for Journals by Title or ISSN for Articles by Keywords help
 Subjects -> MATHEMATICS (Total: 874 journals)     - APPLIED MATHEMATICS (71 journals)    - GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY (19 journals)    - MATHEMATICS (647 journals)    - MATHEMATICS (GENERAL) (41 journals)    - NUMERICAL ANALYSIS (19 journals)    - PROBABILITIES AND MATH STATISTICS (77 journals) MATHEMATICS (647 journals)                  1 2 3 4 | Last

1 2 3 4 | Last

 Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations   [SJR: 2.455]   [H-I: 44]   [0 followers]  Follow         Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)    ISSN (Print) 1432-0835 - ISSN (Online) 0944-2669    Published by Springer-Verlag  [2345 journals]
• Symmetry, quantitative Liouville theorems and analysis of large solutions
of conformally invariant fully nonlinear elliptic equations
• Authors: YanYan Li; Luc Nguyen
Abstract: We establish blow-up profiles for any blowing-up sequence of solutions of general conformally invariant fully nonlinear elliptic equations on Euclidean domains. We prove that (i) the distance between blow-up points is bounded from below by a universal positive number, (ii) the solutions are very close to a single standard bubble in a universal positive distance around each blow-up point, and (iii) the heights of these bubbles are comparable by a universal factor. As an application of this result, we establish a quantitative Liouville theorem.
PubDate: 2017-06-19
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1192-y
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• On locally conformally flat manifolds with finite total Q -curvature
• Authors: Zhiqin Lu; Yi Wang
Abstract: In this paper, we study the ends of a locally conformally flat complete manifold with finite total Q-curvature. We prove that for such a manifold, the integral of the Q-curvature equals an integral multiple of a dimensional constant $$c_n$$ , where $$c_n$$ is the integral of the Q-curvature on the unit n-sphere. It provides further evidence that the Q-curvature on a locally conformally flat manifold controls geometry as the Gaussian curvature does in two dimension.
PubDate: 2017-06-16
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1189-6
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• Asymptotic behaviors of Landau–Lifshitz flows from $$\mathbb {R}^2$$ R 2
to Kähler manifolds
• Authors: Ze Li; Lifeng Zhao
Abstract: In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviors of finite energy solutions to the Landau–Lifshitz flows from $$\mathbb {R}^2$$ into Kähler manifolds. First, we prove that the solution with initial data below the critical energy converges to a constant map in the energy space as $$t\rightarrow \infty$$ for the compact Riemannian surface targets. In particular, when the target is a two dimensional sphere, we prove that the solution to the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation with initial data having an energy below $$4\pi$$ converges to some constant map in the energy space. The proof bases on the method of induction on energy and geometric renormalizations. Second, for general compact Kähler manifolds and initial data of an arbitrary finite energy, we obtain a bubbling theorem analogous to the Struwe’s results on the heat flows.
PubDate: 2017-06-10
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1182-0
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• A natural approach to the asymptotic mean value property for the p
-Laplacian
