{"title":"A New Minimax Principle and Application to the p-Laplace Equation","authors":"Xu-Jia Wang, Xinyue Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02214-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02214-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We introduce a new minimax principle to prove the existence of multi-peak solutions to the Neumann problem of the <i>p</i>-Laplace equation </p><div><div><span>$$ -varepsilon ^p Delta _p u = u^{q-1} - u^{p-1} text {in} Omega , $$</span></div></div><p>where <span>(Omega )</span> is a bounded domain in <span>(mathbb {R}^n)</span> with <span>(C^2)</span>-boundary, <span>(1<p<n)</span> and <span>(p<q< frac{np}{n-p})</span>. The minimax principle will be applied to the set of peak functions, which is a subset of the Sobolev space <span>(W^{1,p} (Omega ))</span>. The argument is based on a combination of variational methods, topological degree theory, and gradient flow.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maarten V. de Hoop, Matti Lassas, Jinpeng Lu, Lauri Oksanen, Ziyao Zhao
{"title":"An Inverse Signorini Obstacle Problem","authors":"Maarten V. de Hoop, Matti Lassas, Jinpeng Lu, Lauri Oksanen, Ziyao Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02197-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02197-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study the inverse problem of determining a Signorini obstacle from boundary measurements for the isotropic elasticity system. We prove that the obstacle can be uniquely determined by a single measurement of displacement and normal stress for the Signorini problem on an open subset of the boundary up to a natural obstruction. In addition to considering the Signorini problem, we develop techniques that can be used to study inverse problems for general differential inequalities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00205-026-02197-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymptotic Stability of the Composite Wave of Rarefaction Wave and Contact Wave to Nonlinear Viscoelasticity Model with Non-convex Flux","authors":"Zhenhua Guo, Meichen Hou, Guiqin Qiu, Lingda Xu","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02203-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02203-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study wave propagation in viscoelastic materials based on a system of viscous conservation laws derived from the viscoelastic dynamic system with fading memory. In this model, the stress is a non-convex function of the strain, in contrast to the Euler equations of gas dynamics, which possess a convex constitutive relation. The non-convex nature of the viscoelastic model permits composite wave patterns within the same characteristic family, which greatly complicates the analysis of wave behavior. To address this challenge, we establish a new weighted Poincaré-type inequality for the study of the nonlinear stability of such composite wave patterns.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lénaïc Chizat, Maria Colombo, Xavier Fernández-Real
{"title":"Convergence of Drift-Diffusion PDEs Arising as Wasserstein Gradient Flows of Convex Functions","authors":"Lénaïc Chizat, Maria Colombo, Xavier Fernández-Real","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02200-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02200-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study the quantitative convergence of drift-diffusion PDEs that arise as Wasserstein gradient flows of linearly convex functions over the space of probability measures on <span>(mathbb {R}^d)</span>. In this setting, the objective is in general not <i>displacement</i> convex, so it is not clear <i>a priori</i> whether global convergence even holds. Still, our analysis reveals that diffusion allows a favorable interaction between Wasserstein geometry and linear convexity, leading to a general quantitative convergence theory, analogous to that of gradient flows in convex settings in the Euclidean space. More specifically, we prove that if the objective is convex and suitably coercive, the suboptimality gap decreases at a rate <i>O</i>(1/<i>t</i>). This improves to a rate faster than any polynomial—or even exponential in compact settings—when the objective is strongly convex relative to the entropy. Our results extend the range of mean-field Langevin dynamics that enjoy quantitative convergence guarantees, and enable new applications to optimization over the space of probability measures. To illustrate this, we show quantitative convergence results for the minimization of entropy-regularized nonconvex problems, we propose and study an <i>approximate Fisher Information</i> regularization covered by our setting, and we apply our results to an estimator for trajectory inference which involves the minimization of the relative entropy with respect to the Wiener measure in path space.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unique Continuation for Area Minimizing Currents","authors":"Camillo Brena, Stefano Decio","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02190-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02190-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The main goal of this work is to prove an instance of the unique continuation principle for area minimizing integral currents. More precisely, we consider an <i>m</i>-dimensional area minimizing integral current and an <i>m</i>-dimensional minimal surface, both contained in <span>({mathbb {R}}^{n+m})</span> with <span>(nge 1)</span>. We show that if, in an integral sense, the current has an infinite order of contact with the minimal surface at a point, then the current and the minimal surface coincide in a neighbourhood of that point.