Justin Holmer

Brown Univ. Math. Dept.
Box 1917
151 Thayer Street
Providence, RI 02912 		Email:
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Phone: (401) 863-1123

I am a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Brown University.

Research Papers and Preprints

  • (with Zhiyuan Zhang and Panayotis G. Kevrekidis) On the ground state quantum droplet for large chemical potentials, preprint, arXiv:2401.00213.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) The derivation of the Boltzmann equation from quantum many-body dynamics, preprint, arXiv:2312.08239.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) Well/ill-posedness bifurcation for the Boltzmann equation with constant collision kernel, to appear in Annals of PDE, arXiv:2206.11931.
  • (with Zhiyuan Zhang) Benjamin-Ono soliton dynamics in a slowly varying potential revisited, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 54 (2022), no. 2, 2634–2690., arXiv:2106.02971.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) Quantitative derivation and scattering of the 3D cubic NLS in the energy space, Ann. PDE 8 (2022), no. 2, Paper No. 11, 39 pp., arXiv:2104.06086.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) The unconditional uniqueness for the energy-critical nonlinear Schroedinger equation on T^4, Forum Math. Pi 10 (2022), Paper No. e3, 49 pp. arXiv:2006.05915.
  • (with Luiz Gustavo Farah, Svetlana Roudenko, and Kai Yang) Asymptotic stability of solitary waves of the 3D quadratic Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation, Amer. J. Math. 145 (2023), no. 6, pp. 1695-1775. arXiv:2006.00193.
  • (with Riccardo Adami and Reika Fukuizumi) Scattering for the L2 supercritical point NLS, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 374 (2021), no. 1, 35–60. arXiv:1904.09066.
  • (with Luiz Gustavo Farah, Svetlana Roudenko, and Kai Yang) Blow-up in finite or infinite time of the 2D cubic Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation, preprint arXiv:1810.05121.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) The derivation of the energy-critical NLS from quantum many-body dynamics, Inventiones Mathematicae 217 (2019), no. 2, 433-547. arXiv:1803.08082.
  • (with Luiz Gustavo Farah and Svetlana Roudenko) Instability of solitons in the 2d cubic Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation, chapter in Fields Institute Communications 83 (Nonlinear Dispersive Partial Differential Equations and Inverse Scattering, editors: Miller, P.D., Perry, P., Saut, J.-C., Sulem, C., ISBN-13: 978-1493998050). arXiv:1711.05907.
  • (with Luiz Gustavo Farah and Svetlana Roudenko) Instability of solitons – revisited, II: The supercritical Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation, Nonlinear Dispersive Waves and Fluids, pp. 89–109, Contemp. Math., 725, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2019. arXiv:1711.03207.
  • (with Luiz Gustavo Farah and Svetlana Roudenko) Instability of solitons – revisited, I: The critical generalized KdV equation. Nonlinear Dispersive Waves and Fluids, pp. 65–88, Contemp. Math., 725, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2019. arXiv:1711.03187.
  • (with Chang Liu) Blow-up for the 1D nonlinear Schroedinger equation with point nonlinearity II: Supercritical blow-up profiles. Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. 20 (2021), no. 1, pp. 215--242. arXiv:1708.03375.
  • (with Chang Liu) Blow-up for the 1D nonlinear Schroedinger equation with point nonlinearity I: Basic theory, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Volume 483, Issue 1, 1 March 2020, 123522 pdf.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) The rigorous derivation of the 2D cubic focusing NLS from quantum many-body evolution, Int Math Res Notices, first published online June 30, 2016, doi:10.1093/imrn/rnw113, pdf.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) Correlation structures, many-body scattering processes and the derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy, Int Math Res Notices (2016) Vol. 2016, pp. 3051--3110, pdf.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) Focusing quantum many-body dynamics II: the rigorous derivation of the 1D focusing cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation from 3D, Analysis & PDE 10-3 (2017), pp. 589--633. pdf.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) Focusing quantum many-body dynamics: the rigorous derivation of the 1D focusing cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 221 (2016), no. 2, pp. 631--676, pdf.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) On the Klainerman-Machedon conjecture for quantum BBGKY hierarchy with self-interaction, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 18 (2016), no. 6, pp. 1161--1200, pdf.
  • (with Galina Perelman and Svetlana Roudenko) A solution to the focusing 3d NLS that blows up on a contracting sphere, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 367 (2015), no. 6, pp. 3847--3872. pdf.
