I will discuss the long time asymptotic of the solutions to the growthfragmentation equation, presenting several results and approaches. I will then focus on the spectral analysis and semigroup approach for which I will give some more details about the proof.

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

Growth-fragmentation equations can exhibit various asymptotic behaviours. In this talk we illustrate this diversity by working in suitable weighted L^p spaces which are associated to entropy functionals. We prove that, depending on the choice of the coefficients, the following behaviours can happen: uniform exponential convergence to the equilibrium, non-uniform convergence to the equilibrium, or convergence to periodic solutions. This is a joint work with Etienne Bernard and Marie Doumic.

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

The growth-fragmentation equation describes a system of growing and dividing particles, and arises in models of cell division, protein polymerisation and even telecommunications protocols. Several important questions about the equation concern the asymptotic behaviour of solutions at large times: at what rate do they converge to zero or infinity, and what does the asymptotic profile of the solutions look like? Does the rescaled solution converge to its asymptotic profile at an exponential speed? These questions have traditionally been studied using analytic techniques such as entropy methods or splitting of operators. In this work, we present a probabilistic approach to the study of this asymptotic behaviour. We use a Feynman–Kac formula to relate the solution of the growth-fragmentation equation to the semigroup of a Markov process, and characterise the rate of decay or growth in terms of this process. We then identify the spectral radius and the asymptotic profile in terms of a related Markov process, and give a spectral interpretation in terms of the growth-fragmentation operator and its dual. In special cases, we obtain exponential convergence.

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

We consider fragmentation equations with non-conservative solutions, some mass being lost to a dust of zero-mass particles as a consequence of an intensive splitting. Under assumptions of regular variation on the fragmentation rate, we describe the large time behavior of solutions. Our approach is based on probabilistic tools: the solutions to the fragmentation equations are constructed via non-increasing self-similar Markov processes that continuously reach 0 in finite time. We describe the asymptotic behavior of these processes conditioned on non-extinction and then deduced the asymptotics of solutions to the equation.

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

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• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

In the last years there has appeared several applications of relative entropy method for strong measure-valued uniqueness of solutions in physical models (see: e.g. incompressible Euler equation [1], polyconvex elastodynamics [2], compressible Euler equation [3], compressible Navier-Stokes equation [4]). The topic of the talk will be application of similar techniques to structured population models. Preliminary result in this direction was obtain in [5]. The talk is based on the joint result with Marie Doumic-Jauffret and Emil Wiedemann. [1] Y. Brenier, C. De Lellis, and L. Sz´ekelyhidi, Jr. Weak-strong uniqueness for measure-valued solutions. Comm. Math. Phys., 305(2):351--361, 2011. [2] S. Demoulini, D.M.A. Stuart, and A.E. Tzavaras. Weak-strong uniqueness of dissipative measure-valued solutions for polyconvex elastodynamics. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 205(3):927--961, 2012. [3] P. Gwiazda, A. Œwierczewska-Gwiazda, and E. Wiedemann. Weak-strong uniqueness for measure-valued solutions of some compressible fluid models. Nonlinearity, 28(11):3873--3890, 2015. [4] E. Feireisl, P. Gwiazda, A. Œwierczewska-Gwiazda and E. Wiedemann Dissipative measure-valued solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes system, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 55 (2016), no. 6, 55--141 [5] P. Gwiazda, E. Wiedemann, Generalized Entropy Method for the Renewal Equation with Measure Data, to appear in Commun. Math. Sci., arXiv:1604.07657

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

The question whether the long-time behaviour of solutions to Smoluchowski's coagulation equation is characterized by self-similar solutions has received a lot of interest within the last two decades. While this issue is by now well-understood for the three solvable cases, the theory for non-solvable kernels is much less developed. For kernels with homogeneity smaller than one existence results for self-similar solutions and some partial uniqueness results are available. In this talk I will report on some recent results on the borderline case of kernels with homogeneity of degree one. For so-called class II kernels we can prove the existence of a family of self-similar solutions. For class I, or diagonally dominant, kernels, it is known that self-similar solutions cannot exist. Formal arguments suggest that the long-time behaviour of solutions is, in suitable variables, to leading order the same as for the Burgers equation. However, in contrast to diffusive regularizations, we obtain phenomena such as instability of the constant solution or oscillatory traveling waves. (Joint work with Marco Bonacini, Michael Herrmann and Juan Velazquez)

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

When the coagulation kernel and the overall fragmentation rate are homogeneous of degree ë and ã > 0, respectively, there is a critical value ëc := ã + 1 which separates two different behaviours: all solutions are expected to be mass-conserving when ë < ëc while gelation is expected to take place when ë > ëc, provided the mass of the initial condition is large enough. The focus of this talk is the case ë = ëc for which we establish the existence of mass-conserving self-similar solutions. This is partly a joint work with Henry van Roessel (Edmonton).

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

In the talk we shall describe how the substochastic semigroup theory can be used to prove analyticity of a class of fragmentation semigroup. This result is applied to discrete fragmentation processes with growth to analyze their long time behaviour and to prove the existence of classical solutions to equations describing such processes combined with coagulation.

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

In this talk, we present two types of linked partial differential equation models that describe the evolution of an interacting neural network and where neurons interact with one another through their common statistical distribution. We will show, according to the choice of EDP studied, what information can be obtained in terms of synchronization phenomena, qualitative and asymptotic properties of these solutions and what are the specific difficulties on each of these models.

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

We will present some recent results on the long behaviour of the Becker-Döring equations, mainly involving subcritical solutions: speed of convergence to equilibrium (sometimes exponential, sometimes algebraic) and some new uniform bounds on moments. We will also comment on a continuous model that serves as an analogy of the discrete equations, that seems to exhibit a similar long-time behaviour. This talk is based on collaborations with J. Conlon, A. Einav, B. Lods and A. Schlichting.

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)

We consider results on discrete and continuous coagulation and coagulation-fragmentation models. For discrete models, we shall present some recent regularity results concerning smoothness of moments and absence of gelation. For the continuous Smoluchowski equation with constant rates, we shall prove exponential, resp. superlinear convergence to equlibrium. This are joint works with M. Breden, J.A. Canizo, J.A. Carrillo and L. Desvillettes.

• Thematic program: Models in Biology and Medicine (2016/2017)
• Event: Workshop on: "Coagulation and Fragmentation Equations" (2017)