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In this paper we study the problem of minimizing the Sobolev trace Rayleigh quotient $\|u\|_{W^{1,p}(\Omega)}^p / \|u\|_{L^q(\partial\Omega)}^p$ among functions that vanish in a set contained on the boundary $\partial\Omega$ of given…

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior as $t\rightarrow T<\infty$ of all weak (energy) solutions of a class of equations with the following model representative: \begin{equation*} (|u|^{p-1}u)_t-\Delta_p(u)+b(t,x)|u|^{\lambda-1}u=0…

We consider the Stokes resolvent problem in a two-dimensional bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$ subject to homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove $\mathrm{L}^p$-resolvent estimates for $p$ satisfying the condition $\lvert 1 / p…

In this note we show the existence of at least three nontrivial solutions to the following quasilinear elliptic equation $-\Delta_p u = |u|^{p^*-2}u + \lambda f(x,u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\R^N$ with homogeneous Dirichlet…

We consider the optimizers $u$ in the Hardy-Sobolev inequality for the space $\dot{W}^{s,p}({\mathbb R}^N)$ with order of differentiability $s\in ]0,1[$. After proving existence through concentration-compactness, we derive the pointwise…

We study the extremal solution for the problem $(-\Delta)^s u=\lambda f(u)$ in $\Omega$, $u\equiv0$ in $\R^n\setminus\Omega$, where $\lambda>0$ is a parameter and $s\in(0,1)$. We extend some well known results for the extremal solution when…

This paper continues the study of the mixed problem for the Laplacian. We consider a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset \reals^n$, $n\geq2$, with boundary that is decomposed as $\partial\Omega=D\cup N$, $D$ and $N$ disjoint. We let…

We consider the solution of $-\Delta u = 1$ on convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions $u =0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Our main concern is the behavior of $\|\nabla u\|_{L^{\infty}}$, also known as…

In this article, we study domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{S}^2$ that support positive solutions of the overdetermined problem $$ \Delta u + f(u,|\nabla u|)=0 \quad \text{in } \Omega, $$ subject to the boundary conditions $u=0$ on…

Let $1<p<N$, $p^{*}=Np/(N-p)$, $0<s<p$, $p^{*}(s)=(N-s)p/(N-p)$, and $\Om\in C^{1}$ be a bounded domain in $\R^{N}$ with $0\in\bar{\Om}.$ In this paper, we study the following problem \[ \begin{cases}…

We establish existence of weighted Hardy and Rellich inequalities on the spaces $L_p(\Omega)$ where $\Omega= \Ri^d\backslash K$ with $K$ a closed convex subset of $\Ri^d$. Let $\Gamma=\partial\Omega$ denote the boundary of $\Omega$ and…

We examine the system given by \hfill -\Delta u = \lambda (v+1)^p \qquad \Omega \hfill -\Delta v = \gamma (u+1)^\theta \qquad \Omega, \hfill u = v =0 \qquad \quad \partial \Omega, where $ \lambda,\gamma$ are positive parameters and where $…

In this paper we prove the existence of an optimal domain $\Omega_{opt}$ for the shape optimization problem $$\max\Big\{\lambda_q(\Omega)\ :\ \Omega\subset D,\ \lambda_p(\Omega)=1\Big\},$$ where $q<p$ and $D$ is a prescribed bounded subset…

We show that in a bounded Gromov hyperbolic domain $\Omega$ smooth functions with bounded derivatives $C^\infty(\Omega)\cap W^{k,\infty}(\Omega)$ are dense in the homogeneous Sobolev spaces $L^{k,p}(\Omega)$.

Let ${\mathscr{L}}=-\text{div}A\nabla$ be a uniformly elliptic operator on $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 2$. Let $\Omega$ be an exterior Lipschitz domain, and let ${\mathscr{L}}_D$ and ${\mathscr{L}}_N$ be the operator ${\mathscr{L}}$ on $\Omega$…

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…

We investigate the behavior of the solution to an elliptic diffraction problem in the union of a smooth set $\Omega$ and a thin layer $\Sigma$ locally described by $\varepsilon h$, where $h$ is a positive function defined on the boundary…

We study connections between the $W^1_p$-differentiability and the $L_p$-differentiability of Sobolev functions. We prove that, $W^1_p$-differentiability implies the $L_p$-differentiability, but the opposite implication is not valid. The…

Let $\Omega$ be an open convex set in ${\mathbb R}^m$ with finite width, and let $v_{\Omega}$ be the torsion function for $\Omega$, i.e. the solution of $-\Delta v=1, v\in H_0^1(\Omega)$. An upper bound is obtained for the product of $\Vert…

For a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ and $p \geq q \geq 2$, we establish quantified versions of the classical Friedrichs inequality $\|\nabla u\|_p^p - \lambda_1 \|u\|_q^p \geq 0$, $u \in W_0^{1,p}(\Omega)$, where $\lambda_1$ is a…