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We address some fundamental questions concerning geometric analysis on Riemannian manifolds. It has been asked whether the $L^p$-Calder\'{o}n-Zygmund inequalities extend to a reasonable class of non-compact Riemannian manifolds without the…

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For a compact Riemannian surface $(M,g)$ with non-empty boundary $\Gamma$, the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator (DtN-map) $\Lambda_g:C^\infty(\Gamma)\to C^\infty(\Gamma)$ is defined by $\Lambda_gf=\left.\frac{\partial…

We derive a sharp, localized version of elliptic type gradient estimates for positive solutions (bounded or not) to the heat equation. These estimates are akin to the Cheng-Yau estimate for the Laplace equation and Hamilton's estimate for…

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We consider the eigenvalues of the magnetic Laplacian on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb R^2$ with uniform magnetic field $\beta>0$ and magnetic Neumann boundary conditions. We find upper and lower bounds for the ground state energy…

A non-homogeneous mixed local and nonlocal problem in divergence form is investigated for the validity of the global Calder\'on-Zygmund estimate for the weak solution to the Dirichlet problem of a nonlinear elliptic equation. We establish…

We study inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problems associated to a linear parabolic equation $\frac{du}{dt}=Au$ with strongly elliptic operator $A$ on bounded and unbounded domains with white noise boundary data. Our main assumption…

We derive a local Gaussian upper bound for the $f$-heat kernel on complete smooth metric measure space $(M,g,e^{-f}dv)$ with nonnegative Bakry-\'{E}mery Ricci curvature, which generalizes the classic Li-Yau estimate. As applications, we…

We consider uniformly elliptic operators with Dirichlet or Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions on a domain $\Omega $ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$. We consider deformations $\phi (\Omega)$ of $\Omega $ obtained by means of a locally Lipschitz…

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We prove several functional and geometric inequalities only assuming the linearity and a quantitative $\mathrm{L}^\infty$-to-Lipschitz smoothing of the heat semigroup in metric-measure spaces. Our results comprise a Buser inequality, a…

When $P$ is the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta )^a$, $0<a<1$, or a pseudodifferential generalization thereof, the Dirichlet problem for the associated heat equation over a smooth set $\Omega \subset{\Bbb R}^n$:…

The Hot Spots constant for bounded smooth domains was recently introduced by Steinerberger (2021) as a means to control the global extrema of the first nontrivial eigenfunction of the Neumann Laplacian by its boundary extrema. We generalize…

Let $(\Omega,g)$ be a piecewise-smooth, bounded convex domain in $\R^2$ and consider $L^2$-normalized Neumann eigenfunctions $\phi_{\lambda}$ with eigenvalue $\lambda^2$ and $u_{\lambda}:= \phi_{\lambda} |_{\partial \Omega}$ the associated…