Author Archives: ntang

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.

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.

Dissipation estimates of the Fisher information for the Landau equation

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, October 21st, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Sehyun Ji

Abstract: The global existence of smooth solution for the Landau-Coulomb equation remained elusive for a long time. Two years ago, Nestor Guillen and Luis Silvestre made a breakthrough by showing the Fisher information is monotone decreasing. As a consequence, they deduced the solutions do not blow up for C^1 initial data with Maxwellian tails. For a monotone quantity, It is very natural to ask for its dissipation estimate. In this talk, I will derive an a priori estimate for the dissipation of the Fisher information, which appears to be a higher-order analogue of the entropy dissipation estimate. As an application, I’ll show the global existence of smooth solutions for rough initial data in L^1_5 \cap L \log L. I will start from discussing the proof of Guillen and Silvestre.

Long-time behavior of rough solutions to defocusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

The HADES seminar on Tuesday, October 14th, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Zachary Lee

Abstract: The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (NLS) arises in various physical contexts, notably in models of Bose–Einstein condensation and nonlinear optics. I will begin by outlining these motivations and by presenting several heuristics—scaling, dispersion, and symmetry—that shed light on the qualitative behavior of its solutions. I will then turn to a rigorous analysis based on the Duhamel formulation of the equation, together with Strichartz estimates, conservation laws, and Morawetz inequalities, which provide global control for H^1 data in the defocusing case. In the final part of the talk, I will describe how these techniques can be adapted below the energy space using almost conservation laws (the I-method), and present a new global existence result for the one-dimensional defocusing septic NLS for a class of discontinuous and unbounded initial data.

Random tensors and fractional NLS

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

Speaker: Rui Liang

Abstract:In this talk, we will consider the Schrödinger equation with cubic nonlinearity on the circle, with initial data distributed according to the Gibbs measure.  We will discuss the challenges and strategies involved in establishing the Poincaré recurrence property with respect to the Gibbs measure in the full dispersive range. This work, using the theory of the random averaging operator developed by Deng-Nahmod-Yue ’19, addresses an open question proposed by Sun-Tzvetkov ’21. We will also explain why the Gibbs dynamics for the full dispersive range is sharp in some sense. Finally, we will see how the theory of random tensors works for extending this work to multi-dimensional settings.

Instability, chaos, and nonlinear energy transfer

The HADES seminar on Wednesday, September 17th, will be at 4:00pm in Room 732.

Speaker: Jacob Bedrossian

Abstract: In this talk we survey several recent results regarding nonlinear dynamics of stochastic differential equations. First, we discuss joint results with Alex Blumenthal, Keagan Callis, and Kyle Liss regarding the existence of stationary measures to SDEs with degenerate damping. This requires the nonlinearity to consistently pump energy from the forced modes to the damped modes. We determine sufficient conditions on the nonlinearity for this and then prove that “generic” examples of fluid-like SDEs satisfy these conditions. Second, we discuss joint results with Alex Blumenthal and Sam Punshon-Smith regarding estimating lower bounds of Lyapunov exponents and using this to prove non-uniqueness of stationary measures for SDEs with almost-surely invariant subspaces. In particular, we prove for L96 with every 3rd mode stochastically forced that for strong forcing there is exactly 2 stationary measures — the trivial one supported only on the forced modes and a second mode which is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure and so determines the long term dynamics of almost every initial condition.