Abstract: Let $$1\le p\le \infty$$ . We show that a function $$u\in C(\mathbb R^N)$$ is a viscosity solution to the normalized p-Laplace equation $$\Delta _p^n u(x)=0$$ if and only if the asymptotic formula \begin{aligned} u(x)=\mu _p(\varepsilon ,u)(x)+o(\varepsilon ^2) \end{aligned} holds as $$\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$$ in the viscosity sense. Here, $$\mu _p(\varepsilon ,u)(x)$$ is the p-mean value of u on $$B_\varepsilon (x)$$ characterized as a unique minimizer of \begin{aligned} \Vert u-\lambda \Vert _{L^p(B_\varepsilon (x))} \end{aligned} with respect to $$\lambda \in {\mathbb {R}}$$ . This kind of asymptotic mean value property (AMVP) extends to the case $$p=1$$ previous (AMVP)’s obtained when $$\mu _p(\varepsilon ,u)(x)$$ is replaced by other kinds of mean values. The natural definition of $$\mu _p(\varepsilon ,u)(x)$$ makes sure that this is a monotonic and continuous (in the appropriate topology) functional of u. These two properties help to establish a fairly general proof of (AMVP), that can also be extended to the (normalized) parabolic p-Laplace equation.
PubDate: 2017-06-10
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1188-7
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• Homogenization of viscous and non-viscous HJ equations: a remark and an
application
• Authors: Andrea Davini; Elena Kosygina
Abstract: It was pointed out by P.-L. Lions, G. Papanicolaou, and S.R.S. Varadhan in their seminal paper (1987) that, for first order Hamilton–Jacobi (HJ) equations, homogenization starting with affine initial data implies homogenization for general uniformly continuous initial data. The argument makes use of some properties of the HJ semi-group, in particular, the finite speed of propagation. This property is lost for viscous HJ equations. In this paper we prove the above mentioned implication in both viscous and non-viscous cases. Our proof relies on a variant of Evans’s perturbed test function method. As an application, we show homogenization in the stationary ergodic setting for viscous and non-viscous HJ equations in one space dimension with non-convex Hamiltonians of specific form. The results are new in the viscous case.
PubDate: 2017-06-08
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1177-x
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• The Moser–Trudinger inequality and its extremals on a disk via
energy estimates
• Authors: Gabriele Mancini; Luca Martinazzi
Abstract: We study the Dirichlet energy of non-negative radially symmetric critical points $$u_\mu$$ of the Moser–Trudinger inequality on the unit disc in $$\mathbb {R}^2$$ , and prove that it expands as \begin{aligned} 4\pi +\frac{4\pi }{\mu ^{4}}+o(\mu ^{-4})\le \int _{B_1} \nabla u_\mu ^2dx\le 4\pi +\frac{6\pi }{\mu ^{4}}+o(\mu ^{-4}),\quad \text {as }\mu \rightarrow \infty , \end{aligned} where $$\mu =u_\mu (0)$$ is the maximum of $$u_\mu$$ . As a consequence, we obtain a new proof of the Moser–Trudinger inequality, of the Carleson–Chang result about the existence of extremals, and of the Struwe and Lamm–Robert–Struwe multiplicity result in the supercritical regime (only in the case of the unit disk). Our results are stable under sufficiently weak perturbations of the Moser–Trudinger functional. We explicitly identify the critical level of perturbation for which, although the perturbed Moser–Trudinger inequality still holds, the energy of its critical points converges to $$4\pi$$ from below. We expect, in some of these cases, that the existence of extremals does not hold, nor the existence of critical points in the supercritical regime.
PubDate: 2017-06-08
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1184-y
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• Theory of light-matter interaction in nematic liquid crystals and the
second Painlevé equation
• Authors: Marcel G. Clerc; Juan Diego Dávila; Michał Kowalczyk; Panayotis Smyrnelis; Estefania Vidal-Henriquez
Abstract: We study global minimizers of an energy functional arising as a thin sample limit in the theory of light-matter interaction in nematic liquid crystals. We show that depending on the parameters various defects are predicted by the model. In particular we show existence of a new type of topological defect which we call the shadow kink. Its local profile is described by the generalized Hastings and McLeod solutions of the second Painlevé equation (Claeys et al. in Ann Math 168(2):601–641, 2008; Hastings and McLeod in Arch Ration Mech Anal 73(1):31–51, 1980). As part of our analysis we give a new proof of existence of these solutions.
