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The recent literature has intensively studied two classes of nonlocal variational problems, namely the ones related to the minimisation of energy functionals that act on functions in suitable Sobolev-Gagliardo spaces, and the ones related…

We study the existence and properties of solutions and free boundaries of the one-phase Stefan problem with fractional diffusion posed in $\mathbb{R}^N$. In terms of the enthalpy $h(x,t)$, the evolution equation reads $\partial_t…

The first goal of this paper is to study necessary and sufficient conditions to obtain the attainability of the \textit{fractional Hardy inequality } $$\Lambda_{N}\equiv\Lambda_{N}(\Omega):=\inf_{\{\phi\in \mathbb{E}^s(\Omega, D), \phi\neq…

The first half of this work gives a survey of the fractional Laplacian (and related operators), its restricted Dirichlet realization on a bounded domain, and its nonhomogeneous local boundary conditions, as treated by pseudodifferential…

We study global monotone solutions of the free boundary problem that arises from minimizing the energy functional $I(u) = \int |\nabla u|^2 + V(u)$, where $V(u)$ is the characteristic function of the interval $(-1,1)$. This functional is a…

The paper is concerned with a free boundary problem generated by the biharmonic operator and an obstacle. The main goal is to deduce a fully guaranteed upper bound of the difference between the exact minimizer u and any function…

In this paper we study the following fractional Choquard equation with mixed nonlinearities: \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} (-\Delta)^s u = \lambda u + \alpha \left( I_\mu * |u|^q \right) |u|^{q-2} u + \left( I_\mu * |u|^p \right) |u|^{p-2} u,…

In this work we analyze the existence of solutions to the fractional quasilinear problem, $$ (P) \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} u_t+(-\Delta )^s u &=&|\nabla u|^{\alpha}+ f &\inn \Omega_T\equiv\Omega\times (0,T),\\ u(x,t)&=&0 &…

We investigate quantitative properties of nonnegative solutions $u(t,x)\ge 0$ to the nonlinear fractional diffusion equation, $\partial_t u + \mathcal{L}F(u)=0$ posed in a bounded domain, $x\in\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$, with appropriate…

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the problem of stabilization of fractional (in time) partial differential equations. We consider the following equation $$ \partial^{\alpha,\eta}_{t} u(t)=\mathcal{A}u(t)-\frac{\eta}{\Gamma…

We study the obstacle problem for integro-differential operators of order $2s$, with $s\in (0,1)$. Our main result establishes that the free boundary is $C^{1,\gamma}$ and $u\in C^{1,s}$ near all regular points. Namely, we prove the…

A generalized Neumann solution for the two-phase fractional Lam\'e--Clapeyron--Stefan problem for a semi--infinite material with constant initial temperature and a particular heat flux condition at the fixed face is obtained, when a…

We construct an example of blow-up in a flow of min-plus linear operators arising as solution operators for a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a Hamiltonian of the form |p|^alpha+U(x,t), where alpha>1 and the potential U(x,t) is uniformly…

We improve the sharpness of some fractional Moser-Trudinger type inequalities, particularly those studied by Lam-Lu and Martinazzi. As an application, improving upon works of Adimurthi and Lakkis, we prove the existence of weak solutions to…

We consider the optimization problem of minimizing $\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^{p(x)}+ \lambda \chi_{\{u>0\}} dx$ in the class of functions $W^{1,p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$ with $u-\phi_0\in W_0^{1,p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$, for a given $\phi_0\geq 0$ and…

We consider the problem: $$\inf_{{u}\in {H}^{1}_{g}(\Omega),\|u\|_{q}=1} \int_{\Omega}{p(x)}|\nabla{u(x)}|^{2}dx-\lambda\int_{\Omega}| u(x)|^{2}dx$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\R^{n}$, ${n}\geq{4}$, $ p :…

We investigate the existence, non-existence, uniqueness, and multiplicity of positive solutions to the following problem: \begin{align}\label{P} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} D_{0+}^\alpha u + h(t)f(u) = 0, \quad 0<t<1, \\[1ex] u(0)=u(1)=0,…

We consider the fractional elliptic inequality with variable-exponent nonlinearity $$ (-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} u+\lambda\, \Delta u \geq |u|^{p(x)}, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N, $$ where $N\geq 1$, $\alpha\in (0,2)$, $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$…

We here establish the higher fractional differentiability for solutions to a class of obstacle problems with non-standard growth conditions. We deal with the case in which the solutions to the obstacle problems satisfy a variational…

We consider a Bolza type optimal control problem of the form \begin{equation}\min J_{t}(y,u):=\int_t^T\Lambda(s,y(s), u(s))\,ds+g(y(T))\tag{P$_{t,x}$}\end{equation} Subject to: \begin{equation}\label{tag:admissible}\tag{D}\begin{cases} y\in…