Special Session 93: Recent trends in elliptic and parabolic equations

Very Singular Solution to nonlinear equation with absorption

Said BENACHOUR
Institut Elie Cartan - Universit\`e de Lorraine.fr
France
Co-Author(s):    Philippe Laurencot
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Abstract:\ We investigate the existence of a Very Singular Solution at the origin to a viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation.\ A Very Singular Solution $V$at the origin is a non-negative solution which is smooth in $(0,+\infty)\times R^N$ and fulfills the fact that the singularity of $V$ in $(t,x)=(0,0)$ is stronger than the singularity in $(t,x)=(0,0)$ of fundamental solutions, that is the solutions whose initial data is $\delta$ ( the Dirac mass centered at $x=0$).\ Besides the description of the isolated singularities in $(t,x)=(0,0)$ the Very Singular Solutions (when they exist) also play an important role in the description of the large time behaviour of the solutions of PDE.\ The name Very Singular Solution has been introduced by Brezis, Peletier and Terman in 1984.

On Some Inverse Boundary Value Problems Arising from Cardiac Electrophysiology

Elena Beretta
NYUAD
United Arab Emirates
Co-Author(s):    Andrea Aspri Elisa Francini Dario Pierotti Sergio Vessella
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Detecting ischemic regions is crucial for preventing lethal ventricular ischemic tachycardia. This is typically done by recording the heart`s electrical activity using either noninvasive or minimally invasive methods, such as body surface or intracardiac measurements. Mathematical and numerical models of cardiac electrophysiology can provide insight into how electrical measurements can be used to detect ischemia. The goal is to combine boundary measurements of potentials with a mathematical model of the heart`s electrical activity to identify the position, shape, and size of ischemia and/or infarctions. Ischemic regions can be modeled as electrical insulators using the monodomain model, which is a semilinear reaction-diffusion system that describes cardiac electrical activity comprehensively. In this talk, I will focus on the case of an insulated heart without coupling to the torso. I will first review some results related to reconstructing cavities for the stationary model, and then present some results obtained recently in the case of the time-dependent nonlinear monodomain model for different types of nonlinearities.

A phase field model of Cahn--Hilliard type for tumour growth with mechanical effects and damage

Giulia Cavalleri
University of Pavia
Italy
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We introduce a new diffuse interface model for tumour growth in the presence of a nutrient, in which we take into account mechanical effects and reversible tissue damage. The highly nonlinear PDEs system mainly consists of a Cahn--Hilliard type equation that describes the phase separation process between healthy and tumour tissue. This equation is coupled to a parabolic reaction-diffusion equation for the nutrient and a hyperbolic equation for the balance of forces, including inertial and viscous effects. The main novelty is the introduction of tissue damage, whose evolution is ruled by a parabolic differential inclusion. We prove a global-in-time existence result for weak solutions by passing to the limit in a time-discretized and regularized version of the system.

Quasi-periodic steady invariant structures in inviscid incompressible fluids

Luca Franzoi
University of Milan
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Nader Masmoudi, Riccardo Montalto
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Invariant structures and asymptotic behaviours close to shear flows are of great interest in Fluid Dynamics. In this short talk, I present a recent result about the existence of nontrivial steady flows in the bounded 2D channel that are quasi-periodic in the horizontal space direction and solve the incompressible Euler equation. In particular, we work with steady Euler flows that solve some semilinear elliptic equations in the space domain, where we are led to use the horizontal direction as a time coordinate. Such solutions bifurcate from a prescribed shear equilibrium near the Couette flow, whose profile induces finitely many modes of oscillations in the horizontal direction that may be resonant. This leads to a small divisor problem and the consequent loss of derivatives is overcome with a Nash-Moser nonlinear iteration. This is a joint work with Nader Masmoudi and Riccardo Montalto

The existence and concentration behavior of positive ground state solutions for a class of Choquard type equations involving nonlocal(mixed) operators

Zu Gao
Wuhan University of Technology
Peoples Rep of China
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In this paper, we first employ variational methods to show the existence of positive ground state solutions for f a class of Choquard type equations involving nonlocal(mixed) operators, where potential function is nonnegative and bounded away from 0 as |x| approaches infinity. Since the potential function possesses a homogeneous behavior, we then investigate the concentration behavior of positive ground state solutions.

