The APDE seminar on Monday, 03/16 will be given by Johannes Sjöstrand in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: Resonances over a potential well in an island.

Abstract: Recent work with M. Zerzeri. Let V : R^n → R be a sufficiently analytic potential which tends to 0 at infinity. Assume that for an E > 0 we have V^{-1}(]- ∞ ,E[)=U(E) ⊔ S(E), where U(E) ∩ S(E) = ∅ , with U(E) connected and bounded (the well) and S(E) connected (the sea). The distribution of the resonances of -h^2 Δ + V near E has been thoroughly studied since more than 30 years. If we increase E a natural scenario is that the decomposition persists until the closures of U(E) and S(E) intersect at a critical energy E = E_0. Under some natural assumptions we show that near E_0 most of the resonances are close to the real axis and obey a Weyl law. In one dimension there are more detailed results (Fujiie-Ramond ’98).

The APDE seminar on Monday, 11/18 will be given by Dean Baskin in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: Asymptotics of the radiation field on cones

Abstract:
Radiation fields are rescaled limits of solutions of wave equations near “null infinity” and capture the radiation pattern seen by a distant observer.  They are intimately connected with the Fourier and Radon transforms and with scattering theory.  We consider the wave equation on a product cone and show that the associated radiation field has an asymptotic expansion; the exponents seen in this expansion are the resonances of the hyperbolic cone with the same link.  This talk is based on joint work with Jeremy Marzuola (building on prior work with Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch).

The APDE seminar on Monday, 11/04 will be given by Jared Wunsch in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: A tale of two resolvent estimates

Abstract:
I will discuss two new results concerning the best of resolvent estimates and the worst of resolvent estimates.  In the former, case, that of nontrapping obstacles or metrics, we have obtained (in joint work with Galkowski and Spence) optimal, dynamically determined, constants in the standard non-trapping estimate for the (chopped off) resolvent.  In the latter case, that of obstacles or metrics that may have very strong trapping, I will discuss joint work with Lafontaine and Spence that shows the estimates to be a far, far better thing than you might have expected, provided you omit a small set of frequencies from consideration.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 10/28 will be given by Melissa Tacy in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: Adapting analysis/synthesis pairs to pseudodifferential operators

Abstract:
Many problems in harmonic analysis are resolved by producing
an analysis/synthesis of function spaces. For example the Fourier or
wavelet decompositions. In this talk I will discuss how to use Fourier
integral operators to adapt analysis/synthesis pairs (developed for the
constant coefficient PDE case) to the pseudodifferential setting. I will
demonstrate how adapting a wavelet decomposition can be used to prove
$L^{p}$ bounds for joint eigenfunctions.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 10/21 will be given by Benjamin Küster in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: Pollicott-Ruelle resonances and Betti numbers

Abstract:
In joint work with Tobias Weich, we study the multiplicity of
the Pollicott-Ruelle resonance 0 of the Lie derivative along the
geodesic vector field on the cosphere bundle of a closed negatively
curved Riemannian manifold, acting on flow-transversal one-forms. We
prove that if the manifold admits a metric of constant negative
curvature and the Riemannian metric is close to such a constant
curvature metric, then the considered resonance multiplicity agrees with
the first Betti number of the manifold, provided the latter does not
have dimension 3. In dimension 3 and for constant curvature, it turns
out that the resonance multiplicity is twice the first Betti number.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 09/16 will be given by Sung-Jin Oh in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: On the Cauchy problem for the Hall-magnetohydrodynamics equations

Absract:
In this talk, I will describe a recent series of work with I.-J. Jeong on the Cauchy problem for the Hall-MHD equation without resistivity. This PDE, first investigated by the applied mathematician M. J. Lighthill, is a one-fluid description of magnetized plasmas with a quadratic second-order correction term (Hall current term), which takes into account the motion of electrons relative to positive ions. Curiously, we demonstrate ill(!)posedness of the Cauchy problem near the trivial solution, despite the apparent linear stability and conservation of energy. On the other hand, we identify several regimes in which the Cauchy problem is well-posed, which includes the original setting that M. J. Lighthill investigated (namely, for initial data close to a uniform magnetic field). Central to our proofs is the viewpoint that the Hall current term imparts the magnetic field equation with a quasilinear dispersive character.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 04/29 will be given by Dejan Gajic in Evans 740 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title:
Resonances on asymptotically flat black holes 

Abstract:
A fundamental problem in the context of Einstein’s equations of general relativity is to understand the dynamical evolution of small perturbations of stationary black hole solutions. It is expected that there is a discrete set of characteristic frequencies that play a dominant role at late times and carry information about the nature of the black hole, much like how the normal frequencies of a vibrating guitar string play an important role in the resulting sound wave. These frequencies are called quasinormal frequencies or resonant frequencies and they are closely related to scattering resonances in the study of Schrödinger-type equations. I will consider the linear wave equation on black hole backgrounds as a toy model for Einstein’s equations and give an introduction to resonances in this setting. Then I will discuss a new method of defining and studying resonances on asymptotically flat spacetimes, developed from joint work with Claude Warnick, which puts resonances on the same footing as normal modes by showing that they are eigenfunctions of a natural operator acting on a Hilbert space.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 04/22 will be given by Martin Taylor in Evans 740 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title:
The nonlinear stability of the Schwarzschild family of black holes .

Abstract:
I will present a theorem on the full finite codimension asymptotic stability of the Schwarzschild family of black holes.  The proof employs a double null gauge, is expressed entirely in physical space, and utilises the analysis of Dafermos–Holzegel–Rodnianski on the linear stability of the Schwarzschild family.  This is joint work with M. Dafermos, G. Holzegel and I. Rodnianski.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 04/15 will be given by Annalaura Stingo in Evans 740 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title:
Global existence of small amplitude solutions for a model quadratic quasilinear wave-Klein-Gordon system in 2D.

Abstract:

In this talk we discuss the problem of global existence of solutions to a coupled wave-Klein-Gordon system in space dimension two when initial data are small, smooth and mildly decaying at infinity. Several physical models related to general relativity have shown the importance of studying such systems but very few results are known at present in low space dimension, where linear solutions slowly decay in time.

We study here a model quadratic quasilinear two-dimensional system, in which the nonlinearity writes in terms of “null forms”, and prove global existence by propagating a-priori energy estimates and optimal uniform estimates on the solution. In proving such estimates one has to deal with several issues such as the quasilinear nature of the problem, the very low decay in time of quadratic nonlinearities, the fact that initial data are not compactly supported…

We will show how to obtain energy estimates by using systematically quasilinear normal forms, in their para-differential version. Uniform estimates will instead be recovered by deducing a new coupled system of a transport equation and an ordinary differential equation from the starting PDE system by means of a semiclassical microlocal analysis of the problem.