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Let $A_t$ be an $\alpha$-stable symmetric process, $0<\alpha\leq 2$, on $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $D\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded domain. This paper presents a proof, based on the classical Brascamp-Lieb-Luttinger inequalities for multiple…

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Let $(M,g)$ be a compact $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with nonempty boundary and $n\geq 2$. Assume that ${\mathrm{Ric}(M)\ge (n-1)K}$ for some ${K>0}$ and that $\partial M$ has nonnegative mean curvature with respect to the outward…

We describe a highly efficient numerical scheme for finding two-sided bounds for the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplace operator (-Delta)^{alpha/2} in the unit ball D in R^d, with a Dirichlet condition in the complement of D. The…

The aim of this paper is to obtain optimal estimates for the first Robin eigenvalue of the anisotropic $p$-Laplace operator, namely: \[ \lambda_F(\beta,\Omega)=\lambda_{F}(p,\beta,\Omega)= \min_{\psi\in W^{1,p}(\Omega)\setminus\{0\} }…

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In this paper, some initial-boundary-value problems for the time-fractional diffusion equation are first considered in open bounded n-dimensional domains. In particular, the maximum principle well-known for the PDEs of elliptic and…

Consider the eigenvalue problem of a linear second order elliptic operator: \begin{equation} \nonumber -D\Delta \varphi -2\alpha\nabla m(x)\cdot \nabla\varphi+V(x)\varphi=\lambda\varphi\ \ \hbox{ in }\Omega, \end{equation} complemented by…

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