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In this work, we revisit the following estimate due to Dahlberg \cite{Dahl}. Let $\textit{\textbf x}_0$ a fixed point in a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$. Then there exists a constant $C > 0$ such that if $u$ is a harmonic function in…

Let $S^2$ be the 2-dimensional unit sphere and let $J_\alpha $ denote the nonlinear functional on the Sobolev space $H^{1,2}(S^2)$ defined by $$ J_\alpha(u) = \frac{\alpha}{4}\int_{S^2}|\nabla u|^2 d\omega + \int_{S^2} u d\omega -\ln…

In this article, we study domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{S}^2$ that support positive solutions of the overdetermined problem $$ \Delta u + f(u,|\nabla u|)=0 \quad \text{in } \Omega, $$ subject to the boundary conditions $u=0$ on…

In this paper we prove a reverse Faber-Krahn inequality for the principal eigenvalue $\mu_1(\Omega)$ of the fully nonlinear eigenvalue problem \[ \label{eq} \left\{\begin{array}{r c l l} -\lambda_N(D^2 u) & = & \mu u & \text{in }\Omega, \\…

We consider the remaining unsettled cases in the problem of existence of energy minimizing solutions for the Dirichlet value problem $L_\gamma u-\lambda u=\frac{u^{2^*(s)-1}}{|x|^s}$ on a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$…

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In this paper we present an approximation result concerning the first eigenvalue of the 1-Laplacian operator. More precisely, for $\Omega$ a bounded regular open domain, we consider a minimisation of the functional ${\ds \int_\Omega}|\nabla…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 2$, be a bounded convex domain and $f\colon \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ be a non-negative subharmonic function. In this paper we prove the inequality \[ \frac{1}{|\Omega|}\int_\Omega f(x)\,dx \leq…

For all functions on an arbitrary open set $\Omega\subset\R^3$ with zero boundary values, we prove the optimal bound \[ \sup_{\Omega}|u| \leq (2\pi)^{-1/2} \left(\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^2 \,dx\, \int_{\Omega}|\Delta u|^2 \,dx\right)^{1/4}.…

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The Trudinger-Moser inequality states that for functions $u \in H_0^{1,n}(\Omega)$ ($\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$ a bounded domain) with $\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^ndx \le 1$ one has $\int_\Omega (e^{\alpha_n|u|^{\frac n{n-1}}}-1)dx \le c…

In this expository paper, we consider the Hardy-Schr\"odinger operator $-\Delta -\gamma/|x|^2$ on a smooth domain \Omega of R^n with 0\in\bar{\Omega}, and describe how the location of the singularity 0, be it in the interior of \Omega or on…

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We consider the problem of finding and describing minimisers of the Rayleigh quotient \[ \Lambda_\infty \, :=\, \inf_{u\in \mathcal{W}^{2,\infty}(\Omega)\setminus\{0\} }\frac{\|\Delta u\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}}{\|u\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}}, \]…

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