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We prove a lower bound on the eigenvalues $\lambda_k$, $k\in\mathbb{N}$, of the Dirichlet Laplacian of a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ of volume $V$: $$ \lambda_k \geq C_n\bigg( \delta\frac{k}{V}\bigg)^{2/n} $$ where $\delta$…

For $\alpha \in (1,2)$ we consider the equation $\partial_t u = \Delta^{\alpha/2} u - r b \cdot \nabla u$, where $b$ is a divergence free singular vector field not necessarily belonging to the Kato class. We show that for sufficiently small…

We consider a space of $L^2$ vector fields with bounded mean oscillation whose ``normal'' component to the boundary is well-controlled. In the case when the dimension $n \geq 3$, we establish its Helmholtz decomposition for arbitrary…

We use the theory of selfdual Lagrangians to give a variational approach to the homogenization of equations in divergence form, that are driven by a periodic family of maximal monotone vector fields. The approach has the advantage of using…

This article aims to investigate the existence of bounded positive solutions of problem \[ (P)\qquad \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} - {\rm div} (a(x,u,\nabla u)) + A_t(x,u,\nabla u) = g(x,u) &\hbox{in $\Omega$,}\\ u\ = \ 0 & \hbox{on…

We say that a PDE in a Riemannian manifold $M$ is geometric if,$\ $whenever $u$ is a solution of the PDE on a domain $\Omega$ of $M$, the composition $u_{\phi}:=u\circ\phi$ is also solution on $\phi^{-1}\left( \Omega\right) $, for any…

In this paper we deal with a non-linear parabolic problem which involving a convection term with super--linear growth, whose model is \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\div(\mathcal{M}(x,t)\nabla u)= -\div(u\log (e+|u|)E(x,t))+f(x,t), \]…

We deal with existence, uniqueness, and regularity for solutions of the boundary value problem $$ \begin{cases} {\mathcal L}^s u = \mu &\quad \text{in $\Omega$}, u(x)=0 \quad &\text{on} \ \ \mathbb{R}^N\backslash\Omega, \end{cases} $$ where…

In this paper, we consider the following problem involving fractional Laplacian operator: \begin{equation}\label{eq:0.1} (-\Delta)^{\alpha} u= |u|^{2^*_\alpha-2-\varepsilon}u + \lambda u\,\, {\rm in}\,\, \Omega,\quad u=0 \,\, {\rm on}\, \,…

For a Hamiltonian $H \in C^2(\mathbb{R}^{N \times n})$ and a map $u:\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n /!\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^N$, we consider the supremal functional \[ \label{1} \tag{1} E_\infty (u,\Omega) \ :=\…

This paper is concerned with the magnetic Laplacian $P^h (\A)=(h D+\A)^2$ in semiclassical analysis, where $h$ is a semiclassical parameter. We study the $L^2$ Neumann and Dirichlet problems for the equation $P^h(\A)u=0$ in a bounded…

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We investigate nodal radial solutions to semilinear problems of type \[\begin{cases}-\Delta u = f(|x|,u) \qquad & \text{ in } \Omega, \newline u= 0 & \text{ on } \partial \Omega, \end{cases} \] where $\Omega$ is a bounded radially symmetric…

In this paper we prove a reverse Faber-Krahn inequality for the principal eigenvalue $\mu_1(\Omega)$ of the fully nonlinear eigenvalue problem \[ \label{eq} \left\{\begin{array}{r c l l} -\lambda_N(D^2 u) & = & \mu u & \text{in }\Omega, \\…

In this article, we show the existence of a nonnegative solution to the singular problem $(\mc P_\la)$ posed in a bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mb R^2$ (see below). We achieve this by approximating the singular function $u^{-\beta}\log(u)$…

We prove a Fatou-type theorem and its converse for certain positive eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator $\mathcal{L}$ on a Harmonic $NA$ group. We show that a positive eigenfunction $u$ of $\mathcal{L}$ with eigenvalue…

Let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ be an open set, where $n \geq 2$. Suppose $\omega $ is a locally finite Borel measure on $\Omega$. For $\alpha \in (0,2)$, define the fractional Laplacian $(-\triangle )^{\alpha/2}$ via the Fourier…

Let $F$ be a number field and $\pi$ an irreducible cuspidal representation of $\mathrm{GL}_{2}(F)\backslash\mathrm{GL}_{2}(\mathbf{A})$ with unitary central character. Then the bound…

The purpose of this paper is to explore, in a space of four-dimensions, the possible forms that second-order, bi-scalar-vector-tensor field equations derivable from a variational principle can assume. In order to restrict this enormous…

We study the $\nabla \phi$ model with uniformly convex Hamiltonian $\mathcal{H} (\phi) := \sum V(\nabla \phi)$ and prove a quantitative rate of convergence for the finite-volume surface tension as well as a quantitative rate estimate for…