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We consider the highly nonlinear and ill-posed inverse problem of determining some general expression $F(x,t,u,\nabla_xu)$ appearing in the diffusion equation $\partial_tu-\Delta_x u+F(x,t,u,\nabla_xu)=0$ on $\Omega\times(0,T)$, with $T>0$…

We study boundary value problems with measure data in smooth bounded domains $\Omega$, for semilinear equations involving Hardy type potentials. Specifically we consider problems of the form $-L_V u + f(u) = \tau$ in $\Omega$ and…

Even though the statistical theory of linear inverse problems is a well-studied topic, certain relevant cases remain open. Among these is the estimation of functions of bounded variation ($BV$), meaning $L^1$ functions on a $d$-dimensional…

We prove a lower semicontinuity result for a functional of linear growth initially defined by \[ \int_{\Omega}F\left(\frac{dDu}{d\mu}\right)\,d\mu \] for $u\in BV(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^N)$ with $Du\ll \mu$. The positive Radon measure $\mu$ is…

We provide conditions under which we prove for measure-valued transport equations with non-linear reaction term in the space of finite signed Radon measures, that positivity is preserved, as well as absolute continuity with respect to…

We prove the existence of a positive {\it SOLA (Solutions Obtained as Limits of Approximations)} to the following PDE involving fractional power of Laplacian \begin{equation} \begin{split} (-\Delta)^su&= \frac{1}{u^\gamma}+\lambda…

We develop a theory of existence and uniqueness for the following porous medium equation with fractional diffusion, $$ \{ll} \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t} + (-\Delta)^{\sigma/2} (|u|^{m-1}u)=0, & \qquad x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\; t>0, [8pt]…

An initial-value problem for an ordinary differential equation of the first order, is considered. It is supposed that the right-hand side of the equation is a continuous function defined on a set consisting of an open set and a part of its…

We study the existence of nonnegative solutions to the Dirichlet problem $\CL^{_{^M}}_{p,q}u:=-\Delta u+u^p-M|\nabla u|^q=\mu$ in a domain $\Omega\subset\BBR^N$ where $\mu$ is a nonnegative Radon measure, when $p>1$, $q>1$ and $M\geq 0$. We…

We analyse the behaviour of solutions of the linear heat equation in ${\mathbb R}^d$ for initial data in the classes $M_\varepsilon({\mathbb R}^d)$ of Radon measures with $\int_{{\mathbb R}^d}{\rm e}^{-\varepsilon|x|^2}\,{\rm…

Let $b_{\alpha}^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{1+n}_{+})$ be the space of solutions to the parabolic equation $\partial_{t}u+(-\triangle)^{\alpha}u=0$ $(\alpha\in(0, 1])$ having finite $L^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{1+n}_{+})$ norm. We characterize nonnegative Radon…

We deal with the following general version of the classical moment problem: when can a linear functional on a unital commutative real algebra $A$ be represented as an integral with respect to a Radon measure on the character space $X(A)$ of…

We prove existence and uniqueness of distributional, bounded, nonnegative solutions to a fractional filtration equation in ${\mathbb R}^d$. With regards to uniqueness, it was shown even for more general equations in [19] that if two bounded…

In this note we show that if $G$ is a solvable group acting on the line, and if there is $T\in G$ having no fixed points, then there is a Radon measure $\mu$ on the line quasi-invariant under $G$. In fact, our method allows for the same…

Let $\Omega $ be a smooth bounded domain in $\R^N, N>1$ and let $n\in \N^*$. We are concerned here with the existence of nonnegative solutions $u\_n$ in $BV(\Omega)$, to the problem $$(P\_n) \begin{cases} -{\rm div} \sigma +2n (\int\_…

We study semilinear elliptic equations with Hardy potential $\mathrm{(E)} \; -L_\mu u+u^q=0$ in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^N$. Here $q>1$, $L_\mu=\Delta+\frac{\mu}{\delta_\Omega^2}$ and…

In this paper, we discuss an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for the multi-term time-fractional diffusion equation with x-dependent coefficients. By means of the Mittag-Leffler functions and the eigenfunction expansion, we reduce the…

Let $N\ge 1$ and let $f\in C[0,\infty)$ be a nonnegative nondecreasing function and $u_0$ be a possibly singular nonnegative initial function. We are concerned with existence and nonexistence of a local in time nonnegative solution in a…

An inverse problem to determine a space-dependent factor in a semilinear time-fractional diffusion equation is considered. Additional data are given in the form of an integral with the Borel measure over the time. Uniqueness of the solution…

Let $G=(V, E)$ be a connected finite graph, $h$ be a positive function on $V$ and $\lambda _{1}(V)$ be the first non-zero eigenvalue of $-\Delta$. For any given finite measure $\mu$ on $V$, define functionals \begin{eqnarray*} J_{ \beta…