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We study eigenvalues of general scalar Dirichlet polyharmonic problems in domains in $\mathbb R^{d}$. We first prove a number of inequalities satisfied by the eigenvalues on general domains, depending on the relations between the orders of…
We study the existence and the properties of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for uniformly elliptic second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman operators, depending on the principal eigenvalues of the operator.
We consider a spectral optimal design problem involving the Neumann traces of the Dirichlet-Laplacian eigenfunctions on a smooth bounded open subset $\Omega$ of $\R^n$. The cost functional measures the amount of energy that Dirichlet…
We consider the "Method of particular solutions" for numerically computing eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian $\Delta$ on a smooth, bounded domain Omega in RR^n with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. This method…
Let $\Omega$ be a Lipschitz domain in $\mathbb R^n$ $n\geq 2,$ and $L=\mbox{div} (A\nabla\cdot)$ be a second order elliptic operator in divergence form. We establish solvability of the Dirichlet regularity problem with boundary data in…
We study the asymptotic behaviour of the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact hypersurface in \mathds{R}^{n+1} as it is flattened into a singular double-sided flat hypersurface. We show that the limit spectral problem…
We consider the inverse problem of determining the Lam\'{e} parameters and the density of a three-dimensional elastic body from the local time-harmonic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We prove uniqueness and Lipschitz stability of this inverse…
In this paper, we analyze an eigenvalue problem for nonlinear elliptic operators involving homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in a open smooth bounded domain. We prove bifurcation results from trivial solutions and from infinity for…
We derive sharp estimates on the modulus of continuity for solutions of a large class of quasilinear isotropic parabolic equations on smooth metric measure spaces (with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition in case the boundary is…
We review recent advances in solving problems of mathematical physics on domains with irregular boundaries in Rn. We distinguish two frameworks: a measure-free approach in the image of the trace operator spaces for extension domains and an…
In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a biharmonic Steklov problem defined on a thin domain in the $n$ dimensional Euclidean space degenerating to a segment. For $n=2$ the problem…
New isoperimetric inequalities for lower order eigenvalues of the Laplacian on closed hypersurfaces, of the biharmonic Steklov problems and of the Wentzell-Laplace on bounded domains in a Euclidean space are proven. Some open questions for…
In this paper, we mainly establish the existence of at least three non-trivial solutions for a class of nonhomogeneous quasilinear elliptic systems with Dirichlet boundary value or Neumann boundary value in a bounded domain…
We consider the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator (DNO) on nearly-hyperspherical domains in dimension greater than 3. Treating such domains as perturbations of the ball, we prove the analytic dependence of the DNO on the shape perturbation…
We study an eigenvalue problem involving a fully anisotropic elliptic differential operator in arbitrary Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. The relevant equations are associated with constrained minimization problems for integral functionals depending…
This paper is devoted to studying impedance eigenvalues (that is, eigenvalues of a particular Dirichlet-to-Neumann map) for the time harmonic linear elastic wave problem, and their potential use as target-signatures for fluid-solid…
The paper aims to study the spectral properties of elliptic operators with highly inhomogeneous coefficients and related issues concerning wave propagation in high-contrast media. A unified approach to solving problems in bounded domains…
We study elliptic and parabolic problems governed by singular elliptic operators \begin{equation*} \mathcal L =\sum_{i,j=1}^{N+1}q_{ij}D_{ij}+\frac c y D_y \end{equation*} in the half-space $\mathbb{R}^{N+1}_+=\{(x,y): x \in \mathbb{R}^N,…
The main purpose of this work is to study uniform regularity estimates for a family of elliptic operators $\{\mathcal{L}_\varepsilon, \varepsilon>0\}$, arising in the theory of homogenization, with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients.…