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unbounded Yudovich Solutions of the Euler Equations","authors":"Dimitri Cobb, Herbert Koch","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02193-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02193-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article, we will study unbounded solutions of the 2D incompressible Euler equations. One of the motivating factors for this is that the usual functional framework for the Euler equations (for example based on finite energy conditions, such as <span>(L^2)</span>) does not respect some of the symmetries of the problem, such as Galileo invariance. Our main result, global existence and uniqueness of solutions for initial data with square-root growth <span>(O(|x|^{frac{1}{2} - varepsilon }))</span> and bounded vorticity, is based on two key ingredients. First, an integral decomposition of the pressure, and secondly examining local energy balance leading to solution estimates in local Morrey type spaces. We also prove continuity of the initial data to solution map by a substantial adaptation of Yudovich’s uniqueness argument.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00205-026-02193-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Results for Weakly Dispersive KP-II Equations on the Cylinder","authors":"Sebastian Herr, Robert Schippa, Nikolay Tzvetkov","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02208-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02208-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider the dispersion-generalized KP-II equation on a partially periodic domain in the weakly dispersive regime. We use Fourier decoupling techniques to derive essentially sharp Strichartz estimates. With these in hand, we show that global well-posedness of the quasilinear Cauchy problem in <span>(L^2(mathbb {R}times mathbb {T}))</span>. Finally, we prove a long-time decay property of solutions with small mass by using the Kato smoothing effect in the fractional case.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00205-026-02208-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Brandolese, A. V. Busuioc, D. Iftimie, C. F. Perusato
{"title":"On the Role of the Viscosity Parameters in the Large Time Asymptotics of Two Dimensional Micropolar Flows","authors":"L. Brandolese, A. V. Busuioc, D. Iftimie, C. F. Perusato","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02192-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02192-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the role of the four viscosity parameters in fluids where the particles possess a microstructure (micropolar flows) and are allowed to rotate in a two-dimensional setting. We first establish the existence of global finite energy solutions, satisfying the classical energy equality, for arbitrary initial data in <span>(L^2)</span>, in the case of a spin viscosity <span>(gamma ge 0)</span>, and we construct the asymptotic profiles of the solution as <span>(trightarrow +infty )</span>. We deduce the remarkable fact that the large time behavior only depends on the kinematic viscosity <span>(mu )</span>, and not on the other parameters <span>(chi )</span> (vortex-viscosity), <span>(gamma )</span> (spin viscosity) and <span>(kappa )</span> (gyroviscosity) of the model. Our primary tool is a new enstrophy-like identity of independent interest, involving the difference between the fluid vorticity and the micro-angular velocity. Another consequence of our analysis is the identification of scenarios where the presence of micro-rotational effects significantly enhances dissipation, thereby slowing down the fluid motion at large times.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Wave-Functions to Single Boson Densities","authors":"U. Bindini, L. De Pascale","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02207-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02207-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate some of the properties of the mapping from wave-functions to single particle densities, partially answering an open question posed by E. H. Lieb in 1983.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00205-026-02207-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148009412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Half-Space Liouville Theorem for Anisotropic Minimal Graph with Free Boundary","authors":"Guofang Wang, Wei Wei, Chao Xia, Xuwen Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s00205-026-02196-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00205-026-02196-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper we prove the following Liouville-type theorem: any anisotropic minimal graph with free boundary in the half-space must be flat, provided that the graph function has at most one-sided linear growth. This extends the classical results of Bombieri–De Giorgi–Miranda (Arch Rational Mech Anal 32:255–267, 1969) and Simon (Indiana Univ Math J 25:821–855, 1976) to an appropriate free boundary setting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55484,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis","volume":"250 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00205-026-02196-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148008638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}