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In this paper we study the existence of minimizers for $$ F(u) = \1/2\int_{\R^3} |\nabla u|^2 dx + 1/4\int_{\R^3}\int_{\R^3}\frac{| u(x) |^2| u(y) |^2}{| x-y |}dxdy-\frac{1}{p}\int_{\R^3}| u |^p dx$$ on the constraint $$S(c) = \{u \in…

The existence of minimizers of the Canham--Helfrich functional in the setting of generalized Gauss graphs is proved. As a first step, the Canham--Helfrich functional, usually defined on regular surfaces, is extended to generalized Gauss…

We present an extension of the classical De Giorgi class, and then we show that functions in this new class are locally bounded and locally H\"older continuous. Some applications are given. As a first application, we give a regularity…

Given the supremal functional $E_\infty(u,\Omega')=ess\,\sup_{\Omega'} H(\cdot,D u)$ defined on $W^{1,\infty}_{loc}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^N)$, $\Omega' \Subset \Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, we identify a class of vectorial rank-one Absolute…

In this paper, we study the near-boundary behavior of functions $u\in\mathcal{F}(\Omega)$ in the case where $\Omega$ is strictly pseudoconvex. We also introduce a sufficient condition for belonging to $\mathcal{F}$ in the case where…

In this paper we use the dynamical methods to establish the existence of nontrivial solution for a class of nonlocal problem of the type $$ \left\{\begin{array}{l} -a\left(x,\int_{\Omega}g(u)\,dx \right)\Delta u =f(u), \quad x \in \Omega \\…

We study existence of minimizers of the least gradient problem \[\inf_{v \in BV_g} \int_{\Omega}\varphi(x, Dv),\] where $BV_g=\{v \in BV(\Omega): \int_{\partial \Omega}gv=1\}$, $\varphi(x,p): \Omega\times \R^n \rightarrow \R$ is a convex,…

We study entire minimizers of the Allen-Cahn systems. The specific feature of our systems are potentials having a finite number of global minima, with sub-quadratic behaviour locally near their minima. The corresponding formal…

The Dirichlet problem $$ \begin{cases} \Delta_{\infty}u-|Du|^2=0 \quad \text{on $\Omega\subset \Rset ^n$} u|_{\partial \Omega}=g \end{cases} $$ might have many solutions, where $\Delta_{\infty}u=\sum_{1\leq i,j\leq…

We introduce an interesting method of proving separable reduction theorems - the method of elementary submodels. We are studying whether it is true that a set (function) has given property if and only if it has this property with respect to…

We study minimizers of non-autonomous energies with minimal growth and coercivity assumptions on the energy. We show that the minimizer is nevertheless the solution of the relevant Euler--Lagrange equation or inequality. The main tool is an…

The ancient Gamow liquid drop model of nuclear energies has had a renewed life as an interesting problem in the calculus of variations: Find a set $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^3$ with given volume A that minimizes the sum of its surface area…

Given a complete doubling metric measure space $X$ that supports a $2$-Poincar\'e inequality, we approximate harmonic functions on a bounded domain $\Omega$ with a prescribed Newton-Sobolev boundary data. Our approach is based on the…

We present a new elementary proof of the existence of the least and the greatest solutions to initial value problems in the conditions of Peano's existence theorem. Our proof is based on a modification of Perron's method which allows us to…

Let $\textbf{A}$ be a symmetric convex quadratic form on $\mathbb{R}^{Nn}$ and $\Omega\Subset \mathbb{R}^n$ a bounded convex domain. We consider the problem of existence of solutions $u: \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n \longrightarrow…

Given any $n \geq 2$, we show that if $\Omega \subsetneq \mathbb{R}^n$ is an open convex domain (e.g. a half-space), and $u : \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ is a solution to the minimal surface equation which agrees with a linear function on…

In the general setting of a locally compact Abelian group $G$, the Delsarte extremal problem asks for the supremum of integrals over the collection of continuous positive definite functions $f: G \to \mathbb{R}$ satisfying $f(0) = 1$ and…

In this paper, we provide near-optimal accelerated first-order methods for minimizing a broad class of smooth nonconvex functions that are strictly unimodal on all lines through a minimizer. This function class, which we call the class of…

In this paper, we develop the theory of Perelman's $W$-functional on manifolds with isolated conical singularities. In particular, we show that the infimum of $W$-functional over a certain weighted Sobolev space on manifolds with isolated…

This paper proves the existence of viscosity solutions of path dependent semilinear PDEs via Perron's method, i.e. via showing that the supremum of viscosity subsolutions is a viscosity solution. We use the notion of viscosity solutions…