Given a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws, we prove the a priori bound u (t,) u (t,)= O (1)(1+ t) | ln | on the distance between an exact BV solution u and a viscous approximation u, letting the viscosity coefficient 0. In the proof, starting from u we construct an approximation of the viscous solution u by taking a mollification u* and inserting viscous shock profiles at the locations of finitely many large shocks for each fixed . Error estimates are then obtained by introducing new Lyapunov functionals that control interactions of shock waves in the same family and also interactions of waves in different families. 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

In [9] Anderson’s conjecture was proven by comparing values of Bloch functions with the variation of the function. We extend that result on Bloch functions from two to arbitrary dimension and prove that ∫_{[0,x]}|∇b(ζ)|e^{b(ζ)}d|ζ|<∞.. In the second part of the paper, we show that the area or volume integral ∫_{B^d}|∇u(w)|p(w,θ)dA(w) for positive harmonic functions u is bounded by the value cu(0) for at least one θ. The integral is also transferred to simply connected domains and interpreted from the point of view of stochastics. Several emerging open problems are presented.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new characterization of the characteristic functions for the study on the measure valued solution to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation so that it precisely captures the moment constraint in physics. This significantly improves the previous result by Cannone and Karch (2010) [2] in the sense that the new characterization gives a complete description of infinite energy solutions for the Maxwellian cross section. In addition, the global in time smoothing effect of the infinite energy solution is justified as for the finite energy solution except for a single Dirac mass initial datum.

In this paper we study the distribution of scattering resonances for a multi-dimensional semi-classical Schrödinger operator, associated to a potential well in an island at energies close to the maximal one that limits the separation of the well and the surrounding sea.

It is known that the singularity in the non-cutoff cross-section of the Boltzmann equation leads to the gain of regularity and gain of weight in the velocity variable. By defining and analyzing a non-isotropy norm which precisely captures the dissipation in the linearized collision operator, we give a new and precise coercivity estimate for the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation for general physical cross sections.