Decay Properties for Some Lagrangian Systems with Dissipative Terms and Applications

This paper deals with decay properties for the solutions of a large class of ordinary differential systems, with time dependent restoring potential, which include the system $$\left({\left|{u\prime}\right|^{\mu - 2} u\prime}\right)\prime+\beta_1 t^{\theta_{\text{1}}}\left|{u\prime}\right|^{\mu-2}u\prime+\beta_2 t^{\theta_{\text{2}}}\left|{u\prime}\right|^{m-2}u\prime+ct^v\left|u\right|^{p-2}u=0,$$ t ε [T, ∞), u : [T, ∞) → $\mathbb{R}^N$ , 1 < µ < m, ν ≥ 0, c0, β₁0, β₂ ≥ 0, -1 ≤ θ₁ < µ+ν-1, θ₂ < m + ν - 1, and the nonlinear system $$Lu+T\left( t \right)u\prime+V\left( {t,u\prime } \right)+t^\nu Su=e\left(t\right),$$ where L and S are positive definite matrices, T is a skew-symmetric matrix continuous function, V is a quasilinear replacement of a linear resistive term R(t)u′ and e is continuous. We prove various types of decay properties to zero for the solutions in the first case and exponential decay for the difference of two solutions, under suitable assumptions, in the second one.     

Strong Regularizing Effect of a Gradient Term in the Heat Equation with a Weight

We deal with the following parabolic problem, $$(P)\left\{\begin{array}{lll} u_t - \Delta{u} + |\nabla{u}|^q \quad=\quad \lambda{g}(x)u + f(x, t),\quad u > 0 \; {\rm in} \; \Omega \; \times \; (0, T),\\ \qquad\quad\quad\; u(x, t) \quad=\quad 0 \quad{\rm on}\; {\partial}{\Omega}\; \times ; (0, T),\\ \qquad\quad\quad\; u(x, 0) \quad=\quad u_{0}(x), \quad x \in {\Omega},\end{array}\right.$$ where is a bounded regular domain or ${\Omega = \mathbb{R}^N}$ , ${1 < q \leq 2, \lambda > 0\; {\rm and}\; f \geq 0, u_{0} \geq 0}$ are in a suitable class of functions. We give assumptions on g with respect to q for which for all λ >  0 and all ${f \in L^1(\Omega_T ), f \geq 0}$ , problem (P) has a positive solution. Under some additional conditions on the data, the Cauchy problem and the asymptotic behavior of the solution are also considered.     

Global solutions of the heat equation with a nonlinear boundary condition

We consider the heat equation with a nonlinear boundary condition, $$(P) \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \partial_t u = \Delta u, & x \in \Omega, \quad t > 0, \\ \partial_\nu u=u^p, & x \in \partial \Omega,\quad t > 0,\\ u (x,0) = \phi (x),& x\in\Omega, \end{array}\right.$$ where ${\Omega = \{x = (x^{\prime},x_N) \in {\bf R}^{N} : x_N > 0\}, N \ge 2, \partial_t = \partial{/}\partial t , \partial_\nu = -\partial{/}\partial x_{N}}$ , p > 1 + 1/N, and (N ? 2)p < N. In this paper we give a complete classification of the large time behaviors of the nonnegative global solutions of (P).     

Multiple positive solutions of singular and critical elliptic problem in {\mathbb{R}^2} with discontinuous nonlinearities

Let Ω be a bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}^2}$ with smooth boundary. We consider the following singular and critical elliptic problem with discontinuous nonlinearity: $$(P_\lambda)\left \{\begin{array}{ll} - \Delta u = \lambda \left(\frac{m(x, u) e^{\alpha{u}^2}}{|x|^{\beta}} + u^{q}g(u - a)\right),\quad{u} > 0 \quad {\rm in} \quad \Omega\\u \quad \quad = 0\quad {\rm on} \quad \partial \Omega \end{array}\right.$$ where ${0\leq q < 1 ,0< \alpha\leq4\pi}$ and ${\beta \in [0, 2)}$ such that ${\frac{\beta}{2} + \frac{\alpha}{4\pi} \leq 1}$ and ${{g(t - a) = \left\{\begin{array}{ll}1, t \leq a\\ 0, t > a.\end{array}\right.}}$ Under the suitable assumptions on m(x, t) we show the existence and multiplicity of solutions for maximal interval for λ.     

