Related papers: Global solutions of the Hunter-Saxton equation
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…
We give explicit solutions to the two-component Hunter-Saxton system on the unit circle. Moreover, we show how global weak solutions can be naturally constructed using the geometric interpretation of this system as a re-expression of the…
We derive a novel two-component generalization of the nonlinear variational wave equation as a model for the director field of a nematic liquid crystal with a variable order parameter. The two-component nonlinear variational wave equation…
We consider a functional semilinear Rayleigh-Stokes equation involving fractional derivative. Our aim is to analyze some circumstances, in those the global solvability and some results on asymptotic behavior of solutions take place. By…
In this paper we construct a global, continuous flow of solutions to the Camassa-Holm equation on the space H^1(R). In a previous paper [2], A. Bressan and the author constructed spatially periodic solutions, whereas in this paper the…
In this paper we construct a global, continuous flow of solutions to the Camassa-Holm equation on the entire space $H^1$. Our solutions are conservative, in the sense that the total energy $\int (u^2+u_x^2) dx$ remains a.e. constant in…
In this work we introduce the r-Hunter-Saxton equation, a generalisation of the Hunter-Saxton equation arising as extremals of an action principle posed in L_r. We characterise solutions to the Cauchy problem, quantifying the blow-up time…
We study asymptotic behaviors of the higher-order spatial derivatives and the first-order time derivatives for the strong solution to nematic liquid crystal flows in the half-space $\mathbb{R}_+^3$. Furthermore, when the initial data lie in…
We provide an existence and uniqueness result for mild solutions to semilinear stochastic partial differential equations in the framework of the semigroup approach with locally monotone coefficients. An important component of the proof is…
This paper is concerned with global existence of weak solution for a periodic two-component $\mu$-Hunter-Saxton system. We first derive global existence for strong solutions to the system with smooth approximate initial data. Then, we show…
This paper is dedicated to provide the global solutions of algebro-geometric type for all the equations of a new commuting hierarchy containing the Hunter-Saxton (HS) equation. Our main tools include the zero curvature method to derive the…
We consider a model of liquid crystals, based on a nonlinear hyperbolic system of differential equations, that represents an inviscid version of the model proposed by Qian and Sheng. A new concept of dissipative solution is proposed, for…
In this paper, we prove the global existence of weak solutions to the non-isothermal nematic liquid crystal system on $\mathbb T^2$, based on a new approximate system which is different from the classical Ginzburg-Landau approximation.…
In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for the Hunter-Saxton (HS) equation on the line. Firstly, we establish the local well-posedness for the integral form of the (HS) equation by constructing some special spaces $E^s_{p,r}$, which…
Exact rational solutions of the generalized Hunter-Saxton equation are obtained using Pad\'e approximant approach for the traveling-wave and self-similarity reduction. A larger class of algebraic solutions are also obtained by extending a…
A nondispersive, conservative regularisation of the inviscid Burgers equation is proposed and studied. Inspired by a related regularisation of the shallow water system recently introduced by Clamond and Dutykh, the new regularisation…
The Hunter-Saxton equation serves as a mathematical model for orientation waves in a nematic liquid crystal. The present paper discusses a modified variant of this equation, coming up in the study of critical points for the speed of…
Here, we study the generalized semiconcavity property of viscosity solutions of the Neumann boundary value problem for Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In particular, we establish the global semiconcavity with a fractional modulus by…
We derive localized and global noncompact versions of Hamilton's gradient estimate for positive solutions to the heat equation on Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. Our estimates are essentially optimal and…
We consider 1D dissipative transport equations with nonlocal velocity field: \[ \theta_t+u\theta_x+\delta u_{x} \theta+\Lambda^{\gamma}\theta=0, \quad u=\mathcal{N}(\theta), \] where $\mathcal{N}$ is a nonlocal operator given by a Fourier…