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Publications (42)

math.AP2020

Large asymptotics for minimal partitions of the Dirichlet eigenvalue

Zhiyuan Geng, Fanghua Lin

In this paper, we study large asymptotics of the minimal -partition problem for Dirichlet eigenvalue. For any smooth domain such that , we…

math.AP2026

Remarks on the heat flow of harmonic maps into CAT(0)-spaces

Fanghua Lin, Changyou Wang

In this paper, we present an alternate, elementary proof of the local Lipschitz regularity of the suitable weak solution of heat flow of harmonic maps into CAT(0)-metric spaces, wh…

math.AP2013

Regularity and existence of global solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system in

Jinrui Huang, Fanghua Lin, Changyou Wang

In this paper, we first establish the regularity theorem for suitable weak solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system in dimensions two. Building on such a regularity, we then establi…

math.AP2014

Global Existence for Two Dimensional Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Zero Magnetic Diffusivity

Xianpeng Hu, Fanghua Lin

The existence of global-in-time classical solutions to the Cauchy problem of incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic flows with zero magnetic diffusivity is considered in two dimensions…

math.AP2020

Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition and Liquid Crystal Droplets

Fanghua Lin, Changyou Wang

Liquid crystal droplets are of great interest from physics and applications. Rigorous mathematical analysis is challenging as the problem involves harmonic maps (and in general the…

math.AP2018

Nodal Sets and Doubling Conditions in Elliptic Homogenization

Fanghua Lin, Zhongwei Shen

This paper is concerned with uniform measure estimates for nodal sets of solutions in elliptic homogenization. We consider a family of second-order elliptic operators $\{ \mathcal{…

math.AP2017

Regularity for Shape Optimizers: The Degenerate Case

Dennis Kriventsov, Fanghua Lin

We consider minimizers of \[ F(λ_1(Ω),\ldots,λ_N(Ω)) + |Ω|, \] where is a function nondecreasing in each parameter, and is the -th Dirichlet eigenvalue of $΅

math.DG2025

Space of ancient caloric functions on some manifolds beyond volume doubling

Fanghua Lin, Hongbing Qiu, Jun Sun +1

Under a condition that breaks the volume doubling barrier, we obtain a time polynomial structure result on the space of ancient caloric functions with polynomial growth on manifold…

math.AP2019

Vanishing Viscosity Limit for Incompressible Viscoelasticity in Two Dimensions

Yuan Cai, Zhen Lei, Fanghua Lin +1

This paper studies the inviscid limit of the two-dimensional incompressible viscoelasticity, which is a system coupling a Navier-Stokes equation with a transport equation for the d…

math.SP2026

Pólya's conjecture up to -loss and quantitative estimates for the remainder of Weyl's law

Renjin Jiang, Fanghua Lin

Let be a bounded Lipschitz domain. For any we show that for any Dirichlet eigenvalue , it holds \begin{align*} k&\le (1+ε…

math.AP2026

Liquid crystals and topological vorticity: smoothness of mild solutions

Fanghua Lin, Yannick Sire, Yantao Wu +1

We introduce several new models whose common feature is to take into account effects from topological vorticity. The macroscopic unknown is driven by a dissipative anomalous diffus…

math.AP2018

Harmonic maps in connection of phase transitions with higher dimensional potential wells

Fanghua Lin, Changyou Wang

This is in the sequel of authors' paper \cite{LPW} in which we had set up a program to verify rigorously some formal statements associated with the multiple component phase transit…

math.AP2015

Finite time singularity of the nematic liquid crystal flow in dimension three

Tao Huang, Fanghua Lin, Chun Liu +1

In this paper, we consider the initial and boundary value problem of a simplified nematic liquid crystal flow in dimension three and construct two examples of finite time singulari…

math.AP2026

On Brezis Open Problem 3.1

Qi Guo, Xueping Huang, Yi C. Huang +2

Let be the unit disk in . We consider the harmonic map equation subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition $ u(e^{iθ})=(R\cosθ,R\si…

math.AP2021

Matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation and the Keller-Rubinstein-Sternberg problem

