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This paper provides an analytical solution for the deformation of an elastic half-space caused by a cylindrical roller. The roller is considered rigid, and is forced into the half space and rolls across its surface, with contact modelled by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Hanson Bharth , Edward James Brambley

In this paper, we are going to show some rigidity results for complete open Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. Without using the famous Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem we give a new proof to a rigidity result for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Jintian Zhu

We present a proof for the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for a cut-off and non cut-off model of non-linear diffusion equation in finite-dimensional space RD useful for modelling flows on porous medium with saturation, turbulent…

General Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Luiz Carlos Lobato Botelho

By using optimal mass transport theory we prove a sharp isoperimetric inequality in ${\sf CD} (0,N)$ metric measure spaces assuming an asymptotic volume growth at infinity. Our result extends recently proven isoperimetric inequalities for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Zoltán M. Balogh , Alexandru Kristály

We consider positive critical points of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities and prove a Liouville type result which allows us to give a complete classification of the solutions in a certain range of parameters, providing a symmetry…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Giulio Ciraolo , Rosario Corso

In this paper, we investigate local rigidity properties related to Gagliardo-Nirenberg constants and unweighted Yamabe-type constants. Let $V$ be an open bounded subset of an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ whose…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Liang Cheng

We prove new symmetry results for the extremals of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities in any dimension larger or equal than 2, in a range of parameters for which no explicit results of symmetry were previously known.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Michael Loss

This paper is devoted to Sobolev interpolation inequalities for spinors, with weights of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg (CKN) type. In view of the corresponding results for scalar functions, a natural question is to determine whether optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Rupert L. Frank , Michael Loss

We investigate the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a three-edge star graph, where each edge contains a linear localized inhomogeneity in the form of a Dirac delta linear potential. Such systems are of significant interest in studying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-03 Rahmi Rusin , Hadi Susanto

We prove the general sharp mean value inequality for non-negative superharmonic functions and its corresponding rigidity, which removes the radius restriction of Schoen-Yau's classical result about this inequality. And we obtain an explicit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Zixuan Chen , Guoyi Xu , Shuai Zhang

In this paper we study the rigidity problem for sub-static systems with possibly non-empty boundary. First, we get local and global splitting theorems by assuming the existence of suitable compact minimal hypersurfaces, complementing recent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Giulio Colombo , Allan Freitas , Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli

Our work proposes a unified approach to three different topics in a general Riemannian setting: splitting theorems, symmetry results and overdetermined elliptic problems. By the existence of a stable solution to the semilinear equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Alberto Farina , Luciano Mari , Enrico Valdinoci

The search of the optimal constant for a generalized Wirtinger inequality in an interval consists in minimizing the $p$-norm of the derivative among all functions whose $q$-norm is equal to~1 and whose $(r-1)$-power has zero average.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Marina Ghisi , Massimo Gobbino , Giulio Rovellini

This paper is the second part of the study. In Part~I, self-similar solutions of a weighted fast diffusion equation (WFD) were related to optimal functions in a family of subcritical Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities (CKN) applied to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Matteo Bonforte , Jean Dolbeault , Matteo Muratori , Bruno Nazaret

In this paper, we will establish the best constants for certain classes of weighted Moser-Trudinger inequalities on the entire Euclidean spaces $\mathbb{R}^N$. We will also prove the existence of maximizers of these sharp weighted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Mengxia Dong , Guozhen Lu

We provide an explicit necessary condition to have that no extremal for the best constant in the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality is radially symmetric.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Paolo Caldiroli , Roberta Musina

This paper focus on the symmetry and symmetry breaking about the second order Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle. \emph{Firstly}, by choosing a suitable test function, we give a negative answer to the conjecture presented by Cazacu, Flynn and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Xiao-Ping Chen , Chun-Lei Tang

We first prove a weighted inequality of Moser-Trudinger type depending on a parameter, in the two-dimensional Euclidean space. The inequality holds for radial functions if the parameter is larger than -1. Without symmetry assumption, it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-07 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Gabriella Tarantello

We consider nonconforming methods for symmetric elliptic problems and characterize their quasi-optimality in terms of suitable notions of stability and consistency. The quasi-optimality constant is determined and the possible impact of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Andreas Veeser , Pietro Zanotti

Patterns of symmetry breaking induced by potentials at the boundary of free $O(N)$ models in $d=3- \epsilon$ dimensions are studied. We show that the spontaneous symmetry breaking in these theories leads to a boundary RG flow ending with $N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-17 Vladimír Procházka , Alexander Söderberg