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The main result establishes the existence of a solution in a generalized sense for a nonlinear Dirichlet problem driven by a competing operator and exhibiting a convection term composed with an intrinsic operator. A finite dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Aldo H. S. Medeiros , Dumitru Motreanu

We consider an elliptic operator in which the second-order term is very small in one direction. In this regime, we study the behaviour of the principal eigenfunction and of the principal eigenvalue. Our first result deals with the limit of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Nathanaël Boutillon

In this article, we study the asymptotics of Dirichlet eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ in bounded open Lipschitz sets in the small order limit $s \to 0^+$. While it is easy to see that all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Pierre Aime Feulefack , Sven Jarohs , Tobias Weth

We consider the elliptic differential operator defined as the sum of the minimum and the maximum eigenvalue of the Hessian matrix, which can be viewed as a degenerate elliptic Isaacs operator, in dimension larger than two. Despite of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Fausto Ferrari , Antonio Vitolo

We show that to each symmetric elliptic operator of the form \[ \mathcal{A} = - \sum \partial_k \, a_{kl} \, \partial_l + c \] on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ one can associate a self-adjoint Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-30 W. Arendt , A. F. M. ter Elst , J. B. Kennedy , M. Sauter

We study the generalized eigenvalue problem in $\mathbb{R}^N$ for a general convex nonlinear elliptic operator which is locally elliptic and positively $1$-homogeneous. Generalizing article of Berestycki and Rossi in [Comm. Pure Appl. Math.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Anup Biswas , Prasun Roychowdhury

We prove that the Neumann, Dirichlet and regularity problems for divergence form elliptic equations in the half space are well posed in $L_2$ for small complex $L_\infty$ perturbations of a coefficient matrix which is either real symmetric,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pascal Auscher , Andreas Axelsson , Steve Hofmann

The present paper pioneers the study of the Dirichlet problem with $L^q$ boundary data for second order operators with complex coefficients in domains with lower dimensional boundaries, e.g., in $\Omega := \mathbb R^n \setminus \mathbb R^d$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Joseph Feneuil , Svitlana Mayboroda , Zihui Zhao

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded connected open subset in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$. Suppose that we have a system of real smooth vector fields $X=(X_{1},X_{2},$ $\cdots,X_{m})$ defined on a neighborhood of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Hua Chen , Hongge Chen

For a family of elliptic operators with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients, we study the convergence rates for Dirichlet eigenvalues and bounds of the normal derivatives of Dirichlet eigenfunctions. The results rely on an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-26 Carlos E. Kenig , Fanghua Lin , Zhongwei Shen

We are interested in regularity properties of semi-stable solutions for a class of singular semilinear elliptic problems with advection term defined on a smooth bounded domain of a complete Riemannian manifold with zero Dirichlet boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-10 João Marcos do Ó , Rodrigo Clemente

For $2a$-order strongly elliptic operators $P$ generalizing $(-\Delta )^a$, $0<a<1$, the treatment of the homogeneous Dirichlet problem on a bounded open set $\Omega \subset R^n$ by pseudodifferential methods, has been extended in a recent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Gerd Grubb

We describe a highly efficient numerical scheme for finding two-sided bounds for the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplace operator (-Delta)^{alpha/2} in the unit ball D in R^d, with a Dirichlet condition in the complement of D. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Bartłomiej Dyda , Alexey Kuznetsov , Mateusz Kwaśnicki

We use the Foldy--Wouthuysen (unitary) transformation to give an alternative characterization of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for the Brown-Ravenhall operator (the projected Dirac operator) in the case of a one-electron atom. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Vittorio Coti Zelati , Margherita Nolasco

We consider the first Dirichlet eigenvalue problem for a mixed local/nonlocal elliptic operator and we establish a quantitative Faber-Krahn inequality. More precisely, we show that balls minimize the first eigenvalue among sets of given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Stefano Biagi , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Eugenio Vecchi

We consider a classical shape optimization problem for the eigenvalues of elliptic operators with homogeneous boundary conditions on domains in the $N$-dimensional Euclidean space. We survey recent results concerning the analytic dependence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Davide Buoso , Pier Domenico Lamberti

We compute estimates for eigenvalues of a class of linear second-order elliptic differential operators in divergence form (with Dirichlet boundary condition) on a bounded domain in a complete Riemannian manifold. Our estimates are based…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-16 José N. V. Gomes , Juliana F. R. Miranda

We establish Dahlberg's perturbation theorem for non-divergence form operators L = A\nabla^2. If L_0 and L_1 are two operators on a Lipschitz domain such that the L^p Dirichlet problem for the operator L_0 is solvable for some p in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-28 Martin Dindos , Treven Wall

This paper is concerned with the P1 finite element approximation of the eigenvalue problem of second-order elliptic operators subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition. The focus is on the preservation of basic properties of the principal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Weizhang Huang

We study the problem of minimizing the second Dirichlet eigenvalue for the Laplacian operator among sets of given perimeter. In two dimensions, we prove that the optimum exists, is convex, regular, and its boundary contains exactly two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Antoine Henrot