Mingwen Fei, Fanghua Lin, Wei Wang +1

In this paper, we consider the sharp interface limit of a matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation, which takes the form: $$\partial_t A=ΔA-\varepsilon^{-2}( A A^{\mathrm{T}}A- A)~~\text…

math.AP2013

Global small solutions to 2-D incompressible MHD system

Fanghua Lin, Li Xu, Ping Zhang

In this paper, we consider the global wellposedness of 2-D incompressible magneto-hydrodynamical system with small and smooth initial data. It is a coupled system between the Navie…

math.AP2023

Critical Sets of Solutions of Elliptic Equations in Periodic Homogenization

Fanghua Lin, Zhongwei Shen

In this paper we study critical sets of solutions $u_\e$ of second-order elliptic equations in divergence form with rapidly oscillating and periodic coefficients. We show that the…

math.AP2026

On a Problem Posed by Brezis and Mironescu

Fanghua Lin, Malkeil Shoshan, Changyou Wang

The purpose of this note is to present a positive answer to an open problem proposed in the recent book \cite{Brezis-Mironescu} by H. Brezis and P. Mironescu. It has been stated in…

math.AP2012

Homogenization of Green and Neumann Functions

Carlos E. Kenig, Fanghua Lin, Zhongwei Shen

For a family of second-order elliptic operators with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients, we study the asymptotic behavior of the Green and Neumann functions, using Dirichlet…

math.AP2017

Regularity for Shape Optimizers: The Nondegenerate Case

Dennis Kriventsov, Fanghua Lin

We consider minimizers of \[ F(λ_1(Ω),\ldots,λ_N(Ω)) + |Ω|, \] where is a function strictly increasing in each parameter, and is the -th Dirichlet eigenvalue…

math.AP2010

Homogenization of Elliptic Systems with Neumann Boundary Conditions

Carlos E. Kenig, Fanghua Lin, Zhongwei Shen

The main purpose of this work is to study uniform regularity estimates for a family of elliptic operators , arising in the theory of hom…

math.AP2014

Recent developments of analysis for hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals

Fanghua Lin, Changyou Wang

The study of hydrodynamics of liquid crystal leads to many fasci- nating mathematical problems, which has prompted various interesting works recently. This article reviews the stat…

math.AP2022

Nematic liquid crystal flow with partially free boundary

Fanghua Lin, Yannick Sire, Juncheng Wei +1

We study a simplified Ericksen-Leslie system modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals with partially free boundary conditions. It is a coupled system between the Navier-Stokes…

math.AP2019

Finite time blow-up for the nematic liquid crystal flow in dimension two

Chen-Chih Lai, Fanghua Lin, Changyou Wang +2

We consider the initial-boundary value problem of a simplified nematic liquid crystal flow in a bounded, smooth domain . Given any distinct points in the…

math.AP2018

Superfluids Passing an Obstacle and Vortex Nucleation

Fanghua Lin, Juncheng Wei

We consider a superfluid described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation passing an obstacle \[ε^2 Δu+ u(1-|u|^2)=0 \ \mbox{in} \ {\mathbb R}^d \backslash Ω, \ \ \frac{\partial u}{\p…

math.AP2011

Convergence Rates in L^2 for Elliptic Homogenization Problems

Carlos E. Kenig, Fanghua Lin, Zhongwei Shen

We study rates of convergence of solutions in L^2 and H^{1/2} for a family of elliptic systems {L_ε} with rapidly oscillating oscillating coefficients in Lipschitz domains with Di…

math.AP2021

Two dimensional liquid crystal droplet problem with tangential boundary condition

