Research interests
Partial differential equations of elliptic and parabolic types
Geometric measure theory and its applications
Calculus of variations
Allen-Cahn equation and Cahn-Hillard equation
Minimal surface and mean curvature flow
Lectures on Video
Fourier Institute (Grenoble, France), Summer school on geometric measure theory and calculus of variations (6/15-18/2015, 8 hour mini course) Link
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy), International school on Extrinsic curvature flows (6/4-15/2018, 6 hour mini course) Link
Hausdorff Research Instituite (Bonn, Germany), Winter school on Interfaces in Geometry and Fluids(1/7-11/2019, 6 hour mini course) Link
Edited books
Variational Methods for Evolving Objects, Edited by L. Ambrosio, Y. Giga, P. Rybka, Y. Tonegawa, Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, Vol. 67, (2015) 298pp
Publications
Pluda, Alessandra, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Coarsening phenomena in the network flow, preprint, PDF
Stuvard, Salvatore, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, End-time regularity theorem for Brakke flows, online first, Mathematische Annalen, Open access
Stuvard, Salvatore, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, On the existence of canonical multi-phase Brakke flows, Advances in Calculus of Variations 17, no. 1, (2024) 33-78 Open access
Mori, Ryunosuke, Tomimatsu, Eita, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Brakke's formulation of velocity and the second order regularity property, Indiana University Math. J. 72, no. 5, (2023) 1909-1930 arXiv:2109.06380
Stuvard, Salvatore, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Dynamical instability of minimal surfaces at flat singular points, to appear in Journal of Differential Geometry, arXiv:2008.13728
Stuvard, Salvatore, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, An existence theorem for Brakke flow with fixed boundary conditions, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 60, no. 1, 43 (2021) 53pp Open access
Kim, Lami, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Existence and regularity theorems of one-dimensional Brakke flows, Interfaces and Free Boundaries 22, (2020), 505-550 arXiv:2004.09763
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Tsukamoto, Yuki, A diffused interface with the advection term in a Sobolev space, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 59, no. 6, 184 (2020) 23pp Open access
Tonegwa, Yoshihiro, Brakke's Mean Curvature Flow: An Introduction, Springer Briefs in Mathematics, Springer, 2019 Short introductory book on Brakke flow
Kagaya, Takashi, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, A singular perturbation limit of diffused interface energy with a fixed contact angle condition, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 67No. 4 (2018), 1425–1437arXiv:1609.00191
Kagaya, Takashi, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, A fixed contact angle condition for varifolds, Hiroshima Math. J. 47, (2017) no. 2, 139-153 open access
Kim, Lami, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, On the mean curvature flow of grain boundaries,Annales de l'Institut Fourier (Grenoble) 67, (2017) no. 1, 43-142 open access
Riku Takahashi, Yumihiko Ikura, Daniel Rudolf King, Takayuki Nonoyama, Tasuku Nakajima, Takayuki Kurokawa, Hirotoshi Kuroda, Yoshihiro Tonegawa and Jian Ping Gong, Coupled instabilities of surface crease and bulk bending during fast free swelling of hydrogel, Soft Matter (2016) 12, 5081-5088 open access
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Wickramasekera, Neshan, The blow up method for Brakke flows: networks near triple junctions, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 221, (2016) no. 3, 1161-1222 arXiv:1504.01212
Takasao, Keisuke, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Existence and regularity of mean curvature flow with transport term in higher dimensions, Mathematische Annalen 364, (2016) no. 3-4, 857-935 arXiv:1307.6629
Mizuno, Masashi, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Convergence of the Allen-Cahn equation with Neumann boundary conditions, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 47, (2015) no. 3, 1906-1932 arXiv:1403.5624
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, A second derivative Hoelder estimate for weak mean curvature flow, Advances in Calculus of Variations 7, (2014) no. 1, 91-138 arXiv:1204.4571
Kasai, Kota, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, A general regularity theory for weak mean curvature flow, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 50, (2014) no. 1, 1-68 arXiv:1111.0824
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Introduction to varifold and its curvature flow, Emerging topics on differential equations and their applications, 213–226, Nankai Ser. Pure Appl. Math. Theoret. Phys., 10, World Sci. Publ., Hackensack, NJ, 2013
Liu, Chun, Sato, Norifumi, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Two-phase flow problem coupled with mean curvature flow, Interfaces and Free Boundaries 14, (2012) no. 2, 185-203 arXiv:1102.4054
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Wickramasekera, Neshan, Stable phase interfaces in the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory, Journal fur reine und angewandte Mathematik668 (2012), 191-210 arXiv:1007.2060
