{"title":"Collapsing and the convex hull property in a soap film capillarity model","authors":"Darren King, Francesco Maggi, Salvatore Stuvard","doi":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Soap films hanging from a wire frame are studied in the framework of capillarity theory. Minimizers in the corresponding variational problem<span> are known to consist of positive volume regions with boundaries of constant mean curvature/pressure, possibly connected by “collapsed” minimal surfaces. We prove here that collapsing only occurs if the mean curvature/pressure of the bulky regions is negative, and that, when this last property holds, the whole soap film lies in the convex hull of its boundary wire frame.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84261416","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":"Full cross-diffusion limit in the stationary Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto model","authors":"Kousuke Kuto","doi":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of coexistence steady-states of the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto model as both cross-diffusion coefficients tend to infinity at the same rate. In the case when either one of two cross-diffusion coefficients tends to infinity, Lou and Ni </span><span>[18]</span> derived a couple of limiting systems, which characterize the asymptotic behavior of coexistence steady-states. Recently, a formal observation by Kan-on <span>[10]</span> implied the existence of a limiting system including the nonstationary problem as both cross-diffusion coefficients tend to infinity at the same rate. This paper gives a rigorous proof of his observation as far as the stationary problem. As a key ingredient of the proof, we establish a uniform <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup></math></span><span> estimate for all steady-states. Thanks to this a priori estimate, we show that the asymptotic profile of coexistence steady-states can be characterized by a solution of the limiting system.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74836805","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":"Vanishing viscosity limit of the 3D incompressible Oldroyd-B model","authors":"Ruizhao Zi","doi":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Consider the vanishing viscosity limit of the 3D incompressible Oldroyd-B model. It is shown that this set of equations admits a unique global solution with small analytic data uniformly in the coupling parameter </span><em>ω</em> close to 1 that corresponds to the inviscid case. We justify the limit from the Oldroyd-B model to the inviscid case <span><math><mi>ω</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span><span> for all time. Moreover, if the nonlinear term </span><span><math><msub><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>τ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>∇</mi><mi>u</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> is ignored, similar results hold without resorting to the analytic regularity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79212222","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":"Compactness of scalar-flat conformal metrics on low-dimensional manifolds with constant mean curvature on boundary","authors":"Seunghyeok Kim , Monica Musso , Juncheng Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.01.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.01.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We concern <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span><span><span>-compactness of the solution set of the boundary Yamabe problem on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary provided that their dimensions are 4, 5 or 6. By conducting a quantitative analysis of a </span>linear equation<span> associated with the problem, we prove that the trace-free second fundamental form must vanish at possible blow-up points of a sequence of blowing-up solutions. Applying this result and the positive mass theorem, we deduce the </span></span><span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-compactness for all 4-manifolds (which may be non-umbilic). For the 5-dimensional case, we also establish that a sum of the second-order derivatives of the trace-free second fundamental form is non-negative at possible blow-up points. We essentially use this fact to obtain the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-compactness for all 5-manifolds. Finally, we show that the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-compactness on 6-manifolds is true if the trace-free second fundamental form on the boundary never vanishes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.01.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72526945","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":"Soliton resolution for the focusing modified KdV equation","authors":"Gong Chen , Jiaqi Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The soliton resolution for the focusing modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation is established for initial conditions in some weighted Sobolev spaces<span>. Our approach is based on the nonlinear steepest descent method and its reformulation through </span></span><span><math><mover><mrow><mo>∂</mo></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math></span><span>-derivatives. From the view of stationary points, we give precise asymptotic formulas along trajectory </span><span><math><mi>x</mi><mo>=</mo><mtext>v</mtext><mi>t</mi></math></span><span><span> for any fixed v. To extend the asymptotics to solutions with initial data in low regularity spaces, we apply a global approximation via </span>PDE<span> techniques. As by-products of our long-time asymptotics, we also obtain the asymptotic stability of nonlinear structures involving solitons and breathers.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73225838","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":"The influence of Einstein's effective viscosity on sedimentation at very small particle volume fraction","authors":"Richard M. Höfer, Richard Schubert","doi":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>We investigate the sedimentation of identical inertialess spherical particles in a Stokes fluid in the limit of many small particles. It is known that the presence of the particles leads to an increase of the effective viscosity of the suspension. By Einstein's formula this effect is of the order of the particle volume fraction </span><em>ϕ</em>. The disturbance of the fluid flow responsible for this increase of viscosity is very singular (like <span><math><msup><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span><span>). Nevertheless, for well-prepared initial configurations and </span><span><math><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>→</mo><mn>0</mn></math></span>, we show that the microscopic dynamics is approximated to order <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>ϕ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>|</mo><mi>log</mi><mo></mo><mi>ϕ</mi><mo>|</mo></math></span> by a macroscopic coupled transport-Stokes system with an effective viscosity according to Einstein's formula. We provide quantitative estimates both for convergence of the densities in the <em>p</em>-Wasserstein distance for all <em>p</em> and for the fluid velocity in Lebesgue spaces in terms of the <em>p</em><span>-Wasserstein distance of the initial data. Our proof is based on approximations through the method of reflections and on a generalization of a classical result on convergence to mean-field limits in the infinite Wasserstein metric by Hauray.