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Atanas G. Stefanov

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arXiv2020

On the forced surface quasi-geostrophic equation: Existence of steady states and sharp relaxation rates

We consider the asymptotic behavior of the surface quasi-geostrophic equation, subject to a small external force. Under suitable assumptions on the forcing, we first construct the steady states and we provide a number of useful a posteriori estimates for them. Importantly, to do so, we only impose minimal cancellation conditions on the forcing function. Our main result is that all $L^1\cap L^\infty$ localized initial data produces global solutions of the forced SQG, which converge to the steady states in $L^p(\mathbf R^2), 1<p\leq 2$ as time goes to infinity. This establishes that the steady states serve as one point attracting set. Moreover, by employing the method of scaling variables, we compute the sharp relaxation rates, by requiring slightly more localized initial data.

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arXiv2020

Stability of periodic waves for the fractional KdV and NLS equations

We consider the focusing fractional periodic Korteweg-deVries (fKdV) and fractional periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equations (fNLS) equations, with $L^2$ sub-critical dispersion. In particular, this covers the case of the periodic KdV and Benjamin-Ono models. We construct two parameter family of bell-shaped traveling waves for KdV (standing waves for NLS), which are constrained minimizers of the Hamiltonian. We show in particular that for each $λ>0$, there is a traveling wave solution to fKdV and fNLS $φ: \|φ\|_{L^2[-T,T]}^2=λ$, which is non-degenerate and spectrally stable, as well as orbitally stable. This is done completely rigorously, without any {\it a priori} assumptions on the smoothness of the waves or the Lagrange multipliers.

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arXiv2020

On the ground states of the Ostrovskyi equation and their stabilit

The Ostrovskyi (Ostrovskyi-Vakhnenko/short pulse) equations are ubiquitous models in mathematical physics. They describe water waves under the action of a Coriolis force as well as the amplitude of a "short" pulse in an optical fiber. In this paper, we rigorously construct ground traveling waves for these models as minimizers of the Hamiltonian functional for any fixed $L^2$ norm. The existence argument proceeds via the method of compensated compactness, but it requires surprisingly detailed Fourier analysis arguments to rule out the non-vanishing of the limits of the minimizing sequences. We show that all of these waves are weakly non-degenerate and spectrally stable.

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arXiv2020

Smoothing and growth bound of periodic generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation

For generalized KdV models with polynomial nonlinearity, we establish nonlinear smoothing property in $H^s$ for $s>\frac{1}{2}$. Such smoothing effect persists globally, provided that the $H^1$ norm does not blow up in finite time. More specifically, we show that a translate of the nonlinear part of the solution gains $\min(2s-1,1)-$ derivatives for $s>\frac{1}{2}$. Following a new simple method, which is of independent interest, we establish that, for $s>1$, $H^s$ norm of a solution grows at most by $\langle t\rangle^{s-1+}$ if $H^1$ norm is a priori controlled.

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arXiv2019

Sharp relaxation rates for plane waves of reaction-diffusion systems

It is well-known and classical result that spectrally stable traveling waves of a general reaction-diffusion system in one spatial dimension are asymptotically stable with exponential relaxation rates. In a series of works in the 1990's, the authors have considered plane traveling waves for such systems and they have succeeded in showing asymptotic stability for such objects. Interestingly, the (estimates for the) relaxation rates that they have exhibited, are all algebraic and dimension dependent. It was heuristically argued that as the spectral gap closes in dimensions $n\geq 2$, algebraic rates are the best possible. In this paper, we revisit this issue. We rigorously calculate the sharp relaxation rates in $L^\infty$ based spaces, both for the asymptotic phase and the radiation terms. These turn out to be are indeed algebraic, but about twice better than the best ones obtained in these early works, although this can be mostly attributed to the inefficiencies of using Sobolev embeddings to control $L^\infty$ norms by high order $L^2$ based Sobolev space norms. Finally, we explicitly construct the leading order profiles, both for the phase and the radiation terms. Our approach relies on the method of scaling variables, which provides sharp relaxation rates in a class of weighted $L^2$ spaces as well.

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arXiv2015

Traveling waves for the Mass in Mass model of granular chains

In the present work, we consider the mass in mass (or mass with mass) system of granular chains, namely a granular chain involving additionally an internal resonator. For these chains, we rigorously establish that under suitable "anti-resonance" conditions connecting the mass of the resonator and the speed of the wave, bell-shaped traveling wave solutions continue to exist in the system, in a way reminiscent of the results proven for the standard granular chain of elastic Hertzian contacts. We also numerically touch upon settings where the conditions do not hold, illustrating, in line also with recent experimental work, that non-monotonic waves bearing non-vanishing tails may exist in the latter case.

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