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For ordinary differential equations and functional differential equations the following result is well known. Suppose any solution is bounded on the half-line for each bounded on the half-line right-hand side. Then under certain conditions…

This paper is concerned with a parabolic evolution equation of the form $A(u_t) + B(u) = f$, settled in a smooth bounded domain of ${\bf R}^d$, $d \geq 1$, and complemented with the initial conditions and with (for simplicity) homogeneous…

Criteria for the existence of $T$-periodic solutions of nonautonomous parabolic equation $u_t = \Delta u + f(t,x,u)$, $x\in\mathbb{R}^N$, $t>0$ with asymptotically linear $f$ will be provided. It is expressed in terms of time average…

We consider stable solutions of a semilinear elliptic equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. A classical result of Casten, Holland [20] and Matano [44] states that all stable solutions are constant in convex bounded domains.…

In a Hilbert setting $H$, we study the asymptotic behavior of the trajectories of nonautonomous evolution equations $\dot x(t)+A_t(x(t))\ni 0$, where for each $t\geq 0$, $A_t:H\tto H$ denotes a maximal monotone operator. We provide general…

In this paper, we first prove some propositions of Sobolev spaces defined on a locally finite graph $G=(V,E)$, which are fundamental when dealing with equations on graphs under the variational framework. Then we consider a nonlinear…

We consider the Cauchy-problem for the following parabolic equation: \begin{equation*} \displaystyle u_t = \Delta u+ f(u,|x|), \end{equation*} where $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$, $n >2$, and $f=f(u,|x|)$ is either critical or supercritical with…

We study both existence and nonexistence of nonnegative solutions for nonlinear elliptic problems with singular lower order terms that have natural growth with respect to the gradient, whose model is $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u +…

We consider nonnegative solutions to $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in half-planes and strips, under zero Dirichlet boundary condition. Exploiting a rotating$\&$sliding line technique, we prove symmetry and monotonicity properties of the solutions, under…

We consider asymptotically autonomous semilinear parabolic equations u_t + Au = f(t,u). Suppose that $f(t,.)\to f^\pm$ as $t\to\pm\infty$, where the semiflows induced by \label{eq:140602-1511} u_t + Au = f^\pm(u) \tag{*} are gradient-like.…

Using some classical methods of dynamical systems, stability results and asymptotic decay of strong solutions for the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGL), $$ \partial_t u = (a + i\alpha) \Delta u - (b + i \beta) |u|^\sigma u + k u, \,\,…

We consider control systems of the type $\dot x = A x +\alpha(t)bu$, where $u\in\R$, $(A,b)$ is a controllable pair and $\alpha$ is an unknown time-varying signal with values in $[0,1]$ satisfying a persistent excitation condition i.e.,…

We study the internal controllability of the semilinear wave equation $$v_{tt}(x,t)-\Delta v(x,t) + f(x,v(x,t))= \Un_{\omega} u(x,t)$$ for some nonlinearities $f$ which can produce several non-trivial steady states. One of the usual…

We bound the difference between solutions $u$ and $v$ of $u_t = a\Delta u+\Div_x f+h$ and $v_t = b\Delta v+\Div_x g+k$ with initial data $\phi$ and $ \psi$, respectively, by $\Vert u(t,\cdot)-v(t,\cdot)\Vert_{L^p(E)}\le A_E(t)\Vert…

We consider an abstract system of Timoshenko type $$ \begin{cases} \rho_1{{\ddot \varphi}} + a A^{\frac12}(A^{\frac12}\varphi + \psi) =0\\ \rho_2{{\ddot \psi}} + b A \psi + a (A^{\frac12}\varphi + \psi) - \delta A^\gamma {\theta} = 0\\…

It is well known that, contrary to the autonomous case, the stability/instability of solutions of nonautonomous linear ordinary differential equations $x' = A(t) x$ is in no relation to the sign of the real parts of the eigenvalues of…

The purpose of this paper is to present an example of an Ordinary Differential Equation $x'=F(x)$ in the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $\ell^2$ with $F$ being of class $\mathcal{C}^1$ in the Fr\'{e}chet sense, such that the origin is…

We consider the maximal regularity problem for non-autonomous evolution equations \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcl} u'(t) + A(t)\,u(t) &=& f(t), \ t \in (0, \tau] u(0)&=&u_0. \end{array} \right. \end{equation} Each operator $A(t)$…

We study sharp conditions for the existence and nonexistence of infinitely many nonnegative solutions to the problem $-\Delta_p u = \lambda f(u)$ in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where $f$ is a continuous function…

This paper is concerned with the stability problem for the planar linear switched system $\dot x(t)=u(t)A_1x(t)+(1-u(t))A_2x(t)$, where the real matrices $A_1,A_2\in \R^{2\times 2}$ are Hurwitz and $u(\cdot) [0,\infty[\to\{0,1\}$ is a…