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In this work, we obtain an existence of nontrivial solutions to a minimization problem involving a fractional Hardy-Sobolev type inequality in the case of inner singularity. Precisely, for $\lambda>0$ we analyze the attainability of the…

We optimize a selection of eigenvalues of the Laplace operator with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions by adjusting the shape of the domain on which the eigenvalue problem is considered. Here, a phase-field function is used to…

An improvement to a Berezin-Li-Yau type inequality for $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}|_{\Omega},$ the fractional Laplacian operators restriced to a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ for $\alpha\in(0,2],$ $d\ge 2,$ is proved.

We consider the domain dependence of the best constant in the subcritical fractional Sobolev constant, $$ \lambda_{s,p}(\Omega):=\inf \left\{ [u]_{H^s(\mathbb{R}^N)}^2,\,\, u\in C^\infty_c(\Omega),\,\, \|u\|_{L^p(\Omega)}=1 \right\}, $$…

In this paper we study a Neumann problem for the fractional Laplacian, namely \begin{equation}\left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} \varepsilon^{2s}(- \Delta)^{s}u + u &=& f(u) \ \ &\mbox{in} \ \ \Omega \\ \mathcal{N}_{s}u &=& 0 , \,\, &\text{in}…

In this paper we study some optimization problems for nonlinear elastic membranes. More precisely, we consider the problem of optimizing the cost functional $\J(u)=\int_{\partial\Omega} f(x) u \rd \H^{N-1}$ over some admissible class of…

We consider minimizers of \[ F(\lambda_1(\Omega),\ldots,\lambda_N(\Omega)) + |\Omega|, \] where $F$ is a function strictly increasing in each parameter, and $\lambda_k(\Omega)$ is the $k$-th Dirichlet eigenvalue of $\Omega$. Our main result…

In this work we study the following fractional critical problem $$ (P_{\lambda})=\left\{\begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^s u=\lambda u^{q} + u^{2^*_{s}-1}, \quad u{>}0 & \mbox{in} \Omega\\ u=0 & \mbox{in} \RR^n\setminus \Omega\,,…

In this article, we study domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{S}^2$ that support positive solutions of the overdetermined problem $$ \Delta u + f(u,|\nabla u|)=0 \quad \text{in } \Omega, $$ subject to the boundary conditions $u=0$ on…

The purpose of this article is to establish new lower bounds for the sums of powers of eigenvalues of the Dirichlet fractional Laplacian operator $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}|_{\Omega}$ restricted to a bounded domain $\Omega\subset{\mathbb R}^d$…

We consider nonlinear second order elliptic problems of the type \[ -\Delta u=f(u) \text{ in } \Omega, \qquad u=0 \text{ on } \partial \Omega, \] where $\Omega$ is an open $C^{1,1}$-domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 2$, under some general…

The aim of this work is to give a broad panorama of the control properties of fractional diffusive models from a numerical analysis and simulation perspective. We do this by surveying several research results we obtained in the last years,…

We consider the sublinear problem \begin {equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{r c l c} -\Delta u & = &|u|^{q-2}u & \textrm{in }\Omega, \\ u_n & = & 0 & \textrm{on }\partial\Omega,\end{array}\right. \end {equation*} where $\Omega \subset…

Distributing points on a (possibly high-dimensional) sphere with minimal energy is a long-standing problem in and outside the field of mathematics. This paper considers a novel energy function that arises naturally from statistics and…

We prove the maximal local regularity of weak solutions to the parabolic problem associated with the fractional Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on an arbitrary bounded open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$. Proofs…

Given a bounded open set $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ (or a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary), and a partition of $\Omega$ by $k$ open sets $\omega_j$, we consider the quantity $\max_j \lambda(\omega_j)$, where $\lambda(\omega_j)$ is…

We construct a bounded $C^{1}$ domain $\Omega$ in $R^{n}$ for which the $H^{3/2}$ regularity for the Dirichlet and Neumann problems for the Laplacian cannot be improved, that is, there exists $f$ in $C^{\infty}(\overline\Omega)$ such that…

A classical regularity result is that non-negative solutions to the Dirichlet problem $\Delta u =f$ in a bounded domain $\Omega$, where $f\in L^q(\Omega)$, $q>\frac{n}2$, satisfy $\|u\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)} \leq C\|f\|_{L^q(\Omega)}$. We…

Let $N\geq 1$ and $s\in (0,1)$. In the present work we characterize bounded open sets $\Omega$ with $ C^2$ boundary (\textit{not necessarily connected}) for which the following overdetermined problem \begin{equation*} ( -\Delta)^s u = f(u)…

We investigate the weak solvability and properties of weak solutions to the Dirichlet problem for a scalar elliptic equation $-\Delta u + b^{(\alpha)}\cdot \nabla u= f$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset {\mathbb R^2}$ containing the…