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We study the extinction behavior of solutions to the fast diffusion equation $u_t = \Delta u^m$ on $\R^N\times (0,T)$, in the range of exponents $m \in (0, \frac{N-2}{N})$, $N > 2$. We show that if the initial data $u_0$ is trapped in…

We study the limit, when $k\to\infty$ of solutions of $u_t-\Delta u+f(u)=0$ in $R^N\times(0,\infty)$ with initial data $k\gd$, when $f$ is a positive increasing function. We prove that there exist essentially three types of possible…

We establish quantitative estimates for solutions $u(t,x)$ to the fractional nonlinear diffusion equation, $\partial_t u +(-\Delta)^s (u^m)=0$ in the whole range of exponents $m>0$, $0<s<1$. The equation is posed in the whole space…

Finite time extinction of any bounded solution to the fast diffusion equation with spatially inhomogeneous absorption $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m-|x|^{\sigma}u^p, \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\times(0,\infty), $$ with $N\geq1$ and exponents $$…

We study the speed of propagation of fronts for the scalar reaction-diffusion equation $u_t = u_{xx} + f(u)$\, with $f(0) = f(1) = 0$. We give a new integral variational principle for the speed of the fronts joining the state $u=1$ to…

We study the asymptotic speed of a random front for solutions $u_t(x)$ to stochastic reaction-diffusion equations of the form \[ \partial_tu=\farc{1}{2}\partial_x^2u+f(u)+\sigma\sqrt{u(1-u)}\dot{W}(t,x),~t\ge 0,~x\in\Rm, \] arising in…

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}…

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem $$u_t=u_{xx} +f(t,u), \,\,\, x\in\mathbb{R},\,t>0, $$ $$u(0,x)= u_0(x), \,\,\, x\in\mathbb{R},$$ where $f$ is a rather general nonlinearity that is periodic in $t$, and satisfies…

We prove that the Cauchy problem associated with the one dimensional quadratic (fractional) heat equation: $u_t=D_x^{2\alpha} u \mp u^2,\; t\in (0,T),\; x\in \R$ or $ \T $, with $ 0<\alpha\le 1 $ is well-posed in $ H^s $ for $ s\ge…

We show non-existence of solutions of the Cauchy problem in $\mathbb{R}^N$ for the nonlinear parabolic equation involving fractional diffusion $\partial_t u + (-\Delta)^s \phi(u)= 0,$ with $0<s<1$ and very singular nonlinearities $\phi$ .…

In this paper, we are concerned with stable solutions to the fractional elliptic equation $$ (-\Delta)^s u=e^u\mbox{ in }\mathbb R^{N}, $$ where $(-\Delta)^s$ is the fractional Laplacian with $0<s<1$. We establish the nonexistence of stable…

We consider the Cauchy problem for the focusing Hartree equation $iu_{t}+\Delta u+(|\cdot|^{-3}\ast|u|^{2})u=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^{5}$ with the initial data in $H^1$, and study the divergent property of infinite-variance and nonradial…

We study the propagation properties of nonnegative and bounded solutions of the class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear fractional diffusion: $u_{t} + (-\Delta)^s (u^m)=f(u)$. For all $0<s<1$ and $m> m_c=(N-2s)_+/N $, we…

We study the initial value problem of the thermal-diffusive combustion system: $u_{1,t} = u_{1,x,x} - u_1 u^2_2, u_{2,t} = d u_{2,xx} + u_1 u^2_2, x \in R^1$, for non-negative spatially decaying initial data of arbitrary size and for any…

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 approximate the solution $u$ of the Cauchy problem $$ \frac{\partial}{\partial t} u(t,x)=Lu(t,x)+f(t,x), \quad (t,x)\in(0,T]\times\bR^d, $$ $$ u(0,x)=u_0(x),\quad x\in\bR^d $$ by splitting the equation into the system $$…

We consider the large time behavior of solutions to the following nonlinear wave equation: $\partial_{t}^2 u = c(u)^{2}\partial^2_x u + \lambda c(u)c'(u)(\partial_x u)^2$ with the parameter $\lambda \in [0,2]$. If $c(u(0,x))$ is bounded…

We introduce a discrete-time fractional calculus of variations on the time scale $h\mathbb{Z}$, $h > 0$. First and second order necessary optimality conditions are established. Examples illustrating the use of the new Euler-Lagrange and…

In this paper, we characterize the wave front sets of solutions to fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equations \(i\partial_{t}u =(-\Delta)^{\theta/2}u + V(x)u\) with $0<\theta <2$ via the wave packet transform (short-time Fourier transform). We…

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for the fractional Schr\"odinger equation $i D_t^\alpha u + (-\Delta)^{\frac{\beta}{2}} u =0$ with $0<\alpha<1$, $\beta>0$. We establish the dispersive estimates for the solutions. In…