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The notion of strictly outward minimising hull is investigated for open sets of finite perimeter sitting inside a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold. Under natural geometric assumptions on the ambient manifold, the strictly outward…

We apply iteration schemes and perturbation methods to provide a complete solution of the boundary Yamabe problem with minimal boundary scenario, or equivalently, the existence of a real, positive, smooth solution of $ -\frac{4(n -1)}{n -…

We study global monotone solutions of the free boundary problem that arises from minimizing the energy functional $I(u) = \int |\nabla u|^2 + V(u)$, where $V(u)$ is the characteristic function of the interval $(-1,1)$. This functional is a…

We consider the functional $$J(v) = \int_\Omega [f(|\nabla v|) - v] dx,$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain and $f:[0,+\infty)\to \mathbb{R}$ is a convex function vanishing for $s\in [0,\sigma]$, with $\sigma>0$. We prove that a minimizer…

In this paper we consider a weakly coupled $p$-Laplacian system of a Bernoulli type free boundary problem, through minimization of a corresponding functional. We prove various properties of any local minimizer and the corresponding free…

In the present paper, we consider the coupled Schr\"{o}dinger systems with critical exponent: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u_i+\lambda_{i}u_i=\sum\limits_{j=1}^{d} \beta_{ij}|u_j|^{3}|u_i|u_i \quad ~\text{ in } \Omega,\\ u_i \in…

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…

We consider equations of the form $\Delta u +\lambda^2 V(x)e^{\,u}=\rho$ in various two dimensional settings. We assume that $V>0$ is a given function, $\lambda>0$ is a small parameter and $\rho=\mathcal O(1)$ or $\rho\to +\infty$ as…

In this paper, we study the existence of nontrivial solutions of the Dirichlet boundary value problem for the following elliptic system: \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -\Delta u & = au + bv + f(x,u,v); &\quad\mbox{ for…

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…

In this paper, I propose some problems, of topological nature, on the energy functional associated to the Dirichlet problem -\Delta u = f(x,u) in Omega, u restricted to the boundary of Omega is 0. Positive answers to these problems would…

Given an open and bounded set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, we consider the problem of minimizing the ratio between the $s-$perimeter and the $N-$dimensional Lebesgue measure among subsets of $\Omega$. This is the nonlocal version of the…

We consider shape optimization problems involving functionals depending on perimeter, torsional rigidity and Lebesgue measure. The scaling free cost functionals are of the form $P(\Omega)T^q(\Omega)|\Omega|^{-2q-1/2}$ and the class of…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded $C^{2}$ domain in $\R^n$, and let $\Omega^{\ast}$ be the Euclidean ball centered at 0 and having the same Lebesgue measure as $\Omega$. Consider the operator $L=-\div(A\nabla)+v\cdot \nabla +V$ on $\Omega$ with…

In this paper we are interested in the study of a two-phase problem equipped with the $\Phi$-Laplacian operator $$ \Delta_\Phi u \coloneqq \mbox{div} \left(\phi(|\nabla u|)\dfrac{\nabla u}{|\nabla u|}\right), $$ where $\Phi(s)=e^{s^2}-1$…

By using a shooting technique, we prove that the quasilinear boundary value problem $$ \textrm{div} \, \left( \frac{\nabla u}{\sqrt{1-| \nabla u |^2}}\right) + \lambda q(| x |) | u |^{p-1} u = 0, \qquad u|_{\partial \mathcal{B}} = 0,$$…

Given an exterior domain $\Omega$ with $C^{2,\alpha}$ boundary in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\geq3$, we obtain a $1$-parameter family $u_{\gamma}\in C^{\infty}\left(\Omega\right) $, $\left\vert \gamma\right\vert \leq\pi/2$, of solutions of the…

Let $u$ be a solution to the normalized p-harmonic obstacle problem with $p>2$. That is, $u\in W^{1,p}(B_1(0))$, $2<p<\infty$, $u\ge 0$ and $$ \d\left( |\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\right)=\chi_{\{u>0\}}\textrm{ in }B_1(0) $$ where $u(x)\ge 0$…

We consider smooth bounded surfaces with a smooth boundary and a prescribed background metric g_0. We now consider all metrics g conformal to g_0 which have a prescribed volume M. We now minimize the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator…

The problem of interest in this article is to study the (nonlocal) inverse problem of recovering a potential based on the boundary measurement associated with the fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation. Let $0<a<1$, and $u$ solves…