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We consider the Cauchy problem for nonlinear Schrodinger equations in the presence of a smooth, possibly unbounded, potential. No assumption is made on the sign of the potential. If the potential grows at most linearly at infinity, we…
The Cauchy problem for quadratic Klein-Gordon systems is considered in two spatial dimensions and higher under a suitable non-resonance condition on the masses, including the main case of equal masses. A global well-posedness and scattering…
We study the motion of surfaces in an intrinsic formulation in which the surface is described by its metric and curvature tensors. The evolution equations for the six quantities contained in these tensors are reduced in number in two cases:…
In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for neo-Hookean incompressible elasticity in spatial dimension $d \geq 2$. We are here interested primarily in the low regularity case, $s \le s_{crit}=d/2+1$. For $d = 2, 3$, we prove existence…
Periodic waves are investigated in a system composed of a Kuramoto-Sivashinsky - Korteweg-de Vries (KS-KdV) equation, which is linearly coupled to an extra linear dissipative equation. The model describes, e.g., a two-layer liquid film…
We study the question of existence of time-periodic, spatially periodic solutions for dispersive evolution equations, and in particular, we introduce a framework for demonstrating the nonexistence of such solutions. We formulate the problem…
We address the most general periodic travelling wave of the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation written as a rational function of Jacobian elliptic functions. By applying an algebraic method which relates the periodic travelling…
This paper reviews the results of existence and uniqueness of the solutions of these equations: the Korteweg-de Vries equation, the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, the generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Kuramoto-Sivashinski equation and the non…
Surface waves in a heated viscous fluid exhibit a long wave oscillatory instability. The nonlinear evolution of unidirectional waves is known to be described by a modified Korteweg-deVries-Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. In the present work…
We study the asymptotics of the complex modified Korteweg-de Vries equation $\partial_t u + \partial_x^3 u = -|u|^2 \partial_x u$, which can be used to model vortex filament dynamics. In the real-valued case, it is known that solutions with…
We study the stability and dynamics of solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the presence of noise and deterministic forcing. The noise is space-dependent and statistically translation-invariant. We show that, for small…
We prove local in time well-posedness for a class of quasilinear Hamiltonian KdV-type equations with periodic boundary conditions, more precisely we show existence, uniqueness and continuity of the solution map. We improve the previous…
It is shown that the Cauchy problem for the DNLS equation in the spatially periodic setting is locally well-posed in Sobolev spaces H^s(T) for s \geq 1/2. Moreover, global well-posedness is shown for s \geq 1 and data with small L^2 norm.
Consider the motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a 3D exterior domain when a rigid body moves with prescribed time-dependent translational and angular velocities. For the linearized non-autonomous system, $L^q$-$L^r$ smoothing…
We prove that the Cauchy problem of the Schr\"odinger - Korteweg - deVries (NLS-KdV) system on $\mathbb{T}$ is globally well-posed for initial data $(u_0,v_0)$ below the energy space $H^1\times H^1$. More precisely, we show that the…
We consider an extended Korteweg-de Vries (eKdV) equation, the usual Korteweg-de Vries equation with inclusion of an additional cubic nonlinearity. We investigate the statistical behaviour of flat-top solitary waves described by an eKdV…
The local motion of a null curve in Minkowski 3-space induces an evolution equation for its Lorentz invariant curvature. Special motions are constructed whose induced evolution equations are the members of the KdV hierarchy. The null curves…
We study the general properties of spectral curves associated to doubly-periodic solutions of Korteweg-deVries, sine-Gordon, Non-linear Schr\"odinger and 1D Toda equations, and construct examples of arbitrary genus.
Based on the nonlinear steepest descent method of Deift and Zhou for oscillatory Riemann--Hilbert problems and the Dbar approach, the long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the fifth-order modified Korteweg-de Vries equation on the…