Multiple solutions of a quasilinear elliptic system involving the nonlinear boundary conditions on exterior domain

In this paper, we consider the multiplicity results of nontrivial nonnegative solutions of the quasilinear p‐Laplacian system with the nonlinear boundary conditions: (0.1) where Ω is a smooth exterior domain in is the outward normal derivative on the boundary Γ = ?Ω, and . By the Nehari manifold and variational methods, we prove that the problem (0.1) has at least two nontrivial nonnegative solutions when the pair of the parameters (λ,μ) belongs to a certain subset of . Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Max‐type system of difference equations with positive two‐periodic sequences

This paper deals with the form and the periodicity of the solutions of the max‐type system of difference equations where , and are positive two‐periodic sequences and initial values x₀, x _{? 1}, y₀, y _{? 1} ∈ (0, + ∞ ). Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Solutions for subquadratic fractional Hamiltonian systems without coercive conditions

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of infinitely many solutions for the following fractional Hamiltonian systems (FHS) where α ∈ (1 ∕ 2,1), , , is a symmetric and positive definite matrix for all , , and ? W is the gradient of W at u. The novelty of this paper is that, assuming L is bounded in the sense that there are constants 0 < τ₁ < τ₂ < + ∞ such that τ₁ | u | ² ≤ (L(t)u,u) ≤ τ₂ | u | ² for all and W is of subquadratic growth as | u | → + ∞ , we show that (FHS) possesses infinitely many solutions via the genus properties in the critical theory. Recent results in [Z. Zhang and R. Yuan, Variational approach to solutions for a class of fractional Hamiltonian systems, Math. Methods Appl. Sci., DOI:10.1002/mma.2941] are generalized and significantly improved. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the ‐boundedness of solution operator families of the generalized Stokes resolvent problem in an infinite layer

In this paper, we prove the ‐boundedness of solution operator families of the generalized Stokes resolvent problem in an infinite layer with resolvent parameter , where , and our boundary conditions are nonhomogeneous Neumann on upper boundary and Dirichlet on lower boundary. We want to emphasize that we can choose 0 < ? < π ∕ 2 and γ₀ > 0 arbitrarily, although usual parabolic theorem tells us that we must choose a large γ₀ > 0 for given 0 < ? < π ∕ 2. We also prove the maximal L_p ? L_q regularity theorem of the nonstationary Stokes problem as an application of the ‐boundedness. The key of our approach is to apply several technical lemmas to the exact solution formulas of a resolvent problem. The formulas are obtained through the solutions of the ODEs, in the Fourier space, driven by the partial Fourier transform with respect to tangential space variable . Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Decay of mass for a nonlinear fractional reaction–diffusion equation

We study the large time behavior of non‐negative solutions to the nonlinear fractional reaction–diffusion equation ?_tu = ? t^σ( ? Δ)^{α ∕ 2}u ? h(t)u^p (α ∈ (0,2]) posed on and supplemented with an integrable initial condition, where σ ≥ 0, p > 1, and h : [0, ∞ ) → [0, ∞ ). Defining the mass , under certain conditions on the function h, we show that the asymptotic behavior of the mass can be classified along two cases as follows:

• if , then there exists M _∞ ∈ (0, ∞ ) such that ;
• if , then .

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A class of vector‐valued dilation‐and‐modulation frames on the half real line

Vector‐valued frames were first introduced under the name of superframes by Balan in the context of signal multiplexing and by Han and Larson from the mathematical aspect. Since then, the wavelet and Gabor frames in have interested many mathematicians. The space models vector‐valued causal signal spaces because of the time variable being nonnegative. But it admits no nontrivial shift‐invariant system and thus no wavelet or Gabor frame since is not a group by addition (not as ). Observing that is a group by multiplication, we, in this paper, introduce a class of multiplication‐based dilation‐and‐modulation ( ) systems, and investigate the theory of frames in . Since is not closed under the Fourier transform, the Fourier transform does not fit . We introduce the notion of Θ_a transform in , and using Θ_a‐transform matrix method, we characterize frames, Riesz bases, and dual frames in and obtain an explicit expression of duals for an arbitrary given frame. An example theorem is also presented.     

