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We study both existence and nonexistence of nonnegative solutions for nonlinear elliptic problems with singular lower order terms that have natural growth with respect to the gradient, whose model is $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u +…

We prove global $W^{1,q}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^m)$-regularity for minimisers of convex functionals of the form $\mathscr{F}(u)=\int_\Omega F(x,Du)\mathrm{d} x$. $W^{1,q}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^m)$ regularity is also proven for minimisers of the…

In this paper we study an anisotropic variant of the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi functional with $L^1$ fidelity term of the form \[ E(u) = \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \phi(\nabla u) + \lambda \| u -f \|_{L^1(\mathbb{R}^n)}. \] We will characterize the…

We study existence and convergence properties of least-energy symmetric solutions (l.e.s.s.) to the pure critical problem \begin{equation*} (-\Delta)^su_s=|u_s|^{2^\star_s-2}u_s, \quad u_s\in D^s_0(\Omega),\quad 2^\star_s:=\frac{2N}{N-2s},…

We consider the functional \[ F(u)=\int_{\Omega} f(\nabla u)\,dx\qquad u\in\varphi+W^{1,1}_0(\Omega) \] where $\Omega$ is a Lipschitz bounded open set of $\R^N$, $f:\R^N\to\R\cup \{+\infty\}$ is a superlinear Borel function, $\varphi\in…

We consider periodic homogenization of boundary value problems for second-order semilinear elliptic systems in 2D of the type $$ \partial_{x_i}\left(a_{ij}^{\alpha…

A time-fractional Fokker-Planck initial-boundary value problem is considered, with differential operator $u_t-\nabla\cdot(\partial_t^{1-\alpha}\kappa_\alpha\nabla u-\textbf{F}\partial_t^{1-\alpha}u)$, where $0<\alpha <1$. The forcing…

Given an open subset $\Omega$ of a Banach space and a Lipschitz function $u_0: \overline{\Omega} \to \mathbb{R},$ we study whether it is possible to approximate $u_0$ uniformly on $\Omega$ by $C^k$-smooth Lipschitz functions which coincide…

We study the problem of finding a function u verifying --$\Delta$u = 0 in $\Omega$ under the boundary condition $\partial$u $\partial$n + g(u) = $\mu$ on $\partial$$\Omega$ where $\Omega$ $\subset$ R N is a smooth domain, n the normal unit…

We introduce higher order variants of the Yang-Mills functional that involve $(n-2)$th order derivatives of the curvature. We prove coercivity and smoothness of critical points in Uhlenbeck gauge in dimensions $\mathrm{dim}M\le 2n$. These…

This is the first of two papers which study asymptotic behavior of minimal energy solutions to the fractional Lane-Emden system in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ \[(-\Delta)^s u = v^p, \quad (-\Delta)^s v = u^q \text{ in } \Omega \quad…

We establish the existence and find some qualitative properties of open sets that minimize functionals of the form $ F(\lambda_1(\Omega;\beta),\dots,\lambda_k(\Omega;\beta))$ under measure constraint on $\Omega$, where…

Let $\Omega$ denote the class of functions $f$ analytic in the open unit disc $\Delta$, normalized by the condition $f(0)=f'(0)-1=0$ and satisfying the inequality \begin{equation*} \left|zf'(z)-f(z)\right|<\frac{1}{2}\quad(z\in\Delta).…

Given any asymptotically flat 3-manifold $(M,g)$ with smooth, non-empty, compact boundary $\Sigma$, the conformal conjecture states that for every $\delta>0$, there exists a metric $g' = u^4 g$, with $u$ a harmonic function, such that the…

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded simply connected domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We investigate the existence of critical points of the energy $E_\varepsilon (u)=1/2\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2+1/(4\varepsilon^2)\int_\Omega (1-|u|^2)^2$, where the…

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth oriented bounded domain in $\mathbb R^4$, $H_0^2(\Omega)$ be the Sobolev space, and $\lambda_1(\Omega)= \inf \{\|\Delta u\|_2^2 : u\in H_0^2(\Omega), \|u\|_2 =1\}$ be the first eigenvalue of the bi-Laplacian…

Let $\mathcal{D} =\Omega \setminus\bar{\omega} \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a smooth annular type domain. We consider the simplified Ginzburg-Landau energy $E_\epsilon(u)=\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathcal{D}} |\nabla u|^2…

In this article we prove that entire critical points $(u,\nabla)$ of the self-dual $U(1)$-Yang-Mills-Higgs functional $E_1$, with energy $$E_1(u,\nabla;B_R):=\int_{B_R}\left[|\nabla…

Consider in a real Hilbert space $H$ the differential equation (inclusion) $(E)$: $p(t)u^{\prime \prime}(t)+q(t)u^{\prime}(t)\in Au(t)+f(t)$ for a.a. $t>0$, with the condition $(B)$: $u(0)=x \in \overline{D(A)}$, where $A\colon D(A)\subset…

We consider convex potentials $W:\R\to [0,\infty)$ vanishing at $0$ and growing sufficiently fast at $\pm\infty$. Given any open set $\Omega\subset\R^n$ with Lipschitz and compact boundary, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a…