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   Antil, Harbir; Gal, Ciprian G.; Warma, Mahamadi (January 2022, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - S)

   We consider optimal control of fractional in time (subdiffusive, i.e., for \begin{document}$$ 0<\gamma <1 $$\end{document}) semilinear parabolic PDEs associated with various notions of diffusion operators in an unifying fashion. Under general assumptions on the nonlinearity we \begin{document}$$\mathsf{first\;show}$$\end{document} the existence and regularity of solutions to the forward and the associated \begin{document}$$\mathsf{backward\;(adjoint)}$$\end{document} problems. In the second part, we prove existence of optimal \begin{document}$$\mathsf{controls }$$\end{document} and characterize the associated \begin{document}$$\mathsf{first\;order}$$\end{document} optimality conditions. Several examples involving fractional in time (and some fractional in space diffusion) equations are described in detail. The most challenging obstacle we overcome is the failure of the semigroup property for the semilinear problem in any scaling of (frequency-domain) Hilbert spaces. 

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   Jolly, Michael S.; Kumar, Anuj; Martinez, Vincent R. (January 2021, Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis)

   This paper studies a family of generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equations for an active scalar \begin{document}$$ \theta $$\end{document} on the whole plane whose velocities have been mildly regularized, for instance, logarithmically. The well-posedness of these regularized models in borderline Sobolev regularity have previously been studied by D. Chae and J. Wu when the velocity \begin{document}$ u $$\end{document} is of lower singularity, i.e., \begin{document}$$ u = -\nabla^{\perp} \Lambda^{ \beta-2}p( \Lambda) \theta $$\end{document}, where \begin{document}$$ p $$\end{document} is a logarithmic smoothing operator and \begin{document}$$ \beta \in [0, 1] $$\end{document}. We complete this study by considering the more singular regime \begin{document}$$ \beta\in(1, 2) $$\end{document}$. The main tool is the identification of a suitable linearized system that preserves the underlying commutator structure for the original equation. We observe that this structure is ultimately crucial for obtaining continuity of the flow map. In particular, straightforward applications of previous methods for active transport equations fail to capture the more nuanced commutator structure of the equation in this more singular regime. The proposed linearized system nontrivially modifies the flux of the original system in such a way that it coincides with the original flux when evaluated along solutions of the original system. The requisite estimates are developed for this modified linear system to ensure its well-posedness. 

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   This paper investigates the global existence of weak solutions for the incompressible \begin{document}$ p $$\end{document}-Navier-Stokes equations in \begin{document}$$ \mathbb{R}^d $$\end{document} \begin{document}$$ (2\leq d\leq p) $$\end{document}. The \begin{document}$$ p $$\end{document}-Navier-Stokes equations are obtained by adding viscosity term to the \begin{document}$$ p $$\end{document}-Euler equations. The diffusion added is represented by the \begin{document}$$ p $$\end{document}-Laplacian of velocity and the \begin{document}$$ p $$\end{document}-Euler equations are derived as the Euler-Lagrange equations for the action represented by the Benamou-Brenier characterization of Wasserstein-\begin{document}$$ p $$\end{document}$ distances with constraint density to be characteristic functions. 

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   Abstract We give sharp conditions for the large time asymptotic simplification of aggregation-diffusion equations with linear diffusion. As soon as the interaction potential is bounded and its first and second derivatives decay fast enough at infinity, then the linear diffusion overcomes its effect, either attractive or repulsive, for large times independently of the initial data, and solutions behave like the fundamental solution of the heat equation with some rate. The potential$$W(x) \sim \log |x|$$ $W\left(x\right)\sim log\left|x\right|$for$$|x| \gg 1$$ $\left|x\right|\gg 1$appears as the natural limiting case when the intermediate asymptotics change. In order to obtain such a result, we produce uniform-in-time estimates in a suitable rescaled change of variables for the entropy, the second moment, Sobolev norms and the$$C^\alpha $$ $C^{\alpha }$regularity with a novel approach for this family of equations using modulus of continuity techniques. 

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5. Kinetic Fokker-Planck and Landau equations with specular reflection boundary condition

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   We establish existence of finite energy weak solutions to the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation and the linear Landau equation near Maxwellian, in the presence of specular reflection boundary condition for general domains. Moreover, by using a method of reflection and the \begin{document}$$ S_p $$\end{document} estimate of [7], we prove regularity in the kinetic Sobolev spaces \begin{document}$$ S_p $$\end{document} and anisotropic Hölder spaces for such weak solutions. Such \begin{document}$$ S_p $$\end{document} regularity leads to the uniqueness of weak solutions. 

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