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In this article we study the problem of nonlinear Landau damping for the Vlasov-Poisson equations on the torus. As our main result we show that for perturbations initially of size $\epsilon>0$ and time intervals $(0,\epsilon^{-N})$ one…
A simplified model of the tumor angiogenesis can be described by a Keller-Segel equation \cite{FrTe,Le,Pe}. The stability of traveling waves for the one dimensional system has recently been known by \cite{JinLiWa,LiWa}. In this paper we…
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For a fixed bounded domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ we investigate the asymptotic behaviour for large times of solutions to the $p$-Laplacian diffusion equation posed in a tubular domain \begin{equation*} \partial_t u = \Delta_p u \quad…
We establish the possibility of Landau damping for gravitational scalar waves which propagate in a non-collisional gas of particles. In particular, under the hypothesis of homogeneity and isotropy, we describe the medium at the equilibrium…
A key feature of $(1+1)$-dimensional nonlinear wave equations is that they admit left or right traveling waves, under appropriate algebraic conditions on the nonlinearities. In this paper, we prove global stability of such traveling wave…
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We consider a one-dimensional system arising from a chemotaxis model in tumour angiogenesis, which is described by a Keller-Segel equation with singular sensitivity. This hyperbolic-parabolic system is known to allow viscous shocks…
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We study travelling wave solutions, that is, solutions of the form $v(t, x) = e^{i\lambda t}u(g(t)x)$, to nonlinear Schr\"odinger and Klein-Gordon equations on Riemannian manifolds, both compact and non-compact ones, with emphasis on the…
The notion of traveling wave, which typically refers to some particular spatio-temporal con- nections between two stationary states (typically, entire solutions keeping the same profile's shape through time), is essential in the…
This paper investigates nonlinear Landau damping in the 3D Vlasov-Poisson (VP) system. We study the asymptotic stability of the Poisson equilibrium $\mu(v)=\frac{1}{\pi^2(1+|v|^2)^2}$ under small perturbations. Building on the foundational…
We develop a general theory for linear stability of traveling waves of second order in time PDE's. More precisely, we introduce an explicitly computable index $\om^*\in (0, \infty]$ (depending on the self-adjoint part of the linearized…
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We study the stability of standing wave solutions to a one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevsky equation with a periodic potential. We use some simple complex analysis and the Hamiltonian structure of the problem to give a simple rigorous criterion…