Higher Holder regularity for the fractional p-Laplace equation in the subquadratic case

Prashanta Garain
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Berhampur
India
Co-Author(s):    Erik Lindgren
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\documentclass[elsarticle]{amsart} \makeatletter \begin{document} We study the fractional p-Laplace equation $$ (-\Delta_p)^s u=0 $$ for $0

a system of superlinear elliptic equations in a cylinder

yanyan guo
Central China Normal University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Bernhard Ruf
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In this talk, we will discuss the existence of positive solutions of a semi-linear elliptic system defined in a cylinder $\Omega=\Omega`\times(0,a)\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, where $\Omega`\subset\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$ is a bounded and smooth domain. The system couples a superlinear equation defined in the whole cylinder $\Omega$ with another superlinear (or linear) equation defined at the bottom of the cylinder $\Omega`\times\{0\}$. We provide a priori $L^\infty$ bounds for all positive solutions of the system when the nonlinear terms satisfy certain growth conditions. Using the a priori bounds and topological arguments, we prove the existence of positive solutions for these particular semi-linear elliptic systems.

On a non-isothermal phase-field model for tumor growth

Erica Ipocoana
Freie Universit\"{a}t Berlin
Germany
Co-Author(s):    Stefania Gatti, Alain Miranville
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We present a new diffuse interface model describing the growth of a tumor, whose evolution is assumed to be governed by biological mechanisms such as proliferation of cells via nutrient consumption and apoptosis. In this context, the tumor is seen as an expanding mass surrounded by healthy tissues, while the interface in between contains a mixture of both healthy and tumor cells. More precisely, we model the process through a non-isothermal Allen-Cahn system coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation for the nutrient, following the approach based on microforce balance and then study its well-posedness. Namely, we are able to prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution to our model by Galerkin`s approach.

On the bifurcation diagram for free boundary problems arising in plasma physics

Aleks Jevnikar
University of Udine
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Daniele Bartolucci, Ruijun Wu
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We are concerned with qualitative properties of the bifurcation diagram of a free boundary problem arising in plasma physics, showing in particular uniqueness and monotonicity of its solutions. We then discuss sharp positivity thresholds and spike condensation phenomenon.

Radial symmetry and sharp asymptotic behaviors of nonnegative solutions to critical quasi-linear static Schrodinger-Hartree equation involving p-Laplacian

Zhao Liu
Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Wei Dai, Yafei Li
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In this talk, we are concerned with nonnegative weak solution to critical quasi-linear static Schrodinger-Hartree equation with p-Laplacian. We establish regularity and the sharp estimates on asymptotic behaviors for any positive solution u and gradient u to more general equation. Then, as a consequence, we prove that all the nontrivial nonnegative solutions are radially symmetric and strictly decreasing about some point.

Identification of a diffusion matrix in a linear parabolic equation

Gianluca Mola
Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
Italy
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Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary $\partial \Omega$. We study the inverse problem consisting in the identification of the function $u:(0,\infty) \times\Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ and the $n \times n$ symmetric and positive definite matrix $\mathbb{A}$ ({\it diffusion matrix}) that fulfill the parabolic problem $$ \begin{cases} \dfrac{\partial}{\partial t} u - \nabla \cdot \mathbb{A} \nabla u = 0 \quad \text{in} \quad (0,\infty) \times \Omega,\ u(0,\cdot) = \phi \quad \text{in} \quad \Omega,\ u(t,\cdot) = 0 \quad \text{on} \quad (0,\infty) \times \partial\Omega, \end{cases} $$ along with the additional integral measurements at a fixed time $T > 0$ $$ \int_\Omega\dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_i}u(T,\boldsymbol{x}) \cdot \dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_j}u(T,\boldsymbol{x}) d \boldsymbol{x} = \mathbb{M}_{i,j}, \quad 1 \leq i \leq j \leq n. $$ Under suitable assumptions on the initial datum $\phi:\Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ and on the overdeterminating conditions $\mathbb{M}_{i,j} \in \mathbb{R}$, we shall prove that the solution $(u,\mathbb{A})$ of such a problem is unique and depends continuously (Lipschitz) on the data $(\phi,\mathbb{M}_{i,j})$.

