Integral representations of harmonic functions in half spaces

In this paper, using a modified Poisson kernel in an upper half-space, we prove that a harmonic function u(z) in a upper half space with its positive part u⁺(x)=max{u(x),0} satisfying a slowly growing condition can be represented by its integral in the boundary of the upper half space, the integral representation is unique up to the addition of a harmonic polynomial, vanishing in the boundary of the upper half space and that its negative part u⁻(x)=max{−u(x),0} can be dominated by a similar slowly growing condition, this improves some classical result about harmonic functions in the upper half space.     

L p solvability of divergence type parabolic and elliptic systems with partially BMO coefficients

We prove the ${{\mathcal{H}}^{1}_{p,q}}$ solvability of second order systems in divergence form with leading coefficients A ^???? only measurable in (t, x ¹) and having small BMO (bounded mean oscillation) semi-norms in the other variables. In addition, we assume one of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) A ¹¹ is measurable in t and has a small BMO semi-norm in the other variables; (ii) A ¹¹ is measurable in x ¹ and has a small BMO semi-norm in the other variables. The corresponding results for the Cauchy problem and elliptic systems are also established. Some of our results are new even for scalar equations. Using the results for systems in the whole space, we obtain the solvability of systems on a half space and Lipschitz domain with either the Dirichlet boundary condition or the conormal derivative boundary condition.     

On an integral equation approach for the exterior Robin problem for the Helmholtz equation

A boundary integral equation for the exterior Robin problem for Helmholtz's equation is analyzed in this paper. This integral operator is not compact. A proof based on a suitable regularization of this integral operator and the Fredholm alternative for the regularized compact operator was given by other authors. In this paper, we will give a direct existence and uniqueness proof for the boundary non-compact integral equation in the space settings C^1,λ(S) and C^0,λ(S), where S is a closed bounded smooth surface.     

On L 2 Solvability of BVPs for Elliptic Systems

In this article we prove solvability results for L ² boundary value problems of some elliptic systems Lu=0 on the upper half-space ${\mathbb{R}} ^{n+1}_{+}, n\ge1$ , with transversally independent coefficients. We use the first order formalism introduced by Auscher-Axelsson-McIntosh and further developed with a better understanding of the classes of solutions in the subsequent work of Auscher-Axelsson. The interesting fact is that we prove only half of the Rellich boundary inequality without knowing the other half.     

On the Stokes and Navier-Stokes System for Domains with Noncompact Boundary in Lq-spaces

We consider the L^q-theory of weak solutions of the Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations in two classes of unbounded domains with noncompact boundary, namely in perturbed half spaces which are obtained by a perturbation of the half space IRⁿ, and in aperture domains consisting of two disjoint half spaces separated by a wall but connected by a hole (aperture) through this wall. The proofs rest on the cut-off procedure and a new multiplier approach to the half space problem. In an aperture domain we additionally prescribe either the flux through the wall or the pressure drop at infinity to single out a unique solution. The nonlinear problem is solved for sufficiently small data and requires q =n/2, n ≥ 3, to estimate the nonlinearity.     

Boundary Layers Associated with Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations: The Noncharacteristic Boundary Case

The goal of this article is to study the boundary layer of wall bounded flows in a channel at small viscosity when the boundaries are uniformly noncharacteristic, i.e., there is injection and/or suction everywhere at the boundary. Following earlier work on the boundary layer for linearized Navier-Stokes equations in the case where the boundaries are characteristic (no-slip at the boundary and non-permeable), we consider here the case where the boundary is permeable and thus noncharacteristic. The form of the boundary layer and convergence results are derived in two cases: linearized equation and full nonlinear equations. We prove that there exists a boundary layer at the outlet (downwind) of the form e^−Uz/ε where U is the speed of injection/suction at the boundary, z is the distance to the outlet of the channel, and ε is the kinematic viscosity. We improve an earlier result of S. N. Alekseenko (1994, Siberian Math. J.35, No. 2, 209-230) where the convergence in L² of the solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations to that of the Euler equations at vanishing viscosity was established. In the two dimensional case we are able to derive the physically relevant uniform in space (L^∞ norm) estimates of the boundary layer. The uniform in space estimate is derived by properly developing our previous idea of better control on the tangential derivative and the use of an anisotropic Sobolev imbedding. To the best of our knowledge this is the first rigorously proved result concerning boundary layers for the full (nonlinear) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids.     

Zero products of Toeplitz operators with harmonic symbols

On the Bergman space of the unit ball in Cⁿ, we solve the zero-product problem for two Toeplitz operators with harmonic symbols that have continuous extensions to (some part of) the boundary. In the case where symbols have Lipschitz continuous extensions to the boundary, we solve the zero-product problem for multiple products with the number of factors depending on the dimension n of the underlying space; the number of factors is n+3. We also prove a local version of this result but with loss of a factor.     

