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Speaker: Chris Mayo (U. of Kansas)
“Analysis of nonhomogeneous initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear evolution PDEs”
Abstract: One of the most important properties of a partial differential equation (PDE) is well-posedness, meaning the existence of a unique solution that depends continuously on the associated data. Historically, well-posedness was primarily considered in the setting of the initial value problem (IVP), where the spatial domain is $\mathbb R^n$ or $\mathbb T^n$. However, many phenomena and applications from fields such as optics, water waves, and control theory occur in domains with a boundary and are thus naturally modeled by initial-boundary value problems (IBVPs). The well-posedness of IBVPs is far less studied due to several reasons, including the lack of Fourier transform in that setting.
In this talk, we present the rigorous local well-posedness theory for such IBVPs in the case of two different types of nonlinear evolution PDEs — a higher-order nonlinear Schr”odinger (HNLS) equation and a generalized Korteweg-de Vries/Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KdV-KS) equation — supplemented with nonzero boundary conditions. The techniques we develop allow us to handle PDEs set on the half-line or the finite interval, having multiple linear terms, and exhibiting dispersive and/or dissipative behavior, all while working within high, low, and negative regularity settings. A key element of our analysis is the linear solution operator derived through the unified transform of Fokas, from which we may extract a wide variety of linear estimates, which when combined with additional nonlinear estimates, form the backbone of our proofs.
Date: November 26, Wednesday
Time: 19:00 (Turkey)
Place: Zoom
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