Related papers: An existence result and evolutionary $\Gamma$-conv…

We study the gradient flow of the potential energy on the infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold of spatial curves parametrized by the arc length, which models overdamped motion of a falling inextensible string. We prove existence of…

This paper concerns a new class of discontinuous dynamical systems for constrained optimization. These dynamics are particularly suited to solve nonlinear, non-convex problems in closed-loop with a physical system. Such approaches using…

Sufficient conditions for the invariance of evolution problems governed by perturbations of (possibly nonlinear) $m$-accretive operators are provided. The conditions for the invariance with respect to sublevel sets of a constraint…

We consider the Cauchy problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for wave and beam equations with frictional, viscoelastic damping, and a new power nonlinearity. In addition to the solution and its total energy, we define the following quantity:…

If gradient systems depend on a microstructure, we want to derive a macroscopic gradient structure describing the effective behavior of the microscopic effects. We introduce a notion of evolutionary Gamma-convergence that relates the…

Consider a linear impulsive equation in a Banach space $$\dot{x}(t)+A(t)x(t) = f(t), ~t \geq 0,$$ $$x(\tau_i +0)= B_i x(\tau_i -0) + \alpha_i,$$ with $\lim_{i \rightarrow \infty} \tau_i = \infty $. Suppose each solution of the corresponding…

This paper is concerned with the existence and decay of solutions of the following Timoshenko system: $$ \left\|\begin{array}{cc} u"-\mu(t)\Delta u+\alpha_1 \displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{\partial v}{\partial x_{i}}=0,\, \in \Omega\times…

We study the velocity gradients of the fundamental Eulerian equation, $\partial_t u +u\cdot \nabla u=F$, which shows up in different contexts dictated by the different modeling of $F$'s. To this end we utilize a basic description for the…

In this paper we investigate the origin of the Balanced Viscosity solution concept for rate-independent evolution in the setting of a finite-dimensional space. Namely, given a family of dissipation potentials $(\Psi_n)_n$ with superlinear…

In this paper we establish a rigorous gradient flow structure for one-dimensional Kimura equations with respect to some Wasserstein-Shahshahani optimal transport geometry. This is achieved by first conditioning the underlying stochastic…

This paper considers the problem of solving systems of quadratic equations, namely, recovering an object of interest $\mathbf{x}^{\natural}\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$ from $m$ quadratic equations/samples…

The aim of the paper is to study the problem $$ \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u+P(x,u_t)=f(x,u) \qquad &\text{in $(0,\infty)\times\Omega$,} u=0 &\text{on $(0,\infty)\times \Gamma_0$,} u_{tt}+\partial_\nu u-\Delta_\Gamma…

We study the convergences of three projected Sobolev gradient flows to the ground state of the Gross-Pitaevskii eigenvalue problem. They are constructed as the gradient flows of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional with respect to the…

We propose a variational finite volume scheme to approximate the solutions to Wasserstein gradient flows. The time discretization is based on an implicit linearization of the Wasserstein distance expressed thanks to Benamou-Brenier formula,…

The non-asymptotic analysis of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) typically yields bounds that decompose into a bias term and a variance term. In this work, we focus on the bias component and study the extent to which SGD can match the…

This article addresses the issue of global convergence towards pushed travelling fronts for solutions of parabolic systems of the form \[ u_t = - \nabla V(u) + u_{xx} \,, \] where the potential $V$ is coercive at infinity. It is proved…

We consider the spectra of the 2-dim gravity waves of finite depth linearized at a uniform monotonic shear flow $U(x_2)$, $x_2 \in (-h, 0)$, where the wave numbers $k$ of the horizontal variable $x_1$ is treated as a parameter. Our main…

In this article we consider the initial value problem for a scalar conservation law in one space dimension with a spatially discontinuous flux. There may be infinitely many flux discontinuities, and the set of discontinuities may have…

We consider the statistical inverse problem of estimating a background fluid flow field $\mathbf{v}$ from the partial, noisy observations of the concentration $\theta$ of a substance passively advected by the fluid, so that $\theta$ is…

We investigate diffusion-type partial differential equations that are irregular in the sense that they admit weak solutions which are nowhere smooth, even for prescribed smooth data. By reformulating these equations as first-order partial…