Asymptotic expansion for harmonic functions in the half‐space with a pressurized cavity

In this paper, we address a simplified version of a problem arising from volcanology. Specifically, as a reduced form of the boundary value problem for the Lamé system, we consider a Neumann problem for harmonic functions in the half‐space with a cavity C. Zero normal derivative is assumed at the boundary of the half‐space; differently, at ?C, the normal derivative of the function is required to be given by an external datum g, corresponding to a pressure term exerted on the medium at ?C. Under the assumption that the (pressurized) cavity is small with respect to the distance from the boundary of the half‐space, we establish an asymptotic formula for the solution of the problem. Main ingredients are integral equation formulations of the harmonic solution of the Neumann problem and a spectral analysis of the integral operators involved in the problem. In the special case of a datum g, which describes a constant pressure at ?C, we recover a simplified representation based on a polarization tensor. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The inviscid limit for an inflow problem of compressible viscous gas in presence of both shocks and boundary layers

In this paper, we study the inviscid limit problem for the Navier-Stokes equations of one-dimensional compressible viscous gas on half plane. We prove that if the solution of the inviscid Euler system on half plane is piecewise smooth with a single shock satisfying the entropy condition, then there exist solutions to Navier-Stokes equations which converge to the inviscid solution away from the shock discontinuity and the boundary at an optimal rate of ε¹ as the viscosity ε tends to zero.     

Optimal weighted estimates of the flows in exterior domains

In this paper, we prove some decay properties of global solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations in an exterior domain Ω⊂Rⁿ, n=2,3.When a domain has a boundary, the pressure term is troublesome since we do not have enough information on the pressure near the boundary. To overcome this difficulty, by multiplying a special form of test functions, we obtain an integral equation. He-Xin (2000) [12] first introduced this method and then Bae-Jin (2006, 2007) [1] and [13] modified their method to obtain better decay rates. Also, Bae-Roh (2009) [11] improved Bae-Jin’s results. Unfortunately, their results were not optimal, because there exists an unpleasant positive small δ in their rates.In this paper, we obtain the following optimal rate without δ,

     

Method of analytic continuation for the inverse spherical mean transform in constant curvature spaces

The following problem arises in thermoacoustic tomography and has intimate connection with PDEs and integral geometry. Reconstruct a function f supported in an n-dimensional ball B given the spherical means of f over all geodesic spheres centered on the boundary of B. We propose a new approach to this problem, which yields explicit reconstruction formulas in arbitrary constant curvature space, including euclidean space ? ⁿ , the n-dimensional sphere, and hyperbolic space. The main idea is analytic continuation of the corresponding operator families. The results are applied to inverse problems for a large class of Euler-Poisson-Darboux equations in constant curvature spaces of arbitrary dimension.     

The inviscid limit of the incompressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations with the non-slip boundary condition

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior for the incompressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations with the non-slip boundary condition in a half space of ${\mathbb{R}^3}$ when the vertical viscosity goes to zero. Firstly, by multi-scale analysis, we formally deduce an asymptotic expansion of the solution to the problem with respect to the vertical viscosity, which shows that the boundary layer appears in the tangential velocity field and satisfies a nonlinear parabolic–elliptic coupled system. Also from the expansion, it is observed that away from the boundary the solution of the anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations formally converges to a solution of a degenerate incompressible Navier–Stokes equation. Secondly, we study the well-posedness of the problems for the boundary layer equations and then rigorously justify the asymptotic expansion by using the energy method. We obtain the convergence results of the vanishing vertical viscosity limit, that is, the solution to the incompressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations tends to the solution to degenerate incompressible Navier–Stokes equations away from the boundary, while near the boundary, it tends to the boundary layer profile, in both the energy space and the L ^∞ space.     

Stability of boundary layer and rarefaction wave to an outflow problem for compressible Navier-Stokes equations under large perturbation

In this paper, we investigate the large-time behavior of solutions to an outflow problem for compressible Navier-Stokes equations. In 2003, Kawashima, Nishibata and Zhu [S. Kawashima, S. Nishibata, P. Zhu, Asymptotic stability of the stationary solution to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half space, Comm. Math. Phys. 240 (2003) 483-500] showed there exists a boundary layer (i.e., stationary solution) to the outflow problem and the boundary layer is nonlinearly stable under small initial perturbation. In the present paper, we show that not only the boundary layer above but also the superposition of a boundary layer and a rarefaction wave are stable under large initial perturbation. The proofs are given by an elementary energy method.     

Fisher information metric and Poisson kernels

A complete Riemannian manifold X with negative curvature satisfying −b²?KX?−a²<0 for some constants a,b, is naturally mapped in the space of probability measures on the ideal boundary ∂X by assigning the Poisson kernels. We show that this map is embedding and the pull-back metric of the Fisher information metric by this embedding coincides with the original metric of X up to constant provided X is a rank one symmetric space of non-compact type. Furthermore, we give a geometric meaning of the embedding.     