A semilinear heat equation with a localized nonlinear source and non‐continuous initial data

This paper is devoted to the study of the Cauchy problem for a semilinear heat equation with nonlinear term presenting a nonlinear source centered in a closed region of the spatial domain Ω. We assume that is either a smooth bounded domain or the whole space , The initial data is assumed to belong to the Lebesgue space . Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Bergman–Sce transform for slice monogenic functions

In a recent paper, we showed that the classical Bergman theory admits two possible formulations for the class of slice regular functions with quaternionic values. In the so called formulation of the first kind, we provide a Bergman kernel which is defined on and is a reproducing kernel. In the so called formulation of the second kind, we use the Representation Formula for slice regular functions to define a second Bergman kernel; this time the kernel is still defined on U, but the integral representation of f is based on an integral computed only on and the integral does not depend on , (here denotes the sphere unit of purely imaginary quaternions, and represents the complex plane with imaginary unit I). In this paper, we extend the second formulation of the Bergman theory to the case of slice monogenic functions and we focus our attention on the so‐called Bergman–Sce transform. This integral transform is defined by using the Bergman kernel and the Sce mapping theorem and associates to every slice monogenic function f, an axially monogenic function . Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multilinear and multiparameter spectral multipliers on stratified groups

As far as we know, the study of multilinear spectral multipliers on nilpotent Lie groups is a very new research work. There is even no study of Hörmander‐type multiplier theorem for multilinear and multiparameter spectral multipliers on nilpotent Lie groups. In this paper, on product spaces of stratified groups G = G₁ × ⋯ × G_M, we prove Hörmander‐type multiplier theorems for multilinear and multiparameter spectral multipliers from to L^r(G) with , from to with , and from to L^r(·)(G) with or for all ℓ = 1,…,N.     

Time‐harmonic and asymptotically linear Maxwell equations in anisotropic media

This paper is focused on following time‐harmonic Maxwell equation: where is a bounded Lipschitz domain, is the exterior normal, and ω is the frequency. The boundary condition holds when Ω is surrounded by a perfect conductor. Assuming that f is asymptotically linear as , we study the above equation by improving the generalized Nehari manifold method. For an anisotropic material with magnetic permeability tensor and permittivity tensor , ground state solutions are established in this paper. Applying the principle of symmetric criticality, we find 2 types of solutions with cylindrical symmetries in particular for the uniaxial material.     

Infinitely many solutions to elliptic systems with critical exponents and Hardy potentials

In this paper, we consider the following elliptic systems with critical Sobolev growth and Hardy potentials: where N ≥ 3, η > 0, λ₁,λ₂ ∈ [0,Λ_N), and is the best Hardy constant. is the critical Sobolev exponent. a₁, a₂, b₁, and b₂ are positive parameters, and α,β > 1 satisfy 2 < α + β < 2*. h(x) ? 0, h(x) ≥ 0, , , and with . By means of the concentration–compactness principle and R. Kajikiya's new version of symmetric mountain pass lemma, we obtain infinitely many solutions that tend to zero. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Boundedness in a higher‐dimensional chemotaxis system with porous medium diffusion and general sensitivity

This paper deals with the following chemotaxis system: in a bounded domain with smooth boundary under no‐flux boundary conditions, where satisfies for all with l ?2 and some nondecreasing function on [0,∞ ). Here, f (v )∈C ¹([0,∞ )) is nonnegative for all v ?0. It is proved that when , the system possesses at least one global bounded weak solution for any sufficiently smooth nonnegative initial data. This extends a recent result by Wang (Math. Methods Appl. Sci. 2016 39 : 1159–1175) which shows global existence and boundedness of weak solutions under the condition . Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Transition matrices for quantum waveguides with impurities

We consider the electron propagation in a cylindrical quantum waveguide where D is a bounded domain in described by the Dirichlet problem for the Schrödinger operator where x=(x₁, x₂), , is the transversal confinement potential, and is the impurity potential.  We construct the left and right transition matrices and give an numerical algorithm for their calculations based on the spectral parameter power series method.     

