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We establish the uniqueness of positive radial solutions of $$\begin{cases} \Delta u +f(u)=0,\quad x\in A \\ u(x) =0 \quad x\in \partial A \end{cases} $$ where $A:=A_{a,b}=\{ x\in {\mathbb R}^n : a<|x|<b \}$, $0<a<b\le\infty$. We assume…
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We prove uniqueness of solutions to the wave map equation in the natural class, namely $ (u, \partial_t u) \in C([0,T); \dot{H}^{d/2})\times C^1([0,T); \dot{H}^{d/2-1})$ in dimensions $d\geq 4$. This is achieved through estimating the…
We prove the existence of infinitely many solitary waves for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon or Schr\"odinger equation $$ \Delta u-u+ u^3 =0 , $$ in ${\bf R}^2$, which have finite energy and whose maximal group of symmetry reduces to the…
Inspired by the work of Wang and Yu [21] on wave maps, we show that for all positive numbers T_{0} > 0 and E_{0} > 0, a large kind of semi-linear wave equation on R \times R^{3} has a solution whose life-span is [0; T_{0}], and the energy…
We consider initial value problem for semilinear damped wave equations in three space dimensions. We show the small data global existence for the problem without the spherically symmetric assumption and obtain the sharp lifespan of the…
We prove the existence of global solutions to the energy-supercritical wave equation in R^{3+1} u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^N u = 0, u(0) = u_0, u_t(0) = u_1, 4<N<\infty, for a large class of radially symmetric finite-energy initial data.…
We investigate the existence and the singular structure of delta wave solutions to a semilinear strictly hyperbolic equation with strongly singular initial and boundary conditions. The boundary conditions are given in nonlocal form with a…
We study the Cauchy problem for 3-D nonlinear elastic waves satisfying the null condition with low regularity initial data. In the radially symmetric case, we prove the global existence of a low regularity solution for every small data in…
We consider any cover $\mathscr{C}$ of $\mathbb{R}^3$ by balls of radius bigger or equal $1$ satisfying two conditions: (i) any ball intersects at most $\sigma>0$ other balls, and (ii) intersecting balls have comparable sizes. We consider a…
A weak formulation for the so-called "semilinear strongly damped wave equation with constraint" is introduced and a corresponding notion of solution is defined. The main idea in this approach consists in the use of duality techniques in…
In this paper, we study the stability and instability of plane wave solutions to semilinear systems of wave equations satisfying the null condition. We identify a condition which allows us to prove the global nonlinear asymptotic stability…
The nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u +|u_t|^{p-1}u_t=0$ is shown to be globally well-posed in the Sobolev spaces of radially symmetric functions $H^k_{\rm rad}({\bf R}^3)\times H^{k-1}_{\rm rad}({\bf R}^3)$ for all $p\geq 3$ and…
This paper deals with a class of semilinear wave equation with nonlinear damping term $|u_{t}|^{m-2}u_t $ and nonlinear source term $g(x)|u|^{p-2}u$ on the manifolds with conical singularities. Firstly, we prove the local existence and…
We prove there exists a charge solution to the 1-dimensional wave equation, and a corresponding current, such that the pair satisfy the continuity equation. We show that when they are extended to a smooth solution of the continuity equation…
We establish the uniqueness of the higher radial bound state solutions of $$ \Delta u +f(u)=0,\quad x\in \RR^n. \leqno(P) $$ We assume that the nonlinearity $f\in C(-\infty,\infty)$ is an odd function satisfying some convexity and growth…