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We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze solution techniques for fractional, semilinear, and elliptic optimal control problems posed on Lipschitz polytopes. We consider two strategies of…
Several important problems in partial differential equations can be formulated as integral equations. Often the integral operator defines the solution of an elliptic problem with specified jump conditions at an interface. In principle the…
In the present paper we describe a class of algorithms for the solution of Laplace's equation on polygonal domains with Neumann boundary conditions. It is well known that in such cases the solutions have singularities near the corners which…
This article is the second in a series of two papers concerning the mathematical study of a boundary integral equation of the second kind that describes the interaction of $N$ dielectric spherical particles undergoing mutual polarisation.…
This paper proposes and analyzes a full discretization of the exterior transient Stokes problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The method is based on a single layer boundary integral representation, using Galerkin semidiscretization in…
Trace finite element methods have become a popular option for solving surface partial differential equations, especially in problems where surface and bulk effects are coupled. In such methods a surface mesh is formed by approximately…
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…
We study the regularity of the solution to an obstacle problem for a class of integro-differential operators. The differential part is a second order elliptic operator, whereas the nonlocal part is given by the integral fractional…
This paper discusses the question whether the discrete spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator is infinite or finite. The borderline-behavior of the curvatures for this problem will be completely determined.
We revisit the Rellich inequality from the viewpoint of isolating the contributions from radial and spherical derivatives. This naturally leads to a comparison of the norms of the radial Laplacian and Laplace{Beltrami operators with the…
Suppose that $\Sigma^n\subset\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ is a closed embedded minimal hypersurface. We prove that the first non-zero eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ of the induced Laplace-Beltrami operator on $\Sigma$ satisfies $\lambda_1 \geq \frac{n}{2}+…
In recent years, sparse spectral methods for solving partial differential equations have been derived using hierarchies of classical orthogonal polynomials on intervals, disks, disk-slices and triangles. In this work we extend the…
In this note we devise and analyze a well-posed variational formulation of the Neumann boundary value problem associated to the biharmonic operator $\Delta^2$. An alternative formulation as a system of two Poisson problems for the Laplace…
We propose using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator as an extrinsic alternative to the Laplacian for spectral geometry processing and shape analysis. Intrinsic approaches, usually based on the Laplace-Beltrami operator, cannot capture the…
We study a nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem defined on a smooth bounded domain involving the fractional Laplace operator, a concave-convex powers term together with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions.
The singularities that arise in elliptic boundary value problems are treated locally by a singular function boundary integral method. This method extracts the leading singular coefficients from a series expansion that describes the local…
We study the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on ellipsoids. For ellipsoids that are close to the sphere, we use analytic perturbation theory to estimate the eigenvalues up to two orders. We show that for biaxial ellipsoids…
Eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a hyperboloid are studied in the spirit of the treatment of the spherical harmonics by Stein and Weiss. As a special case, a simple self-contained proof of Laplace's integral for a Legendre…
We investigate a large class of elliptic differential inclusions on non-compact complete Riemannian manifolds which involves the Laplace-Beltrami operator and a Hardy-type singular term. Depending on the behavior of the nonlinear term and…
The construction of discrete velocity models or numerical methods for the Boltzmann equation, may lead to the necessity of computing the collision operator as a sum over lattice points. The collision operator involves an integral over a…