Orientador: Lucas Catão de Freitas Ferreira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T06:33:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mesquita_ClaudiaAlineAzevedodosSantos_D.pdf: 1141685 bytes, checksum: a65a24d1917c5f998314d01970bb86e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Nesta tese, estudamos dois tipos de EDPs com potenciais singulares críticos, a saber, uma equação elíptica com operador poliharmônico e a equação do calor linear. Para a primeira, pesquisamos existência e propriedades qualitativas das soluções no espaço $\mathcal{H}_{k,\vec{\alpha}}$ que é uma soma de espaços $L^{\infty}$ com peso, o qual parece ser um espaço mínimo para o tipo de potencial singular considerado. Investigamos um conceito de simetria para soluções que estende o de simetria radial e satisfaz uma ideia de invariância em torno das singularidades. Para a segunda, uma estratégia baseada na transformada de Fourier é empregada para obter resultados de boa-colocação global e comportamento assintótico de soluções, sem hipóteses de pequenez e sem utilizar a desigualdade de Hardy. Em particular, obtemos boa-colocação de soluções para o caso do potencial monopolar $V(x)=\frac{\lambda}{\left\vert x\right\vert ^{2}}$ com $\left\vert \lambda\right\vert <\lambda_{\ast}=\frac{(n-2)^{2}}{4}$. Este valor limiar é o mesmo obtido em resultados de boa-colocação global em $L^2$ que utilizam desigualdades de Hardy e estimativas de energia. Desde que não existe uma relação de inclusão entre $L^{2}$ e $PM^{k}$, nossos resultados indicam que $\lambda_{\ast}$ é intrínseco da EDP e independe de uma particular abordagem. Palavras-chave: Equações elípticas, equação do calor, potencial singular, existência, simetria, autossimilaridade, comportamento assintótico / Abstract: In this thesis, we study two types of PDEs with critical singular potentials, namely, an elliptic equation with polyharmonic operator and the linear heat equation. For the first, we obtain existence and qualitative properties of solutions in $\mathcal{H}_{k,\vec{\alpha}}$-spaces which are a sum of weighted $L^{\infty}$-spaces, and seem to be a minimal framework for the potential profile of interest. We investigate a concept of symmetry for solutions which extends radial symmetry and carries out an idea of invariance around singularities. For the second, a strategy based on the Fourier transform is employed to obtain results of global well-posedness and asymptotic behavior of solutions, without smallness hypotheses and without using Hardy inequality. In particular, well-posedness of solutions is obtained for the case of the monopolar potential $V(x)=\frac{\lambda}{\left\vert x\right\vert ^{2}}$ with $\left\vert \lambda\right\vert <\lambda_{\ast}=\frac{(n-2)^{2}}{4}$. This threshold value is the same one obtained for the global well-posedness of $L^{2}$-solutions by means of Hardy inequalities and energy estimates. Since there is no inclusion relation between $L^{2}$ and $PM^{k}$, our results indicate that $\lambda_{\ast}$ is intrinsic of the PDE and independent of a particular approach. Keywords: Elliptic equation, heat equation, singular potential, existence, symmetry, self-similarity, asymptotic behavior / Doutorado / Matematica / Doutora em Matemática

