Special Session 96: Evolutionary Equations Systems

Weakly convex and generalized subharmonic functions related to a $C_0$-semigroup

Ana Maria Acu
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Romania
Co-Author(s):    Ioan Rasa, Georgian Chivu
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Let $K$ be a convex compact subset of $R^p, p\geq 1$, having nonempty interior. Starting with a suitable positive linear projection $T$ defined on $C(K)$, Altomare and Rasa defined in [1] the weakly $T$-convex functions. Using $T$, a $C_0$-semigroup of operators on C(K) was constructed and the generalized $A$-subharmonic functions were defined, where $A$ is the infinitesimal generator of the semigroup. It was proved that if a function is weakly $T$-convex, then it is generalized $A$-subharmonic. The authors of [1] conjectured that the converse is also true, but as far as we know this is still an open problem. We present some results related to the conjecture. Namely, starting with the conjecture, we prove that a suitable stronger hypothesis entails a stronger conclusion. [1] F. Altomare, I. Rasa, Feller semigroups, Bernstein type operators and generalized convexity associated with positive projections, New Developments in Approximation Theory, Internat. Ser. Numer. Math. vol.132, Birkhauser, Basel, 1999, 9-32.

Regularity results on 3D viscous Tropical Climate Models

Diego Berti
University of Turin
Italy
Co-Author(s):    
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We consider the Tropical Climate Model (TCM) in three spatial dimensions within the framework of mathematical fluid dynamics. The TCM consists of a coupled system of diffusion equations for two modes of wind velocity and the temperature. Similar to other well-known 3D systems in fluid dynamics, such as the Navier-Stokes equations, the global-in-time well-posedness of the 3D TCM remains an open problem. In collaboration with L. Bisconti (University of Florence, Italy) and Davide Catania (eCampus, Italy), we present new results on the analysis of regularized versions of the 3D TCM, particularly when nonlinear dampings are introduced.

Singular traveling waves in parabolic operators with a divergence-shaped flow operator.

Juan Campos
Universidad de Granada
Spain
Co-Author(s):    
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We are going to analyze the traveling waves problem of $$ u_t= (a(u, u_x) )_x+f(u),\qquad (t,x)\in \mathbb{R}^2, $$ where $a(u, u_x)$ is an increasing function in the second component and $f$ is of Fisher type. The main problem is to make sense of the singular solution to provide information on the speed of propagation of the evolution of a compact supported initial data.

Chaos for degenerate parabolic equations

Anna Maria Candela
Universita' degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Italy
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The Nobel Prize winning Black-Scholes equation for stock options and the heat equation are both model equations of the generalized problem \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=P_2(A_a)u, \] where $P_2(z)=\alpha z^2+ \beta z+\gamma$ is a quadratic polynomial with $\alpha > 0$ and $A_a = x^a\frac{\partial}{\partial x}$ is an operator for functions on $[0,\infty) \times [0,\infty)$ with $0\le a \le 1$. For each operator $A_a$ the corresponding degenerate parabolic equation is governed by a semigroup of operators which is chaotic on a suitable class of Banach spaces; thus, we unify, simplify and significantly extend earlier results obtained by H. Emamirad, G. R. Goldstein and J. A. Goldstein for the Black-Scholes equation ($a=1$) and the heat equation ($a=0$). \smallskip \noindent Joint work with G. Ruiz Goldstein, J. A. Goldstein and S. Romanelli. \medskip \noindent Supported by MUR-PNRR project code CN00000013 `\emph{National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing}` - Spoke 10 `\emph{Quantum Computing}`.

Parabolic logistic equation with harvesting involving the fractional Laplacian

Maya Chhetri
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
USA
Co-Author(s):    P. Girg, E. Hollifield and L. Kotrla
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This talk will focus on a class of parabolic problems governed by the fractional Laplacian, subject to zero Dirichlet conditions on the exterior of a bounded domain. We will discuss the existence and uniqueness of solutions for these problems. Additionally, we apply our results to logistic growth models with constant yield harvesting by constructing an ordered pair of sub- and supersolutions for the associated elliptic equation.

Impulsive and Dirichlet problems driven by second order differential inclusions.

