LOCAL WELL-POSEDNESS AND ILL-POSEDNESS ON THE EQUATION OF TYPE □u = uk((e)u)α

This paper undertakes a systematic treatment of the low regularity local wellposedness and ill-posedness theory in Hs andHs for semilinear wave equations with polynomial nonlinearity in u and (e)u. This ill-posed result concerns the focusing type equations with nonlinearity on u and (e)tu.     

Ill-posedness for the Zakharov system with generalized nonlinearity

We study the ill-posedness question for the one-dimensional Zakharov system and a generalization of it in one and higher dimensions. Our point of reference is the criticality criteria introduced by Ginibre, Tsutsumi and Velo (1997) to establish local well-posedness.

     

Semi-cooperative strategies for differential games

The paper is concerned with a non-cooperative differential game for two players. We first consider Nash equilibrium solutions in feedback form. In this case, we show that the Cauchy problem for the value functions is generically ill-posed. Looking at vanishing viscosity approximations, one can construct special solutions in the form of chattering controls, but these also appear to be unstable. In the second part of the paper we propose an alternative semi-cooperative pair of strategies for the two players, seeking a Pareto optimum instead of a Nash equilibrium. In this case, we prove that the corresponding Hamiltonian system for the value functions is always weakly hyperbolic.Revised: May 2004     

LOCAL WELL-POSEDNESS AND ILL-POSEDNESS ON THE EQUATION OF TYPE □u = u^k（δu）^α

This paper undertakes a systematic treatment of the low regularity local wellposedness and ill-posedness theory in H^s and H^s for semilinear wave equations with polynomial nonlinearity in u and δu. This ill-posed result concerns the focusing type equations with nonlinearity on u and δtu.     

Ill-posedness at the boundary for elastic solids sliding under Coulomb friction

We consider an incompressible neo-Hookean elastic solid sliding on a rigid surface under the influence of Coulomb friction. It is shown that ill-posedness at the boundary due to failure of Agmon's condition can occur. If the friction coefficient is greater than one, this is the case even in the limit of linear elasticity. The effect of a dependence of the friction force on the sliding velocity is also considered.     

Studies on adsorption energy distributions computation from adsorption isotherms by the ansatz method

Since the well-known adsorption integral equation (AIE) is an ill-posed problem, calculation of relevant energetic properties from gas and liquid adsorption isotherms on porous solids still remains a challenging field of research. There are two approaches for solving the AIE: (1) the numerical regularization method and (2) the fitting of the experimental adsorption data by functions possessing an analytical solution. Up to now the latter approach has been treated without consideration of the ill-posedness. The inclusion of ill-posedness in the approach leads to its specification which we call the ansatz method. By showing that a certain class of ansatz functions cannot be used for describing the total isotherms, we were urged to consider more general solutions being connected with the Stieltjes integrals. After applying a general inversion formula we can restrict the theoretically possible total isotherms and outline a feasible general ansatz.     

Ill-posedness of the Camassa–Holm and related equations in the critical space

We prove norm inflation and hence ill-posedness for a class of shallow water wave equations, such as the Camassa–Holm equation, Degasperis–Procesi equation and Novikov equation etc., in the critical Sobolev space $H^{3/2}$ and even in the Besov space $B_{p,r}^{1+1/p}$ for $p\in [1,\infty ],r\in (1,\infty ]$. Our results cover both real-line and torus cases (only real-line case for Novikov), solving an open problem left in the previous works ([5], [14], [16]).     

On the three-dimensional finite Larmor radius approximation: The case of electrons in a fixed background of ions

This paper is concerned with the analysis of a mathematical model arising in plasma physics, more specifically in fusion research. It directly follows, Han-Kwan (2010) [18], where the three-dimensional analysis of a Vlasov–Poisson equation with finite Larmor radius scaling was led, corresponding to the case of ions with massless electrons whose density follows a linearized Maxwell–Boltzmann law. We now consider the case of electrons in a background of fixed ions, which was only sketched in Han-Kwan (2010) [18]. Unfortunately, there is evidence that the formal limit is false in general. Nevertheless, we formally derive from the Vlasov–Poisson equation a fluid system for particular monokinetic data. We prove the local in time existence of analytic solutions and rigorously study the limit (when the inverse of the intensity of the magnetic field and the Debye length vanish) to a new anisotropic fluid system. This is achieved thanks to Cauchy–Kovalevskaya type techniques, as introduced by Caflisch (1990) [7] and Grenier (1996) [14]. We finally show that this approach fails in Sobolev regularity, due to multi-fluid instabilities.     

Semi-discretization Difference Approximation for a Cauchy Problem of Heat Equation in Two-dimensional Space

In this paper we consider a semi-descretization difference scheme for solving a Cauchy problem of heat equation in two-dimensional setting. Some error estimates are proved for the semi-descretization difference regularization method which cannot be fitted into the framework of regularization theory presented by Engl, Hanke and Neubauer. Numerical results show that the proposed method works well.     

Sufficient conditions for total ill-posedness in linear semi-infinite optimization

This paper deals with the so-called total ill-posedness of linear optimization problems with an arbitrary (possibly infinite) number of constraints. We say that the nominal problem is totally ill-posed if it exhibits the highest unstability in the sense that arbitrarily small perturbations of the problem’s coefficients may provide both, consistent (with feasible solutions) and inconsistent problems, as well as bounded (with finite optimal value) and unbounded problems, and also solvable (with optimal solutions) and unsolvable problems. In this paper we provide sufficient conditions for the total ill-posedness property exclusively in terms of the coefficients of the nominal problem.