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We consider the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation, a nonlinear dispersive wave equation that models one-way propagation of long waves of moderately small amplitude. We discretize in space the periodic initial-value problem for CH (written in its…
In this short note we present new results on a higher-dimensional generalization of De~Giorgi's conjecture for Allen--Cahn type equations, focusing on dimensions $n \ge 9$. Although counterexamples are known in this regime, our goal is to…
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We investigate corrector estimates for the solutions of a thermoelasticity problem posed in a highly heterogeneous two-phase medium and its corresponding two-scale thermoelasticity model which was derived in an earlier paper by two-scale…
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We obtain global $W^{2,\delta}$ estimates for a type of singular fully nonlinear elliptic equations where the right hand side term belongs to $L^\infty$. The main idea of the proof is to slide paraboloids from below and above to touch the…
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