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An analytic approach to phenomenological models inspired by cubic string field theory is introduced and applied to some examples. We study a class of actions for a minimally coupled, homogeneous scalar field whose energy density contains…

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In this paper we consider a class of non-local in time telegraph equations. Recently, it has been proved that the fundamental solutions of such equations can be interpreted as the probability density function of a stochastic process. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Francisco Alegría , Juan C. Pozo

Many large-scale and distributed optimization problems can be brought into a composite form in which the objective function is given by the sum of a smooth term and a nonsmooth regularizer. Such problems can be solved via a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Sepideh Hassan-Moghaddam , Mihailo R. Jovanović

The adiabatic inhomogeneities of the scalar curvature lead to a compressible flow affecting the dynamics of the hydromagnetic nonlinearities. The influence of the plasma on the evolution of a putative magnetic field is explored with the aim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Massimo Giovannini

Non-linear versions of log-Sobolev inequalities, that link a free energy to its dissipation along the corresponding Wasserstein gradient flow (i.e. corresponds to Polyak-Lojasiewicz inequalities in this context), are known to provide global…

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We consider a nonlocal curve evolution belonging to a hierarchy of models for the dynamics of an inextensible elastic filament in a 3D Stokes fluid. This model captures the principal part of a full free boundary problem for an elastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Laurel Ohm

The aim of this paper is to study dynamical and topological properties of a flow in the region of influence of an isolated non-saddle set. We see, in particular, that some topological conditions are sufficient to guarantee that these sets…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Héctor Barge , José M. R. Sanjurjo

This article is an invitation. It is, first, an invitation to consider as a subject worthy of attention the wide range of situations where small discrete elements, either bubbles, droplets or solid particles, are embedded in turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-06 Jean-Pierre Minier , Christophe Henry

We study the dynamics of compressible fluids in rotating heterogeneous porous media. The fluid flow is of {F}orchheimer-type and is subject to a mixed mass and volumetric flux boundary condition. The governing equations are reduced to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Emine Celik , Luan Hoang , Thinh Kieu

Non-local elasticity models in continuum mechanics can be treated with two different approaches: the gradient elasticity models (weak non-locality) and the integral non-local models (strong non-locality). This article focuses on the…

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We study the local asymptotic behavior of divergence-like functionals of a family of $d$-dimensional Infinitely Divisible Random Fields. Specifically, we derive limit theorems of surface integrals over Lipschitz manifolds for this class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-06 José Ulises Márquez-Urbina , Orimar Sauri

We study a class of nonlocal, energy-driven dynamical models that govern the motion of closed, embedded curves from both an energetic and dynamical perspective. Our energetic results provide a variety of ways to understand physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-29 James H. von Brecht , Ryan Blair

A nonlinear parabolic equation of sixth order is analyzed. The equation arises as a reduction of a model from quantum statistical mechanics, and also as the gradient flow of a second-order information functional with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Daniel Matthes , Eva-Maria Rott

It is known that solutions of nonlocal dispersal evolution equations do not become smoother in space as time elapses. This lack of space regularity would cause a lot of difficulties in studying transition fronts in nonlocal equations. In…

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We are interested in the evolution of a compressible fluid under its self-generated gravitational field. Assuming here Gowdy symmetry, we investigate the algebraic structure of the Euler equations satisfied by the mass density and velocity…

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A slowly-varying or thin-layer multiscale assumption empowers macroscale understanding of many physical scenarios from dispersion in pipes and rivers, including beams, shells, and the modulation of nonlinear waves, to homogenisation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-22 A. J. Roberts

We analyze the system of equations describing the flow of a dilute particle system coupled with an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid in a bounded domain. In this setting, both PDEs are connected via a drag force, or the friction force. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Jakub Woźnicki

We address the inverse problem of identifying nonlocal interaction potentials in nonlinear aggregation-diffusion equations from noisy discrete trajectory data. Our approach involves formulating and solving a regularized variational problem,…

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We derive amplitude equations for interface dynamics in pattern forming systems with long-range interactions. The basic condition for the applicability of the method developed here is that the bulk equations are linear and solvable by…

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