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For a family of elliptic operators with periodically oscillating coefficients, $-\text{div}( A(\cdot/\varepsilon) \nabla) $ with tiny $\varepsilon>0$, we comprehensively study the first-order expansions of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions…

Assume that $\Omega_{1}$ and $\Omega_{2}$ are two smooth bounded pseudoconvex domains in $\mathbb{C}^{2}$ that intersect (real) transversely, and that $\Omega_{1} \cap \Omega_{2}$ is a domain (i.e. is connected). If the…

We obtain the inequality $$\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u(x)|^ph(u(x))dx\leq C(n,p)\int_{\Omega} \left( \sqrt{ |\Delta u(x)||{\cal T}_{h,C}(u(x))|}\right)^{p}h(u(x))dx,$$ where $\Omega\subset \mathbf{R}^n$ is a bounded Lipschitz domain, $u\in…

Let $\Omega=\Omega_0\setminus \overline{\Theta}\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, where $\Omega_0$ and $\Theta$ are two open, bounded and convex sets such that $\overline{\Theta}\subset \Omega_0$ and let $\beta<0$ be a given parameter. We…

This paper is concerned with the homogenization of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem, posed in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2$, for a vectorial elliptic operator $-\nabla\cdot A^\epsilon(\cdot)\nabla$ with $\epsilon$-periodic…

Let $(M,g,\si)$ be a compact Riemannian spin manifold of dimension $\geq 2$. For any metric $\tilde g$ conformal to $g$, we denote by $\tilde\lambda$ the first positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on $(M,\tilde g,\si)$. We show that…

We consider the eigenvalue problem for the Schr\"odinger operator on bounded, convex domains with mixed boundary conditions, where a Dirichlet boundary condition is imposed on a part of the boundary and a Neumann boundary condition on its…

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^2$ be a bounded planar domain, with piecewise smooth boundary $\partial \Omega$. For $\sigma>0$, we consider the Robin boundary value problem \[ -\Delta f =\lambda f, \qquad \frac{\partial f}{\partial n} +…

A conjecture of Pasteczka, generalizing the classical Hermite--Hadamard Inequality, states that if $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ is a compact convex domain such that $\Omega$ and $\partial \Omega$ have the same center of mass, then for…

We consider the eigenvalue problem for certain classes of elliptic operators, namely inhomogeneous membrane operators $ L = \tfrac{1}{ \rho } ( -\Delta + V ) $ and divergence form operators $ L = -\operatorname{div} A \nabla $, on bounded…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded, connected, sufficiently smooth open set, $p>1$ and $\beta\in\mathbb R$. In this paper, we study the $\Gamma$-convergence, as $p\rightarrow 1^+$, of the functional \[ J_p(\varphi)=\frac{\int_\Omega F^p(\nabla…

Let $ \Omega \subsetneq \mathbf{R}^n\,(n\geq 2)$ be an unbounded convex domain. We study the minimal surface equation in $\Omega$ with boundary value given by the sum of a linear function and a bounded uniformly continuous function in $…

We consider the following eigenvalue optimization problem: Given a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\R^n$ and numbers $\alpha\geq 0$, $A\in [0,|\Omega|]$, find a subset $D\subset\Omega$ of area $A$ for which the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of…

A property of smooth convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is that if two points on the boundary $x, y \in \partial \Omega$ are close to each other, then their normal vectors $n(x), n(y)$ point roughly in the same direction and this…

Let $\Omega$ be an open, simply connected, and bounded region in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, and assume its boundary $\partial\Omega$ is smooth. Consider solving the eigenvalue problem $Lu=\lambda u$ for an elliptic partial differential…

Let $\Omega$ be an open connected cone in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with vertex at the origin. Assume that the operator $$P_\mu:=-\Delta-\frac{\mu}{\delta_\Omega^2(x)}$$ is {\em subcritical} in $\Omega$, where $\delta_\Omega$ is the distance function…

In this paper we prove that if $\Omega\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is a bounded John domain, the following weighted Poincare-type inequality holds: $$ \inf_{a\in \mathbb{R}}\| (f(x)-a) w_1(x) \|_{L^q(\Omega)} \le C \|\nabla f(x) d(x)^\alpha w_2(x)…

The main target of this paper is to discuss operator Hermite--Hadamard inequality for convex functions, without appealing to operator convexity. Several forms of this inequality will be presented and some applications including norm and…

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