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Hardy Chan

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Bound state solutions for the supercritical fractional Schrödinger equation

We prove the existence of positive solutions for the supercritical nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation $(-Δ)^s u+V(x)u-u^p=0$ in $\mathbb R^n$, with $u(x)\to 0$ as $|x|\to +\infty$, where $p>\frac{n+2s}{n-2s}$ for $s\in (0,1), \ n>2s$. We show that if $V(x)=o(|x|^{-2s})$ as $|x|\to +\infty$, then for $p>\frac{n+2s-1}{n-2s-1}$, this problem admits a continuum of solutions. More generally, for $p>\frac{n+2s}{n-2s}$, conditions for solvability are also provided. This result is the extension of the work by Davila, Del Pino, Musso and Wei to the fractional case. Our main contributions are: the existence of a smooth, radially symmetric, entire solution of $(-Δ)^s w=w^p$ in $\mathbb R^n$, and the analysis of its properties. The difficulty here is the lack of phase-plane analysis for a nonlocal ODE; instead we use conformal geometry methods together with Schaaf's argument as in the paper by Ao, Chan, DelaTorre, Fontelos, González and Wei on the singular fractional Yamabe problem.

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Convergence of the fractional Yamabe flow for a class of initial data

This work is a follow-up on the work of the second author with P. Daskalopoulos and J.L. Vázquez. In this latter work, we introduced the Yamabe flow associated to the so-called fractional curvature and prove some existence result of mild (semi-group) solutions. In the present work, we continue this study by proving that for some class of data one can prove actually convergence of the flow in a more general context. We build on the approach simplified in the book of M. Struwe.

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Mass and Extremals Associated with the Hardy-Schrödinger Operator on Hyperbolic Space

We consider the Hardy-Schrödinger operator $ -Δ_{\mathbb{B}^n}-γ{V_2}$ on the Poincaré ball model of the Hyperbolic space ${\mathbb{B}^n}$ ($n \geq 3$). Here $V_2$ is a well chosen radially symmetric potential, which behaves like the Hardy potential around its singularity at $0$, i.e., $V_2(r)\sim \frac{1}{r^2}$. Just like in the Euclidean setting, the operator $ -Δ_{\mathbb{B}^n}-γ{V_2}$ is positive definite whenever $γ<\frac{(n-2)^2}{4}$, in which case we exhibit explicit solutions for the equation $$-Δ_{\mathbb{B}^n}u-γ{V_2}u=V_{2^*(s)}u^{2^*(s)-1}\quad{\text{ in }}\mathbb{B}^n,$$ where $0\leq s <2$, $2^*(s)=\frac{2(n-s)}{n-2}$, and $V_{2^*(s)}$ is a weight that behaves like $\frac{1}{r^s}$ around $0$. The same equation, on bounded domains $Ω$ of ${\mathbb{B}^n}$ containing $0$ but not touching the hyperbolic boundary, has positive solutions if $0 < γ\leq \frac{(n-2)^{2}}{4}-\frac{1}{4}$. However, if $\frac{(n-2)^{2}}{4}-\frac{1}{4}< γ< \frac{(n-2)^{2}}{4}$, the existence of solutions requires the positivity of the "hyperbolic Hardy mass" $m_{_{\mathbb{B}^n}}(Ω)$ of the domain, a notion that we introduce and analyse therein.

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A variational problem associated to a hyperbolic Caffarelli--Kohn--Nirenberg inequality

We prove a Caffarelli--Kohn--Nirenberg inequality in the hyperbolic space. For a semilinear elliptic equation involving the associated weighted Laplace--Beltrami operator, we establish variationally the existence of positive radial solutions in the subcritical regime. We also show a non-existence result in star-shaped domains when the exponent is supercritical.

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Traveling wave solutions for bistable fractional Allen-Cahn equations with a pyramidal front

Using the method of sub-super-solution, we construct a solution of $(-Δ)^su-cu_z-f(u)=0$ on $\R^3$ of pyramidal shape. Here $(-Δ)^s$ is the fractional Laplacian of sub-critical order $1/2<s<1$ and $f$ is a bistable nonlinearity. Hence, the existence of a traveling wave solution for the parabolic fractional Allen-Cahn equation with pyramidal front is asserted. The maximum of planar traveling wave solutions in various directions gives a sub-solution. A super-solution is roughly defined as the one-dimensional profile composed with the signed distance to a rescaled mollified pyramid. In the main estimate we use an expansion of the fractional Laplacian in the Fermi coordinates.

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Boundary concentrations on segments

We consider the following singularly perturbed Neumann problem \begin{eqnarray*} \ve^2 Δu -u +u^p = 0 \, \quad u>0 \quad {\mbox {in}} \quad Ω, \quad {\partial u \over \partial ν}=0 \quad {\mbox {on}} \quad \partial Ω, \end{eqnarray*} where $p>2$ and $Ω$ is a smooth and bounded domain in $\R^2$. We construct a new class of solutions which consist of large number of spikes concentrating on a {\bf segment} of the boundary which contains a local minimum point of the mean curvature function and has the same mean curvature at the end points. We find a continuum limit of ODE systems governing the interactions of spikes and show that the mean curvature function acts as {\em friction force}.

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