Navier-Stokes Equations in Complex Space
We prove global in time regularity of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations defined in the complex space.
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Nikolai Nadirashvili
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Log-concavity and anti-maximum principles for semilinear and linear elliptic equations
This paper is concerned with existence and qualitative properties of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in bounded domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We show the existence of positive solutions in the vicinity of the linear equation and the log-concavity of the solutions when the domain is strictly convex. We also review the standard results on the log-concavity or the more general quasi-concavity of solutions of elliptic equations. The existence and other convergence results especially rely on the maximum principle, on a quantified version of the anti-maximum principle, on the Schauder fixed point theorem, and on some a priori estimates.
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Hölder estimates for solutions of parabolic SPDEs
This paper considers second-order stochastic partial differential equations with additive noise given in a bounded domain of $\mathbb R^n$. We suppose that the coefficients of the noise are $L^p$-functions with sufficiently large $p$. We prove that the solutions are Hölder-continuous functions almost surely (a.s.) and that the respective Hölder norms have finite momenta of any order.
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Circular flows for the Euler equations in two-dimensional annular domains
In this paper, we consider steady Euler flows in two-dimensional bounded annuli, as well as in exterior circular domains, in punctured disks and in the punctured plane. We always assume rigid wall boundary conditions. We prove that, if the flow does not have any stagnation point, and if it satisfies further conditions at infinity in the case of an exterior domain or at the center in the case of a punctured disk or the punctured plane, then the flow is circular, namely the streamlines are concentric circles. In other words, the flow then inherits the radial symmetry of the domain. The proofs are based on the study of the trajectories of the flow and the orthogonal trajectories of the gradient of the stream function, which is shown to satisfy a semilinear elliptic equation in the whole domain. In exterior or punctured domains, the method of moving planes is applied to some almost circular domains located between some streamlines of the flow, and the radial symmetry of the stream function is shown by a limiting argument. The paper also contains two Serrin-type results in simply or doubly connected bounded domains with free boundaries. Here, the flows are further assumed to have constant norm on each connected component of the boundary and the domains are then proved to be disks or annuli.
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Conformally maximal metrics for Laplace eigenvalues on surfaces
The paper is concerned with the maximization of Laplace eigenvalues on surfaces of given volume with a Riemannian metric in a fixed conformal class. A significant progress on this problem has been recently achieved by Nadirashvili-Sire and Petrides using related, though different methods. In particular, it was shown that for a given $k$, the maximum of the $k$-th Laplace eigenvalue in a conformal class on a surface is either attained on a metric which is smooth except possibly at a finite number of conical singularities, or it is attained in the limit while a "bubble tree" is formed on a surface. Geometrically, the bubble tree appearing in this setting can be viewed as a union of touching identical round spheres. We present another proof of this statement, developing the approach proposed by the second author and Y. Sire. As a side result, we provide explicit upper bounds on the topological spectrum of surfaces.
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An isoperimetric inequality for Laplace eigenvalues on the sphere
We show that for any positive integer k, the k-th nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the two-dimensional sphere endowed with a Riemannian metric of unit area, is maximized in the limit by a sequence of metrics converging to a union of k touching identical round spheres. This proves a conjecture posed by the second author in 2002 and yields a sharp isoperimetric inequality for all nonzero eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a sphere. Earlier, the result was known only for k=1 (J. Hersch, 1970), k=2 (N. Nadirashvili, 2002; R. Petrides, 2014) and k=3 (N. Nadirashvili and Y. Sire, 2017). In particular, we argue that for any k>=2, the supremum of the k-th nonzero eigenvalue on a sphere of unit area is not attained in the class of Riemannian metrics which are smooth outsitde a finite set of conical singularities. The proof uses certain properties of harmonic maps between spheres, the key new ingredient being a bound on the harmonic degree of a harmonic map into a sphere obtained by N. Ejiri.
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Free boundary minimal surfaces and overdetermined boundary value problems
In this paper we establish a connection between free boundary minimal surfaces in a ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and free boundary cones arising in a one-phase problem. We prove that a doubly connected minimal surface with free boundary in a ball is a catenoid.
