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The Maslov index is a powerful tool for computing spectra of selfadjoint, elliptic boundary value problems. This is done by counting intersections of a fixed Lagrangian subspace, which designates the boundary condition, with the set of…
For Hill's equations with matrix valued periodic potential, we discuss relations between the Morse index, counting the number of unstable eigenvalues, and the Maslov index, counting the number of signed intersections of a path in the space…
In the scalar Swift-Hohenberg equation with quadratic-cubic nonlinearity, it is known that symmetric pulse solutions exist for certain parameter regions. In this paper we develop a method to determine the spectral stability of these…
Multilinear embedding estimates for the fractional Laplacian are obtained in terms of functionals defined over a hyperbolic surface. Convolution estimates used in the proof enlarge the classical framework of the convolution algebra for…
There are many numerical methods for solving partial different equations (PDEs) on manifolds such as classical implicit, finite difference, finite element, and isogeometric analysis methods which aim at improving the interoperability…
Recent progress in PDE constrained optimization on shape manifolds is based on the Hadamard form of shape derivatives, i.e., in the form of integrals at the boundary of the shape under investigation, as well as on intrinsic shape metrics.…
We outline an unified approach to geometrization of Lagrange mechanics, Finsler geometry and geometric methods of constructing exact solutions with generic off-diagonal terms and nonholonomic variables in gravity theories. Such geometries…
We build homogeneous quasi-morphisms on the universal cover of the contactomorphism group for certain prequantizations of monotone symplectic toric manifolds. This is done using Givental's nonlinear Maslov index and a contact reduction…
It is well known that the linear stability of the Lagrangian elliptic solutions in the classical planar three-body problem depends on a mass parameter $\beta$ and on the eccentricity $e$ of the orbit. We consider only the circular case ($e…
We investigate a new two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes hydrodynamic model design to explain and study large scale ice swirls formation at the surface of the ocean. The linearized model generates a basis of Bessel solutions from…
Martingale solutions of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in 2D and 3D possibly unbounded domains, driven by the L\'evy noise consisting of the compensated time homogeneous Poisson random measure and the Wiener process are considered.…
Maps from a source manifold $ {\mathcal M}$ to a target manifold ${\mathcal N}$ appear in liquid crystals, colour image enhancement, texture mapping, brain mapping, and many other areas. A numerical framework to solve variational problems…
We study the geometry of multidimensional scalar $2^{nd}$ order PDEs (i.e. PDEs with $n$ independent variables) with one unknown function, viewed as hypersurfaces $\mathcal{E}$ in the Lagrangian Grassmann bundle $M^{(1)}$ over a…
This paper studies the global well-posedness of classical solutions to the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations in 3D domains D under non-slip boundary conditions. D will separate into the inner and boundary parts along a free…
We build a solvability theory of elliptic boundary-value problems in normed Sobolev spaces of generalized smoothness for any integrability exponent $p>1$. The smoothness is given by a number parameter and a supplementary function parameter…
The present paper is devoted to the study of geometry of Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization procedure. The main mathematical objects under consideration are P-manifolds and SP-manifolds (supermanifolds provided with an odd symplectic structure…
First, we prove a local spectral flow formula (Theorem 3.7) for a differentiable curve of selfadjoint Fredholm operators. This formula enables us to prove in a simple way a general spectral flow formula. Secondly, we prove a splitting…
Let $\Sigma$ be a compact convex hypersurface in ${\bf R}^{2n}$ which is P-cyclic symmetric, i.e., $x\in \Sigma$ implies $Px\in\Sigma$ with P being a $2n\times2n$ symplectic orthogonal matrix and $P^k=I_{2n}$, where $n, k\geq2$,…
Solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds have provided important applications in different fields in science and engineering. Existing methods are majorly based on discretization of manifolds as implicit functions,…
We show that one can characterize the Besov spaces on a smooth compact oriented Riemannian manifold, for the full range of indices, through a knowledge of the size of frame coefficients, using the frames we have constructed in [8].