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An introductory theory of frames on finite dimensional quaternion Hilbert spaces is demonstrated along the lines of their complex counterpart.
In order to later find explicit analytic solutions, we investigate the singularity structure of a fundamental model of nonlinear optics, the four-wave mixing model in one space variable z. This structure is quite similar, and this is not a…
We study a higher order parabolic partial differential equation that arises in the context of condensed matter physics. It is a fourth order semilinear equation whose nonlinearity is the determinant of the Hessian matrix of the solution. We…
We investigate the initial value problem for some defocusing coupled nonlinear fourth-order Schrodinger equations. Global well-posedness and scattering in the energy space are obtained.
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Second order recurrence of a $d$-dimensional diffusion with an additive Wiener process, with switching, and with one recurrent and one transient regime and constant switching intensities is established under suitable conditions. The…
We report computer simulation studies of the kinetics of ordering of a two dimensional system of particles on a template with a one dimensional periodic pattern. In equilibrium one obtains a re-entrant liquid-solid-liquid phase transition…
This paper deals with the existence and uniqueness of solutions to kinetic equations describing alignment of self-propelled particles. The particularity of these models is that the velocity variable is not on the euclidean space but…
We give an introduction into diffraction theory for aperiodic order. We focus on an approach via dynamical systems and the phenomenon of pure point diffraction. We review recent results and sketch proofs. We then present a new uniform…
We define, in the frame of an abstract Wiener space, the notions of convexity and of concavity for the equivalence classes of random variables. As application we show that some important inequalities of the finite dimensional case have…
We study a one-dimensional ordinary differential equation modelling optical conveyor belts, showing in particular cases of physical interest that periodic solutions exist. Moreover, under rather general assumptions it is proved that the set…
In this work, we study a fourth order exponential equation, $u_t=\Delta e^{-\Delta u},$ derived from thin film growth on crystal surface in multiple space dimensions. We use the gradient flow method in metric space to characterize the…
We study a class of fourth-order geometric problems modelling Willmore surfaces, conformally constrained Willmore surfaces, isoperimetrically constrained Willmore surfaces, bi-harmonic surfaces in the sense of Chen, among others. We prove…
We consider an initial-boundary value problem for the $n$-dimensional wave equation with the variable sound speed, $n\geq 1$. We construct three-level implicit in time and compact in space (three-point in each space direction) 4th order…
We show that various asymptotic properties of global solutions of a fourth-order quasilinear thin film equation can be described by branching from corresponding solutions of the linear bi-harmonic equation. This includes a countable family…
For a Lipschitz domain we show that solutions of certain first order systems are unique. This result is then applied to prove a crucial step for showing Korn's first inequality as well as to prove the 'infinitesimal rigid displacement lemma…
We establish linear profile decompositions for the fourth order Schr\"odinger equation and for certain fourth order perturbations of the Schr\"odinger equation, in dimensions greater than or equal to two. We apply these results to prove…