Dynamics Near the Subcritical Transition of the 3D Couette Flow I: Below Threshold Case

Dynamics Near the Subcritical Transition of the 3D Couette Flow I: Below Threshold Case
Author: Jacob Bedrossian
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470442175

The authors study small disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number Re. They prove that for sufficiently regular initial data of size $epsilon leq c_0mathbf {Re}^-1$ for some universal $c_0 > 0$, the solution is global, remains within $O(c_0)$ of the Couette flow in $L^2$, and returns to the Couette flow as $t rightarrow infty $. For times $t gtrsim mathbf {Re}^1/3$, the streamwise dependence is damped by a mixing-enhanced dissipation effect and the solution is rapidly attracted to the class of ``2.5 dimensional'' streamwise-independent solutions referred to as streaks.

The Mathematical Analysis of the Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations

The Mathematical Analysis of the Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations
Author: Jacob Bedrossian
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2022-09-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470471787

The aim of this book is to provide beginning graduate students who completed the first two semesters of graduate-level analysis and PDE courses with a first exposure to the mathematical analysis of the incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. The book gives a concise introduction to the fundamental results in the well-posedness theory of these PDEs, leaving aside some of the technical challenges presented by bounded domains or by intricate functional spaces. Chapters 1 and 2 cover the fundamentals of the Euler theory: derivation, Eulerian and Lagrangian perspectives, vorticity, special solutions, existence theory for smooth solutions, and blowup criteria. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 cover the fundamentals of the Navier-Stokes theory: derivation, special solutions, existence theory for strong solutions, Leray theory of weak solutions, weak-strong uniqueness, existence theory of mild solutions, and Prodi-Serrin regularity criteria. Chapter 6 provides a short guide to the must-read topics, including active research directions, for an advanced graduate student working in incompressible fluids. It may be used as a roadmap for a topics course in a subsequent semester. The appendix recalls basic results from real, harmonic, and functional analysis. Each chapter concludes with exercises, making the text suitable for a one-semester graduate course. Prerequisites to this book are the first two semesters of graduate-level analysis and PDE courses.

Linear Dynamical Systems on Hilbert Spaces: Typical Properties and Explicit Examples

Linear Dynamical Systems on Hilbert Spaces: Typical Properties and Explicit Examples
Author: S. Grivaux
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2021-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470446634

We solve a number of questions pertaining to the dynamics of linear operators on Hilbert spaces, sometimes by using Baire category arguments and sometimes by constructing explicit examples. In particular, we prove the following results. (i) A typical hypercyclic operator is not topologically mixing, has no eigen-values and admits no non-trivial invariant measure, but is densely distri-butionally chaotic. (ii) A typical upper-triangular operator with coefficients of modulus 1 on the diagonal is ergodic in the Gaussian sense, whereas a typical operator of the form “diagonal with coefficients of modulus 1 on the diagonal plus backward unilateral weighted shift” is ergodic but has only countably many unimodular eigenvalues; in particular, it is ergodic but not ergodic in the Gaussian sense. (iii) There exist Hilbert space operators which are chaotic and U-frequently hypercyclic but not frequently hypercyclic, Hilbert space operators which are chaotic and frequently hypercyclic but not ergodic, and Hilbert space operators which are chaotic and topologically mixing but not U-frequently hypercyclic. We complement our results by investigating the descriptive complexity of some natural classes of operators defined by dynamical properties.

Resolvent, Heat Kernel, and Torsion under Degeneration to Fibered Cusps

Resolvent, Heat Kernel, and Torsion under Degeneration to Fibered Cusps
Author: Pierre Albin
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2021-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470444224

Manifolds with fibered cusps are a class of complete non-compact Riemannian manifolds including many examples of locally symmetric spaces of rank one. We study the spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian with coefficients in a flat bundle on a closed manifold undergoing degeneration to a manifold with fibered cusps. We obtain precise asymptotics for the resolvent, the heat kernel, and the determinant of the Laplacian. Using these asymptotics we obtain a topological description of the analytic torsion on a manifold with fibered cusps in terms of the R-torsion of the underlying manifold with boundary.

Operator Theory on One-Sided Quaternion Linear Spaces: Intrinsic $S$-Functional Calculus and Spectral Operators

Operator Theory on One-Sided Quaternion Linear Spaces: Intrinsic $S$-Functional Calculus and Spectral Operators
Author: Jonathan Gantner
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2021-02-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470442388

Two major themes drive this article: identifying the minimal structure necessary to formulate quaternionic operator theory and revealing a deep relation between complex and quaternionic operator theory. The theory for quaternionic right linear operators is usually formulated under the assumption that there exists not only a right- but also a left-multiplication on the considered Banach space $V$. This has technical reasons, as the space of bounded operators on $V$ is otherwise not a quaternionic linear space. A right linear operator is however only associated with the right multiplication on the space and in certain settings, for instance on quaternionic Hilbert spaces, the left multiplication is not defined a priori, but must be chosen randomly. Spectral properties of an operator should hence be independent of the left multiplication on the space.

Łojasiewicz-Simon Gradient Inequalities for Coupled Yang-Mills Energy Functionals

Łojasiewicz-Simon Gradient Inequalities for Coupled Yang-Mills Energy Functionals
Author: Paul M Feehan
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2021-02-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470443023

The authors' primary goal in this monograph is to prove Łojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequalities for coupled Yang-Mills energy functions using Sobolev spaces that impose minimal regularity requirements on pairs of connections and sections.

Theory of Fundamental Bessel Functions of High Rank

Theory of Fundamental Bessel Functions of High Rank
Author: Zhi Qi
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2021-02-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470443252

In this article, the author studies fundamental Bessel functions for $mathrm{GL}_n(mathbb F)$ arising from the Voronoí summation formula for any rank $n$ and field $mathbb F = mathbb R$ or $mathbb C$, with focus on developing their analytic and asymptotic theory. The main implements and subjects of this study of fundamental Bessel functions are their formal integral representations and Bessel differential equations. The author proves the asymptotic formulae for fundamental Bessel functions and explicit connection formulae for the Bessel differential equations.