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We consider the problem of the maximum concentration in a fixed measurable subset $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{2d}$ of the time-frequency space for functions $f\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^{d})$. The notion of concentration can be made mathematically…
We study the $L^p$ concentration problem for the Born--Jordan distribution in dimension $d>1$, thus extending the one-dimensional analysis in [Stra-Svela-Trapasso, J. Math. Pures Appl. (2026)]. We show that the existence of concentration…
The finite-rank Lieb-Thirring inequality provides an estimate on a Riesz sum of the $N$ lowest eigenvalues of a Schr\"odinger operator $-\Delta-V(x)$ in terms of an $L^p(\mathbb{R}^d)$ norm of the potential $V$. We prove here the existence…
We consider optimal control of fractional in time (subdiffusive, i.e., for $% 0<\gamma <1$) semilinear parabolic PDEs associated with various notions of diffusion operators in an unifying fashion. Under general assumptions on the…
We study the non-linear minimization problem on $H^1_0(\Omega)\subset L^q$ with $q=\frac{2n}{n-2}$, $\alpha>0$ and $n\geq4$~: \[\inf_{\substack{u\in H^1_0(\Omega) \|u\|_{L^q}=1}}\int_\Omega a(x,u)|\nabla u|^2 - \lambda \int_{\Omega}…
We prove a formula expressing the gradient of the phase function of a function $f: \mathbb R^d \mapsto \mathbb C$ as a normalized first frequency moment of the Wigner distribution for fixed time. The formula holds when $f$ is the Fourier…
A novel statistical approach based on the Wigner transform is proposed for the description of partially incoherent optical wave dynamics in nonlinear media. An evolution equation for the Wigner transform is derived from a nonlinear…
Precise modeling of extended sources is a central challenge in modern optical engineering, laser physics, and computational lithography. Unlike ideal point sources or completely incoherent thermal radiation sources, real-world light sources…
In this work, we present numerical analysis for a distributed optimal control problem, with box constraint on the control, governed by a subdiffusion equation which involves a fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time. The…
In this paper, we study the existence and the concentration behavior of minimizers for $i_V(c)=\inf\limits_{u\in S_c}I_V(u)$, here $S_c=\{u\in H^1(\R^N)|~\int_{\R^N}V(x)|u|^2<+\infty,~|u|_2=c>0\}$ and…
We study the standing waves for a fourth-order Schr\"odinger equation with mixed dispersion that minimize the associated energy when the $L^2-$norm (the \textit{mass}) } is kept fixed. We need some non-homogeneous Gagliardo-Nirenberg-type…
In this article new bounds on weighted p-norms of ambiguity functions and Wigner functions are derived. Such norms occur frequently in several areas of physics and engineering. In pulse optimization for Weyl--Heisenberg signaling in…
We study the phase-space concentration of the so-called generalized metaplectic operators whose main examples are Schr\"odinger equations with bounded perturbations. To reach this goal, we perform a so-called $\mathcal{A}$-Wigner analysis…
We give a simple proof of existence of solutions of the dispersion manage- ment and diffraction management equations for zero average dispersion, respectively diffraction. These solutions are found as maximizers of non-linear and non-local…
We first review the usefulness of the Wigner distribution functions (WDF), associated with Lindblad and pre-master equations, for analyzing a host of problems in Quantum Optics where dissipation plays a major role, an arena where weak…
In this manuscript we study the following optimization problem with volume constraint: \[ \min\left\{\frac{1}{p}\int_{\Omega} |\nabla v|^pdx- \int_{\partial \Omega} gv\,dS \colon v \in W^{1, p} \left(\Omega\right), \text{ and } |\{v>0\}|…
We derive the steady state solution of the Fokker-Planck equation that describes the dynamics of the nondegenerate optical parametric oscillator in the truncated Wigner representation of the density operator. The adiabatic limit of strong…
We advance a phase-space theory of partially coherent accelerating, non-diffracting beams employing the Wigner distribution function (WDF). We derive a general expression for the WDF of any accelerating, diffraction-free beam of arbitrary…
We study nonnegative optimizers of a Gagliardo-Nirenberg type inequality $$\iint_{\mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^N} \frac{|u(x)|^p\,|u(y)|^p}{|x - y|^{N-\alpha}} dx\, dy\le C\Big(\int_{{\mathbb R}^N}|u|^2 dx\Big)^{p\theta}…
We investigate time-dependent optimization problems in fractional Sobolev spaces with the sparsity promoting $L^p$-pseudo norm for $0<p<1$ in the objective functional. In order to avoid computing the fractional Laplacian on the time-space…