Exact tail asymptotics of the supremum of strongly dependent Gaussian processes over a random interval

Let $ \mathcal{T} $ be a positive random variable independent of a real-valued stochastic process $ \left\{ {X(t),t\geqslant 0} \right\} $ . In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of $ \mathrm{P}\left( {{\sup_{{t\in \left[ {0,\mathcal{T}} \right]}}}X(t)>u} \right) $ as u→∞ assuming that X is a strongly dependent stationary Gaussian process and $ \mathcal{T} $ has a regularly varying survival function at infinity with index λ ∈ [0, 1). Under asymptotic restrictions on the correlation function of the process, we show that $ \mathrm{P}\left( {{\sup_{{t\in \left[ {0,\mathcal{T}} \right]}}}X(t)>u} \right)={c^{\lambda }}\mathrm{P}\left( {\mathcal{T}>m(u)} \right)\left( {1+o(1)} \right) $ with some positive finite constant c and function m(·) defined in terms of the local behavior of the correlation function and the standard Gaussian distribution.     

Non-resonant boundary value problems with singular {\phi} -Laplacian operators

In this paper, using Leray–Schauder degree arguments, critical point theory for lower semicontinuous functionals and the method of lower and upper solutions, we give existence results for periodic problems involving the relativistic operator ${u \mapsto \left(\frac{u^\prime}{\sqrt{1-u^\prime 2}}\right)^\prime+r(t)u}$ with ${\int_0^Tr dt\neq 0}$ . In particular we show that in this case we have non-resonance, that is periodic problem $$\left(\frac{u^\prime}{\sqrt{1-u^\prime 2}}\right)^\prime+r(t)u=e(t),\quad u(0)-u(T)=0=u^\prime(0)-u^\prime(T),$$ has at least one solution for any continuous function ${e : [0, T] \to \mathbb {R}}$ . Then, we consider Brillouin and Mathieu-Duffing type equations for which ${r(t) \equiv b_1 + b_2 {\rm cos} t {\rm and} b_1, b_2 \in \mathbb{R}}$ .     

Layered solutions with multiple asymptotes for non autonomous Allen–Cahn equations in {\mathbb {R}^{3}}

We consider a class of semilinear elliptic equations of the form $$ \label{eq:abs}-\Delta u(x,y,z)+a(x)W'(u(x,y,z))=0,\quad (x,y,z)\in\mathbb {R}^{3},$$ where ${a:\mathbb {R} \to \mathbb {R}}$ is a periodic, positive, even function and, in the simplest case, ${W : \mathbb {R} \to \mathbb {R}}$ is a double well even potential. Under non degeneracy conditions on the set of minimal solutions to the one dimensional heteroclinic problem $$-\ddot q(x)+a(x)W^{\prime}(q(x))=0,\ x\in\mathbb {R},\quad q(x)\to\pm1\,{\rm as}\, x\to \pm\infty,$$ we show, via variational methods the existence of infinitely many geometrically distinct solutions u of (0.1) verifying u(x, y, z) → ± 1 as x → ± ∞ uniformly with respect to ${(y, z) \in \mathbb {R}^{2}}$ and such that ${\partial_{y}u \not \equiv0, \partial_{z}u \not\equiv 0}$ in ${\mathbb {R}^{3}}$ .     

Boundary behavior of large solutions to elliptic equations with nonlinear gradient terms

In this paper, we mainly study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the following problems ${\triangle u \pm a(x)| \nabla u|^{q} = b(x)f(u), x \in \Omega, \ u|_{\partial \Omega} = + \infty}$ , where Ω is a bounded domain with a smooth boundary in ${\mathbb{R}^{N} (N \geq 2)}$ , q >  0, ${a \in C^{\alpha}(\bar{\Omega})}$ is positive in Ω, and ${b \in C^{\alpha}(\bar{\Omega})}$ is nonnegative in Ω and may be vanishing on the boundary. We assume that f is Γ-varying at ∞, whose variation at ∞ is not regular. Our analysis is based on the sub-supersolution method and Karamata regular variation theory.     

