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In this paper we prove symmetry of compactly supported steady solutions of the 2D Euler equations. Assuming that $\Omega = \{x \in \mathbb{R}^2:\ u(x) \neq 0\}$ is an annular domain, we prove that the streamlines of the flow are circular.…

In this short note we consider an unconventional overdetermined problem for the torsion function: let $n\geq 2$ and $\Omega$ be a bounded open set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ whose torsion function $u$ (i.e. the solution to $\Delta u=-1$ in $\Omega$,…

Motivated by the Serrin problem, we study weak solutions of the generalised Alt-Caffarelli problem $-\Delta u = f$ in $\Omega$, $u = 0$ on $\partial\Omega$, $\partial_\nu u = Q$ on $\partial\Omega$. Our main result establishes that if…

Let $G$ be a connected graph with $n$ vertices. The resistance distance $\Omega_{G}(i,j)$ between any two vertices $i$ and $j$ of $G$ is defined as the effective resistance between them in the electrical network constructed from $G$ by…

We prove partial regularity of stationary solutions and minimizers $u$ from a set $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$ to a Riemannian manifold $N$, for the functional $\int_\Omega F(x,u,|\nabla u|^2) dx$. The integrand $F$ is convex and satisfies…

In this paper we extend a recent result of Collin-Rosenberg ({\it a solution to the minimal surface equation in the Euclidean disc has radial limits almost everywhere}) to a large class of differential operators in Divergence form.…

Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold and $G$ a Lie subgroup of the isometry group of $M$ acting freely and properly on $M.$ We study the Dirichlet Problem \begin{align*} \operatorname{div}\left( \frac{a\left( \left\Vert \nabla…

In this work we establish the optimal regularity for solutions to the fully nonlinear thin obstacle problem. In particular, we show the existence of an optimal exponent $\alpha_F$ such that $u$ is $C^{1,\alpha_F}$ on either side of the…

We study a minimizing problem associated with the singular problem \[ \left\{ \begin{array} [c]{ll} -\operatorname{div}\left( \left\vert \nabla u\right\vert ^{p-2}\nabla u\right) =\lambda u^{-1} & \mathrm{in\ }\Omega\\ u>0 & \mathrm{in\…

In this paper we study $2$nd order $L^\infty$ variational problems, through seeking to minimise a supremal functional involving the Hessian of admissible functions as well as lower-order terms. Specifically, given a bounded domain…

In this paper, we propose a new assumption (1.2) that involves a small oscillation and $C^2$ norms for maps from smooth bounded domains into Euclidean spaces. Furthermore, by assuming that the domain has non-negative Ricci curvature, we…

For any smooth domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^3$, we establish the existence of a global weak solution $(\mathbf{u},\mathbf{d}, \theta)$ to the simplified, non-isothermal Ericksen-Leslie system modeling the hydrodynamic motion of nematic…

For $s\in(0,1)$ and an open bounded set $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$, we prove existence and uniqueness of absolute minimisers of the supremal functional $$E_\infty(u)=\|(-\Delta)^s u\|_{L^\infty(\mathbb R^n)},$$ where $(-\Delta)^s$ is the…

In this work we analyze the existence of solution to the fractional quasilinear problem, \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} (-\Delta)^s u &= & |\nabla u|^{p}+ \l f & \text{ in }\Omega , u &=& 0 &\hbox{ in }…

Minimum flow decomposition (MFD) is the NP-hard problem of finding a smallest decomposition of a network flow/circulation $X$ on a directed graph $G$ into weighted source-to-sink paths whose superposition equals $X$. We show that, for…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a bounded, convex domain and let $u$ be the solution of $-\Delta u = 1$ vanishing on the boundary $\partial \Omega$. The estimate $$ \| \nabla u\|_{L^{\infty}(\Omega)} \leq c |\Omega|^{1/2}$$ is…

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…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, $N \geq 2$, be a smooth bounded domain. For $s \in (1/2,1)$, we consider a problem of the form \[ \left\{\begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^s u & = \mu(x)\, \mathbb{D}_s^{2}(u) + \lambda f(x)\,, & \quad \mbox{in}…

Our purpose of this paper is to study the nonexistence of nonnegative very weak solutions of \begin{equation}\label{eq 0.1} \displaystyle (-\Delta)^\alpha u = u^p+\nu\quad {\rm in}\quad \Omega,\qquad\ u=g\quad {\rm in}\quad \mathbb{…

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be the family of compact convex subsets $S$ of the hemisphere in $\rn$ with the property that $S$ contains its dual $S^*;$ let $u\in S^*$, and let $ \Phi(S,u)=\frac{2}{\omega_n}\int_{S}\ < \theta, u \ > \,\,…