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We consider the gravity-capillary waves in any dimension and in fluid domains with general bottoms. Using the paradiferential reduction established in the companion paper, we prove Strichartz estimates for solutions to this problem, at a…
We consider the advection-diffusion equation \[ \phi_t + Au \cdot \nabla \phi = \Delta \phi, \qquad \phi(0,x)=\phi_0(x) \] on $\bbR^2$, with $u$ a periodic incompressible flow and $A\gg 1$ its amplitude. We provide a sharp characterization…
We consider Lipschitz solutions to the possibly highly degenerate elliptic equation $ {\rm div} G(\nabla u)=0$ in $B_1\subset\mathbb{R}^2 $, for any continuous strictly monotone vector field $G \colon \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2$. We show…
We consider nonlinear parabolic equations involving fractional diffusion of the form $\partial_t u + (-\Delta)^s \Phi(u)= 0,$ with $0<s<1$, and solve an open problem concerning the existence of solutions for very singular nonlinearities…
In this paper we consider the evolution of regular closed elastic curves $\gamma$ immersed in $\R^n$. Equipping the ambient Euclidean space with a vector field $\ca:\R^n\rightarrow\R^n$ and a function $f:\R^n\rightarrow\R$, we assume the…
In this paper we consider a control system of the form $\dot x = F(x)u$, linear in the control variable $u$. Given a fixed starting point, we study a finite-horizon optimal control problem, where we want to minimize a weighted sum of an…
Motivated by a conjecture of De Giorgi, we consider the Almgren-Taylor-Wang scheme for mean curvature flow, where the volume penalization is replaced by a term of the form \[ \int_{E\Delta F} f\Big(\frac{ {\rm d}_F }{\tau}\Big)~dx \] for…
We study the Cauchy problem for a coupled system of a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with a quasilinear conservation law $$ \left\{\begin{array}{rlll} e^{-i\theta}u_t&=&u_{xx}-|u|^2u-\alpha g(v)u& v_t+(f(v))_x&=&\alpha (g'(v)|u|^2)_x&…
Recent work has established that the trajectory of the Nesterov ODE, a the continuous-time model of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method, exhibits point convergence towards a minimizer of a convex potential. A natural next question is…
In this work, we investigate links between the formulation of the flow of marginals of reversible diffusion processes as gradient flows in the space of probability measures and path wise large deviation principles for sequences of such…
The purpose of this work is twofold. First we study the solutions of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation of the form $u_t(t,x)+\mathcal{H}(t,x,\nabla_H u(t,x))=0$, where $\nabla_H u$ represents the horizontal gradient of a function $u$ defined on…
An approach to some "optimal" (more precisely, non-improvable) regularity of solutions of the thin film equation u_{t} = -\nabla \cdot(|u|^{n} \nabla \D u) in \ren \times \re_+, u(x,0)=u_0(x) in \re^N, where n in (0,2) is a fixed exponent,…
We are interested in existence of gradient flows for shape functionals especially for first Laplacian eigenvalues. We introduce different techniques to prove existence and use different formulations for gradient flows. We apply a…
We approximate functionals depending on the gradient of $u$ and on the behaviour of $u$ near the discontinuity points, by families of non-local functionals where the gradient is replaced by finite differences. We prove pointwise…
We establish the global-in-time existence of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the full Navier-Stokes equations for compressible heat-conducting flow in multidimensions with initial data that are large, discontinuous, spherically…
We consider the problem of recovering the divergence-free velocity field ${\mathbf U}\in\mathbf{L}^2(\Omega)$ of a given vorticity ${\mathbf F}=\mathrm{curl}\,{\mathbf U}$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$. To that…
We consider the gradient flow of a Ginzburg-Landau functional of the type \[ F_\varepsilon^{\mathrm{extr}}(u):=\frac{1}{2}\int_M \left|D u\right|_g^2 + \left|\mathscr{S} u\right|^2_g…
Let A be a positive self-adjoint linear operator acting on a real Hilbert space H and $\alpha$, c be positive constants. We show that all solutions of the evolution equation u + Au + cA $\alpha$ u = 0 with u(0) $\in$ D(A 1 2), u (0) $\in$ H…
We study the Cauchy problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (NS) in three and higher spatial dimensions: \begin{align} u_t -\Delta u+u\cdot \nabla u +\nabla p=0, \ \ {\rm div} u=0, \ \ u(0,x)= u_0(x). \label{NSa} \end{align}…