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We provide results on the existence, non-existence, multiplicity and localization of positive radial solutions for semi linear elliptic systems with Dirichlet or Robin boundary conditions on an annulus. Our approach is topological and…
We introduced in [arXiv:1106.3204] a method to locate discontinuities of a wave speed in dimension two from acoustic boundary measuments modelled by the hyperbolic Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator. Here we extend the method for sound hard…
This paper deals with an existence and uniqueness result of the weak solution for a quasilinear elliptic PDE with nonlinear Robin boundary conditions.This problem is defined on a domain whose boundary is the union of two disjoint…
Nonlinear elliptic problems arise in many fields, including plasma physics, astrophysics, and optimal transport. In this article, we propose a novel operator-splitting/finite element method for solving such problems. We begin by introducing…
We consider the optimization of a dynamical system by switching at discrete time points between abstract evolution equations composed by nonlinearly perturbed strongly continuous semigroups, nonlinear state reset maps at mode transition…
In this paper, we consider the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$ in the Euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^n$ in the case where $1<s<2$. As first observed in \cite{Y}, the problem can be extended to the upper…
We consider an optimal rearrangement maximization problem involving the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$, $0<s<1$, and the Gagliardo-Nirenberg seminorm $[u]_s$. We prove the existence of a maximizer, analyze its properties and show…
We consider entropically regularized, semi-discrete versions of variational problems on the set of probability measures involving optimal transport as well as other terms. We prove that the solutions can be characterized by well-posed…
In the setting of a metric space equipped with a doubling measure supporting a $(1,1)$-Poincar\'e inequality, we study the problem of minimizing the BV-energy in a bounded domain $\Omega$ of functions bounded between two obstacle functions…
In potential theory, use of barriers is one of the most important techniques. We construct strong barriers for weighted quasilinear elliptic operators. There are two applications: (i) solvability of Poisson-type equations with boundary…
In this work, we consider optimality conditions of an optimal control problem governed by an obstacle problem. Here, we focus on introducing a, matrix valued, control variable as the coefficients of the obstacle problem. As it is well…
We study the obstacle problem associated with the American chooser option. The obstacle is given by the maximum of an American call option and an American put option, which, in turn, can be expressed as the maximum of the solutions to the…
This paper investigates stability properties of affine optimal control problems constrained by semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. This is done by studying the so called metric subregularity of the set-valued mapping…
In this paper, we study obstructions to the Dirichlet property by two approaches: density of non-positive points and functionals on adelic R-divisors. Applied to the algebraic dynamical systems, these results provide examples of nef adelic…
Within this chapter, we discuss control in the coefficients of an obstacle problem. Utilizing tools from H-convergence, we show existence of optimal solutions. First order necessary optimality conditions are obtained after deriving…
We give a simplified presentation of the obstacle problem approach to stochastic homogenization for elliptic equations in nondivergence form. Our argument also applies to equations which depend on the gradient of the unknown function. In…
We use a characterization of the fractional Laplacian as a Dirichlet to Neumann operator for an appropriate differential equation to study its obstacle problem. We write an equivalent characterization as a thin obstacle problem. In this way…
Obstacles to integrability sometimes hamper the standard Normal Form analysis of perturbed integrable evolution equations. One is then forced to account for them by the Normal Form, which is the dynamical equation obeyed by the zero-order…
In this paper, we use probabilistic approach to prove that there exists a unique weak solution to the Dirichlet boundary value problem for second order elliptic equations whose coefficients are signed measures, and we will give a…
Strang splitting is a well established tool for the numerical integration of evolution equations. It allows the application of tailored integrators for different parts of the vector field. However, it is also prone to order reduction in the…