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For a transmission problem in a truncated two-dimensional cylinder located beneath the graph of a function u, the shape derivative of the Dirichlet energy (with respect to u) is shown to be well-defined and is computed. The main…

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…

We prove that in dimension $n \geq 2$, within the collection of unit measure cuboids in $\mathbb{R}^n$ (i.e. domains of the form $\prod_{i=1}^{n}(0, a_n)$), any sequence of minimising domains $R_k^\mathcal{D}$ for the Dirichlet eigenvalues…

We prove the uniqueness of solutions to Dirichlet problem for p-harmonic maps with images in a small geodesic ball of the target manifold. As a consequence, we show that such maps have Hoelder continuous derivatives. This gives an extension…

We study the geometry of domains in complete metric measure spaces equipped with a doubling measure supporting a $1$-Poincar\'e inequality. We propose a notion of \emph{domain with boundary of positive mean curvature} and prove that, for…

Using the critical point theory for convex, lower semicontinuous perturbations of locally Lipschitz functionals, we prove the solvability of the discontinuous Dirichlet problem involving the operator $u\mapsto{div} (\frac{\nabla…

In the early 1980's Almgren developed a theory of Dirichlet energy minimizing multi-valued functions, proving that the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set (including branch points) of such a function is at most $(n-2),$ where $n$ is the…

We develop an unconditionally energy-stable tensor-product space-time discretization framework for the solution of a linear kinetic transport equation in one space dimension. The kinetic equation is a simplified model of radiative transfer…

We consider the minimal k-grouping problem: given a graph G=(V,E) and a constant k, partition G into subgraphs of diameter no greater than k, such that the union of any two subgraphs has diameter greater than k. We give a silent…

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for the minimal graph equation on a Cartan-Hadamard manifold $M$ whose radial sectional curvatures outside a compact set satisfy an upper bound $$K(P)\le - \frac{\phi(\phi-1)}{r(x)^2}$$ and a…

This paper develops an analogue (or counterpart) to discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for approximating a general class of calculus of variations problems. The proposed method, called the discontinuous Ritz (DR) method, constructs a…

We give a short proof that for a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ and continuous boundary data $g\in C(\partial\Omega)$ admitting a continuous finite-energy extension $\phi\in H^{1}(\Omega)\cap C(\bar\Omega)$, the minimizer of the…

Combining probabilistic and analytic tools from potential theory, we investigate Dirichlet problems associated with the Dunkl Laplacian $\Delta_k$. We establish, under some conditions on the open set $D\subset\R^d$, the existence of a…

For any $-1<m<0$, $\mu>0$, $0\le u_0\in L^{\infty}(R)$ such that $u_0(x)\le (\mu_0 |m||x|)^{\frac{1}{m}}$ for any $|x|\ge R_0$ and some constants $R_0>1$ and $0<\mu_0\leq \mu$, and $f,\,g \in C([0,\infty))$ such that $f(t),\, g(t) \geq…

We consider the "thin one-phase" free boundary problem, associated to minimizing a weighted Dirichlet energy of the function in $\mathbb R^{n+1}_+$ plus the area of the positivity set of that function in $\mathbb R^n$. We establish full…

Let $X=(X_1,X_2,\ldots)$ be a sequence of random variables with values in a standard space $(S,\mathcal{B})$. Suppose \begin{gather*} X_1\sim\nu\quad\text{and}\quad P\bigl(X_{n+1}\in\cdot\mid…

It is proved in Chon{\'e} and Le Meur (2001) that the problem of minimizing a Dirichlet-like functional of the function $u\_h$ discretized with $P\_1$ Finite Elements, under the constraint that $u\_h$ be convex, cannot converge. Here, we…

When considered as a standalone iterative solver for elliptic boundary value problems, the Dirichlet-Neumann (DN) method is known to converge geometrically for domain decompositions into strips, even for a large number of subdomains.…

Our concern is the computation of optimal shapes in problems involving $\(-\Delta)^{1/2}$. We focus on the energy $J(\Omega)$ associated to the solution $u\_\Omega$ of the basic Dirichlet problem $(-\Delta)^{1/2} u\_\Omega = 1$ in $\Omega$,…

In this paper, we first prove the existence of solutions to Dirichlet problems involving the fractional $g$-Laplacian operator and lower order terms by appealing to sub- and supersolution methods. Moreover, we also state the existence of…