陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Simons Lecture III: Structure and randomness in PDE」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

[This lecture is also doubling as this week’s “open problem of the week”, as it (eventually) discusses the soliton resolution conjecture .]

In this third lecture, I will talk about how the dichotomy between structure and randomness pervades the study of two different types of partial differential equations (PDEs):

已知结果和反例

(In physics, one would also insert some physical constants, such as Planck’s constant , but for the discussion here it is convenient to normalise away all of these constants.)

Observe that the form of the heat equation and Schrödinger equation differ only by a constant factor of i (in close analogy with Wick rotation ). This makes the algebraic structure of the heat and Schrödinger equations very similar (for instance, their fundamental solutions also only differ by a couple factors of i), but the analytic behaviour of the two equations turns out to be very different. For instance, in the category of Schwartz functions , the heat equation can be co

证明或构造的主线

Let us now discuss parabolic PDE in more detail. We begin with a simple example, namely how the heat equation can be used to solve the Dirichlet problem, of constructing a harmonic function in a nice domain with some prescribed boundary data. As this is only an informal discussion I will not write down the precise regularity and boundedness hypotheses needed on the domain or data. The harmonic function will play the role here of the “structured” or “geometric” object. From ca

There are many other settings in geometric topology in which one wants to locate a geometrically structured object (e.g. a harmonic map, a constant-curvature manifold, a minimal surface, etc.) within a certain class (e.g. a homotopy class) by minimising an energy-like functional. In some cases one can achieve this by brute force, creating a minimising sequence and then extracting a limiting object by some sort of compactness argument (as is for instance done in the Sacks-Uhle

阅读时建议盯住的点

The most famous recent example of the use of parabolic flows to establish geometric structure from topological objects is, of course, Perelman’s use of the Ricci flow applied to compact 3-manifolds with arbitrary Riemannian metrics, in order to establish the Poincaré conjecture (for the special case of simply connected manifolds) and more generally the geometrisation conjecture (for arbitrary manifolds). [As I understand it, there are some minor but non-trivial technical issu

Let us now leave parabolic PDE and geometric topology and now discuss Hamiltonian PDE, specifically those of Schrödinger type . (Other classes of Hamiltonian PDE, such as wave or Airy type equations, also exhibit similar features, but 下面会 restrict attention to Schrödinger for sake of concreteness.) These equations formally resemble Hamiltonian ODE, which can be viewed as finite-dimensional measure-preserving dynamical systems with a continuous time parameter . However, this r

值得单独记下的条目

• Parabolic PDE , such as the heat equation , which turn out to play an important role in the modern study of geometric topology ; and
• (Global existence) Under what conditions do smooth solutions u to NLS exist globally in time?
• (Asymptotic behaviour, global existence case) If there is global existence, what is the limiting behaviour of u(t) in the limit as t goes to infinity?
• (Asymptotic behaviour, blowup case) If global existence fails, what is the limiting behaviour of u(t) in the limit as t approaches the maximal time of existence?
• If n = 1, then one has global smooth solutions for arbitrarily large data and any choice of sign.

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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