PubDate: 2017-06-07
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1187-8
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• Two solutions for an elliptic problem with two singular terms
• Authors: Giovanni Anello; Francesca Faraci
Abstract: We study the Dirichlet boundary value problem with 0-boundary data for the semilinear elliptic equation $$-\Delta u= (\lambda u^{s-1}-u^{r-1})\chi _{\{u>0\}}$$ in a bounded domain $$\Omega$$ , where $$0<r<s<1$$ and $$\lambda \in (0,\infty )$$ . In particular, for $$\lambda$$ large enough, we prove the existence of at least two nonnegative solutions, one of which is positive, satisfies the Hopf’s boundary condition and corresponds to a local minimum of the energy functional. This paper is motivated by a recent result of the authors where the same conclusion was obtained for the case $$0<r\le 1< s<2$$ .
PubDate: 2017-06-06
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1179-8
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• Variational methods for the selection of solutions to an implicit system
of PDE
• Authors: Gisella Croce; Giovanni Pisante
Abstract: We consider the vectorial system \begin{aligned} {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} Du \in \mathcal {O}(2), &{} \text{ a.e. } \text{ in }\,\;\Omega , \\ u=0, &{} \text{ on } \,\;\partial \Omega , \end{array}\right. } \end{aligned} where $$\Omega$$ is a subset of $$\mathbb R^2$$ , $$u:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb R^2$$ and $$\mathcal {O}(2)$$ is the orthogonal group of $$\mathbb R^2$$ . We provide a variational method to select, among the infinitely many solutions, the ones that minimize an appropriate weighted measure of some set of singularities of the gradient.
PubDate: 2017-06-06
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1185-x
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• Uniform regularity and convergence of phase-fields for Willmore’s
energy
• Authors: Patrick W. Dondl; Stephan Wojtowytsch
Abstract: We investigate the convergence of phase fields for the Willmore problem away from the support of a limiting measure $$\mu$$ . For this purpose, we introduce a suitable notion of essentially uniform convergence. This mode of convergence is a natural generalisation of uniform convergence that precisely describes the convergence of phase fields in three dimensions. More in detail, we show that, in three space dimensions, points close to which the phase fields stay bounded away from a pure phase lie either in the support of the limiting mass measure $$\mu$$ or contribute a positive amount to the limiting Willmore energy. Thus there can only be finitely many such points. As an application, we investigate the Hausdorff limit of level sets of sequences of phase fields with bounded energy. We also obtain results on boundedness and $$L^p$$ -convergence of phase fields and convergence from outside the interval between the wells of a double-well potential. For minimisers of suitable energy functionals, we deduce uniform convergence of the phase fields from essentially uniform convergence.
PubDate: 2017-06-05
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1178-9
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• Concavity of the Lagrangian phase operator and applications
• Authors: Tristan C. Collins; Sebastien Picard; Xuan Wu
Abstract: We study the Dirichlet problem for the Lagrangian phase operator, in both the real and complex setting. Our main result states that if $$\Omega$$ is a compact domain in $${\mathbb {R}}^{n}$$ or $${\mathbb {C}}^n$$ , then there exists a solution to the Dirichlet problem with right-hand side h(x) satisfying $$h(x) > (n-2)\frac{\pi }{2}$$ and boundary data $$\varphi$$ if and only if there exists a subsolution.
PubDate: 2017-06-05
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1191-z
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 4 (2017)

