Global Carleman Estimates for Waves and Applications

In this article, we extensively develop Carleman estimates for the wave equation and give some applications. We focus on the case of an observation of the flux on a part of the boundary satisfying the Gamma conditions of Lions. We will then consider two applications. The first one deals with the exact controllability problem for the wave equation with potential. Following the duality method proposed by Fursikov and Imanuvilov in the context of parabolic equations, we propose a constructive method to derive controls that weakly depend on the potentials. The second application concerns an inverse problem for the waves that consists in recovering an unknown time-independent potential from a single measurement of the flux. In that context, our approach does not yield any new stability result, but proposes a constructive algorithm to rebuild the potential. In both cases, the main idea is to introduce weighted functionals that contain the Carleman weights and then to take advantage of the freedom on the Carleman parameters to limit the influences of the potentials.     

Carleman Estimates and Controllability of Linear Stochastic Heat Equations

   Abstract. This work is concerned with Carleman inequalities and controllability properties for the following stochastic linear heat equation (with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the bounded domain D ⊂ R ^d and multiplicative noise):

Heat Kernel Estimates for Operators with Boundary Conditions

We prove Gaussian upper bounds for kernels associated with non – symmetric, non – autonomous second order parabolic operators of divergence form subject to various boundary conditions. The growth of the kernel in time is determined by theboundary conditions and the geometric properties of the domain. The theory gives a unified treatment for Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin boundary conditions, and the existence of a Gaussian type bound is essentially reduced to verifying some properties of the Hilbert space in the weak formulation of the problem.     

Optimal Three Cylinder Inequality at the Boundary for Solutions to Parabolic Equations and Unique Continuation Properties

Let Γ be a portion of a C ^1,α boundary of an n-dimensional domain D. Let u be a solution to a second order parabolic equation in D × (–T, T) and assume that u = 0 on Γ × (–T, T), 0 ∈ Γ. We prove that u satis.es a three cylinder inequality near Γ × (–T, T) . As a consequence of the previous result we prove that if u (x, t) = O (|x|^k) for every t ∈ (–T, T) and every k ∈ ℕ, then u is identically equal to zero. This work is partially supported by MURST, Grant No. MM01111258     

Carleman Estimates for Second-Order Hyperbolic Equations

In the space of variables (x, t) ∈ ? ⁿ⁺¹, we consider a linear second-order hyperbolic equation with coefficients depending only on x. Given a domain D ? ? ⁿ⁺¹ whose projection to the x-space is a compact domain Ω, we consider the question of construction of a stability estimate for a solution to the Cauchy problem with data on the lateral boundary S of D. The well-known method for obtaining such estimates bases on the Carleman estimates with an exponential-type weight function exp(2τ?(x, t)) whose construction faces certain difficulties in case of hyperbolic equations with variable coefficients. We demonstrate that if D is symmetric with respect to the plane t = 0 then we can take ?(x, t) to be the function ?(x, t) = s ²(x, x ⁰) ? pt ², where s(x, x ⁰) is the distance between points x and x ⁰ in the Riemannian metric induced by the differential equation, p is some positive number less than 1, and the fixed point x ⁰ can either belong to the domain Ω or lie beyond it. As for the metric, we suppose that the sectional curvature of the corresponding Riemannian space is bounded above by some number k ₀ ≥ 0. In case of space of nonpositive curvature the parameter p can be taken arbitrarily close to 1; in this case as p → 1 the stability estimates lead to a uniqueness theorem which describes exactly the domain of the solution continuation through S. It turns out that, in case of space of bounded positive curvature, construction of a Carleman estimate is possible only if the product of k ₀ and sup _x∈Ω s ²(x, x ⁰) satisfies some smallness condition.     

Lipschitz Stability in Inverse Source Problems for Singular Parabolic Equations

We consider 2-D Klein-Gordon equation with quadratic nonlinearity and prove Strichartz type dispersive estimates for the global solution with small initial data in the Sobolev space H ^1+?.     

