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We provide a priori error estimates for variational approximations of the ground state eigenvalue and eigenvector of nonlinear elliptic eigenvalue problems of the form $-{div} (A\nabla u) + Vu + f(u^2) u = \lambda u$, $\|u\|_{L^2}=1$. We…
In this paper, we study the following energy functional originates from the Schr\"{o}dinger-Bopp-Podolsky system $$I(u)=\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}|\nabla u|^{2}dx+\frac{1}{4}\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}…
Let $\mathbb{A}$ and $\mathbb{A_{*}}$ be two non-degenerate spherical annuli in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ equipped with the Euclidean metric and the weighted metric $|y|^{1-n}$, respectively. Let $\mathcal{F}(\mathbb{A},\mathbb{A_{*}})$ denote the…
We propose a numerical method for convection-diffusion problems under low regularity assumptions. We derive the method and analyze it using the primal-dual weak Galerkin (PDWG) finite element framework. The Euler-Lagrange formulation…
In the first part of this contribution we prove the global existence and uniqueness of a trajectory that globally converges to the minimizer of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional for a large class of external potentials. Using the…
Critical points of energy functionals, which are of broad interest, for instance, in physics and chemistry, in solid and quantum mechanics, in material science, or in general diffusion-reaction models arise as solutions to the associated…
We provide a general treatment of perturbations of a class of functionals modeled on convolution energies with integrable kernel which approximate the $p$-th norm of the gradient as the kernel is scaled by letting a small parameter…
The energy shaping method, Controlled Lagrangian, is a well-known approach to stabilize the under-actuated Euler Lagrange (EL) systems. In this approach, to construct a control rule, some nonlinear, nonhomogeneous partial differential…
In this paper we study classification of homogeneous solutions to the stationary Euler equation with locally finite energy. Written in the form $u = \nabla^\perp \Psi$, $\Psi(r,\theta) = r^{\lambda} \psi(\theta)$, for $\lambda >0$, we show…
We consider the electrostatic Born-Infeld energy \begin{equation*} \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}\left(1-{\sqrt{1-|\nabla u|^2}}\right)\, dx -\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}\rho u\, dx, \end{equation*} where $\rho \in L^{m}(\mathbb{R}^N)$ is an assigned charge…
Solving the Euler equation which corresponds to the energy minimum of a density functional expressed in orbital-free form involves related but distinct computational challenges. One is the choice between all-electron and pseudo-potential…
We examine the phase dependent Helfrich energy and show an Euler-Lagrange equation on the phase seperation line. This result has already been observed by e.g. J\"ulicher-Lipowski and later Elliot-Stinner. Here we are able to lower the…
A numerical method for approximating weak solutions of an aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion is introduced. The numerical method consists of a stabilized finite element method together with a mass lumping technique and an extra…
A fractional variational principle was derived in order to be used with lagrangians containing fractional derivatives of order 1/2. By forcing the action associated to this type of lagrangian to be stationary, a modified fractional…
This paper studies the Sobolev regularity estimates of weak solutions of a class of singular quasi-linear elliptic problems of the form $u_t - \mbox{div}[\mathbb{A}(x,t,u,\nabla u)]= \mbox{div}[{\mathbf F}]$ with homogeneous Dirichlet…
Energies with high-order non-submodular interactions have been shown to be very useful in vision due to their high modeling power. Optimization of such energies, however, is generally NP-hard. A naive approach that works for small problem…
A power series being given as the solution of a linear differential equation with appropriate initial conditions, minimization consists in finding a non-trivial linear differential equation of minimal order having this power series as a…
We present a modified version of the nudged elastic band (NEB) algorithm to find minimum energy paths con-necting two known configurations. We show that replacing the harmonic band-energy term with a discretized version of the…
We present a fully iterative adaptive algorithm for the numerical minimization of strongly convex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approach, which we first present in abstract form, generates a hierarchical sequence of…
We estimate the magnetic Laplacian energy norm in appropriate planar domains under a weak regularity hypothesis on the magnetic field. Our main contribution is an averaging estimate, valid in small cells, allowing us to pass from…