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Regularity results for minimal configurations of variational problems involving both bulk and surface energies and subject to a volume constraint are established. The bulk energies are convex functions with p-power growth, but are otherwise…
We show that metrics that maximize the k-th Steklov eigenvalue on surfaces with boundary arise from free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball. We prove several properties of the volumes of these minimal submanifolds. For free boundary…
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We investigate the properties of minimizers of one-dimensional variational problems when the Lagrangian has no higher smoothness than continuity. An elementary approximation result is proved, but it is shown that this cannot be in general…
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In the setting of a metric space that is equipped with a doubling measure and supports a Poincar\'e inequality, we define and study a class of BV functions with zero boundary values. In particular, we show that the class is the closure of…
The Faber-Krahn inequality states that the ball has minimal first Dirichlet eigenvalue among all bounded domains with the fixed volume in $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this paper, we investigate the similar inequality for unicyclic graphs. The results…
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It will be established that the mean oscillation of bounded weak solutions to strongly coupled parabolic systems is small in small balls. If the systems are regular elliptic then their bounded weak solutions are H\"older continuous. Further…
In this paper we prove that the ball maximizes the first eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian operator with negative boundary parameter, among all convex sets of \mathbb{R}^n with prescribed perimeter. The key of the proof is a dearrangement…
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