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We prove almost global well-posedness for quasilinear strongly coupled wave-Klein-Gordon systems with small and localized data in two space dimensions. We assume only mild decay on the data at infinity as well as minimal regularity. We…
We prove that the $3$-dimensional catenoid is asymptotically stable as a solution to the hyperbolic vanishing mean curvature equation in Minkowski space, modulo suitable translation and boost (i.e., modulation) and with respect to a…
In his 2007 monograph, D. Christodoulou proved a breakthrough result giving a detailed description of the formation of shocks in solutions to the relativistic Euler equations in three spatial dimensions. He assumed that the data have small…
In this paper, we consider the defocusing cubic nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+|u|^2u=0$ in the energy-supercritical regime, in dimensions $d\geq 6$, with no radial assumption on the initial data. We prove that if a solution…
We consider a quasilinear system of hyperbolic equations that describes plane one-dimensional non-relativistic oscillations of electrons in a cold plasma with allowance for electron-ion collisions. Accounting for collisions leads to the…
We consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for semilinear wave equations in a three space dimensional domain exterior to a bounded and non-trapping obstacle. We obtain a detailed estimate for the lower bound of the lifespan of classical…
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…
In this paper we consider a semi-linear, energy sub-critical, defocusing wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = - |u|^{p -1} u$ in the 3-dimensional space with $p \in [3,5)$. We prove that if initial data $(u_0, u_1)$ are radial so that…
We show existence of global strong solutions with large initial data on the irrotational part for the shallow-water system in dimension $N\geq 2$. We introduce a new notion of \textit{quasi-solutions} when the initial velocity is assumed to…
It is well-known that small, regular, spherically symmetric characteristic initial data to the Einstein-scalar-field system which are decaying towards (future null) infinity give rise to solutions which are foward-in-time global (in the…
In the paper, for the 3D quasilinear Klein-Gordon equation with the small initial data posed on the product space $\mathbb{R}^{2}\times \mathbb{T}$, we focus on the lower bound of the lifespan of the smooth solution. When the size of…
The coupled quasilinear Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system is considered under Neumann boundary conditions for $n$ and $c$ and no-slip boundary conditions for $u$ in three-dimensional bounded domains $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^3$ with…
In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for a hyperbolic equation $Q(\partial_t,\partial_x)u=0$ of any order $m\geq3$, where $t\geq0$ and $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$, and $Q=P_m+P_{m-1}+P_{m-2}$ is a sum of homogeneous hyperbolic polynomials…
We consider a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws in one space dimension. A sharp decay estimate is proved for the positive waves in an entropy weak solution. The result is stated in terms of a partial…
In this paper we continue to study the shock formation for the $3$-dimensional quasilinear wave equation \begin{align}\label{main eq} -(1+3G"(0)(\partial_{t}\phi)^{2})\partial^{2}_{t}\phi+\Delta\phi=0,\tag{\textbf{$\star$}} \end{align} with…
In this paper we explore the extent to which discretely self-similar (DSS) solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations with rough data almost have the same asymptotics as DSS flows with smoother data. In a previous work, we established…
We study the quasilinear wave equation $\Box_{g}\phi=0$ where the metric $g = g(\phi,t,x)$ is close to and asymptotically approaches $g(0,t,x)$, which equals the Schwarzschild metric or a Kerr metric with small angular momentum, as time…
We study decay of small solutions of the Born-Infeld equation in 1+1 dimensions, a quasilinear scalar field equation modeling nonlinear electromagnetism, as well as branes in String theory and minimal surfaces in Minkowski space-times. From…
In this paper, we consider the upper and lower bounds of the lifespan of classical solutions of the Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional quasilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-c(u_x)^2u_{xx}=0$ where the derivative of $c(\theta)$ tends to $0$…
We give asymptotics for Einstein vacuum equations in wave coordinates with small asymptotically flat data. We show that the behavior is wave like at null infinity and homogeneous towards time like infinity. We use the asymptotics to show…