We study the sharp asymptotics for a class of quasilinear wave equations satisfying a weak null condition but not the classical null condition in three spatial dimensions. We prove that the asymptotics are very different from those for the equations satisfying the classical null condition. In particular, at leading order, the solution displays a continuous superposition of decay rates.
We will talk about recent work establishing a quantitative nonlinear scattering theory for asymptotically de Sitter solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations in (n+1) dimensions with n ≥ 4 even, which are determined by small scattering data at future infinity and past infinity. We will also explain why the case of even spatial dimension n poses significant challenges compared to its odd counterpart and was left open by the previous works in the literature.
The compressible Euler equations readily form shocks, but in 1D the inclusion of viscosity prevents such singularities. In this talk, we will quantitatively examine the interaction between generic shock formation and viscous effects as the viscosity tends to zero. We thereby obtain sharp rates for the vanishing-viscosity limit in Hölder norms, and uncover universal viscous structure near shock formation. The results hold for large classes of viscous hyperbolic conservation laws, including compressible Navier–Stokes with physical rather than artificial viscosity.
In this talk, I will present a method to construct nontrivial global solutions to some quasilinear wave equations in three space dimensions. Starting from a global solution to the geometric reduced system satisfying several pointwise estimates, we find a matching exact global solution to the original quasilinear wave equations. As an application of this method, we will construct nontrivial global solutions to Fritz John's counterexample $\Box u=u_tu_{tt}$ and the 3D compressible Euler equations without vorticity for $t\geq 0$.
We will talk about our results on the elasticity and stability of the
collision of two kinks with low speed v>0 for the nonlinear wave
equation of dimension 1+1 known as the phi^6 model. We will show that
the collision of the two solitons is "almost" elastic and that, after
the collision, the size of the energy norm of the remainder and the size
of the defect of the speed of each soliton can be, for any k>0, of the
order of any monomial v^{k} if v is small enough.
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We consider the 1+1 dimensional vector valued Principal Chiral Field model (PCF) obtained as a simplification of the Vacuum Einstein Field equations under the Belinski-Zakharov symmetry. PCF is an integrable model, but a rigorous description of its evolution is far from complete. Here we provide the existence of local solutions in a suitable chosen energy space, as well as small global smooth solutions under a certain non degeneracy condition.
In this talk we will discuss an optimal control problem for stochastic differential delay equations. We will only consider the case with delays in the state. We will show how to rewrite the problem in a suitable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space.
I discuss some recent results, obtained jointly with David Wallauch, on the stability of self-similar wave maps under minimal regularity assumptions on the perturbation. More precisely, we prove the asymptotic stability of an explicitly known self-similar wave map in corotational symmetry. The key tool are Strichartz estimates for the linearized equation in similarity coordinates.
We will discuss the one-phase Muskat problem concerning the free boundary of Darcy fluids in porous media. It is known that there exists a class of non-graph initial boundary leading to self-intersection at a single point in finite time (splash singularity). On the other hand, we prove that the problem has a unique global-in-time solution if the initial boundary is a periodic Lipschitz graph of arbitrary size. This is based on joint work with H. Dong and F. Gancedo.
Transport equations arise in the modelling of several complex systems, including mean field games. Such equations often involve nonlinear dependence of the solution in the drift. These nonlinear transport equations can be understood by developing a theory for transport equations with irregular drifts. In this talk, I will outline the well-posedness theory for certain transport equations in which the drift has a one-sided bound on the divergence, yielding contractive or expansive behavior, depending on the direction in which the equation is posed.
