Global dynamics above the ground state energy for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

We study the focusing, cubic, nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation in 3D with large radial data in the energy space. This equation admits a unique positive stationary solution, called the ground state. In 1975, Payne and Sattinger showed that solutions with energy strictly below that of the ground state are divided into two classes, depending on a suitable functional: If it is negative, then one has finite time blowup, if it is nonnegative, global existence; moreover, these sets are invariant under the flow. Recently, Ibrahim, Masmoudi and the first author improved this result by establishing scattering to zero in the global existence case by means of a variant of the Kenig-Merle method. In this paper we go slightly beyond the ground state energy and give a complete description of the evolution. For example, in a small neighborhood of the ground states one encounters the following trichotomy: on one side of a center-stable manifold one has finite-time blowup, on the other side scattering to zero, and on the manifold itself one has scattering to the ground state, all for positive time. In total, the class of initial data is divided into nine disjoint nonempty sets, each displaying different asymptotic behavior, which includes solutions blowing up in one time direction and scattering to zero on the other, and also, the analogue of those found by Duyckaerts and Merle for the energy critical wave and Schr\"odinger equations, exactly with the ground state energy. The main technical ingredient is a "one-pass" theorem which excludes the existence of "almost homoclinic" orbits between the ground states.Comment: 34 pages, minor correction

New results on group classification of nonlinear diffusion-convection equations

Using a new method and additional (conditional and partial) equivalence transformations, we performed group classification in a class of variable coefficient $(1+1)$-dimensional nonlinear diffusion-convection equations of the general form $f(x)u_t=(D(u)u_x)_x+K(u)u_x.$ We obtain new interesting cases of such equations with the density $f$ localized in space, which have large invariance algebra. Exact solutions of these equations are constructed. We also consider the problem of investigation of the possible local trasformations for an arbitrary pair of equations from the class under consideration, i.e. of describing all the possible partial equivalence transformations in this class.Comment: LaTeX2e, 19 page

Asymptotic dynamics of the exceptional Bianchi cosmologies

In this paper we give, for the first time, a qualitative description of the asymptotic dynamics of a class of non-tilted spatially homogeneous (SH) cosmologies, the so-called exceptional Bianchi cosmologies, which are of Bianchi type VI$_{-1/9}$. This class is of interest for two reasons. Firstly, it is generic within the class of non-tilted SH cosmologies, being of the same generality as the models of Bianchi types VIII and IX. Secondly, it is the SH limit of a generic class of spatially inhomogeneous $G_{2}$ cosmologies. Using the orthonormal frame formalism and Hubble-normalized variables, we show that the exceptional Bianchi cosmologies differ from the non-exceptional Bianchi cosmologies of type VI$_{h}$ in two significant ways. Firstly, the models exhibit an oscillatory approach to the initial singularity and hence are not asymptotically self-similar. Secondly, at late times, although the models are asymptotically self-similar, the future attractor for the vacuum-dominated models is the so-called Robinson-Trautman SH model instead of the vacuum SH plane wave models.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Class. Quantum Gra

Thresholds for global existence and blow-up in a general class of doubly dispersive nonlocal wave equations

In this article we study global existence and blow-up of solutions for a general class of nonlocal nonlinear wave equations with power-type nonlinearities, $u_{tt}-Lu_{xx}=B(- |u|^{p-1}u)_{xx}, ~(p>1)$, where the nonlocality enters through two pseudo-differential operators $L$ and $B$. We establish thresholds for global existence versus blow-up using the potential well method which relies essentially on the ideas suggested by Payne and Sattinger. Our results improve the global existence and blow-up results given in the literature for the present class of nonlocal nonlinear wave equations and cover those given for many well-known nonlinear dispersive wave equations such as the so-called double-dispersion equation and the traditional Boussinesq-type equations, as special cases.Comment: 17 pages. Accepted for publication in Nonlinear Analysis:Theory, Methods & Application