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We study the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves by random arrays of dipolar cylinders in a uniform medium. A set of self-consistent equations, incorporating all orders of multiple scattering of the electromagnetic waves, is…

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This paper studies the structure of the singular set (points of nondifferentiability) of viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations associated with general mechanical systems on the n-torus. First, using the level set method, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Piermarco Cannarsa , Wei Cheng , Qi Zhang

We demonstrate the existence and significance of diffractive orbits in an open microwave billiard, both experimentally and theoretically. Orbits that diffract off of a sharp edge strongly influence the conduction spectrum of this resonator,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. Hersch , M. R. Haggerty , E. J. Heller

In this work we study oceanic waves in a shallow water flow subject to strong wind forcing and rotation, and linearized around a inhomogeneous (non zonal) stationary profile. This extends the study \cite{CGPS}, where the profile was assumed…

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The large-time behavior of solutions to Burgers equation with small viscosity is described using invariant manifolds. In particular, a geometric explanation is provided for a phenomenon known as metastability, which in the present context…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Margaret Beck , C. Eugene Wayne

We present and analyze a multiscale method for wave propagation problems, posed on spatial networks. By introducing a coarse scale, using a finite element space interpolated onto the network, we construct a discrete multiscale space using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Morgan Görtz , Per Ljung , Axel Målqvist

The main result asserts the existence of noncontractible periodic orbits for compactly supported time dependent Hamiltonian systems on the unit cotangent bundle of the torus or of a negatively curved manifold whenever the generating…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Biran , Leonid Polterovich , Dietmar Salamon

We present an easy-to-implement numerical method for analyzing electromagnetic wave propagation in dielectric rings. Our approach employs a finite-difference-based solver in cylindrical coordinates, solving a mixed electric-magnetic field…

Approximate scattering and bound state solutions of the one-dimensional effective-mass Dirac equation with the Woods-Saxon potential are obtained in terms of the hypergeometric-type functions. Transmission and reflection coefficients are…

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We are concerned with a class of degenerate diffusion equations with time delay describing population dynamics with age structure. In our recent study [{\em Nonlinearity}, 33 (2020), 4013--4029], we established the existence and uniqueness…

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We prove that the two-dimensional Schroedinger operator with a potential having the symmetry of a honeycomb structure has dispersion surfaces with conical singularities (Dirac points) at the vertices of its Brillouin zone. No assumptions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Charles L. Fefferman , Michael I. Weinstein

We consider two dimensional nonstationary scattering of plane waves by a NN-wedge. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution to the corresponding mixed problem and we give an explicit formula for the solution. Also the Limiting…

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Some of the most impressive singular wave fronts seen in Nature are the transbasin oceanic internal waves, which may be observed from the Space Shuttle as they propagate and interact with each other, for example, in the South China Sea. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-01-09 Darryl D. Holm , Martin F. Staley

The solitary waves of massive (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear S^N-sigma models are unveiled. It is shown that the solitary waves in these systems are in one-to-one correspondence with the separatrix trajectories in the repulsive N-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-10 A. Alonso Izquierdo , M. Á. González León , M. de la Torre Mayado

Modified scattering phenomena are encountered in the study of global properties for nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations in situations where the decay of solutions at infinity is borderline and scattering fails just barely.…

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We consider coupled diffusions in $n$-dimensional space and on a compact manifold and the resulting effective advective-diffusive motion on large scales in space. The effective drift (advection) and effective diffusion are determined as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Raffaele Marino , Erik Aurell

The paper is devoted to regularity theory of generalized solutions to semilinear wave equations with a small nonlinearity. The setting is the one of Colombeau algebras of generalized functions. It is shown that in one space dimension, an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Hideo Deguchi , Michael Oberguggenberger

Global in time dispersive estimates for the Schroedinger and wave evolutions are obtained on manifolds with conical ends whose Hamiltonian flow exhibits trapping. This paper deals with the case of initial data with fixed "nonzero angular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-15 Wilhelm Schlag , Avy Soffer , Wolfgang Staubach

In this report, we present a dynamical systems' approach to study the exact nonlinear wave-particle interaction in relativistic regime. We give a particular attention to the effect of wave obliquity on the dynamics of the orbits by studying…

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We improve the decay argument by [Bona and Li, J. Math. Pures Appl., 1997] for solitary waves of general dispersive equations and illustrate it in the proof for the exponential decay of solitary waves to steady Degasperis-Procesi equation…

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