Liu, Chun, Sato, Norifumi, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, On the existence of mean curvature flow with transport term, Interfaces and Free Boundaries 12, (2010), no. 2, 251-277
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Applications of geometric measure theory to two-phase separation problems [translation of Sugaku 57 (2005), no. 2, 178-196] Sugaku Expositions 21 (2008), no. 1, 97-115
Hong, Ming-Chun, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Yassin, Alzubaidi, Partial regularity of weak solutions to Maxwell's equation in quasi-static electromagnetic field, Methods and Applications of Analysis 15, (2008) no. 2, 205-222
Roeger, Matthias, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Convergence of phase-field approximations to the Gibbs-Thomson law, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 32, (2008) no. 1, 111-136 Open access
Westdickenberg (Reznikoff), Maria, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Higher multiplicities in the one-dimensional Allen-Cahn action functional, Indiana University Math. Journal 56, (2007) no 6, 2935-2989
Nagase, Yuko, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, A singular perturbation problem with integral curvature bound, Hiroshima Math. J. 37 (2007),no. 3, 455-489 Open access
Giga, Yoshikazu, Kubo, Motohiko, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Magnetic clusters and fold energies, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 137 (2007), no. 1, 23-40
Kohn, Robert, Reznikoff, Maria, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Sharp-interface limit of the action functional for Allen Cahn in one space dimension, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 25, (2006) no. 4 503-534
Nagase, Yuko, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Interior gradient estimate for 1-D anisotropic curvature flow, Boletim da Sociedade Paranaense de Matematica 23 no. 1-2, 93-98 (2005)
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Umeda, Noriaki, Hayakawa, Tohru, Ishibashi, Teruo, Evaluation of data in terms of two-dimensional random walk model: Interaction between NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase and cytochrome b5, Biomedical Research 26 (5) 207--212 (2005)
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, A diffused interface whose chemical potential lies in Sobolev spaces, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) 4 (2005) 487-510
Chen, Yunmei, Rao, M., Tonegawa, Y., Wunderli, T., Partial regularity for a selective smoothing functional for image restoration in BV space, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 37, (2005), no. 4, 1098 - 1116
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, On stable critical points for a singular perturbation problem,Comm. Analysis and Geometry 13, (2005), no. 2, 439--459
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Integrality of varifolds in the singular limit of reaction-diffusion equations, Hiroshima Math. J., 33 (2003), no. 3, 323--341 free access
Harris, Adam, Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, A $\bar{\partial}\partial$-Poincare lemma for forms near an isolated complex singularity, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc 131 (2003), 3329--3334
Tonegawa Yoshihiro, Domain dependent monotonicity formula for a singular perturbation problem, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 52(2003), 69--84
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Phase field model with a variable chemical potential. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 132 (2002), no. 4, 993--1019
Harris, Adam; Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, $L\sp p$-curvature and the Cauchy-Riemann equation near an isolated singular point. Nagoya Math. J.164 (2001), 35--51
Flores, Gilberto; Padilla, Pablo; Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Higher energy solutions in the theory of phase transitions: a variational approach. Part 3 (Atlanta, GA/Lisbon, 1998). J. Differential Equations 169 (2001), no. 1, 190--207
Harris, Adam; Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Analytic continuation of vector bundles with $L\sp p$-curvature. Internat. J. Math. 11 (2000), no. 1, 29--40
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Some remarks on the level set flow by anisotropic curvature. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 10 (2000), no. 2, 101--118
Hutchinson, John E.; Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Convergence of phase interfaces in the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 10(2000), no. 1, 49--84
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, On the regularity of a chemical reaction interface. Comm. Partial Differential Equations 23 (1998), no. 7-8, 1181--1207
Padilla, Pablo; Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, On the convergence of stable phase transitions. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 51 (1998), no. 6, 551--579
Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Existence and regularity of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space. Math. Z. 221 (1996), no. 4, 591--615
Hardt, Robert; Tonegawa, Yoshihiro, Partial regularity for evolution problems with discontinuity. Manuscripta Math. 90 (1996), no. 1, 85--103
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