Non-homogeneous semilinear elliptic equations involving critical Sobolev exponent

We consider the non-homogeneous critical semilinear elliptic problems $$ -\Delta u + \kappa u = u^{(N+2)/(N-2)} + \lambda f \quad {\rm in} \ \Omega, $$ where ?? is a bounded smooth domain in ${{\bf R}^N, f \in H^{-1}(\Omega), f \geq 0}$ in ${\Omega, \kappa \in {\bf R}}$ is a fixed constant, and ?? > 0 is a parameter. We investigate the multiplicity of positive solutions to the problem and find the phenomenon depending on the space dimension N. Precisely, we show that the situation is drastically different between the cases N = 3, 4, 5 and N ?? 6 if ?? > 0. Our proofs are based on the variational methods and Pohozaev type argument.     

Local estimates for parabolic equations with nonlinear gradient terms

In this paper we deal with local estimates for parabolic problems in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ with absorbing first order terms, whose model is $$\left\{\begin{array}{l@{\quad}l}u_t- \Delta u +u |\nabla u|^q = f(t,x) \quad &{\rm in}\, (0,T) \times \mathbb{R}^N\,,\\u(0,x)= u_0 (x) &{\rm in}\, \mathbb{R}^N \,,\quad\end{array}\right.$$ where ${T >0 , \, N\geq 2,\, 1 < q \leq 2,\, f(t,x)\in L^1\left( 0,T; L^1_{\rm loc} \left(\mathbb{R}^N\right)\right)}$ and ${u_0\in L^1_{\rm loc}\left(\mathbb{R}^{N}\right)}$ .     

Convergence to steady states of solutions to nonlinear integral evolution equations

We prove that any global bounded solution of the nonlinear evolutionary integral equation $$\dot{u}(t) + \int\limits_0^t a(t-s)\mathcal{E}'(u(s))ds =f(t), \quad t >0 $$ tends to a single equilibrium state for long time (i.e., ${\mathcal{E}'(\vartheta)=0}$ where ${\vartheta= \lim_{t \rightarrow \infty} u(t)}$ on a real Hilbert space), where ${\mathcal{E}'}$ is the Fréchet derivative of a functional ${\mathcal{E}}$ , which satisfies the ?ojasiewicz?CSimon inequality near ${\vartheta}$ . The vector-valued function f and the scalar kernel a satisfy suitable conditions.     

Extinction profile of the logarithmic diffusion equation

Let ${N \geq 3}$ and u be the solution of u _t = Δ log u in ${\mathbb{R}^N \times (0, T)}$ with initial value u ₀ satisfying ${B_{k_1}(x, 0) \leq u_{0} \leq B_{k_2}(x, 0)}$ for some constants k ₁ > k ₂ > 0 where ${B_k(x, t) = 2(N - 2)(T - t)_{+}^{N/(N - 2)}/(k + (T - t)_{+}^{2/(N - 2)}|x|^{2})}$ is the Barenblatt solution for the equation and ${u_0 - B_{k_0} \in L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}$ for some constant k ₀ > 0 if ${N \geq 4}$ . We give a new different proof on the uniform convergence and ${L^1(\mathbb{R}^N)}$ convergence of the rescaled function ${\tilde{u}(x, s) = (T - t)^{-N/(N - 2)}u(x/(T - t)^{-1/(N - 2)}, t), s = -{\rm log}(T - t)}$ , on ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ to the rescaled Barenblatt solution ${\tilde{B}_{k_0}(x) = 2(N - 2)/(k_0 + |x|^{2})}$ for some k ₀ > 0 as ${s \rightarrow \infty}$ . When ${N \geq 4, 0 \leq u_0(x) \leq B_{k_0}(x, 0)}$ in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ , and ${|u_0(x) - B_{k_0}(x, 0)| \leq f \in L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}$ for some constant k ₀ > 0 and some radially symmetric function f, we also prove uniform convergence and convergence in some weighted L ¹ space in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ of the rescaled solution ${\tilde{u}(x, s)}$ to ${\tilde{B}_{k_0}(x)}$ as ${s \rightarrow \infty}$ .     

