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We exhibit a class of properties of an spde that guarantees existence, uniqueness and bounds on moments of the solution. These moment bounds are expressed in terms of quantities related to the associated deterministic homogeneous p.d.e.…

We consider linear and nonlinear hyperbolic SPDEs with mixed derivatives with additive space-time Gaussian white noise of the form $Y_{xt}=F(Y) + \sigma W_{xt}.$ Such equations, which transform to linear and nonlinear wave equations,…

The dynamics of an initially localized Anderson mode is studied in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the presence of disorder. It is shown that the dynamics can be described in the framework of the Liouville operator.…

We derive various approximations for the solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic systems with fastly oscillating initial data. We first provide error estimates for the so-called slowly varying envelope, full dispersion, and Schr\"odinger…

In this work, we perform a detailed review about the theoretical modeling of the optical propagation of ultra-short pulses in different scenarios of nonlinear optics. In particular, we focus our efforts on optical fibers and uniform media,…

We present an introduction to the theory of dispersive shock waves in the framework of the approach proposed by Gurevich and Pitaevskii (Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz., 65, 590 (1973) [Sov. Phys. JETP, 38, 291 (1974)]) based on the Whitham theory of…

We analyze the behavior of an isentropic gas in a narrow pipe with periodically-varying cross-sectional area. Using multiple-scale perturbation theory, we derive homogenized effective equations, which take the form of a constant-coefficient…

We study nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem for the Fractional Fast Diffusion Equation on a suitable class of connected, noncompact Riemannian manifolds. This parabolic equation is both singular and nonlocal: the diffusion is…

We demonstrate the existence of extremely weakly decaying linear and nonlinear modes (i.e. modes immune to dissipation) in the one-dimensional periodic array of identical spatially localized dissipations, where the dissipation width is much…

We propose the suppression of dispersive spreading of wave packets governed by the free-space Schr\"odinger equation with a periodically pulsed nonlinear term. Using asymptotic analysis, we construct stroboscopically-dispersionless quantum…

The derivation of the Nordheim-Boltzmann transport equation for weakly interacting quantum fluids is a longstanding problem in mathematical physics. Inspired by the method developed to handle classical dilute gases, a conventional approach…

We study the mathematical properties of a kinetic equation which describes the long time behaviour of solutions to the weak turbulence equation associated to the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. In particular, we give a precise…

Nonlocal interactions are ubiquitous in nature and play a central role in many biological systems. In this paper, we perform a bifurcation analysis of a widely-applicable advection-diffusion model with nonlocal advection terms describing…

We develop the theory of dispersive shock waves in optical fibers for the case of long-distance propagation of optical pulses, when the small Raman effect stabilizes the profile of the shock. The Whitham modulation equations are derived as…

The higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation (Dysthe's equation in the context of water-waves) models the time evolution of the slowly modulated amplitude of a wave-packet in dispersive partial differential equations (PDE). These…

We consider the Schrodinger equation with a logarithmic nonlinearity and a repulsive harmonic potential. Depending on the parameters of the equation, the solution may or may not be dispersive. When dispersion occurs, it does with an…

This article concerns the long-time dynamics of quantum particles in the semi-classical regime. First, we show that for the nonlinear Hartree equation with short-range interaction potential, small-data solutions obey dispersion bounds and…

This is the second part of a two-paper series studying the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with quasi-periodic initial data. In this paper, we focus on the quasi-periodic Cauchy problem for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.…

We study the effects of the generic weak nonlinear loss on fast two-pulse interactions in linear waveguides. The colliding pulses are described by a system of coupled Schr\"odinger equations with a purely nonlinear coupling in the presence…

We give the solution of the Whitham modulation equations for envelopes of pulses evolving according to the sine-Gordon equation. The Whitham equations are interpreted as the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics and their solving is…