Giulia Duricchi
Universita` degli Studi di Firenze
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Tiziana Cardinali
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In recent joint papers with Tiziana Cardinali we investigate in Banach spaces the existence of impulsive mild solutions for a problem driven by the following semilinear second order differential inclusion $\begin{equation*} x''(t) \in Ax(t)+F(t,x(t),x'(t)),\ \text{a.e.}\ t \in [0,\infty) \setminus \lbrace t_k \rbrace_k \end{equation*}$ and the existence of strong solutions for a Dirichlet problem governed by the following Duffing differential inclusion $\begin{equation*} -x''(t)-r(t)x(t) \in F(t,x(t)),\ t \in [0,a] \end{equation*}$ To establish the first goal, we show the existence of mild solutions on a bounded interval. Then, by using a glueing method, we achieve the existence of impulsive mild solutions on $[0,\infty)$. While to study the Duffing Dirichlet problem, we apply a fixed point result to an appropriate solution operator. All results are proved without strong compactness assumptions. Finally, thanks to these findings, the controllability for problems driven by ordinary/partial differential equations is obtained.

Well-posedness and stability for a class of evolution systems

Yassine El Gantouh
School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Yassine El Gantouh
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In many PDEs models some constraints need to be imposed when considering concrete applications. This is for instance the case of evolutionary systems (such as heat conduction, transportation networks, population dynamic, etc.) where realistic models must incorporate the consideration that the state should adhere to some positivity constraints to ensure their physical relevance. In this talk, we discuss the positivity property of linear evolution systems. We present criteria for well-posedness, positivity and stability of a class of infinite-dimensional systems. These criteria are based on an inverse estimate with respect to the Hille-Yosida Theorem. This unifies previous results available in the literature and that were established separately so far. As for illustration, we exhibit the feasibility of these criteria through a structured population model with (unbounded) delay in the birth process.

Some remarks on Melnikov chaos for smooth and piecewise smooth systems

matteo franca
Bologna University
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Calamai A., Pospisil M.
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It is well known that a smooth autonomous system which has a homoclinic trajectory (i.e. a trajectory converging to a critical point as $t \to \pm \infty$) and subject to a small periodic forcing may exhibit a chaotic pattern. A motivating example in this context is given by a forced inverted pendulum.\ Melnikov theory provides a computable sufficient condition for the existence of a transversal intersection between stable and unstable manifolds: in a smooth context this is enough to guarantee the persistence of the homoclinic and the insurgence of chaos.\ In this talk we show that in piecewise smooth system with a transversal homoclinic point a generic geometrical obstruction forbids chaotic phenomena which are replaced by new bifurcation scenarios. Further, if this obstruction is removed, chaos may arise again. Piecewise smooth system are motivated by the study of dry friction, state dependent switches, or impacts. In fact we will also show some results new in a smooth context, concerning multiplicity, position and size of the Cantor set $\Sigma$ of initial conditions from which chaos emanates. In particular we will see that, even if the perturbation is $O(\varepsilon)$, we may find infinitely many distinct Cantor set $\Sigma$ located in the same $O(\varepsilon^{\nu})$ neighborhood of the critical point, each corresponding to a different pattern, and where $\nu>1$ is as large as we wish.

Delay evolution equations with nonlocal multivalued initial conditions

Giovanni Giliberti
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore)
Italy
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We consider the nonlinear delay differential evolution equation in a Banach space $ X $ $\begin{equation*} \begin{cases} x`(t)=Ax(t)+f(t,x_t)\qquad & t\in[0,T]\ x(t) \in g(x)(t)\qquad & t\in[-r,0]. \end{cases} \end{equation*}$ where the linear operator $ A $ generates a $ C_0 $-semigroup of contractions and the function $ x_t $, defined by $ x_t(s)=x(t+s) $ for $ s\in[-r,0] $, is the delay term. We prove the existence of mild solutions satisfying the nonlocal, multivalued, Cauchy condition defined by the multimap $ g:C([-r,T],X)\multimap C([-r,0],X) $, whether the semigroup generated by $ A $ is compact or not. Our approach involves a suitable degree argument. We then apply our results to a transport equation in the form $\begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle u_t(t,y)+a\cdot\nabla u(t,y)= \Phi\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|u(t,\xi)|^pd\xi\right)\cdot h\left(\int_{t-r}^t\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|u(s,\xi)|^p\,\text{d}\xi\,{\mathrm d}s\right)\cdot \ell(t,u(t,y))\quad&[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^n\ \displaystyle u(t,y) \in\left\{{ u_0(t,y) + \sum_{i=1}^N\mu_i\int_t^0u(t_i+s,y)\,{\mathrm d}s:\mu_i\in A_i,\, i=1,...,N}\right\}\quad&[-r,0]\times\mathbb{R}^n \end{cases} \end{equation*}$ where $ a\in \mathbb{R}^n $, the functions $\Phi$, $ h $$ :\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R} $ are continuous and bounded and the map $ \ell:[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R} $ satisfies suitable assumptions. Here, the multivalued condition is defined by the function $ u_0:[-r,0]\times \mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R} $, the fixed instants $ 0 $

On multiplicative time-dependent perturbations of semigroups and cosine families generators

Erica Ipocoana
Freie Universit\"{a}t Berlin
Germany
Co-Author(s):    Valentina Taddei
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In this work we aim to investigate a second order PDE modelling a vibrating string. Our strategy consists in transforming the PDE problem into a semilinear second order ODE in a suitable infinite dimensional space. Since the tension coefficient of the PDE may vary with time, the linear operator of the ODE depends on time. We therefore provide sufficient conditions guaranteeing that a suitable family of unbounded linear operators generates a fundamental system.

