Loss of quasiconvexity in the periodic homogenization of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations

Speaker: 

Elena Kosygina

Institution: 

Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center

Time: 

Friday, April 26, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 440R

 In this talk we shall discuss our recent work which shows that in the periodic homogenization of viscous HJ equations in any spatial dimension the effective Hamiltonian does not necessarily inherit the quasiconvexity property (in the momentum variables) of the original Hamiltonian. Moreover, the loss of quasi convexity is, in a way, generic: when the spatial dimension is 1, every convex function can be modified on an arbitrarily small interval so that the modified function, G(p),  is quasiconvex, and for some Lipschitz continuous periodic V(x),  the  effective Hamiltonian corresponding to H(p,x)=G(p)+V(x) is not quasiconvex. This observation is in sharp contrast with the inviscid case where homogenization preserves quasiconvexity. The talk is based on joint work with Atilla Yilmaz, Temple University.

A Bernstein theorem for anisotropic minimal graphs with controlled growth

Speaker: 

Yang Yang

Institution: 

Johns Hopkins University

Time: 

Friday, November 17, 2023 - 4:00pm to 4:50pm

Host: 

Location: 

440R

Parametric elliptic functionals are natural generalizations of the area functional that both arise in many applications and offer important technical challenges. Given any parametric elliptic functional, the anisotropic Bernstein problem asks whether the entire anisotropic minimal graphs associated to the functional in R^{n+1} are necessarily hyperplanes. A recent breakthrough regarding this problem indicates that the answer is positive if and only if n < 4. In this talk, we will talk about a Bernstein result for entire anisotropic minimal graphs in all dimensional Euclidean spaces, under assuming some certain growth condition on the anisotropic minimal graphs and C^3-closeness between anisotropic area integrands and the classical area integrand. This is joint work with W. Du.

A mean curvature flow approach to density of minimal cones

Speaker: 

Lu Wang

Institution: 

Yale university

Time: 

Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Online (Zoom)

Abstract: Minimal cones are models for singularities in minimal submanifolds, as well as stationary solutions to the mean curvature flow. In this talk, I will explain how to utilize mean curvature flow to yield near optimal estimates on density of topologically nontrivial minimal cones. This is joint with Jacob Bernstein.

Joint with VIRTUAL ANALYSIS AND PDE SEMINAR (VAPS).  https://sites.google.com/view/vapsemina

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Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Yamabe equation in low dimensions

Speaker: 

Lei Zhang

Institution: 

University of Florida

Time: 

Friday, May 5, 2023 - 3:00am to 4:00am

Host: 

Location: 

RH440R

In this talk I will report recent progress on the Yamabe equation defined either on a punctured disk of a smooth manifold or outside a compact subset of $\mathbb R^n$ with an asymptotically flat metric.  What we are interested in is the behavior of solutions near the singularity. It is well known that the study of the Yamabe equation is sensitive to the dimension of the manifold and is closely related to the Positive Mass Theorem. In my recent joint works with Jingang Xiong (Beijing Normal University) and Zhengchao Han (Rutgers) we proved dimension-sensitive results and our work showed connection to other problems. 

A Boundary Estimate for Quasi-Linear Diffusion Equations

Speaker: 

Ugo Gianazza

Institution: 

Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italy)

Time: 

Friday, April 2, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

Let $E$ be an open set in $\mathbb{R}^N$, and for $T>0$ let $E_T$ denote the cylindrical domain $E\times[0,T]$. We consider quasi-linear, parabolic partial differential equations of the form $$ u_t-\operatorname{div}\textbf{A}(x,t,u, Du) = 0\quad \text{ weakly in }\> E_T, $$ where the function $\textbf{A}(x,t,u,\xi)\colon E_T\times\mathbb{R}^{N+1}\to\mathbb{R}^N$ is assumed to be measurable with respect to $(x, t) \in E_T$ for all $(u,\xi)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^N$, and continuous with respect to $(u,\xi)$ for a.e.~$(x,t)\in E_T$. Moreover, we assume the structure conditions $$\begin{cases} \textbf{A}(x,t,u,\xi)\cdot \xi\geq C_0|\xi|^p,&\\ \textbf{A}(x,t,u,\xi)|\leq C_1|\xi|^{p-1},& \end{cases}$$ for a.e. $(x,t)\in E_T$, $\forall\,u\in\mathbb{R},\,\forall\xi\in\mathbb{R}^N$, where $C_0$ and $C_1$ are given positive constants, and we take $p>1$. We consider a boundary datum $g$ with $$\begin{cases} g\in L^p\big(0,T;W^{1,p}( E)\big),&\\ g \text{ continuous on}\ \overline{E}_T\ \text{with modulus of continuity }\ \omega_g(\cdot),& \end{cases}$$ and we are interested in the boundary behavior of solutions to the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem $$\begin{cases} u_t-\operatorname{div}\textbf{A}(x,t,u, Du) = 0&\text{ weakly in }\> E_T,\\ u(\cdot,t)\Big|_{\partial E}=g(\cdot,t)&\text{ a.e. }\ t\in(0,T],\\ u(\cdot,0)=g(x,0),& \end{cases}$$ with $g$ as above. We do not impose any {\em a priori} requirements on the boundary of the domain $E\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, and we provide an estimate on the modulus of continuity at a boundary point in terms of a Wiener-type integral, defined by a proper elliptic $p$-capacity. The results depend on the value of $p$, namely whether $1<p\le\frac{2N}{N+1}$, $\frac{2N}{N+1}<p<2$, $p\ge2$.

