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In this work, we introduce a new difference equation which is discrete analogue of Diffusion differential equation and analyze some essential spectral properties, Diffusion difference operator is self-adjoint, eigenvalues of this problem…
By using the Malliavin calculus and solving a control problem, Bismut type derivative formulae are established for a class of degenerate diffusion semigroups with non-linear drifts. As applications, explicit gradient estimates and Harnack…
We consider non-negative, weak solutions to the doubly nonlinear parabolic equation $$ \partial_t u^q-\mbox{div}(|Du|^{p-2}Du)=0 $$ in the super-critical fast diffusion regime $0<p-1<q<\frac{N(p-1)}{(N-p)_+}$. We show that when solutions…
We present a refined duality estimate for parabolic equations. This estimate entails new results for systems of reaction-diffusion equations, including smoothness and exponential convergence towards equilibrium for equations with quadratic…
In this article we are concerned with an inverse initial boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation in space dimension $n\geq 2$. In particular we consider the so called interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…
The effect of edges and apertures on the Casimir energy of an arrangement of plates and boundaries can be calculated in terms of an effective nonlocal lower-dimensional field theory that lives on the boundary. This formalism has been…
We construct an explicit Lyapunov function for scalar parabolic reaction-advection-diffusion equations under periodic boundary conditions. We assume the nonlinearity is even in the advection term. We follow a method originally suggested by…
In this paper, we establish the second order estimates of solutions to the first initial-boundary value problem for general Hessian type fully nonlinear parabolic equations on Riemannian manifolds. The techniques used in this article can…
Under a precise nonlinearity-diffusivity condition we establish the decay of space-periodic entropy solutions of a multidimensional degenerate nonlinear parabolic equation.
We use the local orthogonal decomposition technique to derive a generalized finite element method for linear and semilinear parabolic equations with spatial multiscale diffusion coefficient. We consider nonsmooth initial data and a backward…
Second-order partial differential equations in non-divergence form are considered. Equations of this kind typically arise as subproblems for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in the context of stochastic optimal control, or…
We consider time-independent solutions of hyperbolic equations such as $\d_{tt}u -\Delta u= f(x,u)$ where $f$ is convex in $u$. We prove that linear instability with a positive eigenfunction implies nonlinear instability. In some cases the…
We discuss several qualitative properties of the solutions of reaction-diffusion systems and equations of the form $u_t = \epsilon^2 D \Delta u + f(u,x,\epsilon t)$, that are used in modeling pattern formation. We analyze the diffusion…
In this note, we consider the so-called field-road diffusion model in a bounded domain, consisting of two parabolic PDEs posed on sets of different dimensions and coupled through (symmetric) nonlinear exchange terms. We propose a new and…
We investigate the interplay of diffraction and nonlinear effects during propagation of very short light pulses. Adapting the factorization approach to the problem at hand by keeping the transverse-derivative terms apart from the residual…
New problem is considered that is to find nonlinear differential equations with special solutions. Method is presented to construct nonlinear ordinary differential equations with exact solution. Crucial step to the method is the assumption…
A non-linear differential equation arising from a stochastic process known as branching Brownian motion is considered. We find an explicit solution and show the uniqueness of the solution under some boundedness conditions using…
We study the parabolic equation \begin{align} \notag &u_t(t,x)=a^{ij}(t)u_{x^ix^j}(t,x)+f(t,x), \quad (t,x) \in [0,T] \times \mathbf{R}^d \\ &u(0,x)=u_0(x) \label{main eqn} \end{align} with the full degeneracy of the leading coefficients,…
Consider discrete time observations (X_{\ell\delta})_{1\leq \ell \leq n+1}$ of the process $X$ satisfying $dX_t= \sqrt{V_t} dB_t$, with $V_t$ a one-dimensional positive diffusion process independent of the Brownian motion $B$. For both the…
We consider a class of doubly nonlinear degenerate hyperbolic-parabolic equations with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, for which we first establish the existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions. We then turn to the…