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In this article, we prove various illposedness results for the Cauchy problem for the incompressible Hall- and electron-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations without resistivity. These PDEs are fluid descriptions of plasmas, where the effect…
These notes are devoted to the notion of well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for nonlinear dispersive equations. We present recent methods for proving ill-posedness type results for dispersive PDE's. The common feature in the analysis is…
We extend the local well-posedness theory for the Cauchy problem associated to a degenerated Zakharov system. The new main ingredients are the derivation of Strichartz and maximal function norm estimates for the linear solution of a…
This article represents a first step towards understanding the well-posedness for the dispersive Hunter-Saxton equation. This problem arises in the study of nematic liquid crystals, and although the equation has formal similarities with the…
In this article we provide numerical and analytical evidence that some degenerate dispersive partial differential equations are ill-posed. Specifically we study the K(2,2) equation $u_t = (u^2)_{xxx} + (u^2)_{x}$ and the "degenerate Airy"…
We prove strong nonlinear illposedness results for the generalized SQG equation $$\partial_t \theta + \nabla^\perp \Gamma[\theta] \cdot \nabla \theta = 0 $$ in any sufficiently regular Sobolev spaces, when $\Gamma$ is a singular in the…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the kinetic derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the torus: \[ \partial_t u - i \partial_x^2 u = \alpha \partial_x \big( |u|^2 u \big) + \beta \partial_x \big[ H \big( |u|^2 \big) u \big] , \quad…
We analyze nonlinear degenerate coupled PDE-PDE and PDE-ODE systems that arise, for example, in the modelling of biofilm growth. One of the equations, describing the evolution of a biomass density, exhibits degenerate and singular…
The nonlinear wave and Schrodinger equations on Euclidean space of any dimension, with general power nonlinearity and with both the focusing and defocusing signs, are proved to be ill-posed in the Sobolev space of index s whenever the…
In this paper we propose a new approach to prove the local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem associated with strongly non resonant dispersive equations. As an example we obtain unconditional well-posedness of the Cauchy problem below $…
We study the Cauchy problem for one-dimensional dispersive equations posed on $\mathbb{R} $, under the hypotheses that the dispersive operator behaves, for high frequencies, as a Fourier multiplier by $ i |\xi|^\alpha \xi $ with $ 1 \le…
In this paper we study the Cauchy problem associated to the Maxwell-Schr\"odinger system with a defocusing pure-power non-linearity. This system has many applications in physics, for instance in the description of a charged non-relativistic…
We prove that the Cauchy problem for the dispersion generalized Benjamin-Ono equation \[\partial_t u+|\partial_x|^{1+\alpha}\partial_x u+uu_x=0,\ u(x,0)=u_0(x),\] is locally well-posed in the Sobolev spaces $H^s$ for $s>1-\alpha$ if $0\leq…
In this paper, we establish the well-posedness of Cauchy problems for weak solutions to second-order degenerate parabolic equations with a non-smooth, time-dependent degenerate elliptic part that includes both bounded and unbounded…
We consider the Cauchy problem for one-dimensional dispersive equations with a general nonlinearity in the periodic setting. Our main hypotheses are both that the dispersive operator behaves for high frequencies as a Fourier multiplier by $…
This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the modified Kawahara equation (posed on $\mathbb T$), which is well-known as a model of capillary-gravity waves in an infinitely long canal over a flat bottom in a long wave regime…
We regard the Cauchy problem for a particular Whitham-Boussinesq system modelling surface waves of an inviscid incompressible fluid layer. We are interested in well-posedness at a very low level of regularity. We derive dispersive and…
Motivated by models for biofilm growth, we consider Cauchy problems for quasilinear reaction diffusion equations where the diffusion coefficient has a porous medium type degeneracy as well as a singularity. We prove results on the…
In this paper, we establish local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a recently proposed dispersion generalized Camassa-Holm equation by using Kato's semigroup approach for quasi-linear evolution equations. We show that for initial…
In this paper, we mainly investigate the Cauchy problem of the non-viscous MHD equations with magnetic diffusion. We first establish the local well-posedness (existence,~uniqueness and continuous dependence) with initial data $(u_0,b_0)$ in…