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In this work, we establish regularity results for minimizers of the energy functional associated with the thin obstacle problem in Orlicz spaces. More precisely, we prove the Lipschitz continuity and the H\"older continuity of the gradient…

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We show that in the setting of proper metric spaces one obtains a solution of the classical two-dimensional Plateau problem by minimizing the energy, as in the classical case, once a definition of area (in the sense of convex geometry) has…

On compact Riemannian manifolds, we prove a decomposition theorem for arbitrarily bounded energy sequence of solutions of a singular elliptic equation.

Boundary integral equations and Nystrom discretization provide a powerful tool for the solution of Laplace and Helmholtz boundary value problems. However, often a weakly-singular kernel arises, in which case specialized quadratures that…

For the $\alpha$-Green kernel $g^\alpha_D$ on a domain $D\subset\mathbb R^n$, $n\geqslant2$, associated with the $\alpha$-Riesz kernel $|x-y|^{\alpha-n}$, where $\alpha\in(0,n)$ and $\alpha\leqslant2$, and a relatively closed set $F\subset…

We investigate the minimal Riesz s-energy problem for positive measures on the d-dimensional unit sphere S^d in the presence of an external field induced by a point charge, and more generally by a line charge. The model interaction is that…

We study compact polyhedral surfaces as Riemann surfaces and their discrete counterparts obtained through quadrilateral cellular decompositions and a linear discretization of the Cauchy-Riemann equation. By ensuring uniformly bounded…

We establish a framework to construct a global solution in the space of finite energy to a general form of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Our characterization yields a partially regular solution, smooth away from a…

Motivated by the problem of optimal portfolio liquidation under transient price impact, we study the minimization of energy functionals with completely monotone displacement kernel under an integral constraint. The corresponding minimizers…

Let (M,g) be asmooth, compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary, with n= dim M= 2,3. We suppose the boundary of M to be a smooth submanifold of M with dimension n-1. We consider a singularly perturbed nonlinear system, namely…

We give conditions for the existence of regular optimal partitions, with an arbitrary number $\ell\geq 2$ of components, for the Yamabe equation on a closed Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. To this aim, we study a weakly coupled competitive…

In this paper we investigate the existence of solutions to a nonlinear elliptic problem involving critical Sobolev exponent for a polyharmonic operator on a Riemannian manifold $M$. We first show that the best constant of the Sobolev…

In this paper, we investigate discrete logarithmic energy problems in the unit circle. We study the equilibrium configuration of $n$ electrons and $n-1$ pairs of external protons of charge $+1/2$. It is shown that all the critical points of…

We prove the uniqueness and nondegeneracy of least-energy solutions of a fractional Dirichlet semilinear problem in sufficiently large balls and in more general symmetric domains. Our proofs rely on uniform estimates on growing domains, on…

Let $(M^\circ, g)$ be an asymptotically conic manifold, in the sense that $M^\circ$ compactifies to a manifold with boundary $M$ in such a way that $g$ becomes a scattering metric on $M$. A special case of particular interest is that of…

We obtain pointwise lower bounds for heat kernels of higher order differential operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions on bounded domains in $\R^N$. The bounds exhibit explicitly the nature of the spatial decay of the heat kernel close…

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