Orientadores: Lucas Catão de Freitas Ferreira, Marcelo da Silva Montenegro, José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T15:13:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_MatheusCorreiados_D.pdf: 865476 bytes, checksum: 31a8b558231b701d81c20bf2712e4f50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Analisaremos dois problemas neste trabalho. Na primeira parte, estudaremos a existência de soluções para uma equação elíptica semilinear no espaço euclidiano todo e com dependência do gradiente e onde nenhuma restrição é imposta sobre o comportamento da não linearidade no infinito. Provaremos que existe uma solução que é localmente única e que herda muitas das propriedades de simetria da não linearidade. A positividade da solução e seu comportamento assintótico também são analisados. Os resultados obtidos também podem ser estendidos para outros casos como o de domínios exteriores ou o semiespaço e também para alguns operadores fracionários. Na segunda parte, analisaremos o comportamento assintótico das soluções da versão fracionária unidimensional da equações de meios porosos introduzida por Caffarelli e Vázquez e onde a pressão é obtida como a inversa do laplaciano fracionário da densidade. Devido à convexidade do núcleo do potencial de Riesz em dimensão um, mostraremos que a entropia associada à equação é displacement convex e satisfaz uma desigualdade funcional envolvendo a dissipação da entropia e a distância de transporte euclidiana. Um argumento por aproximação mostra que essa desigualdade funcional é suficiente para deduzir que a entropia das soluções converge exponencialmente para a entropia do estado estacionário. Também provaremos uma nova desigualdade de interpolação que permitirá obter a convergência exponencial das soluções em espaços Lp / Abstract: We analyse two problems in this work. In the first part we study the existence of solutions to a semilinear elliptic equation in the whole space and with dependence on the gradient and where no restriction is imposed on the behavior of the nonlinearity at infinity. We prove that there exists a solution which is locally unique and inherits many of the symmetry properties of the nonlinearity. Positivity and asymptotic behavior of the solution are also addressed. Our results can be extended to other domains like half-space and exterior domains and also to some fractional operators. For the second part, we analyse the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the one dimensional fractional version of the porous medium equation introduced by Caffarelli and Vázquez and where the pressure is obtained as the inverse of the fractional Laplacian of the density. Due to the convexity of the kernel of the Riesz potential in one dimension, we show that the entropy associated with the equation is displacement convex and satisfies a functional inequality involving also entropy dissipation and the Euclidean transport distance. An argument by approximation shows that this functional inequality is enough to deduce the exponential convergence, in the entropy level, of solutions to the unique steady state. A new interpolation inequality is also proved in order to obtain the exponential decay also in Lp spaces / Doutorado / Matematica / Doutor em Matemática

Experimental data convincingly show that viscosity of a fluid may change significantly with pressure. This observation leads to various generalizations of well-known models, like Darcy's law, Stokes' law or the Navier-Stokes equations, among others. This thesis investigates three such models in a series of three published papers. Their unifying topic is development of existence theory and finding a weak solution to systems of partial differential equations stemming from the considered models.

We consider a simplified model based on the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system coupled to a transport equation and the Maxwell system, proposed to describe radiative flows in stars. We establish global- in-time existence for the associated initial-boundary value problem in the framework of weak solutions. Next, we study a hydrodynamical model describing the motion of internal stellar layers based on compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier-Poisson system. We suppose that the medium is electrically charged, we include energy exchanges through radiative transfer and we assume that the system is steadily rotating. We analyze the singular limit of this system when the Mach number, the Alfven number, the Peclet number and the Froude number go to zero in a certain way and prove convergence to a 3D incompressible MHD system with a stationary linear transport equation for transport of radiation intensity. Finally, we show that the energy equation reduces to a steady equation for the temperature corrector.

Based on the explicit Husserl-Heidegger polemic, which concerned the ''Phenomenology'' entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica, my thesis captures conflict between the two protagonists precisely when it becomes direct. Tracing the main issues of their dispute, I will firstly demonstrate that the conflict is not a consequence of mutual misunderstanding, but rather a disagreement coming from the core itself of their respective theories. It could therefore not have been avoided. Secondly, I will show that the leading intentions of both traditional versions of phenomenology are not only irreconcilable, but essentially contradictory.

The main goal of this thesis is to prove the global (in time) existence of small data Sobolev solutions to semi-linear damped σ-evolution equations from suitable function spaces basing on L^q spaces by mixing additional L^m regularity for the data on the basis of L^q-L^q estimates for solutions, with q∈(1,∞) and m∈[1,q), to the corresponding linear models. To establish desired results, we would like to apply the theory of modified Bessel functions, Faà di Bruno's formula and Mikhlin-Hörmander multiplier theorem in the treatment of linear problems. In addition, some of modern tools from Harmonic Analysis play a fundamental role to investigate results for the global existence of small data Sobolev solutions to semi-linear problems. Finally, the application of a modified test function method is to devote to the proof of blow-up results for semi-linear damped σ-evolution models, where σ≥1 and δ∈[0,σ) are assumed to be any fractional numbers.

