Weighted Sobolev–Morrey Estimates for Nondivergence Degenerate Operators with Drift on Homogeneous Groups

Let X0,X1,…,Xq(q<N) be real vector fields, which are left invariant on homogeneous group G, provided that X0 is homogeneous of degree two and X1,…,Xq are homogeneous of degree one. We consider the following nondivergence degenerate operator with drift L=∑i,j=1qaij(x)XiXj+a0(x)X0, where the coefficients aij(x), a0(x) belonging to vanishing mean oscillation space are bounded measurable functions. Furthermore, aij(x) satisfies the uniform ellipticity condition on Rq and a0(x)≠0. We obtain the local weighted Sobolev–Morrey estimates by applying the boundedness of commutators and interpolation inequalities on weighted Morrey spaces.

The effect of residual stress on the stability of a circular cylindrical tube

Residual stresses in an unloaded configuration of an elastic material have a significant influence on the response of the material from that configuration, but the effect of residual stress on the stability of the material, whether loaded or unloaded, has only been addressed to a limited extent. In this paper we consider the level of residual stress that can be supported in a thick-walled circular cylindrical tube of non-linearly elastic material without loss of stability when subjected to fixed axial stretch and either internal or external pressure. In particular, we consider the tube to have radial and circumferential residual stresses, with a simple form of elastic constitutive law that accommodates the residual stress, and incremental deformations restricted to the cross section of the tube. Results are described for a tube subject to a level of (internal or external) pressure characterized by the internal azimuthal stretch. Subject to restrictions imposed by the strong ellipticity condition, the emergence of bifurcated solutions is detailed for their dependence on the level of residual stress and mode number.

Sharp Rank-One Convexity Conditions in Planar Isotropic Elasticity for the Additive Volumetric-Isochoric Split

We consider the volumetric-isochoric split in planar isotropic hyperelasticity and give a precise analysis of rank-one convexity criteria for this case, showing that the Legendre-Hadamard ellipticity condition separates and simplifies in a suitable sense. Starting from the classical two-dimensional criterion by Knowles and Sternberg, we can reduce the conditions for rank-one convexity to a family of one-dimensional coupled differential inequalities. In particular, this allows us to derive a simple rank-one convexity classification for generalized Hadamard energies of the type $W(F)=\frac{\mu }{2} \hspace{0.07em} \frac{\lVert F \rVert ^{2}}{\det F}+f(\det F)$ W ( F ) = μ 2 ∥ F ∥ 2 det F + f ( det F ) ; such an energy is rank-one convex if and only if the function $f$ f is convex.

Sharp bounds on the minimum $M$-eigenvalue and strong ellipticity condition of elasticity $Z$-tensors-tensors

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>In this paper, we establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the minimum <i>M</i>-eigenvalue via the extreme eigenvalue of the symmetric matrices extracted from elasticity <i>Z</i>-tensors without irreducible conditions. Based on the lower bound estimations for the minimum <i>M</i>-eigenvalue, we provide some checkable sufficient or necessary conditions for the strong ellipticity condition. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the proposed results.</p>

Asymptotic spreading for Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equations with heterogeneous shifting diffusivity

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We determine the asymptotic spreading speed of the solutions of a Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation, starting from compactly supported initial data, when the diffusion coefficient is a fixed bounded monotone profile that is shifted at a given forcing speed and satisfies a general uniform ellipticity condition. Depending on the monotonicity of the profile, we are able to characterize this spreading speed as a function of the forcing speed and the two linear spreading speeds associated to the asymptotic problems at <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ x = \pm \infty $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. Most notably, when the profile of the diffusion coefficient is increasing we show that there is an intermediate range for the forcing speed where spreading actually occurs at a speed which is larger than the linear speed associated with the homogeneous state around the position of the front. We complement our study with the construction of strictly monotone traveling front solutions with strong exponential decay near the unstable state when the profile of the diffusion coefficient is decreasing and in the regime where the forcing speed is precisely the selected spreading speed.</p>

On the well-posedness of global fully nonlinear first order elliptic systems

In the very recent paper [15], the second author proved that for any {f\in L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{n},\mathbb{R}^{N})}, the fully nonlinear first order system {F(\,\cdot\,,\mathrm{D}u)=f} is well posed in the so-called J. L. Lions space and, moreover, the unique strong solution {u\colon\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{N}} to the problem satisfies a quantitative estimate. A central ingredient in the proof was the introduction of an appropriate notion of ellipticity for F inspired by Campanato’s classical work in the 2nd order case. Herein, we extend the results of [15] by introducing a new strictly weaker ellipticity condition and by proving well-posedness in the same “energy” space.