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In this paper, we investigate the Dirichlet problem on lower dimensional manifolds for a class of weighted elliptic equations with coefficients that are singular on such sets. Specifically, we study the problem \[\begin{cases} -{\rm…
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…
For a fixed constant $\lambda > 0$ and a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with $n \geq 2$, we establish that almost-minimizers (functions satisfying a sort of variational inequality) of the Alt-Caffarelli type…
This paper is devoted to the $L^2$-constraint variational problem \begin{equation*} We study $L^2$-normalized solutions of the following inhomogeneous fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation \begin{equation*} (-\Delta)^{s}…
In \cite{CHMY04}, we studied $p$-mean curvature and the associated $p$-minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group from the viewpoint of PDE and differential geometry. In this paper, we look into the problem through the variational…
We prove full boundary regularity for minimizing biharmonic maps with smooth Dirichlet boundary conditions. Our result, similarly as in the case of harmonic maps, is based on the nonexistence of nonconstant boundary tangent maps. With the…
We consider the variational problem of minimizing an anisotropic perimeter functional under a volume constraint in a Euclidean convex domain. We extend to this setting analytical properties of the isoperimetric profile, topological features…
In this paper we study surfaces in R^3 that arise as limit shapes in a class of random surface models arising from dimer models. The limit shapes are minimizers of a surface tension functional, that is, they minimize, for fixed boundary…
We obtain conditions for the differentiability of weak solutions for a second-order uniformly elliptic equation in divergence form with a homogeneous co-normal boundary condition. The modulus of continuity for the coefficients is assumed to…
We study the minimizers of $L^2$-subcritical inhomogeneous variational problems with spatially decaying nonlinear terms, which contain $x = 0$ as a singular point. The limit concentration behavior of minimizers is proved as $M\to\infty$ by…
We consider Dirichlet problems for fully nonlinear mixed local-nonlocal non-translation invariant operators. For a bounded $C^2$ domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d,$ let $u\in C(\mathbb{R}^d)$ be a viscosity solution of such Dirichlet…
We consider the problem of minimizing the Lagrangian $\int [F(\nabla u)+f\,u]$ among functions on $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with given boundary datum $\varphi$. We prove Lipschitz regularity up to the boundary for solutions of this…
In this paper we prove Holder regularity of the gradient for solutions of Dirichlet problem associate to degenerate elliptic equations, extending the recent result of Imbert and Silvestre. Indeed we obtain regularity up to the boundary and…
The central object of this article is (a special version of) the Helfrich functional which is the sum of the Willmore functional and the area functional times a weight factor $\varepsilon\ge 0$. We collect several results concerning the…
In this paper we study nonnegative minimizers of general degenerate elliptic functionals, $\int F(X,u,Du) dX \to \min$, for variational kernels $F$ that are discontinuous in $u$ with discontinuity of order $\sim \chi_{\{u > 0 \}}$. The…
We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…
We consider the problem of minimising the $L^\infty$ norm of a function of the hessian over a class of maps, subject to a mass constraint involving the $L^\infty$ norm of a function of the gradient and the map itself. We assume zeroth and…
The present work constitutes a first step towards establishing a systematic framework for treating variational problems that depend on a given input function through a mixture of its derivatives of different orders in different directions.…
Most variational forms of isogeometric analysis use highly-continuous basis functions for both trial and test spaces. For a partial differential equation with a smooth solution, isogeometric analysis with highly-continuous basis functions…
Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $N\geq 3$ and we let $\Sigma$ to be a closed submanifold of dimension $1 \leq k \leq N-2. $ In this paper we study existence and non-existence of minimizers of Hardy…