Our goal in this paper is to initiate the rigorous investigation of wave turbulence and derivation of wave kinetic equations (WKEs) for water waves models. This problem has received intense attention in recent years in the context of semilinear models, such as Schrödinger equations or multidimensional KdV‐type equations. However, our situation here is different since the water waves equations are quasilinear and solutions cannot be constructed by iteration of the Duhamel formula due to unavoidable derivative loss. This is the first of two papers in which we design a new strategy to address this issue. We investigate solutions of the gravity water waves system in two dimensions. In the irrotational case, this system can be reduced to an evolution equation on the one‐dimensional interface, which is a large torus of size . Our first main result is a deterministic energy inequality, which provides control of (possibly large) Sobolev norms of solutions for long times, under the condition that a certain ‐type norm is small. This energy inequality is of “quintic” type: if the norm is , then the increment of the high‐order energies is controlled for times of the order , consistent with the approximate quartic integrability of the system. In the second paper in this sequence, we will show how to use this energy estimate and a propagation of randomness argument to prove a probabilistic regularity result up to times of the order , in a suitable scaling regime relating and . For our second main result, we combine the quintic energy inequality with a bootstrap argument using a suitable ‐norm of Strichartz‐type to prove that deterministic solutions with Sobolev data of size are regular for times of the order . In particular, on the real line, solutions exist for times of order . This improves substantially on all the earlier extended lifespan results for 2D gravity water waves with small Sobolev data.
{"title":"On the wave turbulence theory of 2D gravity waves, I: Deterministic energy estimates","authors":"Yu Deng, Alexandru D. Ionescu, Fabio Pusateri","doi":"10.1002/cpa.22224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.22224","url":null,"abstract":"Our goal in this paper is to initiate the rigorous investigation of wave turbulence and derivation of wave kinetic equations (WKEs) for water waves models. This problem has received intense attention in recent years in the context of semilinear models, such as Schrödinger equations or multidimensional KdV‐type equations. However, our situation here is different since the water waves equations are quasilinear and solutions cannot be constructed by iteration of the Duhamel formula due to unavoidable derivative loss. This is the first of two papers in which we design a new strategy to address this issue. We investigate solutions of the gravity water waves system in two dimensions. In the irrotational case, this system can be reduced to an evolution equation on the one‐dimensional interface, which is a large torus of size . Our first main result is a deterministic energy inequality, which provides control of (possibly large) Sobolev norms of solutions for long times, under the condition that a certain ‐type norm is small. This energy inequality is of “quintic” type: if the norm is , then the increment of the high‐order energies is controlled for times of the order , consistent with the approximate quartic integrability of the system. In the second paper in this sequence, we will show how to use this energy estimate and a propagation of randomness argument to prove a probabilistic regularity result up to times of the order , in a suitable scaling regime relating and . For our second main result, we combine the quintic energy inequality with a bootstrap argument using a suitable ‐norm of Strichartz‐type to prove that deterministic solutions with Sobolev data of size are regular for times of the order . In particular, on the real line, solutions exist for times of order . This improves substantially on all the earlier extended lifespan results for 2D gravity water waves with small Sobolev data.","PeriodicalId":10601,"journal":{"name":"Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felix Otto, Richard Schubert, Maria G. Westdickenberg
We capture optimal decay for the Mullins–Sekerka evolution, a nonlocal, parabolic free boundary problem from materials science. Our main result establishes convergence of BV solutions to the planar profile in the physically relevant case of ambient space dimension three. Far from assuming small or well‐prepared initial data, we allow for initial interfaces that do not have graph structure and are not connected, hence explicitly including the regime of Ostwald ripening. In terms only of initially finite (not small) excess mass and excess surface energy, we establish that the surface becomes a Lipschitz graph within a fixed timescale (quantitatively estimated) and remains trapped within this setting. To obtain the graph structure, we leverage regularity results from geometric measure theory. At the same time, we extend a duality method previously employed for one‐dimensional PDE problems to higher dimensional, nonlocal geometric evolutions. Optimal algebraic decay rates of excess energy, dissipation, and graph height are obtained.
