algebras as Tensor Products over Centers

Denote by ${\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q}}$ the Clifford algebra on the real vector space ${\mathbb{R}^{p,q}}$ . This paper gives a unified tensor product expression of ${\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q}}$ by using the center of ${\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q}}$ . The main result states that for nonnegative integers p, q, ${\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q} \simeq \otimes^{\kappa-\delta}\mathcal{C}_{1,1} \otimes Cen(\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q}) \otimes^{\delta} \mathcal{C}\ell_{0,2},}$ where ${p + q \equiv \varepsilon}$ mod 2, ${\kappa = ((p + q) - \varepsilon)/2, p - |q - \varepsilon| \equiv i}$ mod 8 and ${\delta = \lfloor i / 4 \rfloor}$ .     

Stationary solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with fast-decay potentials concentrating around local maxima

We study positive bound states for the equation ${- \varepsilon^2 \Delta u + Vu = u^p, \quad {\rm in} \quad \mathbb{R}^N}$ , where ${\varepsilon > 0}$ is a real parameter, ${\frac{N}{N-2} < p < \frac{N+2}{N-2}}$ and V is a nonnegative potential. Using purely variational techniques, we find solutions which concentrate at local maxima of the potential V without any restriction on the potential.     

Dual fast projected gradient method for quadratic programming

The application of the fast gradient method to the dual quadratic programming (QP) problem leads to the dual fast projected gradient (DFPG) method. The DFPG converges with O(k ^?2) rate, where k > 0 is the number of steps. At each step, it requires O(nm) operations. Therefore for a given ${\varepsilon > 0}$ an ${\varepsilon}$ -approximation to the optimal dual function value one achieves in ${O(nm\varepsilon^{-\frac{1}{2}})}$ operations. We present numerical results which strongly corroborate the theory. In particular, we demonstrate high efficiency of the DFPG for large scale QP.     

On averages of Fourier coefficients of Maass cusp forms

Let φ be a primitive Maass cusp form and t _φ (n) be its nth Fourier coefficient at the cusp infinity. In this short note, we are interested in the estimation of the sums ${\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n)}$ and ${\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n^2)}$ . We are able to improve the previous results by showing that for any ${\varepsilon > 0}$ $$\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n) \ll\, _{\varphi, \varepsilon} x^{\frac{1027}{2827} + \varepsilon} \quad {and}\quad\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n^2) \ll\,_{\varphi, \varepsilon} x^{\frac{489}{861} + \varepsilon}.$$      

Singular perturbation method for inhomogeneous nonlinear free boundary problems

In this paper, we study solutions of one phase inhomogeneous singular perturbation problems of the type: $ F(D^2u,x)=\beta _{\varepsilon }(u) + f_{\varepsilon }(x) $ and $ \Delta _{p}u=\beta _{\varepsilon }(u) + f_{\varepsilon }(x)$ , where $\beta _{\varepsilon }$ approaches Dirac $\delta _{0}$ as $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$ and $f_{\varepsilon }$ has a uniform control in $L^{q}, q>N.$ Uniform local Lipschitz regularity is obtained for these solutions. The existence theory for variational (minimizers) and non variational (least supersolutions) solutions for these problems is developed. Uniform linear growth rate with respect to the distance from the $\varepsilon -$ level surfaces are established for these variational and nonvaritional solutions. Finally, letting $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$ basic properties such as local Lipschitz regularity and non-degeneracy property are proven for the limit and a Hausdorff measure estimate for its free boundary is obtained.     

On the boundary of the attainable set of the dirichlet spectrum

Denoting by ${\varepsilon\subseteq\mathbb{R}^2}$ the set of the pairs ${(\lambda_1(\Omega),\,\lambda_2(\Omega))}$ for all the open sets ${\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^N}$ with unit measure, and by ${\Theta\subseteq\mathbb{R}^N}$ the union of two disjoint balls of half measure, we give an elementary proof of the fact that ${\partial\varepsilon}$ has horizontal tangent at its lowest point ${(\lambda_1(\Theta),\,\lambda_2(\Theta))}$ .     

Nikodym Maximal Functions Associated with Variable Planes in {\mathbb{R}^{3}}

Given a vector field ${\mathfrak{a}}$ on ${\mathbb{R}^3}$ , we consider a mapping ${x\mapsto \Pi_{\mathfrak{a}}(x)}$ that assigns to each ${x\in\mathbb{R}^3}$ , a plane ${\Pi_{\mathfrak{a}}(x)}$ containing x, whose normal vector is ${\mathfrak{a}(x)}$ . Associated with this mapping, we define a maximal operator ${\mathcal{M}^{\mathfrak{a}}_N}$ on ${L^1_{loc}(\mathbb{R}^3)}$ for each ${N\gg 1}$ by $$\mathcal{M}^{\mathfrak{a}}_Nf(x)=\sup_{x\in\tau} \frac{1}{|\tau|} \int_{\tau}|f(y)|\,dy$$ where the supremum is taken over all 1/N ×? 1/N?× 1 tubes τ whose axis is embedded in the plane ${\Pi_\mathfrak{a}(x)}$ . We study the behavior of ${\mathcal{M}^{\mathfrak{a}}_N}$ according to various vector fields ${\mathfrak{a}}$ . In particular, we classify the operator norms of ${\mathcal{M}^{\mathfrak{a}}_N}$ on ${L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)}$ when ${\mathfrak{a}(x)}$ is the linear function of the form (a ₁₁ x ₁?+?a ₂₁ x ₂, a ₁₂ x ₁?+?a ₂₂ x ₂, 1). The operator norm of ${\mathcal{M}^\mathfrak{a}_N}$ on ${L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)}$ is related with the number given by $$D=(a_{12}+a_{21})^2-4a_{11}a_{22}.$$      

An approach to constrained global optimization based on exact penalty functions

In the field of global optimization many efforts have been devoted to solve unconstrained global optimization problems. The aim of this paper is to show that unconstrained global optimization methods can be used also for solving constrained optimization problems, by resorting to an exact penalty approach. In particular, we make use of a non-differentiable exact penalty function ${P_q(x;\varepsilon)}$ . We show that, under weak assumptions, there exists a threshold value ${\bar \varepsilon >0 }$ of the penalty parameter ${\varepsilon}$ such that, for any ${\varepsilon \in (0, \bar \varepsilon]}$ , any global minimizer of P _q is a global solution of the related constrained problem and conversely. On these bases, we describe an algorithm that, by combining an unconstrained global minimization technique for minimizing P _q for given values of the penalty parameter ${\varepsilon}$ and an automatic updating of ${\varepsilon}$ that occurs only a finite number of times, produces a sequence {x ^k } such that any limit point of the sequence is a global solution of the related constrained problem. In the algorithm any efficient unconstrained global minimization technique can be used. In particular, we adopt an improved version of the DIRECT algorithm. Some numerical experimentation confirms the effectiveness of the approach.