This is a joint work with Naian Liao (Salzburg University, Austria) and Teemu Lukkari (Aalto University, Finland).

The Theorem of Characterization of the Strong Maximum Principle

Speaker: 

Julián Lopez-Gomez

Institution: 

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Time: 

Friday, May 7, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

This talk begins with a discusion of the classical minimum principle of Hopf and the boundary lemma of Hopf—Oleinik to infer from them the generalized minimum principle of Protter—Weinberger. Then, a technical device of Protter and Weinberger is polished and sharpened to get a fundamental theorem on classification of supersolutions which provides with the theorem of characterization of the strong maximum principle of Amann and Molina-Meyer together with the speaker. Finally, some important applications of this theorem are discussed. The talk adopts the general patterns of Chapters 1, 2, 6 and 7 of the book on Elliptic Operators of the speaker.

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Stability of Self-Similarity Solutions of Surface Diffusion

Speaker: 

Aaron Yip

Institution: 

Purdue University

Time: 

Friday, May 14, 2021 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

Surface diffusion (SD) is a curvature driven flow where a (hyper-)surface evolves by the surface Laplacian of its mean curvature. It is a fourth order parabolic equation. Compared with its second order counterpart, motion by mean curvature (MMC), for which maximum principle is available, much less is known for SD. I will present a stability result for self-similarity solutions. Though the approach is based on linearization, and it only works for the evolution of graphs, it is quite robust and works for both MMC and SD. I will also present an attempt to analyze the pinch-off phenomena for axisymmetric surfaces. The former is based on a joint work with Hengrong Du and the later with Gavin Glenn.

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Fluid Flow in General Domains

Speaker: 

Jürgen Saal

Institution: 

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany)

Time: 

Friday, March 5, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Zoom
(Incompressible) Fluid flow in a domain is described by the fundamental Stokes (linear) and Navier-Stokes (nonlinear) equations. The Helmholtz decomposition into solenoidal and gradient fields serves as a helpful tool to analyze these systems. It has been an open question for some decades, whether the existence of the Helmholtz decomposition (which is equivalent to weak well-posedness of the Neumann problem) is necessary for well-posedness of Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations in the $L^q$-setting for $q\in(1,\infty)$. Note that by a classical result of Bogovski\u{i} and Maslennikova there are uniformly smooth domains, so-called non-Helmholtz domains, such that the Helmholtz decomposition does not exist. In my talk, I intent to present positive and negative results on well-posedness of the Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations in $L^q$ for a large class of uniform $C^{2,1}$-domains. In particular, classes of non-Helmholtz domains are addressed. This will include a comprehensive answer to the open question for the case of partial slip type boundary conditions.
The project is a joint work with Pascal Hobus.
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Long-time dynamics of some nonlocal diffusion models with free boundary

Speaker: 

Yihong Du

Institution: 

University of New England (Australia)

Time: 

Friday, January 15, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Propagation has been modelled by reaction-diffusion equations since the pioneering works of Fisher and Kolmogorov-Peterovski-Piskunov (KPP). Much new developments have been achieved in the past a few decades on the modelling of propagation, with traveling wave and related solutions playing a central role. In this talk, I will report some recent results obtained with several collaborators on some reaction-diffusion models with free boundary and "nonlocal diffusion", which include the Fisher-KPP equation (with free boundary) and two epidemic models.  A key feature of these problems is that the propagation may or may not be determined by traveling wave solutions.  There is a threshold condition on the kernel functions which determines whether the propagation has a finite speed or infinite speed (known as accelerated spreading). For some typical kernel functions, we obtain sharp estimates of the spreading speed (whether finite or infinite).

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The total variation flow in metric random walk spaces

Speaker: 

José Mazón

Institution: 

Universitat de Valencia (Spain)

Time: 

Friday, April 9, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

Our aim is to study the Total Variation Flow (TVF) in metric random walk spaces (MRWS) which include as particular cases: the TVF on locally finite weighted connected graphs. We introduce the concepts of perimeter and mean curvature for subsets of a MRWS. After proving the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the TVF, we study the asymptotic behaviour of those solutions, and for such aim we establish some inequalities of Poincar ́e type. Furthermore, we introduce the concepts of Cheeger and calibrable sets in metric random walk spaces and characterize calibrability by using the 1-Laplacian operator. In connection with the Cheeger cut problem we study the eigenvalue problem whereby we give a method to solve the optimal Cheeger cut problem.

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