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Motivated by the astrophysical problems of star formations from molecular clouds,we make the first step on the possible long time behaviors of certain irregularly-shaped molecular clouds. We emphasis the main difficulty of the blowups of…

There are three categories of mathematical results concerning quiescent big bang singularities: the derivation of asymptotics in a symmetry class; the construction of spacetimes given initial data on the singularity; and the proof of big…

The anthropic principle implies that life can emerge and be sustained only in a narrow range of values of fundamental constants. Here we show that anthropic arguments can set powerful constraints on {\em transient} variations of the…

We study compactness properties of time-discrete and continuous time BGK-type schemes for scalar conservation laws, in which microscopic interactions occur only when the state of a system deviates significantly from an equilibrium…

We consider the six dimensional energy-critical semilinear heat equation with self-similarly decaying initial data. Our main result shows the existence of sign-changing solutions that exhibit infinite-time blow-up and nonnegative solutions…

We study finite time blow-up and global existence of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation with a variable density $\rho(x)$ and a power-like reaction term. We show that for small enough initial data, if…

We establish some conditional uniqueness of weak solutions to the viscous primitive equations, and as an application, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions, with the initial data taken as small $L^\infty$…

We study a one-dimensional thin film equation combining competitive effects of aggregation and repulsion, where repulsion is modeled by fourth-order diffusion and aggregation by backward second-order degenerate diffusion with exponent…

Blow-ups of derivatives and gradient catastrophes for the $n$-dimensional homogeneous Euler equation are discussed. It is shown that, in the case of generic initial data, the blow-ups exhibit a fine structure in accordance of the admissible…

This article concerns the formation of finite-time singularities in solutions to quasilinear hyperbolic systems with small initial data. By constructing a special test function, we first present a simpler proof of the main result in…

In this paper we study a simple non-local semilinear parabolic equation with Neumann boundary condition. We give local existence result and prove global existence for small initial data. A natural non increasing in time energy is associated…

We present numerical evidence that singularities form in finite time during the evolution of 2+1 wave maps from spherically equivariant initial data of sufficient energy.

In this paper we study blow-up and lifespan estimate for solutions to the Cauchy problem with small data for semilinear wave equations with scattering damping and negative mass term. We show that the negative mass term will play a dominant…

In this paper, we consider the complex Ginzburg--Landau equation $u_t = e^{i\theta} [\Delta u + |u|^\alpha u] + \gamma u$ on ${\mathbb R}^N $, where $\alpha >0$, $\gamma \in \R$ and $-\pi /2<\theta <\pi /2$. By convexity arguments we prove…

The relativistic membrane equation can be rewritten as a first order hyperbolic system. Making use of the characteristic decomposition method, a new blow-up theorem is established. As an application, it demonstrates the formation of…

In a recent paper, PNAS, 118, e1921529118 (2021), it was argued that while the standard definition of conservation laws in quantum mechanics, which is of a statistical character, is perfectly valid, it misses essential features of nature…

In the last twenty years, there have been significant advances in the study of the blow-up phenomenon for the critical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation, including the determination of sufficient conditions for blowup, the stability of…

The generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations are a class of Hamiltonian systems in infinite dimension derived from the KdV equation where the quadratic term is replaced by a higher order power term. These equations have two conservation laws…

The combustion model is studied in three-dimensional (3D) smooth bounded domains with various types of boundary conditions. The global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions are obtained under the smallness of the gradient of initial…