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A Liouville theorem for the Euler equations in the plane
This paper is concerned with qualitative properties of bounded steady flows of an ideal incompressible fluid with no stagnation point in the two-dimensional plane R^2. We show that any such flow is a shear flow, that is, it is parallel to some constant vector. The proof of this Liouville-type result is firstly based on the study of the geometric properties of the level curves of the stream function and secondly on the derivation of some estimates on the at most logarithmic growth of the argument of the flow. These estimates lead to the conclusion that the streamlines of the flow are all parallel lines.
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Isoperimetric inequality for the third eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on $\mathbb S^2$
We prove an Hersch's type isoperimetric inequality for the third positive eigenvalue on $\mathbb S^2$. Our method builds on the theory we developped to construct extremal metrics on Riemannian surfaces in conformal classes for any eigenvalue.
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Shear flows of an ideal fluid and elliptic equations in unbounded domains
We prove that, in a two-dimensional strip, a steady flow of an ideal incompressible fluid with no stationary point and tangential boundary conditions is a shear flow. The same conclusion holds for a bounded steady flow in a half-plane. The proofs are based on the study of the geometric properties of the streamlines of the flow and on one-dimensional symmetry results for solutions of some semilinear elliptic equations. Some related rigidity results of independent interest are also shown in n-dimensional slabs in any dimension n.
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Partial analyticity and nodal sets for nonlinear elliptic systems
We study partial analyticity of solutions to elliptic systems and analyticity of level sets of solutions to nonlinear elliptic systems. We consider several applications, including analyticity of flow lines for bounded stationary solutions to the 2-d Euler equation, and analyticity of water waves with and without surface tension.
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Singular solutions of conformal Hessian equation
We show that for any $ε\in ]0,1[$ there exists an analytic outside zero solution to a uniformly elliptic conformal Hessian equation in a ball $B\subset\R^5$ which belongs to $C^{1,ε} (B)\setminus C^{1,ε+} (B)$.
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Conformal Spectrum and Harmonic maps
This paper is devoted to the study of the conformal spectrum (and more precisely the first eigenvalue) of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a smooth connected compact Riemannian surface without boundary, endowed with a conformal class. We give a constructive proof of a critical metric which is smooth except at some conical singularities and maximizes the first eigenvalue in the conformal class of the background metric. We also prove that the map associating a finite number of eigenvectors of the maximizing $λ_1$ into the sphere is harmonic, establishing a link between conformal spectrum and harmonic maps.
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Sets of unique continuation for heat equation
We study nodal lines of solutions to the heat equations. We are interested in the global geometry of nodal sets, in the whole domain of definition of the solution. The local structure of nodal sets is a well understander subject, while the global geometry of nodal lines is much less clear. We give a detailed analysis of a simple component of a nodal set of a solution of the heat equation.
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A lower bound for the number of negative eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators
We prove a lower bound for the number of negative eigenvalues for a Schrödinger operator on a Riemannian manifold via the integral of the potential.
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Equivariant Topological Quantum Field Theory in Dimension 2
For $G$ a finite group, we prove in dimension 2 that there is a monoidal equivalence between the category of $G$-equivariant topological quantum field theories and the category of $G$-Frobenius algebras, this was proved by G. Moore and G. Segal. This work consists to give, in more detail, a proof of this result.
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Analyticity of solutions for quasilinear wave equations and other quasilinear systems
We prove the persistence of analyticity for classical solution of the Cauchy problem for quasilinear wave equations with analytic data. Our results show that the analyticity of solutions, stated by the Cauchy-Kowalewski and Ovsiannikov-Nirenberg theorems, lasts till a classical solution exists. Moreover, they show that if the equation and the Cauchy data are analytic only in a part of space-variables, then a classical solution also is analytic in these variables. The approach applies to other quasilinear equations and implies the persistence of the space-analyticity (and the partial space-analyticity) of their classical solutions.
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Convexity of level sets for elliptic problems in convex domains or convex rings: two counterexamples
This paper deals with some geometrical properties of solutions of some semilinear elliptic equations in bounded convex domains or convex rings. Constant boundary conditions are imposed on the single component of the boundary when the domain is convex, or on each of the two components of the boundary when the domain is a convex ring. A function is called quasiconcave if its superlevel sets, defined in a suitable way when the domain is a convex ring, are all convex. In this paper, we prove that the superlevel sets of the solutions do not always inherit the convexity or ring-convexity of the domain. Namely, we give two counterexamples to this quasiconcavity property: the first one for some two-dimensional convex domains and the second one for some convex rings in any dimension.
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