• Asymmetric ( p , 2)-equations with double resonance
• Authors: Leszek Gasiński; Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou
Abstract: We consider a nonlinear Dirichlet elliptic problem driven by the sum of a p-Laplacian and a Laplacian [a (p, 2)-equation] and with a reaction term, which is superlinear in the positive direction (without satisfying the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition) and sublinear resonant in the negative direction. Resonance can also occur asymptotically at zero. So, we have a double resonance situation. Using variational methods based on the critical point theory and Morse theory (critical groups), we establish the existence of at least three nontrivial smooth solutions.
PubDate: 2017-06-03
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1180-2
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

• Uniqueness results on surfaces with boundary
• Authors: Xiaodong Wang
PubDate: 2017-06-02
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1190-0
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

• On Willmore Legendrian surfaces in $$\mathbb {S}^5$$ S 5 and the contact
stationary Legendrian Willmore surfaces
• Authors: Yong Luo
Abstract: In this paper we study Willmore Legendrian surfaces (that is Legendrian surfaces which are critical points of the Willmore functional). We use an equality proved in Luo (arXiv:1211.4227v6) to get a relation between Willmore Legendrian surfaces and contact stationary Legendrian surfaces in $$\mathbb {S}^5$$ , and then we use this relation to prove a classification result for Willmore Legendrian spheres in $$\mathbb {S}^5$$ . We also get an integral inequality for Willmore Legendrian surfaces and in particular we prove that if the square length of the second fundamental form of a Willmore Legendrian surface in $$\mathbb {S}^5$$ belongs to [0, 2], then it must be 0 and L is totally geodesic or 2 and L is a flat minimal Legendrian tori, which generalizes the result of Yamaguchi et al. (Proc Am Math Soc 54:276–280, 1976). We also study variation of the Willmore functional among Legendrian surfaces in 5-dimensional Sasakian manifolds. Let $$\Sigma$$ be a closed surface and $$(M,\alpha ,g_\alpha ,J)$$ a 5-dimensional Sasakian manifold with a contact form $$\alpha$$ , an associated metric $$g_\alpha$$ and an almost complex structure J. Assume that $$f:\Sigma \mapsto M$$ is a Legendrian immersion. Then f is called a contact stationary Legendrian Willmore surface (in short, a csL Willmore surface) if it is a critical point of the Willmore functional under contact deformations. To investigate the existence of csL Willmore surfaces we introduce a higher order flow which preserves the Legendre condition and decreases the Willmore energy. As a first step we prove that this flow is well posed if $$(M,\alpha ,g_\alpha ,J)$$ is a Sasakian Einstein manifold, in particular $$\mathbb {S}^5$$ .
PubDate: 2017-06-02
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1183-z
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

• Domain variations and moving boundary problems
• Authors: Patrick Guidotti
Abstract: In the past few decades maximal regularity theory has successfully been applied to moving boundary problems. The basic idea is to reduce the system with varying domains to one in a fixed domain. This is done by a transformation, the so-called Hanzawa transformation, and yields a typically nonlocal and nonlinear coupled system of (evolution) equations. Well-posedness results can then often be established as soon as it is proved that the relevant linearization is the generator of an analytic semigroup or admits maximal regularity. To implement this program, it is necessary to somehow parametrize to space of boundaries/domains (typically the space of compact hypersurfaces $$\Gamma$$ in $${\mathbb {R}}^n$$ , in the Euclidean setting). This has traditionally been achieved by means of the already mentioned Hanzawa transformation. The approach, while successful, requires the introduction of a smooth manifold $$\Gamma _\infty$$ close to the manifold $$\Gamma _0$$ in which one cares to linearize. This prevents one to use coordinates in which $$\Gamma _0$$ lies at their “center”. As a result formulæ tend to contain terms that would otherwise not be present were one able to linearize in a neighborhood emanating from $$\Gamma _0$$ instead of from $$\Gamma _\infty$$ . In this paper it is made use of flows (curves of diffeomorphisms) to obtain a general form of the relevant linearization in combination with an alternative coordinatization of the manifold of hypersurfaces, which circumvents the need for the introduction of a “phantom” reference manifold $$\Gamma _\infty$$ by, in its place, making use of a “phantom geometry” on $$\Gamma _0$$ . The upshot is a clear insight into the structure of the linearization, simplified calculations, and simpler formulæ for the resulting linear operators, which are useful in applications.
PubDate: 2017-06-02
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1181-1
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

• The deformation of symplectic critical surfaces in a Kähler
surface-II—compactness
• Authors: Xiaoli Han; Jiayu Li; Jun Sun
Abstract: In this paper we consider the compactness of $$\beta$$ -symplectic critical surfaces in a Kähler surface. Let M be a compact Kähler surface and $$\Sigma _i\subset M$$ be a sequence of closed $$\beta _i$$ -symplectic critical surfaces with $$\beta _i\rightarrow \beta _0\in (0,\infty )$$ . Suppose the quantity $$\int _{\Sigma _i}\frac{1}{\cos ^q\alpha _i}d\mu _i$$ (for some $$q>4$$ ) and the genus of $$\Sigma _{i}$$ are bounded, then there exists a finite set of points $${{\mathcal {S}}}\subset M$$ and a subsequence $$\Sigma _{i'}$$ which converges uniformly in the $$C^l$$ topology (for any $$l<\infty$$ ) on compact subsets of $$M\backslash {{\mathcal {S}}}$$ to a $$\beta _0$$ -symplectic critical surface $$\Sigma \subset M$$ , each connected component of $$\Sigma \setminus {{\mathcal {S}}}$$ can be extended smoothly across $${{\mathcal {S}}}$$ .
PubDate: 2017-06-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1175-z
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