{"title":"Convergence to the planar interface for a nonlocal free‐boundary evolution","authors":"Felix Otto, Richard Schubert, Maria G. Westdickenberg","doi":"10.1002/cpa.22225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.22225","url":null,"abstract":"We capture optimal decay for the Mullins–Sekerka evolution, a nonlocal, parabolic free boundary problem from materials science. Our main result establishes convergence of BV solutions to the planar profile in the physically relevant case of ambient space dimension three. Far from assuming small or well‐prepared initial data, we allow for initial interfaces that do not have graph structure and are not connected, hence explicitly including the regime of Ostwald ripening. In terms only of initially finite (not small) excess mass and excess surface energy, we establish that the surface becomes a Lipschitz graph within a fixed timescale (quantitatively estimated) and remains trapped within this setting. To obtain the graph structure, we leverage regularity results from geometric measure theory. At the same time, we extend a duality method previously employed for one‐dimensional PDE problems to higher dimensional, nonlocal geometric evolutions. Optimal algebraic decay rates of excess energy, dissipation, and graph height are obtained.","PeriodicalId":10601,"journal":{"name":"Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142142410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We determine the asymptotics of the block Toeplitz determinants as for matrix‐valued piecewise continuous functions with a finitely many jumps under mild additional conditions. In particular, we prove that where , , and are constants that depend on the matrix symbol and are described in our main results. Our approach is based on a new localization theorem for Toeplitz determinants, a new method of computing the Fredholm index of Toeplitz operators with piecewise continuous matrix‐valued symbols, and other operator theoretic methods. As an application of our results, we consider piecewise continuous symbols that arise in the study of entanglement entropy in quantum spin chain models.
{"title":"Asymptotics of block Toeplitz determinants with piecewise continuous symbols","authors":"Estelle Basor, Torsten Ehrhardt, Jani A. Virtanen","doi":"10.1002/cpa.22223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.22223","url":null,"abstract":"We determine the asymptotics of the block Toeplitz determinants as for matrix‐valued piecewise continuous functions with a finitely many jumps under mild additional conditions. In particular, we prove that <jats:disp-formula/>where , , and are constants that depend on the matrix symbol and are described in our main results. Our approach is based on a new localization theorem for Toeplitz determinants, a new method of computing the Fredholm index of Toeplitz operators with piecewise continuous matrix‐valued symbols, and other operator theoretic methods. As an application of our results, we consider piecewise continuous symbols that arise in the study of entanglement entropy in quantum spin chain models.","PeriodicalId":10601,"journal":{"name":"Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142090102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter Constantin, Mihaela Ignatova, Quoc‐Hung Nguyen
We prove the existence and uniqueness of global smooth solutions of the critical dissipative SQG equation in bounded domains in . We introduce a new methodology of transforming the single nonlocal nonlinear evolution equation in a bounded domain into an interacting system of extended nonlocal nonlinear evolution equations in the whole space. The proof then uses the method of the nonlinear maximum principle for nonlocal operators in the extended system.
{"title":"Global regularity for critical SQG in bounded domains","authors":"Peter Constantin, Mihaela Ignatova, Quoc‐Hung Nguyen","doi":"10.1002/cpa.22221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.22221","url":null,"abstract":"We prove the existence and uniqueness of global smooth solutions of the critical dissipative SQG equation in bounded domains in . We introduce a new methodology of transforming the single nonlocal nonlinear evolution equation in a bounded domain into an interacting system of extended nonlocal nonlinear evolution equations in the whole space. The proof then uses the method of the nonlinear maximum principle for nonlocal operators in the extended system.","PeriodicalId":10601,"journal":{"name":"Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141755298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander Logunov, Lakshmi Priya M. E., Andrea Sartori
This paper focuses on a relation between the growth of harmonic functions and the Hausdorff measure of their zero sets. Let be a real‐valued harmonic function in with and . We prove where the doubling index is a notion of growth defined by This gives an almost sharp lower bound for the Hausdorff measure of the zero set of , which is conjectured to be linear in . The new ingredients of the article are the notion of stable growth, and a multiscale induction technique for a lower bound for the distribution of the doubling index of harmonic functions. It gives a significant imuprovement over the previous best‐known bound , which implied Nadirashvili's conjecture.
{"title":"Almost sharp lower bound for the nodal volume of harmonic functions","authors":"Alexander Logunov, Lakshmi Priya M. E., Andrea Sartori","doi":"10.1002/cpa.22207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.22207","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on a relation between the growth of harmonic functions and the Hausdorff measure of their zero sets. Let be a real‐valued harmonic function in with and . We prove <jats:disp-formula/>where the doubling index is a notion of growth defined by <jats:disp-formula/>This gives an almost sharp lower bound for the Hausdorff measure of the zero set of , which is conjectured to be linear in . The new ingredients of the article are the notion of <jats:italic>stable growth</jats:italic>, and a multiscale induction technique for a lower bound for the distribution of the doubling index of harmonic functions. It gives a significant imuprovement over the previous best‐known bound , which implied Nadirashvili's conjecture.","PeriodicalId":10601,"journal":{"name":"Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141177297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}