Estimates for the minimum time function

Alina I Lazu
"Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi
Romania
Co-Author(s):    Ovidiu Carja
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For the semilinear control system $y`( t) =Ay( t) +f( y( t)) +Bu(t)$, where $B:U\rightarrow X$ is a linear continuous operator, $X$ and $U$ two Hilbert spaces, $A:D( A) \subseteq X\rightarrow X$ the generator of a C$_{0}$-semigroup, $f:X\rightarrow X$ a given function and $u $ the control, we study the null controllability problem and we provide estimates for the minimum time function around the target, using viability results.

Boundary value problems for integro-differential and singular higher order differential equations

Cristina Marcelli
Marche Politechical University
Italy
Co-Author(s):    F. Anceschi - A. Calamai - F. Papalini
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The talk concerns some recent results about third-order strongly nonlinear differential equations of the type \[ (\Phi(k(t)u``(t)))` = f(t,u(t),u`(t),u``(t)), \ \ \text{ a.e. on } [0,T] \] where \(\Phi\) is a strictly increasing homeomorphism and the nonnegative function \(k\) may vanish on a set of measure zero. By using the upper and lower solutions method, existence results for boundary value problems, associated to the above equation, are proved. Moreover, second-order integro-differential equations of the type \[ (\Phi(k(t)v`(t)))` = f(t,\int_0^t v(\tau)\ d \tau, \ v(t),\ v`(t)), \ \ \text{ a.e. on } [0,T] \] are also considered, for which existence results for various types of boundary conditions, including periodic, Sturm-Liouville and Neumann-type conditions, are provided.

Weak Solutions of Nonlinear Elliptic Problems with Growth up to Critical Exponents

Nsoki Mavinga
Swarthmore College
USA
Co-Author(s):    Nsoki Mavinga, Timothy Myers, Marius Nkashama
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We will present some recent results on the existence of weak minimal and maximal solutions between an ordered pair of sub- and super-solutions for semilinear elliptic equations with nonlinearities in the differential equation and on the boundary. No monotonicity conditions are imposed on the nonlinearities. Unlike previous results in this setting, we allow the growth in the nonlinearities in the domain and on the boundary to go all the way to the critical Sobolev exponents in the appropriate Lebesgue spaces (in duality). The approach makes careful use of pseudomonotone coercive operators, the axiom of choice through Zorn`s lemma and a Kato`s inequality up to the boundary along with appropriate estimates.

A convergence criterion for elliptic quasivariational inequalities

Anna Ochal
Jagiellonian University
Poland
Co-Author(s):    Mircea Sofonea (France) and Domingo Tarzia (Argentina)
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The aim of this talk is to present a convergence result concerning an elliptic quasivariational inequality in a reflexive Banach space. Considering a sequence of unconstrained variational-hemivariational inequalities, we show that a sequence of their unique solutions converges to the solution of the quasivariational inequality. We introduce also a new well-posedness concept and show that it extends the classical Tykhonov and Levitin-Polyak well-posedness concepts for quasivariational inequalities.

On the justification of Koiter`s model for thermoelastic shells

Paolo Piersanti
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    
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In this talk, we justify the time-dependent version of Koiter`s model when the displacement is coupled with a temperature distribution via the neumann-Duhamel law. By menas of a rigorous asymptotic analysis, we describe how the modes of deformation interact with the temperature distribution.

On the regularity of the solutions to some evolutionary equations of p-Laplacian type

Maria Michaela MM Porzio
Sapienza Universit\`a di Roma
Italy
Co-Author(s):    
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In this talk we describe the influence of the initial data and the forcing terms on the regularity of the solutions to a class of evolution equations including the heat equation, linear and semilinear parabolic equations, together with the nonlinear p-Laplacian equation. We focus our study mainly on the regularity (in terms of belonging to appropriate Lebesgue spaces) of the gradient of the solutions.