Recovery of the C ∞ jet from the boundary distance function

For a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we want to find the metric structure from knowledge of distances between boundary points. This is called the ??boundary rigidity problem??. If the boundary is not concave, which means locally not all shortest paths lie entirely in the boundary, then we are able to find the Taylor series of the metric tensor (C ^?? jet) at the boundary (see Lassas et?al. (Math Ann 325:767?C793, 2003), Uhlmann et?al. (Adv Appl Math 31:379?C387, 2003)). In this paper we give a new reconstruction procedure for the C ^?? jet at non-concave points on the boundary using the localized boundary distance function. A closely related problem is the ??lens rigidity problem??, which asks whether the lens data determine metric structure uniquely. Lens data include information of boundary distance function, the lengths of all geodesics, and the locations and directions where geodesics hit the boundary. We give the first examples that show that lens data cannot uniquely determine the C ^?? jet. The example include two manifolds with the same boundary and the same lens data, but different C ^?? jets. With some additional careful work, we can find examples with different C ¹ jets, which means the boundaries in the two lens-equivalent manifolds have different second fundamental forms.     

Study of generalized eigenfunctions of a perturbed isotropic elastic half‐space

We consider the self‐adjoint operator governing the propagation of elastic waves in a perturbed isotropic half‐space (perturbation with compact support of a homogeneous isotropic half‐space) with a free boundary condition. We propose a method to obtain, numerical values included, a complete set of generalized eigenfunctions that diagonalize this operator. The first step gives an explicit representation of these functions using a perturbative method. The unbounded boundary is a new difficulty compared with the method used by Wilcox [25], who set the problem in the complement of bounded open set. The second step is based on a boundary integral equations method which allows us to compute these functions. For this, we need to determine explicitly the Green's function of (A₀ – ω²), where A₀ is the self‐adjoint operator describing elastic waves in a homogeneous isotropic half‐space. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global existence and decay of energy to systems of wave equations with damping and supercritical sources

This paper is concerned with a system of nonlinear wave equations with supercritical interior and boundary sources and subject to interior and boundary damping terms. It is well-known that the presence of a nonlinear boundary source causes significant difficulties since the linear Neumann problem for the single wave equation is not, in general, well-posed in the finite-energy space H ¹(Ω) × L ²(?Ω) with boundary data from L ²(?Ω) (due to the failure of the uniform Lopatinskii condition). Additional challenges stem from the fact that the sources considered in this article are non-dissipative and are not locally Lipschitz from H ¹(Ω) into L ²(Ω) or L ²(?Ω). With some restrictions on the parameters in the system and with careful analysis involving the Nehari Manifold, we obtain global existence of a unique weak solution and establish (depending on the behavior of the dissipation in the system) exponential and algebraic uniform decay rates of energy. Moreover, we prove a blow-up result for weak solutions with nonnegative initial energy.     

A Cantorian potential theory for describing dynamical systems on El Naschie’s space–time

In this paper we analyze classical systems, in which motion is not on a classical continuous path, but rather on a Cantorian one. Starting from El Naschie’s space–time we introduce a mathematical approach based on a potential to describe the interaction system-support. We study some relevant force fields on Cantorian space and analyze the differences with respect to the analogous case on a continuum in the context of Lagrangian formulation. Here we confirm the idea proposed by the first author in dynamical systems on El Naschie’s ϵ^(∞) Cantorian space–time that a Cantorian space could explain some relevant stochastic and quantum processes, if the space acts as an harmonic oscillating support, such as that found in Nature. This means that a quantum process could sometimes be explained as a classical one, but on a nondifferential and discontinuous support. We consider the validity of this point of view, that in principle could be more realistic, because it describes the real nature of matter and space. These do not exist in Euclidean space or curved Riemanian space–time, but in a Cantorian one. The consequence of this point of view could be extended in many fields such as biomathematics, structural engineering, physics, astronomy, biology and so on.     

Weak shadowing for discrete dynamical systems on nonsmooth manifolds

In J. Math. Anal. Appl. 189 (1995) 409-423, Corless and Pilyugin proved that weak shadowing is a C⁰ generic property in the space of discrete dynamical systems on a compact smooth manifold M. In our paper we give another proof of this theorem which does not assume that M has a differential structure. Moreover, our method also works for systems on some compact metric spaces that are not manifolds, such as a Hilbert cube (or generally, a countably infinite Cartesian product of manifolds with boundary) and a Cantor set.     

Energy method in the partial Fourier space and application to stability problems in the half space

The energy method in the Fourier space is useful in deriving the decay estimates for problems in the whole space Rn. In this paper, we study half space problems in and develop the energy method in the partial Fourier space obtained by taking the Fourier transform with respect to the tangential variable x^′∈Rn−1. For the variable x₁∈R₊ in the normal direction, we use L² space or weighted L² space. We apply this energy method to the half space problem for damped wave equations with a nonlinear convection term and prove the asymptotic stability of planar stationary waves by showing a sharp convergence rate for t→∞. The result obtained in this paper is a refinement of the previous one in Ueda et al. (2008) [13].