带非线性边界条件的非线性抛物型方程组

本文讨论带非线性边界条件的抛物型方程组ｕｔ＝Δｕｍ，ｖｔ＝Δｖｍ，ｘ∈Ω，ｔ＞０，ｕｎ＝ｖｐ，ｖｎ＝ｕｑ，ｘ∈Ω，ｔ＞０，ｕ（ｘ，０）＝ｕ０（ｘ）δ＞０，ｖ（ｘ，０）＝ｖ０（ｘ）δ＞０，ｘ∈Ω（Ｉ）解的整体存在性和在有限时刻爆破问题．其中ｍ，ｐ，ｑ＞０，ΩＩＲＮ是有界光滑区域，δ＞０可以充分小．     

带梯度项的椭圆型方程边界爆破解的高阶估计

In this paper,the higher order asymptotic behaviors of boundary blow-up solutions to the equation■in bounded smooth domain■are systematically investigated for p and q.The second and third order boundary behaviours of the equation are derived.The results show the role of the mean curvature of the boundary■and its gradient in the high order asymptotic expansions of the solutions.     

Schauder Estimates for Elliptic and Parabolic Equations

In this note the author gives an elementary and simple proof for the Schauder estimates for elliptic and parabolic equations. The proof also applies to nonlinear equations.     

Parabolic Ito Equations with Mixed in Time Conditions

Abstract

We study linear stochastic partial differential equations of parabolic type with special boundary conditions in time. The standard Cauchy condition at the initial time is replaced by a condition that mixes the values of the solution at different times, including the terminal time and continuously distributed times. Uniqueness, solvability and regularity results for the solutions are obtained.     

Carleman estimates and controllability results for the one-dimensional heat equation with BV coefficients

We derive global Carleman estimates for one-dimensional linear parabolic equations t_∂±x_∂(cx_∂) with a coefficient of bounded variations. These estimates are obtained by approximating c by piecewise constant coefficients, cε, and passing to the limit in the Carleman estimates associated to the operators defined with cε. Such estimates yields observability inequalities for the considered linear parabolic equation, which, in turn, yield controllability results for classes of semilinear equations.     

一维非齐次BBM方程周期边界问题的整体吸引子

研究了一维非齐次方程BBM方程ut-uxxt-αφ(u)x=g(x)+βf(u)+γuxx(α>0,β>0,γ>0),u(x+2π,t)=u(x,t),u(x,0)=u0(x)的周期边界问题.利用Sobolev插值不等式,对解做关于时间t的一致性先验估计,证明了该问题的整体吸引子的存在性.     

Hoeder Continuity of Weak Solutions for Parabolic Equations with Nonstandard Growth Conditions

In this paper, we investigate the interior regularity including the local boundedness and the interior HSlder continuity of weak solutions for parabolic equations of the p（x, t）-Laplacian type. We improve the Moser iteration technique and generalize the known results for the elliptic problem to the corresponding parabolic problem.     

一类拟线性退缩抛物型方程整体解的存在性与衰减估计

本文讨论了一类拟线性抛物型方程初边值问题整体解的存在性和衰减估计.所得结果改进并推广了文献[1]的相应结果.     

A Problem with Nonlocal Boundary Conditions for a Quasilinear Parabolic Equation

The solvability of the nonlocal boundary value problem

Sobolev Regularity for t > 0 in Quasilinear Parabolic Equations

We establish a regularity property for the solutions to the quasilinear parabolicinitial-boundary value problem (1.4) below, showing that for t > 0 they belong to the same space to which the solutions of the second order hyperbolic problem (1.5), which is a singular perturbation of (1.4), belong. This result provides another illustration of the asymptotically parabolic nature ofproblem (1.5), and would be needed to establish the diffusion phenomenon for quasilinear dissipative wave equations in Sobolev spaces.     

Limit Behaviour of Solutions to a Class of Equivalued Surface Boundary Value Problems for Parabolic Equations

In this paper, we discuss the limit behaviour of solutions for a class of equivalued surface boundary value problems for parabolic equations. When the equivalued surface boundary \overline{\Gamma}^\varepsilon_1 shrinks to a fixed point on boundary \Gamma_1, only homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions or Neumann boundary conditions with Dirac function appear on \Gamma_1.     

Carleman estimates for the one-dimensional heat equation with a discontinuous coefficient and applications to controllability and an inverse problem

We study the observability and some of its consequences (controllability, identification of diffusion coefficients) for one-dimensional heat equations with discontinuous coefficients (piecewise C¹). The observability, for a linear equation, is obtained by a Carleman-type estimate. This kind of observability inequality yields controllability results for a semi-linear equation as well as a stability result for the identification of the diffusion coefficient.