TBA by Casey Rodriguez
- Series
- PDE Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Casey Rodriguez – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – crodrig@email.unc.edu
TBA
TBA
The oscillation of a Laplacian eigenfunction gives a great deal of information about the manifold on which it is defined. This oscillation can be encoded in the nodal deficiency, an important geometric quantity that is notoriously hard to compute, or even estimate. Here we compare two recently obtained formulas for the nodal deficiency, one in terms of an energy function on the space of equipartitions of the manifold, and the other in terms of a two-sided Dirichlet-to-Neumann map defined on the nodal set. We relate these two approaches by giving an explicit formula for the Hessian of the equipartition energy in terms of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. This allows us to compute Hessian eigenfunctions, and hence directions of steepest descent, for the equipartition energy in terms of the corresponding Dirichlet-to-Neumann eigenfunctions. Our results do not assume bipartiteness, and hence are relevant to the study of spectral minimal partitions. This is joint work with Greg Berkolaiko, Yaiza Canzani and Graham Cox.
An optimal control problem in the space of probability measures, and the viscosity solutions of the corresponding dynamic programming equations defined using the intrinsic linear derivative are studied. The value function is shown to be Lipschitz continuous with respect to a novel smooth Fourier Wasserstein metric. A comparison result between the Lipschitz viscosity sub and super solutions of the dynamic programming equation is proved using this metric, characterizing the value function as the unique Lipschitz viscosity solution. This is joint work with Prof. H. Mete Soner.
In this presentation the analytical background of nonlinear observers based on minimal energy estimation is discussed. Originally, such strategies were proposed for the reconstruction of the state of finite dimensional dynamical systems by means of a measured output where both the dynamics and the output are subject to white noise. Our work aims at lifting this concept to a class of partial differential equations featuring deterministic perturbations using the example of a wave equation with a cubic defocusing term in three space dimensions. In particular, we discuss local regularity of the corresponding value function and consider operator Riccati equations to characterize its second spatial derivative.
It is known that the symplectic property is preserved by the mean curvature flow in a K\"ahler-Einstein surface which is called "symplectic mean curvature flow". It was proved that there is no finite time Type I singularities for the symplectic mean curvature flow. We will talk about recent progress on an important Type II singularity of symplectic mean curvature flow-symplectic translating soliton. We will show that a symplectic translating soliton must be a plane under some natural assumptions which are necessary by investigating some examples.
I will discuss a nonlinear elliptic system of partial differential equations arising in Riemannian geometry and General Relativity. Specifically, I will present recent advances on the analysis of asymptotically Euclidean, initial data sets for Einstein’s field equations. In collaboration with Bruno Le Floch (Sorbonne University) I proved that solutions to the Einstein constraints can be glued together along possibly nested conical domains. The constructed solutions may have arbitrarily low decay at infinity, while enjoying (super-)harmonic estimates within possibly narrow cones at infinity. Importantly, our localized seed-to-solution method, as we call it, leads to a proof of a conjecture by Alessandro Carlotto and Richard Schoen on the localization problem at infinity, and generalize P. LeFloch and Nguyen’s theorem on the asymptotic localization problem. This lecture will be based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17706
In the realm of mathematical fluid dynamics, a formidable challenge lies in establishing inviscid limits from the Navier-Stokes equations to the Euler equations. The pursuit of solving this intricate problem, particularly concerning singular solutions, persists in both compressible and incompressible scenarios. In particular, compressible Euler equations are a typical system of hyperbolic conservation laws, whose solution forms shock waves in general.
In this talk, we will discuss the recent proof on the unique vanishing viscosity limit from Navier-Stokes equations to the BV solution of compressible Euler equations, for the general Cauchy Problem. Moreover, we extend our findings by establishing the well-posedness of such solutions within the broader class of inviscid limits of Navier-Stokes equations with locally bounded energy initial values. This is a joint work with Kang and Vasseur, which can be found on arXiv:2401.09305.
The uniqueness and L2 stability of Euler equations, done by Chen-Krupa-Vasseur, will also be discussed in this talk.
It has been known since the pioneering work of J.L. Lions in 1960s that 3D hyper-dissipative (HD) Navier-Stokes (NS) system exhibits global-in-time regularity as long as the hyper-diffusion exponent is greater or equal to 5/4. One should note that at 5/4, the system is critical, i.e., the energy level and the scaling -invariant level coincide. What happens in the super-critical regime, the hyper-diffusion exponent being strictly between 1 and 5/4 remained a mystery.
The goal of this talk is to demonstrate that as soon as the hyper-diffusion exponent is greater than 1, a class of monotone blow-up scenarios consistent with the analytic structure of the flow (prior to the possible singular time) can be ruled out (a sort of 'runaway train' scenario). The argument is in the spirit of the regularity theory of the 3D HD NS system in 'turbulent scenario' (in the super-critical regime) developed by Grujic and Xu, relying on 'dynamic interpolation' – however, it is much shorter, tailored to the class of blow-up profiles in view. This is a joint work with Aseel Farhat.
The existence of global solutions for the Schrödinger equation
i\partial_t u + \Delta u = P_d(u),
with nonlinearity $P_d$ homogeneous of degree $d$, has been extensively studied. Most results focus on the case with gauge invariant nonlinearity, where the solution satisfies several conservation laws. However, the problem becomes more complicated as we consider a general nonlinearity $P_d$. So far, global well-posedness for small data is known for $d$ strictly greater than the Strauss exponent. In dimension $3$, this Strauss exponent is $2$, making NLS with quadratic nonlinearity an interesting topic.
In this talk, I will present a result that shows the global existence and scattering for systems of quadratic NLS for small, localized data. To tackle the challenge presented by the $u\Bar{u}$-type nonlinearity, we require an $\epsilon$ regularization for the terms of this type in the system.
Sampling from the Gibbs distribution is a long-standing problem studied across various fields. Among many sampling algorithms, Langevin dynamics plays a crucial role, particularly for high-dimensional target distributions. In practical applications, accelerating sampling dynamics is always desirable. It has long been studied that adding an irreversible component to reversible dynamics, such as Langevin, can accelerate convergence. Concrete constructions of irreversible components have also been explored in specific scenarios. However, a general strategy for such construction is still elusive. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of leveraging irreversibility to accelerate general dynamics, along with the quantification of irreversible dynamics. Our theory is mainly based on designing a modified entropy functional originally developed for linear kinetic equations (Dolbeault et al., 2015).