A Transmission Problem Involving a Parameter and a Weight

In the course of developing a spectral theory for non-selfadjoint elliptic boundary problems involving an indefinite weight function, there arises a transmission problem which has not hitherto been dealt with in a L_p setting. By educing our problem to one for ordinary differential equations with the aid of the Fourier transformation, we are able to resolve the transmission problem,that is to say, we are able to establish L_p estimates for its solutions which are supported in a neighbourhood of the origin, and this is p ecisely what is required for the furthe development of the spectral theory for the boundary problems cited above.     

Null Controllability of Three-dimensional Heat Equation in Singular Domains

We study in this paper a class of parabolic equations in singular domains. These equations are defined in a singular cylindrical domain whose cross-section contains one reentrant corner or one straight emerging crack. We assume that the diffusion coefficients are non-smooth in the normal direction. We will show some spectral inequality thanks to Carleman type estimates and the construction of a suitable weight function satisfying some properties. As in Benabdallah et al. (C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 344(6):357–362, 2007), we deduce the null-controllability of these equations with the help of the Lebeau-Robbiano method.     

Instability of solitons under flexure and twist of an elastic rod

We study the stability of planar soliton solutions of equations describing the dynamics of an infinite inextensible unshearable rod under three-dimensional spatial perturbations. As a result of linearization about the soliton solution, we obtain an inhomogeneous scalar equation. This equation leads to a generalized eigenvalue problem. To establish the instability, we must verify the existence of an unstable eigenvalue (an eigenvalue with a positive real part). The corresponding proof of the instability is done using a local construction of the Evans function depending only on the spectral parameter. This function is analytic in the right half of the complex plane and has at least one zero on the positive real axis coinciding with an unstable eigenvalue of the generalized spectral problem.     

Inverse problems for the boundary value problem with the interior nodal subsets

In this paper, inverse nodal problems for Sturm–Liouville equations with boundary conditions polynomially dependent on the spectral parameter were studied. The authors showed that some uniqueness theorems on the potential function hold by the Weyl function, respectively.     

Semi-classical behavior of the spectral function

We study the semi-classical behavior of the spectral function of the Schrödinger operator with short range potential. We prove that the spectral function is a semi-classical Fourier integral operator quantizing the forward and backward Hamiltonian flow relations of the system. Under a certain geometric condition we explicitly compute the phase in an oscillatory integral representation of the spectral function.

     

Spectral collocation and radial basis function methods for one-dimensional interface problems

Differential equations with singular sources or discontinuous coefficients yield non-smooth or even discontinuous solutions. This problem is known as the interface problem. High-order numerical solutions suffer from the Gibbs phenomenon in that the accuracy deteriorates if the discontinuity is not properly treated. In this work, we use the spectral and radial basis function methods and present a least squares collocation method to solve the interface problem for one-dimensional elliptic equations. The domain is decomposed into multiple sub-domains; in each sub-domain, the collocation solution is sought. The solution should satisfy more conditions than the given conditions associated with the differential equations, which makes the problem over-determined. To solve the over-determined system, the least squares method is adopted. For the spectral method, the weighted norm method with different scaling factors and the mixed formulation are used. For the radial basis function method, the weighted shape parameter method is presented. Numerical results show that the least squares collocation method provides an accurate solution with high efficacy and that better accuracy is obtained with the spectral method.     

On an A Priori Estimate for Solutions of an Elliptic Equation

In the investigation of the spectral theory of non-selfadjoint elliptic boundary value problems involving an indefinite weight function, there arises the problem of obtaining L^p a priori estimates for solutions about points of discontinuity of the weight function. Here we deal with this problem for the case where the weight function vanishes on a set of positive measure.     

Inverse Problems for Sturm–Liouville Equations with Boundary Conditions Linearly Dependent on the Spectral Parameter from Partial Information

In this paper, we study the inverse spectral problems for Sturm–Liouville equations with boundary conditions linearly dependent on the spectral parameter and show that the potential of such problem can be uniquely determined from partial information on the potential and parts of two spectra, or alternatively, from partial information on the potential and a subset of pairs of eigenvalues and the normalization constants of the corresponding eigenvalues.     

Stäckel transform of Lax equations

We construct a map between Lax equations for pairs of Liouville integrable Hamiltonian systems related by a multiparameter Stäckel transform. Using this map, we construct Lax representation for a wide class of separable systems by applying the multiparameter Stäckel transform to Lax equations of suitably chosen systems from a seed class. For a given separable system, we obtain in this way a set of nonequivalent Lax equations parameterized by an arbitrary function of the spectral parameter, as it is in the case of a related seed system.     

The Spectral Shift Function and the Friedel Sum Rule

We study the relationship between the spectral shift function and the excess charge in potential scattering theory. Although these quantities are closely related to each other, they have been often formulated in different settings so far. Here, we first give an alternative construction of the spectral shift function, and then we prove that the spectral shift function thus constructed yields the Friedel sum rule.     

On the spectral theory of singular indefinite Sturm-Liouville operators

We consider a singular Sturm-Liouville differential expression with an indefinite weight function and we show that the corresponding self-adjoint differential operator in a Krein space locally has the same spectral properties as a definitizable operator.     

与三阶特征值问题相联系的Hamiltonian系统

利用特征值问题的非线性化方法,讨论了与三阶特征值问题相联系的Hamiltonian系统,并根据Arnold定理与生成函数方法,证明其在Liouville意义下是完全可积的.然后,借助位势函数与特征函数之间的关系,给出发展方程族的对合解.     