Bounded solutions for Leray-Lions equations of $(p, q)-$type with potentials

Dimitri Mugnai
Tuscia University
Italy
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We consider some classes of quasilinear elliptic equation in $R^N$ driven by Leray-Lions operators of $(p, q)-$type in presence of radial or unbounded potentials. By using a variational approach in intersections of Banach spaces introduced by Candela and Palmieri and some extensions of related results by Boccardo, Murat and Puel, we show the existence of entire bounded solutions.

Approximate Gidas-Ni-Nirenberg result in the unit ball

Luigi Pollastro
Universita` degli studi di Torino
Italy
Co-Author(s):    G. Ciraolo, M. Cozzi, M. Perugini
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In a celebrated paper published in 1979, Gidas, Ni \& Nirenberg proved a symmetry result for a rigidity problem. With minimal hypotheses, the authors showed that positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in the unit ball are radial and radially decreasing.\ This result had a big impact on the PDE community and stemmed several generalizations. In a recent work in collaboration with G. Ciraolo, M. Cozzi \& M. Perugini this problem was investigated from a quantitative viewpoint, starting with the following question: given that the rigidity condition implies symmetry, is it possible to prove that if said condition is \emph{almost} satisfied the problem is \emph{almost} symmetrical?\ With the employment of the method of moving planes and quantitative maximum principles we are able to give a positive answer to the question, proving approximate radial symmetry and almost monotonicity for positive solutions of the perturbed problem.

On the boundary behavior of solutions to fractional elliptic problems

Nicola Soave
Universit\`a degli Studi di Torino
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Serena Dipierro, Enrico Valdinoci
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We present some results on the boundary behavior of solutions to fractional elliptic problems. In particular, we address the following problems: \ 1) can one prove a Hopf-type lemma for possibly sign-changing solutions? \ 2) given a non-trivial solution $u$, is it possible that $u$ has infinitely many zeros accumulating at the boundary? \ We answer these questions, and we provide concrete examples to show that the results obtained are sharp.

Recent results on planar Schr\odinger Poisson equations

Cristina Tarsi
Universit\`a degli Studi di Milano
Italy
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The Schr\odinger-Poisson equation has been first introduced in dimension $N=3$ in 1954 by Pekar to describe quantum theory of a polaron at rest, and then applied by Choquard in 1976 as an approximation to the Hartree-Fock theory of one-component plasma. It has been extensively studied in the higher dimensional case $N \geq 3$, due to the richness of plenty of applications and to the new mathematical challenges related to nonlocal problems. On the other hand, the literature is not abundant for the planar case $N=2$, due to the presence of a sign-changing and unbounded logarithmic integral kernel, which demands for new functional settings where implementing the variational approach.\ We review here some recent results on this topic and on some new related inequalities.

Stability of the Von K\`arm\`an regime for thin plates under Neumann boundary conditions

Edoardo Giovanni Tolotti
University of Pavia
Italy
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We analyze the stability of the Von K\`arm\`an model for thin plates subject to pure Neumann conditions and to dead loads, with no restriction on their direction. We prove a stability alternative, which extends previous results by Lecumberry and M\uller in the Dirichlet case. Because of the rotation invariance of the problem, their notions of stability have to be modified and combined with the concept of optimal rotations due to Maor and Mora. Finally, we prove that the Von K\`arm\`an model is not compatible with some specific types of forces. Thus, for such, only the Kirchhoff model applies.