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Defocusing mechanism provides a way to construct chaotic (hyperbolic) billiards with focusing components by separating all regular components of the boundary of a billiard table sufficiently far away from each focusing component. If all…

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We investigate a rotated, orthogonal gravitational wedge billiard - a special case of the asymmetric wedge billiard - in which the dynamics are integrable. We derive equations and conditions under which periodic orbits may be constructed…

It is shown that the geodesic rays constructed as limits of Bergman geodesics from a test configuration are always of class $C^{1,\alpha}, 0<\alpha<1$. An essential step is to establish that the rays can be extended as solutions of a…

We study the geodesic flow of geometrically finite quotients $\Omega/{\Gamma}$ of Hilbert geometries, in particular its recurrence properties. We prove that, under a geometrical assumption on the cusps, the geodesic flow is uniformly…

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In this note we discuss graphs over a domain $\Omega\subset N^2$ in the product manifold $N^2\times \mathbb{R}$. Here $N^2$ is a complete Riemannian surface and $\Omega$ has peice-wise smooth boundary. Let $\gamma \subset\partial\Omega$ be…

In this article we consider the following boundary value problem \begin{equation*}\label{abs} \left\{ \begin{aligned} F(x,u,Du,D^{2}u)+c(x)u+ p(x)u^{-\alpha}&=0~\text{in}~\Omega\\ u&=0~~\text{on}~~\partial\Omega, \end{aligned} \right.…

Motivated by the study of billiards in polyhedra, we study linear flows in a family of singular flat $3$-manifolds which we call translation prisms. Using ideas of Furstenberg and Veech, we connect results about weak mixing properties of…

Using Perelman's approach for geometrical flows in terms of an entropy functional, the Higgs mechanism is studied dynamically along flows defined in the space of parameters and in fields space. The model corresponds to two-dimensional…

Let $(M,g)$ be a $n-$dimensional compact Riemannian manifold without boundary and $\Gamma$ be a non degenerate closed geodesic of $(M,g)$. We prove that the supercritical problem $$-\Delta_gu+h u=u^{\frac{n+1}{n-3}\pm\epsilon},\ u>0,\…

Let $(S,\Phi)$ be a pair of a closed oriented surface and $\Phi$ be a real analytic flow with finitely many singularities. Let $x$ be a point of $S$ with the polycycle $\omega$-limit set $\omega(x)$. In this paper we give topological…

In this paper, we prove the existence of nontrivial unbounded domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1},n\geq1$, bifurcating from the straight cylinder $B\times\mathbb{R}$ (where $B$ is the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^n$), such that the…

Let $f:[0,+\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ be a (locally) Lipschitz function and $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ a $C^{1,\alpha}$ domain whose boundary is unbounded and connected. If there exists a positive bounded solution to the overdetermined…

We consider the evolution of an incompressible two-dimensional perfect fluid as the boundary of its domain is deformed in a prescribed fashion. The flow is taken to be initially steady, and the boundary deformation is assumed to be slow…

We consider a gradient flow associated to the mean field equation on $(M,g)$ a compact riemanniann surface without boundary. We prove that this flow exists for all time. Moreover, letting $G$ be a group of isometry acting on $(M,g)$, we…

We formulate and study an elliptic transmission-like problem combining local and nonlocal elements. Let $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ be separated into two components by a smooth hypersurface $\Gamma$. On one side of $\Gamma$, a function satisfies a…