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We consider the damped hyperbolic equation in one space dimension $\epsilon u_{tt} + u_t = u_{xx} + F(u)$, where $\epsilon$ is a positive, not necessarily small parameter. We assume that $F(0)=F(1)=0$ and that $F$ is concave on the interval…
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…
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We examine the wave equation in the exterior of a strictly convex bounded domain $K$ with dissipative boundary condition $\partial_{\nu} u - \gamma(x) \partial_t u = 0$ on the boundary $\Gamma$ and $0 < \gamma(x) <1, \:\forall x \in…
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The global existence and stability of the solution to the delay differential equation (*)$\dot{u} = A(t)u + G(t,u(t-\tau)) + f(t)$, $t\ge 0$, $u(t) = v(t)$, $-\tau \le t\le 0$, are studied. Here $A(t):\mathcal{H}\to \mathcal{H}$ is a…
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