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The aim of this paper is to study the heterogeneous optimization problem \begin{align*} \mathcal {J}(u)=\int_{\Omega}(G(|\nabla u|)+qF(u^+)+hu+\lambda_{+}\chi_{\{u>0\}} )\text{d}x\rightarrow\text{min}, \end{align*} in the class of functions…

We first take into account variational problems with periodic boundary conditions, and briefly recall some sufficient conditions for a periodic solution of the Euler-Lagrange equation to be either a directional, a weak, or a strong local…

This work extends monotonicity-based methods in inverse problems to the case of the Helmholtz (or stationary Schr\"odinger) equation $(\Delta + k^2 q) u = 0$ in a bounded domain for fixed non-resonance frequency $k>0$ and real-valued…

It is proved that for class $A_\gamma=\{q\in L_1[0,1]: q\geq 0, \int_0^1 q^\gamma\,dx=1\}$, where $\gamma\in (0,1)$, there exists a potential $q_*\in A_\gamma$ such that minimal eigenvalue $\lambda_1(q_*)$ of boundary problem $$…

In this paper we study the local regularity of almost minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} J(u)=\int_\Omega |\nabla u(x)|^2 +q^2_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x) +q^2_-(x)\chi_{\{u<0\}}(x) \end{equation*} where $q_\pm \in L^\infty(\Omega)$.…

We prove local boundedness of local minimizers of scalar integral functionals $\int_\Omega f(x,\nabla u(x))\,dx$, $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ where the integrand satisfies $(p,q)$-growth of the form \begin{equation*} |z|^p\lesssim…

In this paper, we consider eigenvalues to the following double phase problem with unbalanced growth and indefinite weight, $$ -\Delta_p^a u-\Delta_q u =\lambda m(x) |u|^{q-2}u \quad \mbox{in} \,\, \R^N, $$ where {$N \geq 2$}, {$1<p, q<N$,…

We study existence and qualitative properties of the minimizers for a Thomas--Fermi type energy functional defined by $$E_\alpha(\rho):=\frac{1}{q}\int_{\mathbb{R}^d}|\rho(x)|^q…

This article study the fractional Hamiltonian systems \begin{eqnarray}\label{00} {_{t}}D_{\infty}^{\alpha}({_{-\infty}}D_{t}^{\alpha}u) + \lambda L(t)u = \nabla W(t, u), \;\;t\in \mathbb{R}, \end{eqnarray} where $\alpha \in (1/2, 1)$,…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$ ($N\geq1$) be a smooth bounded domain, $a\in C(\bar{\Omega})$ a sign-changing function, and $0\leq q<1$. We investigate the Robin problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u=a(x)u^{q} & \mbox{in $\Omega$},\\ u\geq0…

We consider the equation $$-\Delta u+u=Q_\varepsilon(x)|u|^{p-2}u,\qquad u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N),$$ where $Q_\varepsilon$ takes the value $1$ on each ball $B_\varepsilon(y)$, $y\in\mathbb{Z}^N$, and the value $-1$ elsewhere. We establish the…

We analyze the topological structure of the Nehari set for a class of functionals depending on a real parameter $\lambda$, and having two degrees of homogeneity. A special attention is paid to the extremal parameter $\lambda^*$, which is…

We consider in this work the problem of minimizing the von Neumann entropy under the constraints that the density of particles, the current, and the kinetic energy of the system is fixed at each point of space. The unique minimizer is a…

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for the thin one-phase problem which consists of minimizing the energy functional $$\label{E} E(u,\Omega) = \int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2 dX + \mathcal{H}^n(\{u>0\} \cap \{x_{n+1} = 0\}), \quad…

We examine equations of the form {eqnarray*} \{{array}{lcl} \hfill \HA u &=& \lambda g(x) f(u) \qquad \text{in}\ \Omega \hfill u&=& 0 \qquad \qquad \qquad \text{on}\ \pOm, {array}. {eqnarray*} where $ \lambda >0$ is a parameter and $…

In this paper we show that any increasing functional of the first k eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian admits a (quasi-)open minimizer among the subsets of R^N of unit measure. In particular, there exists such a minimizer which is…

We consider the minimizers of $L^{2}$-critical inhomogeneous variational problems with a spatially decaying nonlinear term in an open bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ which contains $0$. We prove that there is a threshold…

We investigate minimizers defined on a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ for the Maier--Saupe Q--tensor energy used to characterize nematic liquid crystal configurations. The energy density is singular, as in Ball and Mujamdar's modification…

We consider the problem $$ (P_\lambda)\quad -\Delta_{p}u=\lambda u^{p-1}+a(x)u^{q-1},\quad u\geq0\quad\mbox{ in }\Omega $$ under Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. Here $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$…

In this paper, we study the optimal constant in the nonlocal nonlinear Poincar\'e-Wirtinger inequality in $(a,b)\subset\mathbb R$: \begin{equation*} \lambda_\alpha(p,q,r){\left(\int_{a}^{b}|u|^{q}dx\right)^\frac…