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For the radial energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation $$\Box u = -u_{tt} + \triangle u = \pm u^7$$ on $\R^{3+1}$, we prove the existence of a class of global in forward time $C^\infty$-smooth solutions with infinite critical Sobolev…
We consider the equivariant wave maps equation $\mathbb{R}^{1+2} \to \mathbb{S}^2$, in all equivariance classes $k \in \mathbb{N}$. We prove that every finite energy solution resolves, continuously in time, into a superposition of…
We show that wave maps from Minkowski space $R^{1+n}$ to a sphere are globally smooth if the initial data is smooth and has small norm in the critical Sobolev space $\dot H^{n/2}$ in the high dimensional case $n \geq 5$. A major difficulty,…
Assuming initial data have small weighted $H^4\times H^3$ norm, we prove global existence of solutions to the Cauchy problem for systems of quasi-linear wave equations in three space dimensions satisfying the null condition of Klainerman.…
We prove global existence of smooth solutions of the 3D loglog energy-supercritical wave equation $\partial_{tt} u - \triangle u = -u^{5} \log^{c} (log(10+u^{2})) $ with $0 < c < {8/225}$ and smooth initial data $(u(0)=u_{0}, \partial_{t}…
We prove the existence of global solutions to the energy-supercritical wave equation in R^{3+1} u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^N u = 0, u(0) = u_0, u_t(0) = u_1, 4<N<\infty, for a large class of radially symmetric finite-energy initial data.…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt} - \Delta_x u +q(t, x) u + u^3 = 0$ with smooth potential $q(t, x) \geq 0$ having compact support with respect to $x$. The linear equation without the nonlinear term…
We consider the Cauchy problem for wave maps u: \R times M \to N for Riemannian manifolds, (M, g) and (N, h). We prove global existence and uniqueness for initial data that is small in the critical Sobolev norm in the case (M, g) = (\R^4,…
We prove existence of a countable family of spherically symmetric self-similar wave maps from 3+1 Minkowski spacetime into the 3-sphere. These maps can be viewed as excitations of the ground state wave map found previously by Shatah. The…
In this paper, we consider exterior problem of the critical semilinear wave equation in three space dimensions with variable coefficients and prove global existence of smooth solutions. Similar to the constant coefficients case, we show…
We study numerically the Cauchy problem for equivariant wave maps from 3+1 Minkowski spacetime into the 3-sphere. On the basis of numerical evidence combined with stability analysis of self-similar solutions we formulate two conjectures.…
The goal of this monograph is to prove that any solution of the Cauchy problem for the capillarity-gravity water waves equations, in one space dimension, with periodic, even in space, initial data of small size $\epsilon$, is almost…
This article concerns the time growth of Sobolev norms of classical solutions to the 3D quasi-linear wave equations with the null condition.
We consider the exterior Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for equivariant wave maps from 3+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime into the three-sphere. Using mixed analytical and numerical methods we show that, for a given topological degree of the…
We introduce a class of rotationally invariant manifolds, which we call \emph{admissible}, on which the wave flow satisfies smoothing and Strichartz estimates. We deduce the global existence of equivariant wave maps from admissible…
We use a novel transformation of the reduced Ostrovsky equation to the integrable Tzitz\'eica equation and prove global existence of small-norm solutions in Sobolev space $H^3(R)$. This scenario is an alternative to finite-time wave…
We consider the 1-equivariant energy critical wave maps problem with two-sphere target. Using a method based on matched asymptotic expansions, we construct infinite time relaxation, blow-up, and intermediate types of solutions that have…
We consider the problem of global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions of the 3-D infinite depth full water wave problem. We show that the nature of the nonlinearity of the water wave equation is essentially of cubic and higher…
Wave maps (i.e. nonlinear sigma models) with torsion are considered in 2+1 dimensions. Global existence of smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem is proven for certain reductions under a translation group action: invariant wave maps into…
We consider co-rotational wave maps from (1+3)-dimensional Minkowski space into the three-sphere. This model exhibits an explicit blowup solution and we prove the asymptotic nonlinear stability of this solution in the whole space under…