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A nonlinear inequality is formulated in the paper. An estimate of the rate of growth/decay of solutions to this inequality is obtained. This inequality is of interest in a study of dynamical systems and nonlinear evolution equations. It can…
Noether theorem establishes an interesting connection between symmetries of the action integral and conservation laws of a dynamical system. The aim of the present work is to classify the damped harmonic oscillator problem with respect to…
We consider the problem of existence of a solution $u$ to $\partial_t u-\partial_{xx} u = 0$ in $(0,T)\times\mathbb{R}_+$ subject to the boundary condition $-u_x(t,0)+g(u(t,0))=\mu$ on $(0,T)$ where $\mu$ is a measure on $(0,T)$ and $g$ a…
The paper takles a procedure which allow to extend some linear, wave type equations to the study of nonlinear models. More concretely, we present a practical way to generate the largest class of a given form of second order differential…
The discrete heat equation is worked out in order to illustrate the search of symmetries of difference equations. It is paid an special attention to the Lie structure of these symmetries, as well as to their dependence on the derivative…
In this paper we discuss energy conservation issues related to the numerical solution of the nonlinear wave equation. As is well known, this problem can be cast as a Hamiltonian system that may be autonomous or not, depending on the…
The Korteweg-de Vries equation u_t+uu_x+u_{xxx}=0 is PT symmetric (invariant under space-time reflection). Therefore, it can be generalized and extended into the complex domain in such a way as to preserve the PT symmetry. The result is the…
Classical and nonclassical symmetries of the nonlinear heat equation $$u_t=u_{xx}+f(u),\eqno(1)$$ are considered. The method of differential Gr\"obner bases is used both to find the conditions on $f(u)$ under which symmetries other than the…
We demonstrate the fact that linearity is a meaningful symmetry in the sense of Lie and Noether. The role played by that `linearity symmetry' in the quadrature of linear ordinary second-order differential equations is reviewed, by the use…
A nonlinear generalisation of Schrodinger's equation is obtained using information-theoretic arguments. The nonlinearities are controlled by an intrinsic length scale and involve derivatives to all orders thus making the equation mildly…
A new definition of conditional invariance for boundary value problems involving a wide range of boundary conditions (including initial value problems as a special case) is proposed. It is shown that other definitions worked out in order to…
Systems of reaction-diffusion equations are commonly used in biological models of food chains. The populations and their complicated interactions present numerous challenges in theory and in numerical approximation. In particular,…
We establish a version of the first Noether Theorem, according to which the (equivalence classes of) conserved quantities of given Euler-Lagrange equations in several independent variables are in one-to-one correspondence with the…
The general conditions under which the quadratic, uniform and monotonic convergence in the quasilinearization method of solving nonlinear ordinary differential equations could be proved are formulated and elaborated. The generalization of…
Some of recent developments, including recent results, ideas, techniques, and approaches, in the study of degenerate partial differential equations are surveyed and analyzed. Several examples of nonlinear degenerate, even mixed, partial…
Delivering the full benefits of first principles calculations to battery materials demands the development of accurate and computationally-efficient electronic structure methods that incorporate the effects of the electrolyte environment…
The conservation laws of electromagnetism, and implicitly all theories built from quadratic Lagrangians, are extended to a continuum of nonlocal versions. These are associated with symmetries of a class of equal time field correlation…
The Lie symmetry method is applied to derive the point symmetries for the N-dimensional fractional heat equation. We find that that the numbers of symmetries and Lie brackets are reduced significantly as compared to the nonfractional order…
Noether's theorem is a fundamental result in physics stating that every symmetry of the dynamics implies a conservation law. It is, however, deficient in several respects: (i) it is not applicable to dynamics wherein the system interacts…
This paper is concerned with a scalar nonlinear convolution equation which appears naturally in the theory of traveling waves for monostable evolution models. First, we prove that each bounded positive solution of the convolution equation…