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We show that the mean curvature blows up at the first finite singular time for a closed smooth embedded mean curvature flow in R^3.
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We study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the linear wave equation on cosmological spacetimes with Big Bang singularities and show that appropriately rescaled waves converge against a blow-up profile. Our class of spacetimes…
We construct a new class of asymptotically self-similar finite-time blowups that have two collapsing spatial scales for the 1D Constantin-Lax-Majda model. The larger spatial scale measures the decreasing distance between the bulk of the…
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We consider the Euler-Poincar\'e equation on $\mathbb R^d$, $d\ge 2$. For a large class of smooth initial data we prove that the corresponding solution blows up in finite time. This settles an open problem raised by Chae and Liu \cite{Chae…
Finite time blow up vs global regularity question for 3D Euler equation of fluid mechanics is a major open problem. Several years ago, Luo and Hou \cite{HouLuo14} proposed a new finite time blow up scenario based on extensive numerical…
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