Dynamical system with boundary control associated with a symmetric semibounded operator

Let L ₀ be a closed densely defined symmetric semibounded operator with nonzero defect indices in a separable Hilbert space $\mathcal H$ . It determines a Green system $\{{\mathcal H}, {\mathcal B}; L_0, \Gamma_1, \Gamma_2\}$ , where ${\mathcal B}$ is a Hilbert space, and the $\Gamma_i: {\mathcal H} \to \mathcal B$ are operators connected by the Green formula $$ (L_0^*u, v)_{\mathcal H}-(u,L_0^*v)_{\mathcal H} =(\Gamma_1 u, \Gamma_2 v)_{\mathcal B} - (\Gamma_2 u, \Gamma_1 v)_{\mathcal B}. $$ The boundary space $\mathcal B$ and the boundary operators Γ _i are chosen canonically in the framework of the Vishik theory. With the Green system one associates a dynamical system with boundary control (DSBC): $$ \begin{array}{lll} && u_{tt}+L_0^*u = 0, \quad u(t) \in {\mathcal H}, \quad t>0,\\ && u\big|_{t=0}=u_t\big|_{t=0}=0, \\ && \Gamma_1 u = f, \quad f(t) \in {\mathcal B},\quad t \geq 0. \end{array} $$ We show that this system is controllable if and only if the operator L ₀ is completely non-self-adjoint. A version of the notion of wave spectrum of L ₀ is introduced. It is a topological space determined by L ₀ and constructed from reachable sets of the DSBC. Bibliography: 15 titles.     

Capacitary estimates of solutions of semilinear parabolic equations

We prove that any positive solution of ${\partial_tu-\Delta u+u^q=0 (q > 1)}$ in ${\mathbb{R}^N \times (0, \infty)}$ with initial trace (F, 0), where F is a closed subset of ${\mathbb{R}^{N}}$ can be represented, up to two universal multiplicative constants, by a series involving the Bessel capacity ${C_{2/q, q^{\prime}}}$ . As a consequence we prove that there exists a unique positive solution of the equation with such an initial trace. We also characterize the blow-up set of u(x, t) when ${t \downarrow 0}$ , by using the “density” of F expressed in terms of the ${C_{2/q, q^{\prime}}}$ -Bessel capacity.     

Asymptotic Behavior of Positive Solutions of a Nonlinear Combined p-Laplacian Equation

For p > 1, we establish existence and asymptotic behavior of a positive continuous solution to the following boundary value problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}\frac{1}{A} \left( A\Phi _{p}(u^{\prime})\right) ^{\prime}+a_{1}(r)u^{\alpha _{1}}+a_{2}(r)u^{\alpha _{2}}=0, \, {\rm in}\, (0,\infty ),\\ {\rm lim}_{r\rightarrow 0} A\Phi _{p}(u^{\prime})(r)=0, {\rm lim}_{r\rightarrow \infty } u(r)=0,\end{array}\right.$$ where \({\alpha _{1}, \alpha _{2} < p -1, \Phi _{p}(t) = t|t| ^{p-2},A}\) is a positive differentiable function and a ₁, a ₂ are two positive functions in \({C_{\rm loc}^{\gamma}((0, \infty )), 0 < \gamma < 1,}\) satisfying some appropriate assumptions related to Karamata regular variation theory. Also, we obtain an uniqueness result when \({\alpha _{1}, \alpha _{2} \in (1-p,p-1)}\) . Our arguments combine a method of sub and supersolutions with Karamata regular variation theory.     

Positive solutions for a boundary-value problem with Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative*

In this work, we are mainly concerned with the existence of positive solutions for the fractional boundary-value problem $$ \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {D_{0+}^{\alpha }D_{0+}^{\alpha }u=f\left( {t,u,{u}^{\prime},-D_{0+}^{\alpha }u} \right),\quad t\in \left[ {0,1} \right],} \hfill \\ {u(0)={u}^{\prime}(0)={u}^{\prime}(1)=D_{0+}^{\alpha }u(0)=D_{0+}^{{\alpha +1}}u(0)=D_{0+}^{{\alpha +1}}u(1)=0.} \hfill \\ \end{array}} \right. $$ Here ?? ?? (2, 3] is a real number, $ D_{0+}^{\alpha } $ is the standard Riemann?CLiouville fractional derivative of order ??. By virtue of some inequalities associated with the fractional Green function for the above problem, without the assumption of the nonnegativity of f, we utilize the Krasnoselskii?CZabreiko fixed-point theorem to establish our main results. The interesting point lies in the fact that the nonlinear term is allowed to depend on u, u??, and $ -D_{0+}^{\alpha } $ .     