This essay consists of a comparative study of the ontological argument for the existence of God asformulated by St. Anselm of Canterbury and René Descartes. The comparative analysis itselfconsists of two parts. Firstly, a comparative study of the argument itself, and an examination of theunderlying metaontological commitments that form the basis of the respective arguments, whichare then likewise contrasted. The stated purpose is to examine whether two versions of theontological argument that appear to be similar may have an underlying framework that makes themfundamentally fundamentally distinct in a way that is not immediately apparent. The analysis foundthat this was the case, and that there are significant differences in how the argument is formulated.This is of interest especially as these two thinkers wrote in and were influenced by widely differingcultural, intellectual and academic contexts, which may be reflected in their work. Ontologicalarguments for the existence of God as a phenomenon is a metaphysical argument that seeks toprove that God exists without relying on empirical and observational evidence. Rather, one seeksthrough these ontological arguments to show that the existence of God is self-evident.With Anselm and Descartes this happens in a seemingly very similar yet fundamentally differentway. The results of this study demonstrate differences that appear primarily in the starting point forthe respective discourses, as well as in the methodology that is applied. Anselm bases his discourseon a distinctly neoplatonic foundation regarding the highest good, which he later extrapolates to amore comprehensive reasoning regarding the distinction between different natures according togreatness, of which goodness is one such greatness. Descartes, on the other hand, anchors hisdiscourse in scholastic philosophy and especially the idea of the causal principle of transference,especially in relation to human consciousness and the idea or the concept of God which manifeststherein. These results have been achieved primarily by examining Anselm's arguments based onsecondary sources that relate both directly and indirectly to his ontological argument, which in itssimplicity otherwise consists almost in its entirely of a self-evident descriptive definition of whatGod is. However, the differences that emerge are not of such a degree that a division of these twoargument into different categories can be made with a high degree of confidence. On the otherhand, it is of interest to analyze these underlying frameworks for ontological arguments in order toalso be able to analyze the potential influence or impact of various contextual aspects such as place,time and prevailing academic culture as this essay attempts to do.

In this thesis we study the global existence of small data solutions to the Cauchy problem for semilinear damped wave equations with an effective dissipation term, where the data are supposed to belong to different classes of regularity. We apply these results to the Cauchy problem for weakly coupled systems of semilinear effectively damped waves with respect to the defined classes of regularity for different power nonlinearities. We also presented blow-up results for semi-linear systems with weakly coupled damped waves.

The PhD thesis deals with global in time existence results and blow-up result for a semilinear wave model with scale-invariant damping and mass. Since the time-dependent coefficients for the considered model make somehow the damping and the mass a threshold term between effective and non-effective terms, it turns out that a fundamental role in the description of qualitative properties of solutions to this semilinear model and to the corresponding linear homogeneous Cauchy problem is played by the multiplicative constants appearing in those coefficients. For coefficients that make the damping term dominant, we can use the standard approach for the classical damped wave model with L^2 − L^2 estimates and the so-called test function method. On the other hand, when the interaction among those coefficients is balanced, then, it is possible to observe how typical tools for hyperbolic models, as for example Kato’s lemma, provide sharp global in time existence results and sharp blow-up results for super- and sub-Strauss type exponents, respectively.

This thesis is concerned with the existence and spectral stability of periodic waves in the fractional Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and the fractional modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation. We study the existence of periodic travelling waves using various tools such as Green's function for fractional Laplacian operator, Petviashvili fixed point method, and a new variational characterization in which the periodic waves in fractional KdV and fractional mKdV are realized as the constrained minimizers of the quadratic part of the energy functional subject to fixed L3 and L4 norm respectively. This new variational framework allows us to identify the existence region of periodic travelling waves and to derive the criterion for spectral stability of the periodic waves with respect to perturbations of the same period. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)