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Given any $\mu_1, \mu_2\in {\mathbb C}$ and $\alpha >0$, we prove the local existence of arbitrarily smooth solutions of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation $\partial_{ tt } u - \Delta u + \mu_1 u = \mu_2 |u|^\alpha u$ on ${\mathbb R}^N$,…
We consider an initial boundary value problem in a bounded domain $\Omega$ over a time interval $(0, T)$ for a time-fractional wave equation where the order of the fractional time derivative is between $1$ and $2$ and the spatial elliptic…
In this paper, we study uniqueness properties of solutions to the generalized fourth-order Schr\"odinger equations in any dimension $d$ of the following forms, $$i \partial_t u + \sum_{j=1}^d \partial_{x_j}^{\, 4} u = V(t, x) u, \quad…
We prove convergence of positive solutions to \[ u_t = u\Delta u + u\int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|^2, \qquad u\rvert_{\partial\Omega} =0, \qquad u(\cdot,0)=u_0 \] in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 1$, with smooth boundary in…
In this paper, we obtain necessary conditions and sufficient conditions on the initial data for the local-in-time solvability of the Cauchy problem \[ \partial_t u +(-\Delta)^\frac{\theta}{2} u=|x|^{-\gamma} u^p ,\quad x\in{\bf R}^N, t>0,…
We consider the log-perturbed Br\'ezis-Nirenberg problem on the hyperbolic space \begin{align*} \Delta_{\mathbb{B}^N}u+\lambda u +|u|^{p-1}u+\theta u \ln u^2 =0, \ \ \ \ u \in H^1(\mathbb{B}^N), \ u > 0 \ \mbox{in} \ \mathbb{B}^N,…
The thin-film equation $\partial_t u = -\nabla \cdot (u^n \nabla \Delta u)$ describes the evolution of the height $u=u(x,t)\geq 0$ of a viscous thin liquid film spreading on a flat solid surface. We prove H\"older continuity of…
We consider the energy supercritical heat equation with the $(n-3)$-th Sobolev exponent \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u+u^{3},~&\mbox{ in } \Omega\times (0,T),\\ u(x,t)=u|_{\partial\Omega},~&\mbox{ on } \partial\Omega\times…
Suppose that $H(x,u,p)$ is strictly decreasing in $u$ and satisfies Tonelli conditions in $p$. We show that each viscosity solution of $H(x,u,u_x)=0$ can be reached by many viscosity solutions of $$ w_t+H(x,w,w_x)=0, $$ in a finite time.
We consider a stochastic heat equation of the type, $\partial_t u = \partial^2_x u + \sigma(u)\dot{W}$ on $(0\,,\infty)\times[-1\,,1]$ with periodic boundary conditions and on-degenerate positive initial data, where $\sigma:\mathbb{R}…
If $U:[0,+\infty[\times M$ is a uniformly continuous viscosity solution of the evolution Hamilton-Jacobi equation $$\partial_tU+ H(x,\partial_xU)=0,$$ where $M$ is a not necessarily compact manifold, and $H$ is a Tonelli Hamiltonian, we…
In this paper, we establish a Liouville type theorem for the homogeneous dual fractional parabolic equation \begin{equation} \partial^\alpha_t u(x,t)+(-\Delta)^s u(x,t) = 0\ \ \mbox{in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^n\times\mathbb{R} . \end{equation} where…
We consider the semilinear parabolic equation $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ on the real line, where $f$ is a locally Lipschitz function on $\mathbb{R}.$ We prove that if a solution $u$ of this equation is bounded and its initial value $u(x,0)$ has…
We derive the unique continuation property of a class of semi-linear elliptic equations with non-Lipschitz nonlinearities. The simplest type of equations to which our results apply is given as $-\Delta u = |u|^{\sigma-1} u$ in a domain…
We consider the Cauchy problem for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations $u_t+u\nabla_xu-\Delta u+\nabla p=0, div u=0 in R^d \times R^+$ with initial data $a\in L^d(R^d)$, and study in some detail the smoothing effect of the equation. We…
In this article we prove existence, uniqueness and regularity for the singular equation \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases} |\nabla u|^{\alpha}(F(D^{2}u)+h(x)\cdot\nabla u)+c(x)|u|^{\alpha}u+p(x)u^{-\gamma}=0 \ \mbox{ in } \ \Omega\\ u>0 \…
We study if two different solutions of the $p$-Laplace equation $$\nabla\cdot(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=0,$$ where $1<p<\infty$, can coincide in an open subset of their common domain of definition. We obtain some partial results on this…
We provide new conditions for the local existence of solutions to the time-weighted parabolic equation $ u_t - \Delta u = h(t)f(u) \mbox{ in } \Omega \times (0,T),$ where $ \Omega $ is a arbitrary smooth domain, $f\in C(\mathbb{R})$, $h\in…
For solution $u(x,t)$ to degenearte parabolic equations in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with homogenous boundary condition, we consider backward problems in time: determine $u(\cdot,t_0)$ in $\Omega$ by $u(\cdot,T)$, where $t$ is the time…
We study a multi-dimensional nonlocal active scalar equation of the form $u_t+v\cdot \nabla u=0$ in $\mathbb R^+\times \mathbb R^d$, where $v=\Lambda^{-2+\alpha}\nabla u$ with $\Lambda=(-\Delta)^{1/2}$. We show that when $\alpha\in (0,2]$…