• Radial graphs of constant curvature and prescribed boundary
• Authors: Flávio F. Cruz
Abstract: In this paper we are concerned with the problem of finding hypersurfaces of constant curvature and prescribed boundary in the Euclidean space, without assuming the convexity of the prescribed solution and using the theory of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. If the given data admits a suitable radial graph as a subsolution, then we prove that there exists a radial graph with constant curvature and realizing the prescribed boundary. As an application, it is proved that if $$\Omega \subset \mathbb {S}^n$$ is a mean convex domain whose closure is contained in an open hemisphere of $$\mathbb {S}^n$$ then, for $$0<R<n(n-1),$$ there exists a radial graph of constant scalar curvature R and boundary $$\partial \Omega$$ .
PubDate: 2017-05-31
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1176-y
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

• Effect of cross-diffusion on the stationary problem of a Leslie
prey-predator model with a protection zone
• Authors: Shanbing Li; Jianhua Wu; Sanyang Liu
Abstract: In this work, we study the change of behavior of positive solutions in a Leslie predator-prey model when a simple protection zone and cross-diffusion for the prey are introduced. We analyze the effects of cross-diffusion and protection zone on the bifurcation continuum of positive solutions. The asymptotic behavior of positive solutions is also discussed as the cross-diffusion and the birth rate of the predator tend to infinity, respectively. Finally, for small birth rates of two species and large cross-diffusion for the prey, the detailed structure and stability of positive solutions are established. Our results indicate that the environmental heterogeneity, together with large cross-diffusion, can produce much more complicated stationary patterns, moreover, our research here reveals significant difference from those studied in Du et al. (J Differ Equ 246:3932-3956, 2009), Oeda (J Differ Equ 250:3988-4009, 2011) and Wang and Li (Nonlinear Anal Real World Appl 14:224-245, 2013).
PubDate: 2017-05-12
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1159-z
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

• Semi-stable Higgs sheaves and Bogomolov type inequality
• Authors: Jiayu Li; Chuanjing Zhang; Xi Zhang
Abstract: In this paper, we study semi-stable Higgs sheaves over compact Kähler manifolds. We prove that there is an admissible approximate Hermitian-Einstein structure on a semi-stable reflexive Higgs sheaf and consequently, the Bogomolov type inequality holds on a semi-stable reflexive Higgs sheaf.
PubDate: 2017-05-12
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1174-0
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

• Robustness of the Gaussian concentration inequality and the
Brunn–Minkowski inequality
• Authors: Marco Barchiesi; Vesa Julin
Abstract: We provide a sharp quantitative version of the Gaussian concentration inequality: for every $$r>0$$ , the difference between the measure of the r-enlargement of a given set and the r-enlargement of a half-space controls the square of the measure of the symmetric difference between the set and a suitable half-space. We also prove a similar estimate in the Euclidean setting for the enlargement with a general convex set. This is equivalent to the stability of the Brunn–Minkowski inequality for the Minkowski sum between a convex set and a generic one.
PubDate: 2017-05-05
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-017-1169-x
Issue No: Vol. 56, No. 3 (2017)

JournalTOCs
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
Email: journaltocs@hw.ac.uk
Tel: +00 44 (0)131 4513762
Fax: +00 44 (0)131 4513327

Home (Search)
Subjects A-Z
Publishers A-Z
Customise
APIs