Characteristic boundary value problems: estimates from H1 to L2

Motivated by the study of certain non linear free-boundary value problems for hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations arising in Magneto-Hydrodynamics, in this paper we show that an a priori estimate of the solution to certain boundary value problems, in the conormal Sobolev space H1_tan, can be transformed into an L2 a priori estimate of the same problem

Two-Dimensional Vortex Sheets for the Nonisentropic Euler Equations: Nonlinear Stability

We show the short-time existence and nonlinear stability of vortex sheets for the nonisentropic compressible Euler equations in two spatial dimensions, based on the weakly linear stability result of Morando--Trebeschi (2008) [20]. The missing normal derivatives are compensated through the equations of the linearized vorticity and entropy when deriving higher-order energy estimates. The proof of the resolution for this nonlinear problem follows from certain \emph{a priori} tame estimates on the effective linear problem {in the usual Sobolev spaces} and a suitable Nash--Moser iteration scheme.Comment: to appear in: J. Differential Equations 2018. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1707.0267

Well-posedness of the linearized problem for contact MHD discontinuities

We study the free boundary problem for contact discontinuities in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). They are characteristic discontinuities with no flow across the discontinuity for which the pressure, the magnetic field and the velocity are continuous whereas the density and the entropy may have a jump. Under the Rayleigh-Taylor sign condition $[\partial p/\partial N]<0$ on the jump of the normal derivative of the pressure satisfied at each point of the unperturbed contact discontinuity, we prove the well-posedness in Sobolev spaces of the linearized problem for 2D planar MHD flows.Comment: 40 page

Existence of approximate current-vortex sheets near the onset of instability

The paper is concerned with the free boundary problem for 2D current-vortex sheets in ideal incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics near the transition point between the linearized stability and instability. In order to study the dynamics of the discontinuity near the onset of the instability, Hunter and Thoo have introduced an asymptotic quadratically nonlinear integro-differential equation for the amplitude of small perturbations of the planar discontinuity. The local-in-time existence of smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem for such amplitude equation was already proven, under a suitable stability condition. However, the solution found there has a loss of regularity (of order two) from the initial data. In the present paper, we are able to obtain an existence result of solutions with optimal regularity, in the sense that the regularity of the initial data is preserved in the motion for positive times

Reduction by λ –symmetries and σ –symmetries: a Frobenius approach

Different kinds of reduction for ordinary differential equations, such as λ –symmetry and σ –symmetry reductions, are recovered as particular cases of Frobenius reduction theorem for distribution of vector fields. This general approach provides some hints to tackle the reconstruction problem and to solve it under suitable assumptions on the distribution involved in the reduction process

Maximal degree variational principles and Liouville dynamics

AbstractLet M be smooth n-dimensional manifold, fibered over a k-dimensional submanifold B as π:M→B, and ϑ∈Λk(M); one can consider the functional on sections φ of the bundle π defined by ∫Dφ∗(ϑ), with D a domain in B. We show that for k=n−2 the variational principle based on this functional identifies a unique (up to multiplication by a smooth function) nontrivial vector field in M, i.e., a system of ODEs. Conversely, any vector field X on M satisfying X⌟dϑ=0 for some ϑ∈Λn−2(M) admits such a variational characterization. We consider the general case, and also the particular case M=P×R where one of the variables (the time) has a distinguished role; in this case our results imply that any Liouville (volume-preserving) vector field on the phase space P admits a variational principle of the kind considered here