Blow-up and Global Solutions for Parabolic Equations with Critical Nonlinearities

Federica Sani
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Italy
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In this talk, we analyze the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the Cauchy problem associated with a class of parabolic equations with critical nonlinearities. We focus on initial data in the energy space $H^1(\mathbb R^N)$ and consider nonlinearities that exhibit critical growth in this energy space. We exploit variational techniques to show that the transition between blow-up in finite time and global existence is determined by the sign of suitable Nehari or Pohozaev functional, at least for low energies solutions.

Regularity for strongly coupled systems

Rafayel Teymurazyan
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and University of Coimbra
Saudi Arabia
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We will present recent advances in the study of nonlinear systems. The main challenge in dealing with those systems is the lack of comparison principle and of the classical Perron`s method. Nevertheless, we discover a chain reaction, exploiting the properties of an equation along the system and obtaining higher sharp regularity across the free boundary. Additionally, we prove geometric measure estimates and obtain coincidence of the free boundaries. Furthermore, we derive free boundary regularly results. These results are new, even for linear systems.

On a second order periodic system with multivalued perturbation

Calogero Vetro
University of Palermo
Italy
Co-Author(s):    
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We consider the existence problem for the following second order periodic system: $\begin{equation} \begin{cases} m(u^\prime(t))^\prime \in F(u(t))+ G(t,u(t),u`(t)) & \mbox{for a.a. } t \in [0,t_{\max}],\ u(0)=u(t_{\max})=0, \, u^\prime(0)=u^\prime(t_{\max})=0, &\end{cases} \end{equation}$ where $m: \mathbb{R}^N \to \mathbb{R}^N$ is a monotone-type map, including as special case the $p$-Laplacian operator $m(y):=|y|^{p-2}y$ with $p \in (1,+\infty)$. In the reaction, we have the combined effects of a maximal monotone multivalued map $F:D(F) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^N \to 2^{\mathbb{R}^N}$ and a graph measurable multivalued map $G: [0,t_{\max}] \times \mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^N \to 2^{\mathbb{R}^N} \setminus \{\emptyset\}$. We develop a topological approach based on the theory of monotone-type nonlinear operators (see [1]) and multivalued analysis (see [2]). The starting point of the study is a joint work with N. S. Papageorgiou (see [3]). We discuss the cases when $G$ has convex values and non-convex values, respectively, by imposing different hypotheses on the data. $$ $$ [1] L. Gasi\`nski and N. S. Papageorgiou, \textit{Nonlinear Analysi}s. Ser. Math. Anal. Appl., vol. 9. CRC Press Boca Raton, 2006. $$ $$ [2] S. Hu and N. S. Papageorgiou, \textit{Handbook of Multivalued Analysis}. Vol. I: Theory. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1997. $$ $$ [3] N. S. Papageorgiou and C. Vetro, Existence and relaxation results for second order multivalued systems, \textit{Acta Appl. Math.}, 173 (2021), Paper No. 5, 36 pp.

Basic considerations about chemotactic models in penetrable habitats

Giuseppe Viglialoro
Universit \\`a degli Studi di Cagliari
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Silvia Frassu, Yuya Tanaka
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The term chemotaxis describes the phenomenon by which cell bodies, bacteria, and other organisms (unicellular or multicellular) direct their movements in response to the presence of specific chemicals in their habitat. The simplest mathematical formulation of this phenomenon involves two unknowns that obey as many differential coupled equations. Since the advent of such a model (Keller and Segel, 1970), the results obtained are numerous. Nevertheless, the common denominator of such studies focuses on the assumption that the habitat is impenetrable. In this talk, we will discuss the phenomenon of chemotaxis in situations where the environment is, on the contrary, penetrable. This is a joint project with Silvia Frassu and Yuya Tanaka.

Some evolution problems modeling the interaction between acoustic waves and non-locally reacting surfaces

Enzo Vitillaro
Universit\\`a degli Studi di Perugia
Italy
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We deal with three families of evolutions problems modeling the interaction between acoustic waves and non-locally reacting surfaces. One family is constituted by problems derived in a Lagrangian framework, another family by problems derived in the Eulerian framework. In the talk, we show that they are equivalent with one between the two variants of the acoustic wave equation with acoustic boundary condition, which constitute the third family of problems. The results are connected with those in the talk given by the author in SS15, and are contained in two papers by the author, the first one in J. Evol. Eqs. (2024), the second one still in preparation. This work has been funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU within the framework of PNRR Mission 4 - Component 2 - Investment 1.1 under the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) program PRIN2022 - 2022BCFHN2 - Advanced theoretical aspects in PDEs and their applications - CUP: J53D23003700006

Solutions to nonlinear evolution equations with a demicontinuous nonlinearities

Vittorio \Colao
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria
Italy
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We deal with the existence of solutions for a class of non-autonomous evolution equations with demicontinuos nonlinearities