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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…

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact orientable two-dimensional Riemannian manifold ({\it surface}) with a smooth metric tensor $g$ and smooth connected boundary $\Gamma$. Its {\it DN-map} $\Lambda_g:{C^\infty}(\Gamma)\to{C^\infty}(\Gamma)$ is…

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq1$, let $K$, $M$ be two nonnegative functions and let $\alpha,\gamma>0$. We study existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for singular problems of the form $-\Delta…

We show optimal Lipschitz regularity for very weak solutions of the (measure-valued) elliptic PDE $-\mathrm{div}(A(x) \nabla u) = Q \; \mathcal{H}^{n-1} \llcorner \Gamma$ in a smooth domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$. Here $\Gamma$ is a…

We consider the Dirichlet problem for stationary biharmonic maps $u$ from a bounded, smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ ($n\ge 5$) to a compact, smooth Riemannian manifold $N\subset\mathbb R^l$ without boundary. For any smooth…

We consider the following singularly perturbed elliptic problem $$ \varepsilon^2\triangle\tilde{u}-\tilde{u}+\tilde{u}^p=0, \ \tilde{u}>0\quad \mbox{in} \ \Omega,\ \ \ \frac{\partial\tilde{u}}{\partial \mathbf{n}}=0 \quad \mbox{on}\…

In this work, we revisit the following estimate due to Dahlberg \cite{Dahl}. Let $\textit{\textbf x}_0$ a fixed point in a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$. Then there exists a constant $C > 0$ such that if $u$ is a harmonic function in…

If $U$ is a $C^{\infty}$ function with compact support in the plane, we let $u$ be its restriction to the unit circle $\mathbb{S}$, and denote by $U_i,\,U_e$ the harmonic extensions of $u$ respectively in the interior and the exterior of…

Weakly harmonic maps from a domain $\Omega$ (the upper half-space $\Rd$ or a bounded $C^{1,\alpha}$ domain, $\alpha\in (0,1]$) into a smooth closed manifold are studied. Prescribing small Dirichlet data in either of the classes…

In this note we construct smooth bounded domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^2$, other than disks, for which the overdetermined problem $$ \left\{ \begin{alignedat}{2} \Delta u + \lambda u &= 0 &\qquad& \text{ in } \Omega, \newline u &= b…

This note pertains to isometric embeddings endowed with certain geometric properties. We study two embedding problems for a Riemannian manifold $M$ which is diffeomorphic to $\RR^n$ and admits a Bieberbach group $\Gamma$ acting by…

We consider the problem $$ \epsilon^2 \Delta u-V(y)u+u^p\,=\,0,~~u>0~~\quad\mbox{in}\quad\Omega,~~\quad\frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}\,=\,0\quad\mbox{on}~~~\partial \Omega, $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^2$ with…

We discuss the Dirichlet problem of the quasi-linear elliptic system \begin{eqnarray*} -e^{-f(U)}div(e^{f(U)}\bigtriangledown U)+&{1/2}f'(U)|\bigtriangledown U|^2&=0, {in $\Omega$}, & U|_{\partial\Omega}&=\phi. \end{eqnarray*} Here $\Omega$…

Let $(M^n,g_0)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ with non-empty boundary $\partial M$. Let $\Gamma\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be a symmetric convex cone and $f$ a symmetric defining function for $\Gamma$ satisfying…

In this paper, by variational and topological arguments based on linking and $\nabla$-theorems, we prove the existence of multiple solutions for the following nonlocal problem with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary data, $$ \left\{…

For $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, a convex and bounded domain, we study the spectrum of $-\Delta_\Omega$ the Dirichlet Laplacian on $\Omega$. For $\Lambda\geq0$ and $\gamma \geq 0$ let $\Omega_{\Lambda, \gamma}(\mathcal{A})$ denote any…

Let $ \Omega \subset R^2$ be a bounded piecewise smooth domain and $\phi_\lambda$ be a Neumann (or Dirichlet) eigenfunction with eigenvalue $\lambda^2$ and nodal set ${ N}_{\phi_{\lambda}} = {x \in \Omega; \phi_{\lambda}(x) = 0}.$ Let $H…

We show the validity of Nachman's procedure (Ann. Math. 128(3):531-576, 1988) for reconstructing a conductivity function $\gamma$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 3$) from its Dirichlet-to-Neumann map…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $C^{1}$ boundary and let $u_\lambda$ be a Dirichlet Laplace eigenfunction in $\Omega$ with eigenvalue $\lambda$. We show that the $(n-1)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the zero set…

We prove the existence of a family of compact subdomains $\Omega$ of the flat cylinder $\mathbb{R}^N\times \mathbb{R}/2\pi\mathbb{Z}$ for which the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on $\Omega$ admits eigenfunctions with constant…