Nonlocal Cauchy problems governed by compact operator families

We study the existence of mild solutions for the nonlocal Cauchy problem$\text{u′(t)=Au(t)+f(t,u(t)),}\text{t∈[t}{}_0\text{,t}{}_0\text{+T],}\text{u(t}{}_0\text{)+g(u)=u}{}_0\text{,}$and give new criterions, which extend some existing results in this area.     

On matrix functions which commute with their derivative

We improve several results published from 1950 up to 1982 on matrix functions commuting with their derivative, and establish two results of general interest. The first one gives a condition for a finite-dimensional vector subspace E(t) of a normed space not to depend on t, when t varies in a normed space. The second one asserts that if A is a matrix function, defined on a set ?, of the form A(t)= U diag(B₁(t),…,B_p(t)) U^-1, t ∈ ?, and if each matrix function B_k has the polynomial form

$\text{B}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{(t)=}\text{∑}\text{i=0}\text{α}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{f}{}_{\mathrm{ki}}\text{(t)C}{}_{\mathrm{k}}{}^{\mathrm{i}}\text{, t∈ ?, k∈{1,…,p}}$

then A itself has the polynomial form

$\text{A(t)=}\text{∑}\text{i=0}\text{d?1}\text{f}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{(t)C}{}^{\mathrm{i}}\text{,t∈?}$

, where

$\text{d=}\text{∑}\text{k=1}\text{p}\text{d}{}_{\mathrm{k}}$

, d_k being the degree of the minimal polynomial of the matrix C_k, for every k ∈ {1,…,p}.     

Periodic solutions of a quasilinear parabolic differential equation

This paper treats the quasilinear, parabolic boundary value problem $\text{u}{}_{\mathrm{xx}}\text{? u}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{= ??(x, t, u)}$u(0, t) = ?₁(t); u(l, t) = ?₂(t) on an infinite strip $\text{{(x, t) ¦ 0 < x < l, ?∞ < t < ∞}}$ with the functions $\text{?(x, t, u), ?}{}_1\text{(t), ?}{}_2\text{(t)}$ being periodic in t. The major theorem of the paper gives sufficient conditions on $\text{?(x, t, u)}$ for this problem to have a periodic solution u(x, t) which may be constructed by successive approximations with an integral operator. Some corollaries to this theorem offer more explicit conditions on $\text{?(x, t, u)}$ and indicate a method for determining the initial estimate at which the iteration may begin.     

Analyticity of solutions of nonlinear evolution equations

Analyticity in t of solutions u(t) of nonlinear evolution equations of the form $\text{u′ + A(t, u)u = ?(t, u), t > 0, u(0) = u}{}_0$, is established under suitable conditions on $\text{A(t, u), ?(t, u),}\text{and}\text{u}{}_0$. An application is given to quasilinear parabolic equations.     

Strong approximation theorems for density dependent Markov chains

A variety of continuous parameter Markov chains arising in applied probability (e.g. epidemic and chemical reaction models) can be obtained as solutions of equations of the form

$\text{X}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)=x}{}_0\text{+∑}\text{1}\text{N}\text{lY}{}_1\text{N ∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{f}{}_1\text{(X}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(s))ds}$

where $\text{l∈}\text{Z}{}^{\mathrm{t}}$, the Y₁ are independent Poisson processes, and N is a parameter with a natural interpretation (e.g. total population size or volume of a reacting solution).The corresponding deterministic model, satisfies

$\text{X(t)=x}{}_0\text{+ ∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{∑ lf}{}_1\text{(X(s))ds}$

Under very general conditions lim_N→∞X_N(t)=X(t) a.s. The process X_N(t) is compared to the diffusion processes given by

$\text{Z}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)=x}{}_0\text{+∑}\text{1}\text{N}\text{lB}{}_1\text{N∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{ft(Z}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(s))ds}$

and

$\text{V(t)=∑ l∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{f}{}_1\text{(X(s))}\text{d}\text{W}\text{?}{}_1\text{+∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{?F(X(s))·V(s)}\text{ds.}$

