Averaging along degenerate flows on the annulus

Periodic flows on the annulus are considered. For flows that degenerate (i.e. the flow becomes arbitrarily slow along some flow lines) a convergence rate for the averaging of functions along the flow is obtained. This rate -- which is slower than the rate obtained for flows that do not degenerate (i.e. when there is a spectral gap) -- holds on an appropriate functional subspace. The main ingredient is an estimate of the density of the spectrum of the generator near zero.Comment: 15 pages. All comments are welcom

On hyperbolicity and Gevrey well-posedness. Part two: scalar or degenerate transitions

For first-order quasi-linear systems of partial differential equations, we formulate an assumption of a transition from initial hyperbolicity to ellipticity. This assumption bears on the principal symbol of the first-order operator. Under such an assumption, we prove a strong Hadamard instability for the associated Cauchy problem, namely an instantaneous defect of Hölder continuity of the flow from Gσ to L2 , with 0<σ<σ0 , the limiting Gevrey index σ0 depending on the nature of the transition. We restrict here to scalar transitions, and non-scalar transitions in which the boundary of the hyperbolic zone satisfies a flatness condition. As in our previous work for initially elliptic Cauchy problems [B. Morisse, On hyperbolicity and Gevrey well-posedness. Part one: the elliptic case, arXiv:1611.07225], the instability follows from a long-time Cauchy–Kovalevskaya construction for highly oscillating solutions. This extends recent work of N. Lerner, T. Nguyen, and B. Texier [The onset of instability in first-order systems, to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc.]

Uniform convergence in von Neumann's ergodic theorem in the absence of a spectral gap

Von Neumann’s original proof of the ergodic theorem is revisited. A uniform convergence rate is established under the assumption that one can control the density of the spectrum of the underlying self-adjoint operator when restricted to suitable subspaces. Explicit rates are obtained when the bound is polynomial, with applications to the linear Schrödinger and wave equations. In particular, decay estimates for time averages of solutions are shown

Asymptotic growth and decay of two-dimensional symmetric plasmas

We study the large time behavior of classical solutions to the two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson (VP) and relativistic Vlasov-Poisson (RVP) systems launched by radially-symmetric initial data with compact support. In particular, we prove that particle positions and momenta grow unbounded as and obtain sharp rates on the maximal values of these quantities on the support of the distribution function for each system. Furthermore, we establish nearly sharp rates of decay for the associated electric field, as well as upper and lower bounds on the decay rate of the charge density in the large time limit. We prove that, unlike (VP) in higher dimensions, smooth solutions do not scatter to their free-streaming profiles as because nonlinear, long-range field interactions dominate the behavior of characteristics due to the exchange of energy from the potential to the kinetic term. In this way, the system may "forget" any previous configuration of particles

The Cauchy problem for nearly hyperbolic or no-hyperbolic quasi-linear systems in Gevrey regularity

Nous considérons dans cette thèse le problème de Cauchy pour des systèmes d'EDP quasilinéaires, du premier ordre. Dans le cas initialement elliptique, c'est-à-dire un spectre non-réel pour le symbole principal du système à t=0, nous prouvons un résultat d'instabilité au sens d'Hadamard. La preuve est basée sur la construction d'une famille de solutions présentant une croissance exponentielle en temps et fréquence. Cette famille invalide la régularité Hölder du flot, partant d'espaces de Gevrey vers L². Nous prouvons un résultat analogue pour différents cas de transition de l'hyperbolique vers l'elliptique, avec une restriction possible sur l'indice Gevrey pour lequel l'instabilité est observée. Dans un second temps, nous considérons le cas faiblement hyperbolique et semilinéaire. Grâce à des estimations d'énergie dans les espaces de Gevrey et à la construction d'un symétriseur adapté, nous prouvons le caractère localement bien-posé pour un tel système. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons et démontrons aussi un résultat d'action d'opérateurs pseudo-différentiels dont le symbole possède une régularité Gevrey dans la variable d'espace.We consider the Cauchy problem for first-order, quasilinear systems of PDEs. In the initially elliptic case, that is when the principal symbol of the system has nonreal spectrum at time t=0, we prove an instability result in the sense of Hadamard. The proof is based on the construction of a family of exact solutions which exhib an exponential growth, both in time and frequency. That family leads to a defect of Hölder regularity of the flow, starting from evrey spaces to L² space. We prove analogous results for some cases of transition from hyperbolicity to ellipticity, with a potential restriction on the Gevrey index for which we may observe the instability. In a second time, we consider weakly hyperbolic systems. Thanks to an energy estimate in Gevrey spaces and the construction of a suitable symetriser, we prove local well-posedness for such a system. In doing so we use and prove a result on actions of pseudo-differential operators whose symbols have Gevrey regularity in the spatial variabl