Quenched to annealed transition in the parabolic Anderson problem

We study limit behavior for sums of the form $\frac{1}{|\Lambda_{L|}}\sum_{x\in \Lambda_{L}}u(t,x),$ where the field $\Lambda_L=\left\{x\in {\bf{Z^d}}:|x|\le L\right\}$ is composed of solutions of the parabolic Anderson equation $$u(t,x) = 1 + \kappa \mathop{\int}_{0}^{t} \Delta u(s,x){\rm d}s + \mathop{\int}_{0}^{t}u(s,x)\partial B_{x}(s). $$ The index set is a box in Z ^d , namely $\Lambda_{L} = \left\{x\in {\bf Z}^{\bf d} : |x| \leq L\right\}$ and L = L(t) is a nondecreasing function $L : [0,\infty)\rightarrow {\bf R}^{+}. $ We identify two critical parameters $\eta(1) < \eta(2)$ such that for $\gamma > \eta(1)$ and L(t) = e^{γ t} , the sums $\frac{1}{|\Lambda_L|}\sum_{x\in \Lambda_L}u(t,x)$ satisfy a law of large numbers, or put another way, they exhibit annealed behavior. For $\gamma > \eta(2)$ and L(t) = e^{γ t} , one has $\sum_{x\in \Lambda_L}u(t,x)$ when properly normalized and centered satisfies a central limit theorem. For subexponential scales, that is when $\lim_{t \rightarrow \infty} \frac{1}{t}\ln L(t) = 0,$ quenched asymptotics occur. That means $\lim_{t\rightarrow \infty}\frac{1}{t}\ln\left (\frac{1}{|\Lambda_L|}\sum_{x\in \Lambda_L}u(t,x)\right) = \gamma(\kappa),$ where $\gamma(\kappa)$ is the almost sure Lyapunov exponent, i.e. $\lim_{t\rightarrow \infty}\frac{1}{t}\ln u(t,x)= \gamma(\kappa).$ We also examine the behavior of $\frac{1}{|\Lambda_L|}\sum_{x\in \Lambda_L}u(t,x)$ for L = e ^{γ t} with γ in the transition range $(0,\eta(1))$      

A remark on global existence of solutions of shadow systems

Let ?? be an open, bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}^n\;(n \in \mathbb{N})}$ with smooth boundary ???. Let p, q, r, d ₁, ?? be positive real numbers and s be a non-negative number which satisfies ${0 < \frac{p-1}{r} < \frac{q}{s+1}}$ . We consider the shadow system of the well-known Gierer?CMeinhardt system: $$ \left \{ \begin{array}{l@{\quad}l} \displaystyle{u_t = d_1\Delta u - u + \frac{u^p}{\xi^q}}, & \quad {\rm in}\;\Omega \times (0,T), \\ \displaystyle{\tau \xi_t = -\xi + \frac{1}{|\Omega|} \int\nolimits_\Omega\frac{u^r}{\xi^s} {\rm d}x}, & \quad {\rm in}\;(0,T), \\ \displaystyle{\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} =0}, & \quad {\rm on}\;\partial \Omega \times (0,T), \\ \displaystyle{\xi(0) = \xi_0 >0 , \quad u(\cdot,0) = u_0(\cdot)} \geq 0 & \quad {\rm in}\;\Omega. \end{array} \right. $$ We prove that solutions of this system exist globally in time under some conditions on the coefficients. Our results are based on a priori estimates of the solutions and improve the global existence results of Li and Ni in [4].     

Planar Hamiltonian systems at resonance: the Ahmad–Lazer–Paul condition

We consider the planar Hamiltonian system $$Ju^{\prime} = \nabla F(u) + \nabla_u R(t,u), \quad t \in [0,T], \,u \in \mathbb{R}^2,$$ with F(u) positive and positively 2-homogeneous and ${\nabla_{u}R(t, u)}$ sublinear in u. By means of an Ahmad-Lazer-Paul type condition, we prove the existence of a T-periodic solution when the system is at resonance. The proof exploits a symplectic change of coordinates which transforms the problem into a perturbation of a linear one. The relationship with the Landesman–Lazer condition is analyzed, as well.