Under conditions satisfied by most of the applied probability models, it is shown that X_N,Z_N and V can be constructed on the same sample space in such a way that

$\text{X}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)=Z}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)+O}\text{logN}\text{N}$

and

$\text{N}\text{(X}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)?X(t))=V(t)+O}\text{log N}\text{N}$

     

Existence of solutions for nonlinear elliptic degenerate equations

In this paper, we study the problem$\text{−div}\text{a(x,u,}\text{∇}\text{u)−div}\text{φ(u)+g(x,u)=f}\text{in}\text{Ω}$in the setting of the weighted sobolev space $\text{W}{}_0{}^{\mathrm{1,p}}\text{(Ω,ν)}$. The main novelty of our work is L^∞ estimates on the solutions, and the existence of a weak and renormalized solution.     

Sur l'équation divu=fOn the equation divu=f

The main result is the following. Let $\text{Ω}$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain in $\text{R}{}^{\mathrm{d}}$, d?2. Then for every $\text{f∈}\text{L}{}^{\mathrm{d}}\text{(Ω)}$ with ∫f=0, there exists a solution $\text{u∈}\text{C}{}^0\text{(}\text{Ω}\text{)∩}\text{W}{}^{\mathrm{1,d}}\text{(Ω)}$ of the equation divu=f in $\text{Ω}$, satisfying in addition u=0 on $\text{?Ω}$ and the estimate

where C depends only on $\text{Ω}$. However one cannot choose u depending linearly on f. To cite this article: J. Bourgain, H. Brezis, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 334 (2002) 973–976.     

Sublinear perturbations of the differential equation y(n) = 0 and of the analogous difference equation

According to a result of A. Ghizzetti, for any solution y(t) of the differential equation where $\text{y}{}^{\mathrm{(n)}}\text{(t)+}\text{∑}\text{i=0}\text{n?1}\text{g}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{(t) y}{}^{\mathrm{i}}\text{(t)=0}\text{(t ? 1)}$, $\text{∝}{}_1{}^{\mathrm{\infty }}\text{¦g}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{(x)¦x}{}^{\mathrm{n?I?1}}\text{dx < ∞}$ (0 ?i ? n ?1, either y(t) = 0 for t ? 1 or there is an integer r with 0 ? r ? n ? 1 such that $\text{lim}\text{t → ∞}\text{y(t)}\text{t}{}^{\mathrm{r}}$ exists and ≠0. Related results are obtained for difference and differential inequalities. A special case of the former has interesting applications in the study of orthogonal polynomials.     

Détermination du potentiel dans l'équation de Schrödinger à partir de mesures sur une partie du bordDetermination of potential in Schrödinger equation from measurements on a part of the boundary

We study the Schrödinger equation iy′+Δy+qy=0 on $\text{Ω×(0,T)}$ with Dirichlet boundary data $\text{y|}{}_{\mathrm{?\Omega \times (0,T)}}$ and initial condition $\text{y|}{}_{\mathrm{\Omega \times \{0\}}}$ and we consider the inverse problem of determining the potential q(x), $\text{x∈Ω}$ when is given, where Γ₀ is an open subset of $\text{?Ω}$ satisfying an appropriate geometrical condition. The detailed proof will be given in [1]. To cite this article: L. Baudouin, J.-P. Puel, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 334 (2002) 967–972.     

On the asymptotic behavior of solutions of a mildly nonlinear parabolic system

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the mixed initial boundary value problem for the system of nonlinear parabolic equations

$\text{?u}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{+Lu=f(x.t.u.v)}\text{?v}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{+Mv=g(x,t,u,v)}$

We show, under suitable technical assumptions, that these solutions converge to solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the corresponding limiting elliptic system, provided that the solution of the Dirichlet problem is unique.     

