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This paper is concerned with the existence and uniqueness of positive solution for the fourth order Kirchhoff type problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll} u''''(x)-(a+b\int_0^1(u'(x))^2dx)u''(x)=\lambda f(u(x)),\ \ \ \ x\in(0,1),\\…

We investigate the following fractional $p$-Laplacian equation \[ \begin{cases} \begin{aligned} (-\Delta)_p^s u&=\lambda |u|^{q-2}u+|u|^{p_s^*-2}u &&\text{in}~\Omega,\\ u &=0 &&\text{in}~ \mathbb{R}^n\setminus\Omega, \end{aligned}…

We establish a new $W^{1,2\frac{n-1}{n-2}}$ estimate for the extremal solution of $-\Delta u=\lambda f(u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, which is convex, for arbitrary positive and increasing nonlinearities $f\in…

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 study the optimization of Steklov eigenvalues with respect to a boundary density function $\rho$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$. We investigate the minimization and maximization of $\lambda_k(\rho)$, the…

In this article, the problems to be studied are the following \leqnomode \begin{equation*} \label{p} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta )_p^s u \pm \dfrac{|u|^{p-2}u}{|x|^{sp}} = \lambda f(x,u) & \quad \mbox{in }\ \Omega\\[0.3cm] u= 0 &…

We consider the problem of estimating the possibly non-convex cost of an agent by observing its interactions with a nonlinear, non-stationary and stochastic environment. For this inverse problem, we give a result that allows to estimate the…

In this paper, we establish the uniqueness of positive solutions to the following fractional nonlinear elliptic equation with harmonic potential \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^s u+ \left(\omega+|x|^2\right) u=|u|^{p-2}u \quad \mbox{in}\,\, \R^n,…

We construct positive singular solutions for the problem $-\Delta u=\lambda \exp (e^u)$ in $B_1\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 3$), $u=0$ on $\partial B_1$, having a prescribed behaviour around the origin. Our study extends the one in Y.…

In optimal control problems defined on stratified domains, the dynamics and the running cost may have discontinuities on a finite union of submanifolds of RN. In [8, 5], the corresponding value function is characterized as the unique…

We study the additive eigenvalues on changing domains, along with the associated vanishing discount problems. We consider the convergence of the vanishing discount problem on changing domains for a general scaling type $\Omega_\lambda =…

We consider the positive solutions of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem $-\Delta_{\mathbb{H}^n} u = \lambda u + u^p, $ with $p=\frac{n+2}{n-2}$ and $u \in H_0^1(\Omega),$ where $\Omega$ is a geodesic ball of radius $\theta_1$ on…

In this paper we deal with the composite plate problem, namely the following optimization eigenvalue problem $$ \inf_{\rho \in \mathrm{P}} \inf_{u \in \mathcal{W}\setminus\{0\}} \frac{\int_{\Omega}(\Delta u)^2}{\int_{\Omega} \rho u^2}, $$…

Here is the simplest particular case of our main result: let $f:{\bf R}\to {\bf R}$ be a function of class $C^1$, with $\sup_{\bf R}f'>0$, such that $$\lim_{|\xi|\to +\infty}{{f(\xi)}\over {\xi}}=0\ .$$ Then, for each $\lambda>{{\pi^2}\over…

There are numerous studies focusing on the convergence of the principal eigenvalue $\lambda(s)$ as $s\to+\infty$ corresponding to the elliptic eigenvalue problem \begin{align*}…

We consider an optimization problem related to elliptic PDEs of the form $-{\rm div}(a(x)\nabla u)=f$ with Dirichlet boundary condition on a given domain $\Omega$. The coefficient $a(x)$ has to be determined, in a suitable given class of…

We consider the nonlinear eigenvalue problem $ L u = \lambda f(u) $, posed in a smooth bounded domain $ \Omega \subseteq \Bbb{R}^{N} $ with Dirichlet boundary condition, where $ L $ is a uniformly elliptic second-order linear differential…

This paper deals with the generalized ergodic problem \[ H(x,u(x),Du(x))=c, \quad x\in M, \] where the unknown is a pair $(c,u)$ of a constant $c \in \mathbb{R}$ and a function $u$ on $M$ for which $u$ is a viscosity solution. We assume…

We study the following boundary value problem with a concave-convex nonlinearity: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{r c l l} -\Delta_p u & = & \Lambda\,u^{q-1}+ u^{r-1} & \textrm{in }\Omega, \\ u & = & 0 & \textrm{on }\partial\Omega.…

We consider the optimal control of a PDE with random source term subject to probabilistic or almost sure state constraints. In the main theoretical result, we provide an exact formula for the Clarke subdifferential of the probability…