Three rapidly convergent parareal solvers with application to time‐dependent PDEs with fractional Laplacian

Time‐dependent PDEs with fractional Laplacian ( ? Δ)^α play a fundamental role in many fields and approximating ( ? Δ)^α usually leads to ODEs' system like u ^′ (t ) + A u (t ) =  g (t ) with A  = Q ^α , where is a sparse symmetric positive definite matrix and α  > 0 denotes the fractional order. The parareal algorithm is an ideal solver for this kind of problems, which is iterative and is characterized by two propagators and . The propagators and are respectively associated with large step size ΔT and small step size Δt , where ΔT  = J Δt and J ?2 is an integer. If we fix the ‐propagator to the Implicit‐Euler method and choose for some proper Runge–Kutta (RK) methods, such as the second‐order and third‐order singly diagonally implicit RK methods, previous studies show that the convergence factors of the corresponding parareal solvers can satisfy and , where σ (A ) is the spectrum of the matrix A . In this paper, we show that by choosing these two RK methods as the ‐propagator, the convergence factors can reach , provided the one‐stage complex Rosenbrock method is used as the ‐propagator. If we choose for both and , the complex Rosenbrock method, we show that the convergence factor of the resulting parareal solver can also reach . Numerical results are given to support our theoretical conclusions. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Improvement of convergence rates for a parabolic system of chemotaxis in the whole space

We are interested in the asymptotic behavior of solutions towards a parabolic system of chemotaxis in , n ≥ 1. It was proved in the previous results that decaying solutions converge to the heat kernel in at the rate t^{?n(1 ? 1/p)/2 ? 1/2} as t → ∞. Our aim in this paper is to improve the convergence rates by taking into account the center of mass of such solutions. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Non‐autonomous homogeneous rational difference equations of degree one: convergence and monotone solutions for second and third order case

Consider the non‐autonomous equations: where and also These are some non‐autonomous homogeneous rational difference equations of degree one. A reduction in order is consi‐dered. Convergence and monoton character of positive solutions are studied. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Variational approach to solutions for a class of fractional Hamiltonian systems

In this paper, we investigate the existence of infinitely many solutions for the following fractional Hamiltonian systems: ( FHS ) where α ∈ (1 ∕ 2,1), , , and are symmetric and positive definite matrices for all , , and ? W is the gradient of W at u. The novelty of this paper is that, assuming L is coercive at infinity, and W is of subquadratic growth as | u | → + ∞ , we show that (FHS) possesses infinitely many solutions via the genus properties in the critical theory. Recent results in the literature are generalized and significantly improved. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Regular attractor for damped KdV‐Burgers equations on R

We study the well‐posedness and dynamic behavior for the KdV‐Burgers equation with a force on R . We establish L ^p ?L ^q estimates of the evolution , as an application we obtain the local well‐posedness. Then the global well‐posedness follows from a uniform estimate for solutions as t goes to infinity. Next, we prove the asymptotical regularity of solutions in space and by the smoothing effect of . The regularity and the asymptotical compactness in L ² yields the asymptotical compactness in by an interpolation arguement. Finally, we conclude the existence of an globalattractor.     

A quasilinear chemotaxis–haptotaxis model: The roles of nonlinear diffusion and logistic source

In this paper, we study the following quasilinear chemotaxis–haptotaxis system (?) in a bounded smooth domain under zero‐flux boundary conditions, where the nonlinearities D ,S ₁, and S ₂ are supposed to generalize the prototypes with , and f ∈C ¹([0,+∞ ) × [0,+∞ )) satisfies with r > 0 and b > 0. If the nonnegative initial data u ₀(x )∈W ^1,∞ (Ω),v ₀(x )∈W ^1,∞ (Ω), and for some α ∈(0,1), it is proved that

1. For n = 1, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.
2. For n = 2, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.
3. For n ≥3, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.

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Characterizations of Sobolev spaces associated to operators satisfying off‐diagonal estimates on balls

Let be a metric measure space of homogeneous type and L be a one‐to‐one operator of type ω on for ω ∈[0, π /2). In this article, under the assumptions that L has a bounded H _∞ ‐functional calculus on and satisfies (p _L , q _L ) off‐diagonal estimates on balls, where p _L ∈[1, 2) and q _L ∈(2, ∞ ], the authors establish a characterization of the Sobolev space , defined via L ^{α /2}, of order α ∈(0, 2] for p ∈(p _L , q _L ) by means of a quadratic function S _{α , L} . As an application, the authors show that for the degenerate elliptic operator L _w : =? w  ^? 1div(A ?) and the Schrödinger type operator with a ∈(0, ∞ ) on the weighted Euclidean space with A being real symmetric, if n ?3, with q ∈[1, 2], , p ∈(1, ∞ ) and with , then, for all , , where the implicit equivalent positive constants are independent of f , denotes the class of Muckenhoupt weights, the reverse Hölder class, and D (L _w ) and the domains of L _w and , respectively. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.