Paolo Antonelli, Pierangelo Marcati, Laura V. Spinolo
We study the zero-dispersion limit for a class of Korteweg--de Vries (KdV)-type initial-boundary value problems on the half-line, with Dirichlet boundary conditions assigned at \(x=0\). We focus on the outflow regime, where the solution of the limiting scalar conservation law does not attain the boundary condition imposed on the dispersive problem. We construct a boundary layer profile, depending on the fast variable, which is uniquely determined, through the associated stationary third-order boundary layer equation, by the mismatch between the boundary conditions, and by the exponential decay at infinity in the fast variable. Our main result shows that, under suitable regularity and compatibility assumptions on the data, the dispersive solution is well approximated by a WKB expansion given by the sum of the smooth solution of the conservation law and the boundary layer profile. In particular, we establish stability of the boundary layer profile by proving quantitative estimates for the remainder term in a weighted energy norm, and show that it converges to $0$ in $H^1$, uniformly in time and up to the lifespan of the smooth solution of the conservation law. The proof is based on the analysis of a linearized energy functional and does not rely on complete integrability or inverse scattering techniques. It applies to general fluxes and requires no smallness assumption on the amplitude of the boundary layer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first stability result for boundary layers of KdV-type equation on the half line.
We investigate the systems of quasi-linear partial differential equations of hydrody- namic type. These equations occur mainly in hydrodynamics and continuum mechanics, but they arise in other various applications. In the study of such systems, one finds an intersection of Poisson and pseudo-Riemannian geometry. The Poisson bracket is deter- mined by functions that turn out to be metrics and Christoffel symbols. If the metric is non-degenerate, the existence of Poisson structure is equivalent to the existence of flat metric and Levi-Civita covariant derivative with zero curvature. Moreover, one can find special flat coordinates where the bracket is trivial. This result was found in the eighties by Dubrovin and Novikov for the one-dimensional case and later on extended to more dimensions. In this thesis we provide the proof of the Dubrovin-Novikov theorem, which was only sketched in the original paper. We also conducted an overview of current knowledge in the multi-dimensional case, where the theory gets much more complicated. In particular, the link between the compatible brackets and the possibility of finding flat coordinates is discussed. The Riemannian character of the Hamiltonian equations of hydrodynamic type can be used to prove their symmetric hyperbolicity, even when the equations are not in the...
Consider the radial nonlinear wave equation $-\partial_t^2 u + Δu = u^3$, $u :\mathbb{R}_t \times \mathbb{R}_x^3 \to \mathbb{R}$, $u(t,x) = u(t,|x|)$. In this paper, we construct a Gibbs measure for this system and prove its invariance under the flow of the NLW. In particular, we are in the infinite volume setting. For the finite volume analogue, specifically on the unit ball with zero boundary values, an invariant Gibbs measure was constructed by Burq, Tvetkov, and de Suzzoni as a Borel measure on super-critical Sobolev spaces. In this paper, we advocate that the finite volume Gibbs measure be considered on a space of weighted Hölder continuous functions. The measure is supported on this space and the NLW is locally well-posed there, a counter-point to the Sobolev super-criticality noted by Burq and Tzvetkov. Furthermore, the flow of the NLW leaves this measure invariant. We use a multi-time Feynman--Kac formula to construct the infinite volume limit measure by computing the asymptotics of the fundamental solution of an appropriate parabolic PDE. We use finite speed of propagation and results from descriptive set theory to establish invariance of the infinite volume measure. To the best of our knowledge, this paper provides the first construction and proof of invariance of a Gibbs measure in infinite volume outside of the 1D case.
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Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems
Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations