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We consider an elliptic operator in which the second-order term is very small in one direction. In this regime, we study the behaviour of the principal eigenfunction and of the principal eigenvalue. Our first result deals with the limit of…

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This paper is motivated by the maximization of the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Laplace operator with Neumann boundary conditions among domains of ${\mathbb R}^N$ with prescribed measure. We relax the problem to the class of (possibly…

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We present some open problems and obtain some partial results for spectral optimization problems involving measure, torsional rigidity and first Dirichlet eigenvalue.

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We introduce here new generalized principal eigenvalues for linear parabolic operators with heterogeneous coefficients in space and time. We consider a bounded spatial domain and an unbounded time interval $I$ : $I=\mathbb{R},\…

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We introduce and study Laplacians on a finite metric graph endowed with generalized densities, that is, measures of finite mass. One important motivation is that this setting provides a common framework for several interesting classes of…

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The paper addresses the doubly elliptic eigenvalue problem $$\begin{cases} -\Delta u=\lambda u \qquad &\text{in $\Omega$,}\\ u=0 &\text{on $\Gamma_0$,}\\ -\Delta_\Gamma u +\partial_\nu u =\lambda u\qquad &\text{on $\Gamma_1$,} \end{cases}…

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We give full boundary extensions to two fundamental estimates in the theory of elliptic PDE, the weak Harnack inequality and the quantitative strong maximum principle, for uniformly elliptic equations in non-divergence form.

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We consider a linear ill-posed equation in the Hilbert space setting under white noise. Known convergence results for the discrepancy principle are either restricted to Hilbert-Schmidt operators (and they require a self-similarity condition…

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We establish optimal L^p bounds for the nontangential maximal function of the gradient of the solution to a second order elliptic operator in divergence form, possibly non-symmetric, with bounded measurable coefficients independent of the…

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Assuming $A$ has maximal $L^p$-regularity, this paper investigates perturbations of $A$ by time-dependent operators $B$ that are unbounded and satisfy a critical $L^q$-integrability condition in time. We establish two main results. The…

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