Zhiyuan Geng, Fanghua Lin

This paper studies a shape optimization problem which reduces to a nonlocal free boundary problem involving perimeter. It is motivated by a study of liquid crystal droplets with a…

math.SP2025

Improved Berezin-Li-Yau inequality and Kröger inequality and consequences

Zaihui Gan, Renjin Jiang, Fanghua Lin

We provide quantitative improvements to the Berezin-Li-Yau inequality and the Kröger inequality, in , . The improvement on Kröger's inequality resolves an o…

math.DG2018

Riesz transform under perturbations via heat kernel regularity

Renjin Jiang, Fanghua Lin

Let be a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold. In this paper, we derive sufficient conditions on metric perturbation for stability of -boundedness of the Riesz transfo…

math.AP2012

Estimates of Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions in Periodic Homogenization

Carlos E. Kenig, Fanghua Lin, Zhongwei Shen

For a family of elliptic operators with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients, we study the convergence rates for Dirichlet eigenvalues and bounds of the normal derivatives of…

math.AP2022

Uniform Boundary Controllability and Homogenization of Wave Equations

Fanghua Lin, Zhongwei Shen

We obtain sharp convergence rates, using Dirichlet correctors, for solutions of wave equations in a bounded domain with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients. The results are u…

math.AP2020

Upper bounds of nodal sets for eigenfunctions of eigenvalue problems

Fanghua Lin, Jiuyi Zhu

The aim of this article is to provide a simple and unified way to obtain the sharp upper bounds of nodal sets of eigenfunctions for different types of eigenvalue problems on real a…

math.AP2022

Boundary Harnack Principle on Nodal Domains

Fanghua Lin, Zhengjiang Lin

We study some geometric and potential theoretic properties of nodal domains of solutions to certain uniformly elliptic equations. In particular, we establish corkscrew conditions,…

math.AP2024

Riesz transform on exterior Lipschitz domains and applications

Renjin Jiang, Fanghua Lin

Let be a uniformly elliptic operator on , . Let be an exterior Lipschitz domain, and let and ${\math…

math.AP2014

Global existence of weak solutions of the nematic liquid crystal flow in dimensions three

Fanghua Lin, Changyou Wang

For any bounded smooth domain , we establish the global existence of a weak solution of the initial-bo…

math.AP2016

On the Cauchy problem for two dimensional incompressible viscoelastic flows

Xianpeng Hu, Fanghua Lin

We study the large-data Cauchy problem for two dimensional Oldroyd model of incompressible viscoelastic fluids. We prove the global-in-time existence of the Leray-Hopf type weak so…

math.AP2014

Global Small Solutions to a Complex Fluid Model in 3D

Fanghua Lin, Ting Zhang

In this paper, we provide a much simplified proof of the main result in [Lin and Zhang, Comm. Pure Appl. Math.,67(2014), 531--580] concerning the global existence and uniqueness of…

math.AP2014

Nodal Sets of Steklov Eigenfunctions

Katarina Bellova, Fanghua Lin

We study the nodal set of the Steklov eigenfunctions on the boundary of a smooth bounded domain in - the eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Under the as…

math.AP2018

On ancient solutions of the heat equation

Fanghua Lin, Qi S. Zhang

An explicit representation formula for all positive ancient solutions of the heat equation in the Euclidean case is found. In the Riemannian case with nonnegative Ricci curvature,…

math.AP2016

On the Two-Dimensional Muskat Problem with Monotone Large Initial Data

Fan Deng, Zhen Lei, Fanghua Lin

We consider the evolution of two incompressible, immiscible fluids with different densities in porous media, known as the Muskat problem [21], which in two dimensions is analogous…

math.AP2013

Global solutions of two dimensional incompressible viscoelastic flows with discontinuous initial data

Xianpeng Hu, Fanghua Lin

The global existence of weak solutions of the incompressible viscoelastic flows in two spatial dimensions has been a long standing open problem, and it is studied in this paper. We…

math.AP2022

Critical Sets of Elliptic Equations with Rapidly Oscillating Coefficients in Two Dimensions

Fanghua Lin, Zhongwei Shen

In this paper we continue the study of critical sets of solutions $u_\e$ of second-order elliptic equations in divergence form with rapidly oscillating and periodic coefficients. I…