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Publications and source records attributed to Joules Nahas.
We prove that the finite time blow up solutions of type II character constructed by Krieger-Schlag-Tataru as well as Krieger-Schlag are unstable in the energy topology, in that there exist open data sets in the energy topology containing these blow up solutions in their closure and which lead to solutions scattering to zero at time infinity.
We extend the slow blow up solutions of Krieger, Schlag, and Tataru to semilinear wave equations on a curved background. In particular, for a class of manifolds $(M,g)$ we show the existence of a family of blow-up solutions with finite energy norm to the equation {equation} \partial_t^2 u - Δ_g u = |u|^4 u, \notag {equation} with a continuous rate of blow up. In contrast to the case where $g$ is the Minkowski metric, the argument used to produce these solutions can only obtain blow up rates that are bounded above.
We show that smooth, radially symmetric wave maps $U$ from $\mathbb R^{2+1}$ to a compact target manifold $N$, where $\partial_r U$ and $\partial_t U$ have compact support for any fixed time, scatter. The result will follow from the work of Christodoulou and Tahvildar-Zadeh, and Struwe, upon proving that for $λ' \in (0,1)$, energy does not concentrate in the set $$K_{5/8T,7/8T}^{λ'} = {(x,t) \in \mathbb R^{2+1} | {5pt} |x| \leq λ' t, t \in [(5/8)T,(7/8)T]}.$$
We use a Leibnitz rule type inequality for fractional derivatives to prove conditions under which a solution $u(x,t)$ of the k-generalized KdV equation is in the space $L^2(|x|^{2s}\,dx)$ for $s \in \mathbb R_{+}$.
We study persistence properties of solutions to some canonical dispersive models, namely the semi-linear Schrödinger equation, the $k$-generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation and the Benjamin-Ono equation, in weighted Sobolev spaces $H^s(\R^n)\cap L^2(|x|^ldx),\;s,\,l>0$