On a cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation with global coupling

We study standing wave solutions in a Ginzburg-Landau equation which consists of a cubic-quintic equation stabilized by global coupling

We classify the existence and stability of all possible standing wave solutions.

     

A short proof of an inequality of Littlewood and Paley

A very short proof is given of the inequality

where and is the Poisson integral of

     

Representation formulae and inequalities for solutions of a class of second order partial differential equations

Let be a possibly degenerate second order differential operator and let be its fundamental solution at ; here is a suitable distance. In this paper we study necessary and sufficient conditions for the weak solutions of on to satisfy the representation formula

We prove that (R) holds provided is superlinear, without any assumption on the behavior of at infinity. On the other hand, if satisfies the condition

then (R) holds with no growth assumptions on .

     

A sharp bound for the Stein-Wainger oscillatory integral

Let denote the space of all real polynomials of degree at most . It is an old result of Stein and Wainger that

for some constant depending only on . On the other hand, Carbery, Wainger and Wright claim that the true order of magnitude of the above principal value integral is . We prove that

     

Sebestyén moment problem: The multi-dimensional case

Given a family of vectors in a Hilbert space we characterize the existence of a family of commuting contractions on having regular dilation and such that

The theorem is a multi-dimensional analogue for some well-known operator moment problems due to Sebestyén in case or, recently, to Gavruta and Paunescu in case .

     

Quasiconvexity and uniqueness of stationary points in the multi-dimensional calculus of variations

Let be a bounded starshaped domain. In this note we consider critical points of the functional

where of class satisfies the natural growth

for some and 0$">, is suitably rank-one convex and in addition is strictly quasiconvex at . We establish uniqueness results under the extra assumption that is stationary at with respect to variations of the domain. These statements should be compared to the uniqueness result of Knops & Stuart (1984) in the smooth case and recent counterexamples to regularity produced by Müller & Sverák (2003).

     

The Laplace transform of the digamma function: An integral due to Glasser, Manna and Oloa

The definite integral

is related to the Laplace transform of the digamma function

by when . Certain analytic expressions for in the complementary range, , are also provided.

     

On the Bochner theorem on orthogonal operators

We prove the following theorem. Any isometric operator , that acts from the Hilbert space with nonnegative weight to the Hilbert space with nonnegative weight , allows for the integral representation

where the kernels and satisfy certain conditions that are necessary and sufficient for these kernels to generate the corresponding isometric operators.

     

Lack of natural weighted estimates for some singular integral operators

We show that the classical Hörmander condition, or analogously the -Hörmander condition, for singular integral operators is not sufficient to derive Coifman's inequality

where , is the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator, is any weight and is a constant depending upon and the constant of . This estimate is well known to hold when is a Calderón-Zygmund operator.

As a consequence we deduce that the following estimate does not hold:

where and where is an arbitrary weight. However, by a recent result due to A. Lerner, this inequality is satisfied whenever is a Calderón-Zygmund operator.

One of the main ingredients of the proof is a very general extrapolation theorem for weights.

     

The Cheeger constant of simply connected, solvable Lie groups

We show that the Cheeger isoperimetric constant of a solvable simply connected Lie group with Lie algebra is

     

Bochner-Riesz means with respect to a rough distance function

The generalized Bochner-Riesz operator may be defined as

where is an appropriate distance function and is the inverse Fourier transform. The behavior of on is described for , a rough distance function. We conjecture that this operator is bounded on when and , and unbounded when . This conjecture is verified for large ranges of .

     

Harnack inequalities for non-local operators of variable order

We consider harmonic functions with respect to the operator

Under suitable conditions on we establish a Harnack inequality for functions that are nonnegative and harmonic in a domain. The operator is allowed to be anisotropic and of variable order.

     

Singular integral operators associated to curves with rational components

We prove , bounds for

and

where , are rational functions. Our bounds depend only on the degrees of the polynomials and, in particular, they do not depend on the coefficients of these polynomials.

     

On the Well-Posedness of the Kirchhoff String

Let us consider the Cauchy problem for the quasilinear hyperbolic integro-differential equation

where is an open subset of and is a positive function of one real variable which is continuously differentiable. We prove the well-posedness in the Hadamard sense (existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence of the local solution upon the initial data) in Sobolev spaces of low order.

     

Damped wave equation with a critical nonlinearity

We study large time asymptotics of small solutions to the Cauchy problem for nonlinear damped wave equations with a critical nonlinearity

where 0,$"> and space dimensions . Assume that the initial data

where \frac{n}{2},$"> weighted Sobolev spaces are

Also we suppose that

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where

Then we prove that there exists a positive such that the Cauchy problem above has a unique global solution satisfying the time decay property

for all 0,$"> where

     

Weak norms of random sums

Let denote a sequence of measurable functions on , and let denote the weak norm. It is shown that

where is a sequence of independent random variables taking on values and with equal probability. Moreover, it is shown that

The paper concludes by providing an example indicating that, if , then the estimate

is the best possible.

     

Infinitely many radial solutions of a variational problem related to dispersion-managed optical fibers

We consider a non-local variational problem whose critical points are related to bound states in certain optical fibers. The functional is given by , and relying on the regularizing properties of the solution to the free Schrödinger equation, it will be shown that has infinitely many critical points.

     

A multiplicity theorem for the Neumann problem

Here is a particular case of the main result of this paper: Let be a bounded domain, with a boundary of class , and let be two continuous functions, , with 0$">, , with n$">. If

and if the set of all global minima of the function has at least connected components, then, for each 0$"> small enough, the Neumann problem

admits at least strong solutions in .

     

Limiting weak-type behavior for singular integral and maximal operators

The following limit result holds for the weak-type (1,1) constant of dilation-commuting singular integral operator in : for , ,

For the maximal operator , the corresponding result is

     

The linear heat equation with highly oscillating potential

In this paper we consider the following initial value problem:

where and . Nonexistence of positive solutions is analyzed.