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We consider solutions to the linear wave equation on non-compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary when the geodesic flow admits a filamentary hyperbolic trapped set. We obtain a polynomial rate of local energy decay with exponent…
We prove global existence of a derivative bi-harmonic wave equation with a non-generic quadratic nonlinearity and small initial data in the scaling critical space $\dot{B}^{2,1}_{\frac{d}{2}}(\mathbb{R}^d) \times…
In this paper we consider a semiclassical version of the wave equations with singular H\"{o}lder time-dependent propagation speeds on the lattice $\hbar\mathbb{Z}^{n}$. We allow the propagation speed to vanish leading to the weakly…
We present a systematic study of causality theory on Lorentzian manifolds with continuous metrics. Examples are given which show that some standard facts in smooth Lorentzian geometry, such as light-cones being hypersurfaces, are wrong when…
In this conference published in 1997 some problems on the geodesics of a Lorentzian manifold concerning causality and infinite-dimensional variational methods, are pointed out. Even though a big progress on many of these questions have been…
A class of non-strictly hyperbolic systems of quasilinear equations with oscillatory solutions of the Cauchy problem, globally smooth in time in some open neighborhood of the zero stationary state, is found. For such systems, the period of…
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We prove the local existence for the Water Waves equations with large bathymetric variations on a time interval of size 1/\epsilon, where $\epsilon$ measures the amplitude of the wave. We just need the presence of surface tension.
This paper recovers Hermitian connections of semi-linear wave equations with cubic nonlinearity. The main novelty is in the geometric generality: we treat the case of an arbitrary globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. Our approach is…
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…
We study two inverse problems on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$. The problems are: 1. Passive observations in spacetime: Consider observations in a neighborhood $V\subset M$ of a time-like geodesic $\mu$. Under natural…
A combination of some weighted energy estimates is applied for the Cauchy problem of quasilinear wave equations with the standard null conditions in three spatial dimensions. Alternative proofs for global solutions are shown including the…
We study the wave equation for the gravitational waves in the Randal-Sundrum brane cosmology model. We solve the global Cauchy problem and we establish that the solutions are the sum of a slowly decaying massless wave localized near the…
We establish the local well-posedness for a new nonlinearly dispersive wave equation and we show that the equation has solutions that exist for indefinite times as well as solutions which blowup in finite times. Furthermore, we derive an…
We study regularity and decay properties for the solutions of the Cauchy problem for time-fractional partial differential equations, with tempered initial data, belonging to suitable (weighted) Sobolev spaces, associated with a differential…
We consider a unique continuation problem for the wave equation given data in a volumetric subset of the space time domain. In the absence of data on the lateral boundary of the space-time cylinder we prove that the solution can be…
Using a modified version of Weinstein's argument for constrained minimization in nonlinear dispersive equations, we prove existence of solitary waves in fully nonlocally nonlinear equations, as long as the linear multiplier is of positive…
We consider the Cauchy problem for doubly non-linear degenerate parabolic equations on Riemannian manifolds of infinite volume, or in $\R^N$. The equation contains a weight function as a capacitary coefficient which we assume to decay at…
This work comes as the second part in a series of investigations into the dynamics of rotating waves as solutions to lattice dynamical systems. Such nonlinear waves as solutions to mathematical equations are of great interest throughout the…
The purpose of this article is to clarify the Cauchy theory of the water waves equations as well in terms of regularity indexes for the initial conditions as for the smoothness of the bottom of the domain (namely no regularity assumption is…