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We study the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear wave equations (NLW) with random data and/or stochastic forcing on a two-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. (i) We first study the defocusing stochastic damped NLW driven…
We discuss the Cauchy problem for a system of semilinear wave equations in three space dimensions with multiple wave speeds. Though our system does not satisfy the standard null condition, we show that it admits a unique global solution for…
We show existence and uniqueness for timelike minimal submanifolds in ambient Lorentz manifolds admitting a time function. The initial value formulation introduced and the conditions imposed on the initial data are given in purely geometric…
In this paper we report on numerical studies of the Cauchy problem for equivariant wave maps from 2+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime into the two-sphere. Our results provide strong evidence for the conjecture that large energy initial data…
In this paper, we give a uniqueness theorem for the Dirichlet problem of minimal maps into general Riemannian manifolds with non-positive sectional curvature, improving Theorem 5.2 of Lee-Ooi-Tsui's paper published in J. Geom. Anal.. The…
By using the Strichartz esitmate and Picard iteration, we prove the subcritical(critical in some cases) global solution in $C_t H_x^s\cap C_t^1 H^{s-1}_x$ with small data for semilinear wave equation with nonlinearity of type $(\partial…
We prove an existence and uniqueness of solution for the Cauchy problem of the simplest nonlinear short-wave equation, $u_{tx}=u-3u^{2}$, with periodic boundary condition.
In this paper we study both the Cauchy problem and the initial boundary value problem for the equation $\partial_tu+\mbox{div}\left(\nabla\Delta u-{\bf g}(\nabla u)\right)=0$. This equation has been proposed as a continuum model for kinetic…
We prove uniqueness of solutions to the wave map equation in the natural class, namely $ (u, \partial_t u) \in C([0,T); \dot{H}^{d/2})\times C^1([0,T); \dot{H}^{d/2-1})$ in dimensions $d\geq 4$. This is achieved through estimating the…
We are concerned with the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the first-order quasilinear equations with non-Lipschitz source terms and the global structures of the multi-dimensional Riemann solutions. For such quasilinear equations…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in dimension three and construct initial data in the critical space $BMO^{-1}$ from which there exist two distinct global solutions, both smooth for all $t>0$.…
In this paper, we consider exterior problem of the critical semilinear wave equation in three space dimensions with variable coefficients and prove global existence of smooth solutions. Similar to the constant coefficients case, we show…
The geometric Cauchy problem for a class of surfaces in a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of dimension 3 is to find the surface which contains a given curve with a prescribed tangent bundle along the curve. We consider this problem for constant…
We consider the Cauchy problem for coupled systems of wave and Klein-Gordon equations with quadratic nonlinearity in three space dimensions. We show global existence of small amplitude solutions under certain condition including the null…
In this paper we consider the following Cauchy problem for the semi-linear wave equation with scale-invariant dissipation and mass and power non-linearity: \begin{align}\label{CP abstract} \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u+\dfrac{\mu_1}{1+t}…
We review recent progress on the long-time regularity of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the water waves equations, in two and three dimensions. We begin by introducing the free boundary Euler equations and discussing the local…
The Cauchy problem for a quasilinear system of hyperbolic equations describing plane one-dimensional relativistic oscillations of electrons in a cold plasma is considered. For some simplified formulation of the problem, a criterion for the…
Extending our previous works on the Cauchy problem for the $2+1$ equivariant Einstein-wave map system, we prove that the linear part dominates the nonlinear part of the wave maps equation coupled to the full set of the Einstein equations,…
The purpose of this note is to prove the existence of a conformal scattering operator for the cubic defocusing wave equation on a non-stationary background. The proof essentially relies on solving the characteristic initial value problem by…
In this note we show that weak solutions to the wave map problem in the energy-supercritical dimension 3 are not unique. On the one hand, we find weak solutions using the penalization method introduced by Shatah and show that they satisfy a…