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We investigate, on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\R^2$ with fixed $S^1$-valued boundary condition $g$ of degree $d>0$, the asymptotic behaviour of solutions $u_{\varepsilon,\delta}$ of a class of Ginzburg-Landau equations driven by two…

We study regularity of the Finsler $\gamma$-Laplacian, a general class of degenerate elliptic PDEs which naturally appear in anisotropic geometric problems. Precisely, given any strictly convex family of $C^{1}$-norms $\{ \rho_{x}\}$ on…

In this paper we study the initial boundary value problem for the system $\mbox{div}(\sigma(u)\nabla\varphi)=0,\ \ u_t-\Delta u=\sigma(u)|\nabla\varphi|^2$. This problem is known as the thermistor problem which models the electrical heating…

We establish the existence of positive solutions for a system of coupled fourth-order partial differential equations on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$\begin{align*} \left\{\begin{array}{l} \Delta^2u_1 +\beta_1 \Delta…

We study a shape optimization problem associated with the first eigenvalue of a nonlinear spectral problem involving a mixed operator ($p-$Laplacian and Laplacian) with a constraint on the volume. First, we prove the existence of a…

We consider the incompressible Euler equation on an analytic domain $\Omega $ with nonhomogeneous boundary condition $u\cdot \mathsf{n} = \overline{u} \cdot \mathsf{n}$ on $\partial \Omega$, where $\overline{u}$ is a given divergence-free…

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…

We find the Euler-Lagrangian equation by maximising the total entropy. Hence we obtain an expression for mass of the spherically symmetric system by solving the Euler-Lagrangian equation where the Homotopy Perturbation Method has been…

In this paper we initiate the study of maps minimising the energy $$ \int_{D} (|\nabla \u|^2+2|\u|)\ dx. $$ which, due to Lipschitz character of the integrand, gives rise to the singular Euler equations $$ \Delta…

Let $ 0\le f\in C^{0,1}(\mathbb R^n)$. Given a domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$, we prove that any stable solution to the equation $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in $\Omega$ satisfies a BMO interior regularity when $n=10$, and an Morrey…

Given $\rho>0$, we study the elliptic problem \[ \text{find } (U,\lambda)\in H^1_0(\Omega)\times \mathbb{R} \text{ such that } \begin{cases} -\Delta U+\lambda U=|U|^{p-1}U \int_{\Omega} U^2\, dx=\rho, \end{cases} \] where…

Let $N>2$, $p\in \left(\frac{2N}{N+2},+\infty\right)$, and $\Omega$ be an open bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$. We consider the minimum problem $$ \mathcal{J} (u) := \displaystyle\int_{\Omega } \left(\frac{1}{p}| \nabla u|…

Denote with $\mu_{1}(\Omega;e^{h\left(|x|\right)})$ the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the Neumann problem \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{lll} -\text{div}\left(e^{h\left(|x|\right)}\nabla u\right) =\mu e^{h\left(|x|\right)}u &…

We study the PDE $\lambda_j(D^2 u) = 0$, in $\Omega$, with $u=g$, on $\partial \Omega$. Here $\lambda_1(D^2 u) \leq ... \leq \lambda_N (D^2 u)$ are the ordered eigenvalues of the Hessian $D^2 u$. First, we show a geometric interpretation of…

We examine the regularity of the extremal solution of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem $\Delta^2 u = \lambda f(u)$ on a general bounded domain $\Omega$ in $ \IR^N$, with the Navier boundary condition $ u=\Delta u =0 $ on $ \pOm$. Here $…

Solutions to elliptic equations often exhibit higher regularity properties such as \emph{higher integrability}. That is, for instance, a solution $u$ to a system that a priori only satisfies $ u \in W^{1,r}$ is more regular and even in the…

This paper is dedicated to the spectral optimization problem $$ \mathrm{min}\left\{\lambda_1^s(\Omega)+\cdots+\lambda_m^s(\Omega) + \Lambda \mathcal{L}_n(\Omega)\colon \Omega\subset D \mbox{ s-quasi-open}\right\} $$ where $\Lambda>0,…

We study the conformal plate buckling equation (Laplace--Beltrami)^2 u =1, where the L-B operator is for the metric g = e^{2u}g_0, with $g_0$ the standard Euclidean metric on R^2. This conformal elliptic PDE of fourth order is equivalent to…

In this paper, we are concerned with solutions to the following nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with combined inhomogeneous nonlinearities, $$ -\Delta u + \lambda u= \mu |x|^{-b}|u|^{q-2} u + |x|^{-b}|u|^{p-2} u \quad \mbox{in} \,\, \R^N,…

Let $\Omega $ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R} ^N $, and let $u\in C^1 (\overline{\Omega }) $ be a weak solution of the following overdetermined BVP: $-\nabla (g(|\nabla u|)|\nabla u|^{-1} \nabla u )=f(|x|,u)$, $ u>0 $ in $\Omega $ and…