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The purpose of this paper is to study the weak solutions of the fractional elliptic problem \begin{equation}\label{000} \begin{array}{lll} (-\Delta)^\alpha u+\epsilon g(u)=k\frac{\partial^\alpha\nu}{\partial \vec{n}^\alpha}\quad &{\rm…

Let us consider the following robust nonconvex quadratic optimization problem: \begin{equation*} \begin{split} \min &~ \dfrac{1}{2} x^\top Ax+a^\top x \\ \text{s.t.}~ & \alpha\leq\dfrac{1}{2}x^\top (B_1+\mu B_2)x+(b_1+\delta b_2)^\top x…

In this paper, we prove the existence of weak solutions for the following nonlinear elliptic system {lll} -\Delta_{p(x)}u = a(x)|u|^{p(x)-2}u - b(x)|u|^{\alpha(x)}|v|^{\beta(x)} v + f(x) in \Omega, \Delta_{q(x)}v = c(x) |v|^{q(x)-2}v -…

We study binary optimization problems of the form \( \min_{x\in\{-1,1\}^n} f(Ax-b) \) with possibly nonsmooth loss \(f\). Following the lifted rank-one semidefinite programming (SDP) approach\cite{qian2023matrix}, we develop a…

We examine a multidimensional optimisation problem in the tropical mathematics setting. The problem involves the minimisation of a nonlinear function defined on a finite-dimensional semimodule over an idempotent semifield subject to linear…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ be a bounded domain and $\delta(x)$ be the distance of a point $x\in \Omega$ to the boundary. We study the positive solutions of the problem $\Delta u +\frac{\mu}{\delta(x)^2}u=u^p$ in $\Omega$, where $p>0,…

In an attempt to speed up the solution of the unit commitment (UC) problem, both machine-learning and optimization-based methods have been proposed to lighten the full UC formulation by removing as many superfluous line-flow constraints as…

This paper deals with an extension of the hub line location problem considering demand elasticity with respect to travel times. The proposed model aims to capture the impact the hub network topology has on demand. The objective is to…

Let $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\geq 3$) be a $C^2$ bounded domain and $\Sigma \subset \partial\Omega$ be a $C^2$ compact submanifold without boundary, of dimension $k$, $0\leq k \leq N-1$. We assume that $\Sigma = \{0\}$ if $k = 0$ and…

We study the nonlinear elliptic problem $-\Delta u=\rho (x)f(u)$ in $\RR^N$ ($N\geq 3$), $\lim\_{|x|\ri\infty}u(x)=\ell$, where $\ell\geq 0$ is a real number, $\rho(x)$ is a nonnegative potential belonging to a certain Kato class, and…

We are concerned with singular elliptic problems of the form $-\Delta u\pm p(d(x))g(u)=\la f(x,u)+\mu |\nabla u|^a$ in $\Omega,$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in $\RR^N$, $d(x)={\rm dist}(x,\partial\Omega),$ $\la>0,$…

We study the problem of optimizing nonlinear objective functions over bipartite matchings. While the problem is generally intractable, we provide several efficient algorithms for it, including a deterministic algorithm for maximizing convex…

In this work we study the existence of solutions to the following critical fractional problem with concave-convex nonlinearities, \begin{equation*} \left \{ \begin{array}{l} (-\Delta)^su=\lambda u^q+u^{2_s^*-1},\ u>0\quad\text{in…

A shape optimization problem arising from the optimal reinforcement of a membrane by means of one-dimensional stiffeners or from the fastest cooling of a two-dimensional object by means of ``conducting wires'' is considered. The criterion…

Here we study the nonnegative solutions of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi problem \[ \left\{\begin{array} [c]{c}% u_{t}-\nu\Delta u+|\nabla u|^{q}=0, u(0)=u_{0}, \end{array} \right. \] in $Q_{\Omega,T}=\Omega\times\left(0,T\right) ,$ where…

This paper is devoted to the study of the existence of positive solutions for a problem related to a higher order fractional differential equation involving a nonlinear term depending on a fractional differential operator,…

A multidimensional optimization problem is formulated in the tropical mathematics setting as to maximize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined through a multiplicative conjugate transposition operator on vectors in a…

In [4] we gave a variational definition of the nonlinear membrane energy under the constraint "det\nabla u\not=0". In this paper we obtain the nonlinear membrane energy under the more realistic constraint "det\nabla u>0".

In this survey we provide an overview of nonlinear elliptic homogeneous boundary value problems featuring singular zero-order terms with respect to the unknown variable whose prototype equation is $$ -\Delta u = {u^{-\gamma}} \ \text{in}\…