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82525811","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":"Non-existence of patterns and gradient estimates in semilinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions","authors":"Samuel Nordmann","doi":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>We call pattern any non-constant solution of a semilinear </span>elliptic equation<span> with Neumann boundary conditions. A classical theorem of Casten, Holland </span></span><span>[20]</span> and Matano <span>[50]</span><span> states that stable patterns do not exist in convex domains. In this article, we show that the assumptions of </span><em>convexity of the domain</em> and <em>stability of the pattern</em> in this theorem can be relaxed in several directions. In particular, we propose a general criterion for the non-existence of patterns, dealing with possibly non-convex domains and unstable patterns. Our results unfold the interplay between the geometry of the domain, the stability of patterns, and the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> norm of the nonlinearity.</p><p>In addition, we establish several gradient estimates for the patterns of <span>(1)</span>. We prove a general nonlinear Cacciopoli inequality (or an inverse Poincaré inequality), stating that the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-norm of the gradient of a solution is controlled by the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-norm of <span><math><mi>f</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>u</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>, with a constant that only depends on the domain. This inequality holds for non-homogeneous equations. We also give several flatness estimates.</p><p>Our approach relies on the introduction of what we call the <em>Robin-curvature Laplacian</em>. This operator is intrinsic to the domain and contains much information on how the geometry of the domain affects the shape of the solutions.</p><p><span>Finally, we extend our results to unbounded domains. It allows us to improve the results of our previous paper </span><span>[54]</span><span> and to extend some results on De Giorgi's conjecture to a larger class of domains.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.anihpc.2021.02.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74196896","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":"Global regularity of 2D Navier–Stokes free boundary with small viscosity contrast","authors":"F. Gancedo, Eduardo García-Juárez","doi":"10.4171/aihpc/74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/aihpc/74","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the dynamics of two incompressible immiscible fluids in 2D modeled by the inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that if initially the viscosity contrast is small then there is global-in-time regularity. This result has been proved recently in [32] for $H^{5/2}$ Sobolev regularity of the interface. Here we provide a new approach which allows to obtain preservation of the natural $C^{1+gamma}$ H\"older regularity of the interface for all $0<gamma<1$. Our proof is direct and allows for low Sobolev regularity of the initial velocity without any extra technicality. It uses new quantitative harmonic analysis bounds for $C^{gamma}$ norms of even singular integral operators on characteristic functions of $C^{1+gamma}$ domains [21].","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87467834","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":"Hölder regularity for stochastic processes with bounded and measurable increments","authors":"Ángel Arroyo, P. Blanc, M. Parviainen","doi":"10.4171/aihpc/41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/aihpc/41","url":null,"abstract":". We obtain an asymptotic H¨older estimate for expectations of a quite general class of discrete stochastic processes. Such expectations can also be described as solutions to a dynamic programming principle or as solutions to discretized PDEs. The result, which is also generalized to functions satisfying Pucci-type inequalities for discrete extremal operators, is a counterpart to the Krylov-Safonov regularity result in PDEs. However, the discrete step size ε has some crucial effects compared to the PDE setting. The proof combines analytic and probabilistic arguments.","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75614140","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":"The lifespan of classical solutions for the inviscid Surface Quasi-geostrophic equation","authors":"Ángel Castro, Diego Córdoba, Fan Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.anihpc.2020.12.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anihpc.2020.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider classical solutions of the inviscid Surface Quasi-geostrophic equation that are a small perturbation <em>ϵ</em> from a radial stationary solution <span><math><mi>θ</mi><mo>=</mo><mo>|</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>|</mo></math></span>. We use a modified energy method to prove the existence time of classical solutions from <span><math><mfrac><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>ϵ</mi></mrow></mfrac></math></span> to a time scale of <span><math><mfrac><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>ϵ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></mfrac></math></span>. Moreover, by perturbing in a suitable direction we construct global smooth solutions, via bifurcation, that rotate uniformly in time and space.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55514,"journal":{"name":"Annales De L Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse Non Lineaire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.anihpc.2020.12.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72291872","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}