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The series of papers is devoted to the study of convergence for pairs of surfaces and smooth functions thereon. We model such pairs with varifolds and multiple-valued functions to capture their limits. In the present paper, we study Young…

We completely characterize generalized Young measures generated by sequences of gradients of maps from $W^{1,1}(\Omega;\R^M)$ where $\Omega\subset\R^N$. This extends and completes previous analysis by Kristensen and Rindler where…

We provide the integral representation formula for the relaxation in $BV(\Omega; \mathbb{R}^M)$ with respect to strong convergence in $L^1(\Omega; \mathbb{R}^M)$ of a functional with a boundary contact energy term. This characterization is…

Given a function $f\in C(\mathbb{R}^d)$ of linear growth, we give a new way of representing accumulation points of \begin{equation} \int_\Omega f(v_i(z))d\mu(z), \end{equation} where $\mu\in \mathcal{M}^+(\Omega)$, and $(v_i)_{i\in…

We consider in R^2 the generalized elastica functional defined, for smooth functions, as the p-elastica energies of the level lines integrated over all levels. Extending the functional to L1, we study its L1-lower semicontinuous envelope…

Oscillations and concentrations in sequences of gradients $\{\nabla u_k\}$, bounded in $L^p(\Omega;\R^{M\times N})$ if $p>1$ and $\Omega\subset\R^n$ is a bounded domain with the extension property in $W^{1,p}$, and their interaction with…

A basic version of the P\'olya-Szeg\H{o} inequality states that if $\Phi$ is a Young function, the $\Phi$-Dirichlet energy -- the integral of $\Phi(\|\nabla f\|)$ -- of a suitable function $f\in \mathcal{V}(\mathbb{R}^n)$, the class of…

This paper carries out a renormalization of the volume of the Loewner-Nirenberg singular Yamabe metric in a given conformal class on a compact manifold-with-boundary. This generalizes the usual volume renormalization for Poincare-Einstein…

Motivated by a model for lipid bilayer cell membranes, we study the minimization of the Willmore functional in the class of oriented closed surfaces with prescribed total mean curvature, prescribed area, and prescribed genus. Adapting…

(Two-scale) gradient Young measures in Orlicz-Sobolev setting are introduced and characterized providing also an integral representation formula for non convex energies arising in homogenization problems with nonstandard growth.

We study the Green function for the stationary Stokes system with bounded measurable coefficients in a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 3$. We construct the Green function in $\Omega$ under the condition…

We consider various notions of vanishing mean oscillation on a (possibly unbounded) domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, and prove an analogue of Sarason's theorem, giving sufficient conditions for the density of bounded Lipschitz…

We consider minimization problems of functionals given by the difference between the Willmore functional of a closed surface and its area, when the latter is multiplied by a positive constant weight $\Lambda$ and when the surfaces are…

Eleven density functionals are compared with regard to their performance for the lattice constants of solids. We consider standard functionals, such as the local-density approximation and the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE)…

We consider a free boundary problem for the Willmore functional. Given a smooth domain $\Omega$ in ${\mathbb R}^3$, we construct Willmore disks wich are critical in the class of surfaces meeting $\partial \Omega$ orthogonally along their…

We prove density of smooth functions in subspaces of Sobolev- and higher order $BV$-spaces of kind $W^{m,p}(\Omega)\cap L^q(\Omega-D)$ and $BV^m(\Omega)\cap L^q(\Omega-D)$, respectively, where $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\in\mathbb{N}$)…

The Willmore energy, alias bending energy or rigid string action, and its variation-the Willmore invariant-are important surface conformal invariants with applications ranging from cell membranes to the entanglement entropy in quantum…

We study nuclear embeddings for function spaces of generalised smoothness defined on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. This covers, in particular, the well-known situation for spaces of Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin…

We characterize Young measures generated by gradients of bi-Lipschitz orientation-preserving maps in the plane. This question is motivated by variational problems in nonlinear elasticity where the orientation preservation and injectivity of…

We study singular integral operators with variable Calder\'on--Zygmund kernels and their commutators with $VMO$ functions in the framework of Orlicz spaces. After revisiting the classical $L^p$ theory, we establish boundedness results in…