Asymptotic stability of solitary waves for the 1D focusing cubic Schrödinger equation

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, February 10th, will be at 3:30PM on Zoom.

Speaker: Yongming Li

Abstract: In this talk we present a perturbative proof of the asymptotic stability of the solitary wave solutions for the 1D focusing cubic Schrödinger equation under small perturbations in weighted Sobolev spaces. The strategy of our proof is based on the space-time resonances approach, using the distorted Fourier transform and modulation techniques to capture the asymptotic behavior of the solution. A major difficulty throughout the nonlinear analysis is the slow local decay of the radiation term caused by the threshold resonances in the spectrum of the linearized operator around the solitary wave. The presence of favorable null structures in the quadratic terms mitigates this problem through the use of normal form transformations.

Global strong well-posedness of the CAO-problem introduced by Lions, Temam and Wang

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, February 3rd, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Felix Brandt

Abstract: The CAO-problem concerns a system of two fluids described by two primitive equations coupled by nonlinear interface conditions. Lions, Temam and Wang proved in their pioneering work the existence of a weak solution to the CAO-system. Its uniqueness remained an open problem.

In this talk, we show that this coupled CAO-system is globally strongly well-posed for large data in critical Besov spaces. The approach presented relies on an optimal data result for the boundary terms in the linearized system in terms of time-space Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. Boundary terms are controlled by paraproduct methods.

This talk is based on joint work with Tim Binz, Matthias Hieber and Tarek Zöchling.

Late-time tails for nonlinear waves in even spatial dimensions

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, December 16th, will be at 3:30pm in Room 762.

Speaker: Shi-Zhuo Looi

Abstract: The classical wave equation is a basic model for the propagation of waves. In even space dimensions, solutions are known to develop long-lived polynomially decaying tails inside the region where the wave has passed, in contrast with the sharp finite propagation of disturbances in odd dimensions.

In this talk, I will discuss how such even-dimensional tails behave in the presence of forcing and nonlinear effects, as well as on non-stationary spacetime backgrounds.

A Microlocal Calculus on Filtered Manifolds

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, December 9nd, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Steven Flynn

Abstract: Sub-Riemannian geometries arise naturally in quantum mechanics and control theory, yet fundamental questions about quantum dynamics remain open, suggesting that new microlocal tools are needed to extend classical results to these singular geometries.

I will present a pseudodifferential calculus for filtered manifolds with operator-valued symbols built using representation theory of nilpotent groups. The key innovation is an explicit quantization procedure for noncommutative symbols adapted to the filtration, extending the Van Erp-Yuncken calculus while maintaining essential properties: closure under composition, parametrices, and Sobolev continuity.

This framework enables systematic microlocal analysis on equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds. This is joint work with Véronique Fischer and Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer.

Bilinear estimates for Schr\”odinger equations

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, December 2nd, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Xueying Yu

Abstract: Strichartz estimates are fundamental tools for understanding the dispersive behavior of solutions to Schrödinger equations. In particular, bilinear Strichartz estimates provide sharper information by capturing interactions between two waves with different frequencies, which play a key role in many nonlinear problems. In this talk, we will first review several classical bilinear Strichartz estimates for the Schr\”odinger equation, with an emphasis on the strategies used in their proofs. We then present a new bilinear estimate in the setting of Schr\”odinger equations on negatively curved spaces.

Effective non-linear PDEs from statistical many-body dynamics

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, November 25th, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Joe Miller

Abstract: Interacting systems of particles and waves are foundational in many natural phenomena. This talk will outline mathematical approaches for deriving effective, statistical descriptions of such many-body dynamics by connecting them to solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. Key examples include (i) the Boltzmann equation, which emerges as a limit of interacting hard spheres, (ii) the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which describes quantum particle dynamics initialized near a Bose-Einstein condensate, (iii) the Vlasov equation, which is an effective model for both non-collisional particles evolving under Newtonian dynamics or as a semiclassical limit of fermionic interactions, and (iv) the kinetic wave equations, which model the statistical behavior of interacting waves. I will discuss my joint work on each of these equations, highlighting how to frame these PDEs as limits of the underlying particle or wave dynamics. Time permitting, I will discuss ongoing work on deriving a Boltzmann mean field game from a jump diffusion process.

Scattering Theory for Asymptotically de Sitter Vacuum Solutions

The HADES seminar on Wednesday, November 19th, will be at 4:00pm in Room 732.

Speaker: Serban Cicortas

Abstract: We will talk about recent work establishing a quantitative nonlinear scattering theory for asymptotically de Sitter solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations in $(n+1)$ dimensions with $n\geq4$ even, which are determined by small scattering data in the distant past or the distant future. We will also explain why the case of even spatial dimension $n$ poses significant challenges compared to its odd counterpart and was left open by the previous works in the literature.

Global Behavior of Multispeed Klein–Gordon System

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, November 18th, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Xilu Zhu

Abstract: We explore the long-time behavior of multispeed Klein–Gordon systems in space dimension two. In terms of Klein–Gordon systems, the space dimension two is somehow considered as a critical threshold with possible transition from stability to instability. To illustrate this, we first prove a global well-posedness result when Klein–Gordon systems satisfy Ionescu–Pausader non-degeneracy conditions and the nonlinearity is assumed to be semilinear. Second, on the other hand, we construct a specific Klein–Gordon system such that one of the nondegeneracy conditions is violated and its solution has an infinite time blowup, which implies a type of ill-posedness.

Long-Time Dynamics of the 3D Vlasov-Maxwell System with Boundaries

The HADES seminar on Wednesday, November 12th, will be at 4:00pm in Room 732.

Speaker: Chanwoo Kim

Abstract: We construct global-in-time classical solutions to the nonlinear Vlasov-Maxwell system in a three-dimensional half-space beyond the vacuum scattering regime. We also prove dynamical asymptotic stability under general perturbations in the full three-dimensional nonlinear Vlasov-Maxwell system.

Dispersive Estimates for Non-integrable 1D Defocusing Cubic NLS at Sharp Regularity

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, November 4th, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Ryan Martinez

Abstract: We present work, still in progress, with Mihaela Ifrim and Daniel Tataru, which proves global well-posedness, global $L^6$ based Strichartz estimates, and global bilinear spacetime $L^2$ estimates for non-integrable 1D defocusing cubic NLS at the sharp regularity $H^{-1/2 + \epsilon}$ with mild regularity assumptions on the nonlinearity; taking for granted a suitable local well-posedness theory.

In $L^2$, this problem was well understood by Ifrim and Tataru, by using a modified energy method in a frequency localized setting. However, below $L^2$ there are several challenges. First, Christ, Colliander, and Tao show that the initial data-to-solution map fails to even be uniformly continuous locally in time below $L^2$. For the completely integrable problem Harrop-Griffiths, Killip, and Visan proved global (and local) well-posedness in the sense of continuous dependence and local smoothing estimates for the problem in the sharp space. Our work supplements their work by in addition providing global $L^6$ and bilinear $L^2$ estimates, but does not itself depend on complete integrability. To emphasize this, we prove the result for general nonlinearities, of course assuming the existence of a local theory, which at this time, seems out of reach.

The main challenge of this work is that the modified energy method used by Ifrim and Tataru at $L^2$ fails at high frequency below $s = -1/3$. To overcome this we use an infinite series of corrections.