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Given a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$, we study the following anisotropic Neumann problem $$ \begin{cases} -\nabla(a(x)\nabla u)+a(x)u=\lambda a(x) u^{p-1}e^{u^p},\,\,\,\, u>0\,\,\,\,\, \textrm{in}\,\,\,\,\,…

We are interested in the following Dirichlet problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u + \lambda u - \mu \frac{u}{|x|^2} - \nu \frac{u}{\mathrm{dist}\,(x,\mathbb{R}^N \setminus \Omega)^2} = f(x,u) & \quad \mbox{in } \Omega \\ u = 0 &…

We consider the triharmonic operator subject to homogeneous boundary conditions of intermediate type on a bounded domain of the N-dimensional Euclidean space. We study its spectral behaviour when the boundary of the domain undergoes a…

We consider Anzellotti-type almost minimizers for the thin obstacle (or Signorini) problem with zero thin obstacle and establish their $C^{1,\beta}$ regularity on the either side of the thin manifold, the optimal growth away from the free…

In this paper, we are interested in the reiterated homogenization of linear elliptic equations of the form $-\frac{\partial}{\partial x_{i}} \left(a_{i j} \left(\frac{x}{\varepsilon}, \frac{x}{\varepsilon^{2}}\right) \frac{\partial…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ be a Lipschitz domain, and consider a harmonic map $v: \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{S}^2$ with boundary data $v|\partial\Omega = \varphi$ which minimises the Dirichlet energy. For $p\geq 2$, we show that any…

We investigate, on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\R^2$ with fixed $S^1$-valued boundary condition $g$ of degree $d>0$, the asymptotic behaviour of solutions $u_{\varepsilon,\delta}$ of a class of Ginzburg-Landau equations driven by two…

In this paper, we investigate the borderline regularity of local minimizers of energy functionals under minimal assumptions on the potential term $\sigma$. When $\sigma$ is merely bounded and measurable, we show that sign-changing…

We establish the higher fractional differentiability of bounded minimizers to a class of obstacle problems with non-standard growth conditions of the form \begin{gather*} \min \biggl\{ \displaystyle\int_{\Omega} F(x,Dw)dx \ : \ w \in…

Consider the linear parabolic operator in divergence form $$\mathcal{H} u =\partial_t u(X,t)-\text{div}(A(X)\nabla u(X,t)).$$ We employ a method of Dahlberg to show that the Dirichlet problem for $\mathcal{H}$ in the upper half plane is…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 2$, be an open bounded connected set. We consider the fractional weighted eigenvalue problem $(-\Delta)^s u =\lambda \rho u$ in $\Omega$ with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, where…

Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have been extensively studied in the literature. We initiate the corresponding study of higher critical points by considering a superlinear free boundary problem…

We consider the numerical solution of the fractional Laplacian of index $s\in(1/2,1)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with homogeneous boundary conditions. Its solution a priori belongs to the fractional order Sobolev space ${\widetilde…

The limit of energies of a sequence of harmonic maps as their annular domains approach the boundary of moduli space depends upon the boundary point approached. The infinite energy case is associated with limits of images containing ruled…

In this work, first we prove that for any compact set $K\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and any continuous function $\phi$ defined on $\partial K$, there exists a bounded weak solution in $C(\bar{\mathbb{R}^{n}\backslash K}) \cap…

We study the minimizing problem $\inf\left\{\displaystyle\int_{\Omega}p(x)|\nabla u|^{2}dx,\,u\in H^{1}_{0}(\Omega),\,\|u\|_{L^{\frac{2N}{N-2}}(\Omega)}=1\right\}$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain of $\R^{N}$, $N\geq 3$ and $p$ a…

The aim of this paper is to study the heterogeneous optimization problem \begin{align*} \mathcal {J}(u)=\int_{\Omega}(G(|\nabla u|)+qF(u^+)+hu+\lambda_{+}\chi_{\{u>0\}} )\text{d}x\rightarrow\text{min}, \end{align*} in the class of functions…

In this paper we initiate the study of maps minimising the energy $$ \int_{D} (|\nabla \u|^2+2|\u|)\ dx. $$ which, due to Lipschitz character of the integrand, gives rise to the singular Euler equations $$ \Delta…

It is establish regularity results for weak solutions of quasilinear elliptic problems driven by the well known $\Phi$-Laplacian operator given by \begin{equation*} \left\{\ \begin{array}{cl} \displaystyle-\Delta_\Phi u= g(x,u), &…

We consider a 2D smectics model \begin{equation*} E_{\epsilon }\left( u\right) =\frac{1}{2}\int_\Omega \frac{1}{\varepsilon }\left( u_{z}-\frac{1% }{2}u_{x}^{2}\right) ^{2}+\varepsilon \left( u_{xx}\right) ^{2}dx\,dz. \end{equation*} For…