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In this paper we study the regularity of weak solutions to an elliptic-parabolic system modeling natural network formation. The system is singular and involves cubic nonlinearity. Our investigation reveals that weak solutions are H\"{o}lder…
For the fractional Laplace equation, a surprising observation is the non-uniqueness for the basic Dirichlet type problems. In this paper, a somewhat sharp uniqueness condition for the fractional Laplace equation is established. We derive…
In this paper, we extend our earlier unique continuation results \cite{PZ2} for the Schr\"odinger-type inequality $ |\bar\partial u| \le V|u|$ on a domain in $\mathbb C^n$ by removing the smoothness assumption on solutions $u = (u_1,…
In this paper, authors shall introduce a finite element method by using a weakly defined gradient operator over discontinuous functions with heterogeneous properties. The use of weak gradients and their approximations results in a new…
We develop new solvability methods for divergence form second order, real and complex, elliptic systems above Lipschitz graphs, with $L_2$ boundary data. The coefficients $A$ may depend on all variables, but are assumed to be close to…
The main purpose of this work is to study an inverse coefficient problem for the telegrapher's equations on a tree-shaped network. To analyze the stability for this inverse problem, Carleman estimate is established first. Based upon this…
The main objective of this paper is to establish the null controllability for the fourth order semilinear parabolic equations with the nonlinearities involving the state and its gradient up to second order. First of all, based on optimal…
In this paper, we prove the strong unique continuation property for the following fourth order degenerate elliptic equation \begin{equation*} \Delta^2_{X}u=Vu, \end{equation*} where $\Delta_{X}=\Delta_{x}+|x|^{2\alpha}\Delta_{y}$…
We consider the complement value problem for a class of second order elliptic integro-differential operators. Let $D$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$. Under mild conditions, we show that there exists a unique bounded…
We prove backward uniqueness for a class of ultraparabolic operators with coupled linear drift. The main difficulty is that the Fourier transform in the degenerate variables turns the coupled drift into a transport operator in the dual…
We use Pitt inequalities for the Fourier transform to prove the following weighted gradient inequality $$ \|e^{-\tau\ell(\cdot)} u^{\frac 1q} f\|_q\leq c_\tau\| e^{-\tau\ell(\cdot)} v^{\frac 1p}\, \nabla f\|_p, \quad f\in C^\infty_0( R^n).…
We establish a Dahlberg-type perturbation theorem for second order divergence form elliptic operators with complex coefficients. In our previous paper, we showed the following result: If ${\mathcal L}_0=\mbox{div}…
We study uniform Sobolev inequalities for the second order differential operators $P(D)$ of non-elliptic type. For $d\ge3$ we prove that the Sobolev type estimate $\|u\|_{L^q(\mathbb{R}^d)}\le C \|P(D)u\|_{L^p(\mathbb{R}^d)}$ holds with $C$…
The backward uniqueness of the Kolmogorov operator $L=\sum_{i,k=1}^n\partial_{x_i}(a_{i,k}(x,t)\partial_{x_k})+\sum_{l=1}^m x_l\partial_{y_l}-\partial_t$, was proved in this paper. We obtained a weak Carleman inequality via Littlewood-Paley…
We propose a global convergent numerical method to reconstruct the initial condition of a nonlinear parabolic equation from the measurement of both Dirichlet and Neumann data on the boundary of a bounded domain. The first step in our method…
We consider an elliptic equation in a cone, endowed with (possibly inhomogeneous) Neumann conditions. The operator and the forcing terms can also allow non-Lipschitz singularities at the vertex of the cone. In this setting, we provide…
Consider a class of non-homogenous ultraparabolic differential equations with drift terms or lower order terms arising from some physical models, and we prove that weak solutions are H\"{o}lder continuous, which also generalizes the classic…
We obtain sufficient conditions ensuring the existence of a uniformly continuous and H\"older continuous homeomorphism between the solutions of a linear system of differential equations with piecewise constant argument of generalized type…
In this paper, we establish strong backward uniqueness for solutions to sublinear parabolic equations of the type (1.1). The proof of our main result Theorem 1.1 is achieved by means of a new Carleman estimate and a Weiss type monotonicity…
A linear different operator L is called weakly hypoelliptic if any local solution u of Lu=0 is smooth. We allow for systems, that is, the coefficients may be matrices, not necessarily of square size. This is a huge class of important…