  • (with Xuwen Chen) On the rigorous derivation of the 2D cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation from 3D quantum many-body dynamics, Archive for Rational Mechanics & Analysis 210 (2013) pp. 909--954, pdf.
  • (with M. Christ and D. Tataru) Low regularity a priori bounds for the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation, Libertas Mathematica 32 (2012), pp. 51--75, pdf.
  • (with Quanhui Lin) Phase-driven interaction of widely separated nonlinear Schroedinger solitons, Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations 9 (2012) no. 03, pp. 511--543, pdf.
  • (with Svetlana Roudenko) Blow-up solutions on a sphere for the 3d quintic NLS in the energy space, Analysis & PDE 5-3 (2012), pp. 475--512, pdf.
  • (with Svetlana Roudenko) A class of solutions to the 3d cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation that blow-up on a circle, AMRX Appl Math Res Express (2011) 2011 (1): 23-94, doi: 10.1093/amrx/abq016, pdf.
  • Dynamics of KdV solitons in the presence of a slowly varying potential, IMRN International Math. Res. Notices (2011) vol. 2011, no. 23, pp. 5367--5397, pdf.
  • (with Galina Perelman and Maciej Zworski, and an appendix by Bernd Sturmfels) Effective dynamics of double solitons for perturbed mKdV, Communications in Mathematical Physics 305 (2011) pp. 363--425, pdf.
    The numerical illustrations of the results and MATLAB codes can be found here.
  • (with Rodrigo Platte and Svetlana Roudenko) Blow-up criteria for the 3d cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation , Nonlinearity 23 (2010) pp. 977-1030. pdf
  • (with Svetlana Roudenko) Divergence of infinite-variance nonradial solutions to the 3d NLS equation , Commun. Partial Differential Equations 35 (2010) pp. 878--905. pdf
  • (with I. Bejenaru, S. Herr, and D. Tataru) On the 2d Zakharov system with L^2 Schroedinger data, Nonlinearity 22 (2009) pp. 1063--1089. pdf
  • (with Maciej Zworski) Breathing patterns in nonlinear relaxation, Nonlinearity 22 (2009) pp. 1259--1301. pdf
  • (with Maciej Zworski) Geometric structure of NLS evolution, unpublished. pdf
  • (with Nikos Tzirakis) Asymptotically linear solutions in H^1 of the 2-d defocusing nonlinear Schroedinger and Hartree equations, Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations 7 (2010) pp. 117-138. pdf
  • (with Kiril Datchev) Fast soliton scattering by attractive delta impurities, Commun. Partial Differential Equations 34 (2009) pp. 1074--1113 pdf
  • (with Thomas Duyckaerts and Svetlana Roudenko) Scattering for the non-radial 3d cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation, Math. Res. Lett. 15 (2008) pp. 1233--1250. pdf
  • (with Maciej Zworski) Soliton interaction with slowly varying potentials, IMRN Internat. Math. Res. Notices 2008 (2008), Art. ID runn026, 36 pp. pdf
  • (with Svetlana Roudenko) A sharp condition for scattering of the radial 3d cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation, Comm. Math. Phys. 282 (2008) pp. 435--467. pdf.
    We have an unpublished erratum that corrects an improper use of the Strichartz estimates in S 2.
  • (with Svetlana Roudenko) On blow-up solutions to the 3d cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation, AMRX Appl. Math. Res. Express 2007 (2007), Art. ID abm004, 29 pp. pdf
  • (with Maciej Zworski) Slow soliton interaction with delta impurities, J. Modern Dynamics 1 (2007), pp. 689--718. pdf.
  • (with J. Colliander, M. Visan, and X. Zhang) Global existence and scattering for rough solutions to generalized nonlinear Schroedinger equations on R, Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. 7 (2008), no. 3, pp. 467--489. pdf.
  • (with Jeremy Marzuola and Maciej Zworski) Soliton splitting by external delta potentials, J. Nonlinear Science 17 (2007), pp. 349-367. pdf.
    This is a numerical companion to our paper, Fast soliton scattering by delta impurities, posted below.
  • (with James Colliander and Nikolaos Tzirakis) Low regularity global well-posedness for the Zakharov and Klein-Gordon-Schroedinger systems, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), pp. 4619-4638. pdf.
  • Local ill-posedness of the 1d Zakharov system, Electron. J. Differential Equations, Vol. 2007(2007), No. 24, pp. 1-22. pdf
  • (with Jeremy Marzuola and Maciej Zworski) Fast soliton scattering by delta impurities, Comm. Math. Phys. 274 (2007), pp. 187-216. pdf
  • The initial-boundary value problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 31 (2006), pp. 1151-1190. pdf
  • The initial-boundary value problem for the 1d nonlinear Schroedinger equation on the half-line, Differential Integral Equations 18 (2005), pp. 647-668. pdf
  • Ph.D. Thesis, University of Chicago, 2004. Uniform estimates for the Zakharov system and the initial-boundary value problem for the Korteweg-de Vries and nonlinear Schroedinger equations. 210 pages. pdf. Ph.D. Thesis summary. 10 pages. pdf.

Expository

  • Lecture notes for the Park City Math Institute graduate summer school course "The Cauchy problem for the Quasilinear Schrodinger equation," delivered by Carlos Kenig, July 13-18, 2003. These notes are authored by Carlos Kenig. Revised June 2005, 125 pages. pdf.