Asymptotic stability of some quasilinear parabolic equations in divergence form. L∞ results

In this paper we study the behavior of solutions of some quasilinear parabolic equations of the form

$\text{(}\text{?u}\text{?t}\text{) ?}\text{∑}\text{i=1}\text{n}\text{(}\text{d}\text{dx}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{) a}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{(x, t, u, u}{}_{\mathrm{x}}\text{) + a(x, t, u, u}{}_{\mathrm{x}}\text{)u + f(x, t) = O,}$

as t → ∞. In particular, the solutions of these equations will decay to zero as t → ∞ in the L^∞ norm.     

Diffusion with interactions between two types of particles and Pressureless gas equations

We construct two d-dimensional independent diffusions $\text{X}{}_{\mathrm{t}}{}^{\mathrm{a}}\text{=a+∫}{}_0{}^{\mathrm{t}}\text{u(X}{}_{\mathrm{s}}{}^{\mathrm{a}}\text{,s)}\text{d}\text{s+νB}{}_{\mathrm{t}}{}^{\mathrm{a}}\text{,}\text{X}{}_{\mathrm{t}}{}^{\mathrm{b}}\text{=b+∫}{}_0{}^{\mathrm{t}}\text{u(X}{}_{\mathrm{s}}{}^{\mathrm{b}}\text{,s)}\text{d}\text{s+νB}{}_{\mathrm{t}}{}^{\mathrm{b}}$, with the same viscosity ν≠0 and the same drift u(x,t)=(pρ_t^a(x)v₁+(1?p)ρ_t^b(x)v₂)/(pρ_t^a(x)+(1?p)ρ_t^b(x)), where ρ_t^a,ρ_t^b are respectively the density of X_t^a and X_t^b. Here $\text{a,b,v}{}_1\text{,v}{}_2\text{∈}\text{R}{}^{\mathrm{d}}$ and p∈(0,1) are given. We show that $\text{(ρ}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{(x)=pρ}{}_{\mathrm{t}}{}^{\mathrm{a}}\text{(x)+(1?p)ρ}{}_{\mathrm{t}}{}^{\mathrm{b}}\text{(x),u(x,t):}\text{t?0,}\text{x∈}\text{R}{}^{\mathrm{d}}\text{)}$ is the unique weak solution of the following pressureless gas system

such that $\text{ρ}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{(x)}\text{d}\text{x→pδ}{}_{\mathrm{a}}\text{+(1?p)δ}{}_{\mathrm{b}}\text{,}\text{u(x,t)ρ}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{(x)}\text{d}\text{x→pv}{}_1\text{δ}{}_{\mathrm{a}}\text{+(1?p)v}{}_2\text{δ}{}_{\mathrm{b}}$ as t→0+. To cite this article: A. Dermoune, S. Filali, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 337 (2003).     

Asymptotic behavior for an almost periodic,strongly dissipative wave equation

This paper deals with asymptotic behavior for (weak) solutions of the equation $\text{u}{}_{\mathrm{tt}}\text{? Δu + β(u}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{) ? ?(t, x)}$, on $\text{R}$⁺ × Ω; u(t, x) = 0, on $\text{R}$⁺ × ?Ω. If $\text{?∈L∞(R}{}^{\mathrm{+}}\text{,L}{}^2\text{(Ω))}$ and β is coercive, we prove that the solutions are bounded in the energy space, under weaker assumptions than those used by G. Prouse in a previous work. If in addition $\text{?}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{∈S}{}^2\text{(R}{}^{\mathrm{+}}\text{,L}{}^2\text{(Ω))}$ and ? is srongly almost-periodic, we prove for strongly monotone β that all solutions are asymptotically almost-periodic in the energy space. The assumptions made on β are much less restrictive than those made by G. Prouse: mainly, we allow β to be multivalued, and in the one-dimensional case β need not be defined everywhere.