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In this paper we study the existence of minimizers for $$ F(u) = \1/2\int_{\R^3} |\nabla u|^2 dx + 1/4\int_{\R^3}\int_{\R^3}\frac{| u(x) |^2| u(y) |^2}{| x-y |}dxdy-\frac{1}{p}\int_{\R^3}| u |^p dx$$ on the constraint $$S(c) = \{u \in…

We approximate functionals depending on the gradient of $u$ and on the behaviour of $u$ near the discontinuity points, by families of non-local functionals where the gradient is replaced by finite differences. We prove pointwise…

Consider the viscous Burgers equation on a bounded interval with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Following the variational framework introduced by Bertini-De Sole-Gabrielli-Jona-Lasinio-Landim C, we analyze a Lyapunov…

In this paper, we are concerned with the following type of fractional problems: $$ \begin{cases}\dis (-\Delta)^{s} u-\mu\frac{u}{|x|^{2s}}-\lambda u=|u|^{2^*_{s}-2}u+f(x,u), &\text{in} \Omega,\ \ \, u=0\,&\text{in} \R^N\backslash\Omega…

In this paper, we study almost minimizers for the parabolic thin obstacle (or Signorini) problem with zero obstacle. We establish their $H^{\sigma,\sigma/2}$-regularity for every $0<\sigma<1$, as well as $H^{\beta,\beta/2}$-regularity of…

The aim of this paper is to prove multiplicity of solutions for nonlocal fractional equations modeled by $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^s u-\lambda u=f(x,u) & {\mbox{ in }} \Omega\\ u=0 & {\mbox{ in }} \mathbb{R}^n\setminus…

We prove that a certain class of elliptic free boundary problems, which includes the Prandtl-Batchelor problem from fluid dynamics as a special case, has two distinct nontrivial solutions for large values of a parameter. The first solution…

This paper studies a variational obstacle avoidance problem on complete Riemannian manifolds. That is, we minimize an action functional, among a set of admissible curves, which depends on an artificial potential function used to avoid…

We study the existence of least energy sign-changing solution for the fractional equation $(-\Delta)^{s} u=|u|^{2_{s}^{*}-2}u+\lambda f(x,u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^{N},$ $u=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^{N}\setminus…

We study the higher fractional differentiability properties of the gradient of the solutions to variational obstacle problems of the form \begin{gather*} \min \biggl\{ \int_{\Omega} F(x,w,Dw) d x \ : \ w \in \mathcal{K}_{\psi}(\Omega)…

This article study the fractional Hamiltonian systems \begin{eqnarray}\label{00} {_{t}}D_{\infty}^{\alpha}({_{-\infty}}D_{t}^{\alpha}u) + \lambda L(t)u = \nabla W(t, u), \;\;t\in \mathbb{R}, \end{eqnarray} where $\alpha \in (1/2, 1)$,…

In this paper, we will consider the fractional Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality \begin{equation*} {\Lambda} \left(\int_{\mathbb R^n}\frac{|u(x)|^{p}}{|x|^{{\beta} {p}}}\,dx\right)^{\frac{2}{p}}\leq \int_{\mathbb R^n}\int_{\mathbb…

The aim of this paper is to study the heterogeneous optimization problem \begin{align*} \mathcal {J}(u)=\int_{\Omega}(G(|\nabla u|)+qF(u^+)+hu+\lambda_{+}\chi_{\{u>0\}} )\text{d}x\rightarrow\text{min}, \end{align*} in the class of functions…

The parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian naturally arises in American option models when the assets prices are driven by pure jump L\'evy processes. In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary. Our main…

We study certain obstacle type problems involving standard and nonlocal minimal surfaces. We obtain optimal regularity of the solution and a characterization of the free boundary.

We will study an open problem pertaining to the uniqueness of minimizers for a class of variational problems emanating from Meyer's model for the decomposition of an image into a geometric part and a texture part. Mainly, we are interested…

We study solutions of the 2D Ginzburg-Landau equation -\Delta u+\frac{1}{\ve^2}u(|u|^2-1)=0 subject to "semi-stiff" boundary conditions: the Dirichlet condition for the modulus, |u|=1, and the homogeneous Neumann condition for the phase.…

In this paper, we study the existence of least energy sign-changing solutions for a Kirchhoff-type problem involving the fractional Laplacian operator. By using the constraint variational method and quantitative deformation lemma, we obtain…

Consider the viscous Burgers equation $u_t + f(u)_x = \epsilon\, u_{xx}$ on the interval $[0,1]$ with the inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions $u(t,0) = \rho_0$, $u(t,1) = \rho_1$. The flux $f$ is the function $f(u)= u(1-u)$,…

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ (and more general integro-differential operators) in the regime $s>\frac{1}{2}$. We prove that once the free boundary…