Linear Stability of Viscous Roll Waves

The purpose of this paper is to study the linear stability of “viscous” roll waves. These are periodic continuous traveling waves solutions of viscous perturbations of inhomogeneous hyperbolic systems. We first study the scalar case for the Burgers equation and for an inhomogeneous hyperbolic equation. Then we analyze the stability of roll waves, solutions of the shallow water equations with a real viscosity. In both cases, we first analyze the Evans function and compute an asymptotic expansion in the low frequency regime. Under a strong spectral stability condition, we prove the linear stability of viscous roll waves, solutions of the Saint Venant equations, with pointwise estimates on the Green functions.     

Quasi‐Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Evolution Equations Associated with a 3 × 3 Matrix Spectral Problem

A hierarchy of new nonlinear evolution equations associated with a 3 × 3 matrix spectral problem with three potentials is proposed. With the aid of the characteristic polynomial of Lax matrix for the hierarchy, we introduce an algebraic curve of arithmetic genus m ? 1 , and discuss in detail the properties of the associated Baker–Akhiezer function and meromorphic function. On the basis of the theory of algebraic curves, we obtain the explicit theta function representations of the Baker–Akhiezer function, the meromorphic function, and, in particular, that of solutions for the entire hierarchy of nonlinear evolution equations.     

Inverse problems on star-type graphs: differential operators of different orders on different edges

We study inverse spectral problems for ordinary differential equations on compact star-type graphs when differential equations have different orders on different edges. As the main spectral characteristics we introduce and study the so-called Weyl-type matrices which are generalizations of the Weyl function (m-function) for the classical Sturm-Liouville operator. We provide a procedure for constructing the solution of the inverse problem and prove its uniqueness.     

Spectral DY-Type Projection Method for Nonlinear Monotone Systems of Equations

In this paper, we propose a spectral DY-type projection method for nonlinear monotone systems of equations, which is a reasonable combination of DY conjugate gradient method, the spectral gradient method and the projection technique. Without the differentiability assumption on the system of equations, we establish the global convergence of the proposed method, which does not rely on any merit function. Furthermore, this method is derivative-free and so is very suitable to solve large-scale nonlinear monotone systems. The preliminary numerical results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Weighted Energy Decay for 1D Klein–Gordon Equation

We obtain a dispersive long-time decay in weighted energy norms for solutions of the 1D Klein–Gordon equation with generic potential. The decay extends the results obtained by Jensen, Kato and Murata for the equations of Schrödinger's type by the spectral approach. For the proof we modify the approach to make it applicable to relativistic equations.     

Rigorous Justification of the Whitham Modulation Equations for the Generalized Korteweg–de Vries Equation

In this paper, we consider the spectral stability of spatially periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg–de Vries equation to long‐wavelength perturbations. Specifically, we extend the work of Bronski and Johnson by demonstrating that the homogenized system describing the mean behavior of a slow modulation (WKB) approximation of the solution correctly describes the linearized dispersion relation near zero frequency of the linearized equations about the background periodic wave. The latter has been shown by rigorous Evans function techniques to control the spectral stability near the origin, that is, stability to slow modulations of the underlying solution. In particular, through our derivation of the WKB approximation we generalize the modulation expansion of Whitham for the KdV to a more general class of equations which admit periodic waves with nonzero mean. As a consequence, we will show that, assuming a particular nondegeneracy condition, spectral stability near the origin is equivalent with the local well‐posedness of the Whitham system.     

Multiple solutions for a class of infinitely degenerate elliptic equations with a sign‐changing weight function

In this paper, we study the Dirichlet problem for a class of degenerate elliptic equations with a sign‐changing weight function. Under some conditions on the weight function, we obtain at least two nontrivial solutions by the method of Nehari manifold and the logarithmic Sobolev inequality.     

Asymptotic Representations for Root Vectors of Nonselfadjoint Operators and Pencils Generated by an Aircraft Wing Model in Subsonic Air Flow

This paper is the second in a series of several works devoted to the asymptotic and spectral analysis of an aircraft wing in a subsonic air flow. This model has been developed in the Flight Systems Research Center of UCLA and is presented in the works by A. V. Balakrishnan. The model is governed by a system of two coupled integrodifferential equations and a two parameter family of boundary conditions modeling the action of the self-straining actuators. The differential parts of the above equations form a coupled linear hyperbolic system; the integral parts are of the convolution type. The system of equations of motion is equivalent to a single operator evolution-convolution equation in the energy space. The Laplace transform of the solution of this equation can be represented in terms of the so-called generalized resolvent operator, which is an operator-valued function of the spectral parameter. This generalized resolvent operator is a finite-meromorphic function on the complex plane having the branch cut along the negative real semi-axis. Its poles are precisely the aeroelastic modes and the residues at these poles are the projectors on the generalized eigenspaces. In the first paper and in the present one, our main object of interest is the dynamics generator of the differential parts of the system. It is a nonselfadjoint operator in the energy space with a purely discrete spectrum. In the first paper, we have shown that the spectrum consists of two branches and have derived their precise spectral asymptotics. In the present paper, we derive the asymptotical approximations for the mode shapes. Based on the asymptotical results of these first two papers, in the next paper, we will discuss the geometric properties of the mode shapes such as minimality, completeness, and the Riesz basis property in the energy space.