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We study a non-linear convective-diffusive equation, local in space and time, which has its background in the dynamics of the thickness of a wetting film. The presence of a non-linear diffusion predicts the existence of fronts as well as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Alex Hansen , Bo-Sture Skagerstam , Glenn Tørå

We consider the stabilization problem on a manifold with boundary for a wave equation with measure-valued linear damping. For a wide class of measures, containing Dirac masses on hypersurfaces as well as measures with fractal support, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Hans Christianson , Emmanuel Schenck , Michael Taylor

Blowing up a rational surface singularity in a reflexive module gives a (any) partial resolution dominated by the minimal resolution. The main theorem shows how deformations of the pair (singularity, module) relates to deformations of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Trond Stølen Gustavsen , Runar Ile

Fractional wave equation arises in different type of physical problems such as the vibrating strings, propagation of electro-magnetic waves, and for many other systems. The exact analytical solution of the fractional differential equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Uttam Ghosh , Md Ramjan Ali , Santanu Raut , Susmita Sarkar , Shantanu Das

In this paper, persistence of solitary wave solutions of the regularized long wave equation with small perturbations are investigated by the geometric singular perturbation theory. Two different kinds of the perturbations are considered in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Hang Zheng , Y-H. Xia

The Separatrix Theorem of C. Camacho and P. Sad guarantees the existence of invariant curve (separatrix) passing through the singularity of germ of holomorphic foliation on complex surface, when the surface underlying the foliation is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Edileno de Almeida Santos

Parabolic geometric flows are smoothing for short time however, over long time, singularities are typically unavoidable, can be very nasty and may be impossible to classify. The idea of [CM6] and here is that, by bringing in the dynamical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We consider reaction-diffusion equations on the planar square lattice that admit spectrally stable planar travelling wave solutions. We show that these solutions can be continued into a branch of travelling corners. As an example, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Hermen Jan Hupkes , Leonardo Morelli

We investigate linear parabolic equations in divergence form with singular coefficients and non-smooth boundary data. When the diffusion, drift, or potential terms, as well as the initial or boundary conditions, are distributions rather…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Arshyn Altybay , Alibek Yeskermessuly

This article addresses linear hyperbolic partial differential equations with non-smooth coefficients and distributional data. Solutions are studied in the framework of Colombeau algebras of generalized functions. Its aim is to prove upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Hideo Deguchi , Michael Oberguggenberger

We consider the Cauchy problem with smooth and compactly supported initial data for the wave equation in a general class of spherically symmetric geometries which are globally smooth and asymptotically flat. Under certain mild conditions on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-23 Matthew P. Masarik

We describe singularities of the convex hull of a generic compact smooth hypersurface in four-dimensional affine space up to diffeomorphisms. It turns out there are only two new singularities (in comparison with the previous dimension case)…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilya A. Bogaevsky

We prove that if the initial hypersurface of the mean curvature flow in spheres satisfies a sharp pinching condition, then the solution of the flow converges to a round point or a totally geodesic sphere. Our result improves the famous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu

A representation of solutions of the wave equation with two spatial coordinates in terms of localized elementary ones is presented. Elementary solutions are constructed from four solutions with the help of transformations of the affine…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Maria V. Perel , Evgeny A. Gorodnitskiy

In this paper, we study the inverse source problem for the biharmonic wave equation. Mathematically, we characterize the radiating sources and non-radiating sources at a fixed wavenumber. We show that a general source can be decomposed into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Tao Yin , Yue Zhao

Using nonstandard methods, we show that the time dependent Fourier series of any smooth function F, solving the wave equation, on a finite closed interval, with vanishing boundary conditions, converges uniformly to F.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Tristram de Piro

We investigate the behavior of the solutions of the ray equation in isotropic media. We discuss local and global transversals and wavefronts and give examples of rays without wavefronts.

Optics · Physics 2022-03-28 A. Diaz Cano , F. Gonzalez-Gascon , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

We study a 2D scalar harmonic wave transmission problem between a classical dielectric and a medium with a real-valued negative permittivity/permeability which models a metal at optical frequency or an ideal negative metamaterial. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Lucas Chesnel , Xavier Claeys , Sergey A. Nazarov

We solve the shifted wave equation \begin{align*} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2}\varphi(x,t)=(\Delta_x+\rho^2)\varphi(x,t) \end{align*} on a non compact simply connected harmonic manifold with mean curvature of the horospheres $2\rho>0$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Oliver Brammen

We construct global curves of rotational traveling wave solutions to the $2D$ water wave equations on a compact domain. The real analytic interface is subject to surface tension, while gravitational effects are ignored. In contrast to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Gary Moon , Yilun Wu