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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 work, we pursue our investigations on the Cauchy problem for a class of dispersive PDEs where a rough time coefficient is present in front of the dispersion. We show that if the PDE satisfies a strong non-resonance condition…
We consider in this paper the well-posedness for the Cauchy problem associated to two-dimensional dispersive systems of Boussinesq type which model weakly nonlinear long wave surface waves. We emphasize the case of the {\it strongly…
We regard the Cauchy problem for a particular Whitham-Boussinesq system modelling surface waves of an inviscid incompressible fluid layer. The system can be seen as a weak nonlocal dispersive perturbation of the shallow water system. The…
We study the Cauchy problem for a generalized derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition. We establish the local well-posedness results in the Sobolev spaces $H^1$ and $H^2$. Solutions are constructed…
In a recent result of Gerard-Varet and Dormy [5], they established ill-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the linearized Prandtl equation around non-monotic special solution which is independent of x and satisfies the heat equation. In [6]…
Nowadays we have many methods allowing to exploit the regularising properties of the linear part of a nonlinear dispersive equation (such as the KdV equation, the nonlinear wave or the nonlinear Schroedinger equations) in order to prove…
The aim of this paper is to prove various ill-posedness and well-posedness results on the Cauchy problem associated to a class of fractional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equations including the KP version of the Benjamin-Ono and Intermediate…
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…
We provide a set of conditions that is necessary and sufficient for the $L^{2}$-wellposedness of the Cauchy problem for fifth and sixth order variable-coefficient linear dispersive equations. The necessity of these conditions had been…
In this paper we analyse the Gevrey well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for weakly hyperbolic equations of general form with time-dependent coefficients. The results involve the order of lower order terms and the number of multiple roots.…
We study existence and uniqueness of bounded solutions to a fractional nonlinear porous medium equation with a variable density, in one space dimension.
In this paper we consider an abstract Cauchy problem for a Maxwell system modelling electromagnetic fields in the presence of an interface between optical media. The electric polarization is in general time-delayed and nonlinear, turning…
We complete the known results on the local Cauchy problem in Sobolev spaces for the KdV-Burgers equation by proving that this equation is well-posed in $ H^{-1}(\R) $ with a solution-map that is analytic from $H^{-1}(\R) $ to…
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 study the well-posedness of Cauchy problems on the upper half space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+$ associated to higher order systems $\partial_t u =(-1)^{m+1}\mbox{div}_m A\nabla ^m u$ with bounded measurable and uniformly elliptic coefficients.…
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…
This work is concerned with the Cauchy problem for a coupled Schr\"odinger-Benjamin-Ono system $$\left \{ \begin{array}{l} i\partial_tu+\partial_x^2u=\alpha uv,\qquad t\!\in\![-T,T], \ x\!\in\!\mathbb R,\\ \partial_tv+\nu\mathcal…
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…
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…