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   Disconzi, Marcelo M.; Ifrim, Mihaela; Tataru, Daniel (May 2022, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis)

   Abstract In this paper we provide a complete local well-posedness theory for the free boundary relativistic Euler equations with a physical vacuum boundary on a Minkowski background. Specifically, we establish the following results: (i) local well-posedness in the Hadamard sense, i.e., local existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on the data; (ii) low regularity solutions: our uniqueness result holds at the level of Lipschitz velocity and density, while our rough solutions, obtained as unique limits of smooth solutions, have regularity only a half derivative above scaling; (iii) stability: our uniqueness in fact follows from a more general result, namely, we show that a certain nonlinear functional that tracks the distance between two solutions (in part by measuring the distance between their respective boundaries) is propagated by the flow; (iv) we establish sharp, essentially scale invariant energy estimates for solutions; (v) a sharp continuation criterion, at the level of scaling, showing that solutions can be continued as long as the velocity is in$$L^1_t Lip$$ $L_t^{1}Lip$and a suitable weighted version of the density is at the same regularity level. Our entire approach is in Eulerian coordinates and relies on the functional framework developed in the companion work of the second and third authors on corresponding non relativistic problem. All our results are valid for a general equation of state$$p(\varrho )= \varrho ^\gamma $$ $p\left(\varrho \right)={\varrho }^{\gamma }$,$$\gamma > 1$$ $\gamma >1$. 

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

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   Huang, Jiaxi; Tataru, Daniel (January 2022, Communications in Mathematical Physics)

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5. Local Well-Posedness of the Skew Mean Curvature Flow for Small Data in $$d\geqq 2$$ Dimensions

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   Huang, Jiaxi; Tataru, Daniel (January 2024, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis)

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