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Motivated by many applications, optimal control problems with integer controls have recently received a significant attention. Some state-of-the-art work uses perimeter-regularization to derive stationarity conditions and trust-region…

In this work, we study the two following minimization problems for $r \in \mathbb{N}^{*}$, \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{ccc} S_{0,r}(\varphi)=\displaystyle\inf_{u\in H_{0}^{r}(\Omega)\,|u+\varphi\|_{L^{2^{*r}}}=1}\|u\|_{r}^{2}&…

In this research, we investigate a general shape optimization problem in which the state equation is expressed using a nonlocal and nonlinear operator. We prove the existence of a minimum point for a functional $F$ defined on the family of…

We extend the classical concepts of sampling and Euler solutions for control systems associated to discontinuous feedbacks by considering also the corresponding costs. In particular, we introduce the notions of Sample and Euler…

We consider a minimization problem that combines the Dirichlet energy with the nonlocal perimeter of a level set, namely $$ \int_\Om |\nabla u(x)|^2\,dx+\Per\Big(\{u > 0\},\Om \Big),$$ with $\sigma\in(0,1)$. We obtain regularity results for…

We consider non-negative distributional solutions $u\in C^1 (\bar{B_R } )$ to the equation $-\mbox{div} [g(|\nabla u|)|\nabla u|^{-1} \nabla u ] = f(|x|,u)$ in a ball $B_R$, with $u=0$ on $\partial B_R $, where $f$ is continuous and…

The minimization of energy-like cost functionals is addressed in the context of optimal control problems. For a general class of dynamical systems, with possibly unstable and nonlinear free dynamics, it is shown that a sequence of solutions…

We consider the class of semi-stable solutions to semilinear equations $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ of $R^n$ (with $\Omega$ convex in some results). This class includes all local minimizers, minimal, and extremal…

We consider a $C^1-$semilinear elliptic optimal control problem possibly subject to control and/or state constraints. Generalizing previous work we provide a condition which guarantees that a solution of the necessary first order conditions…

For open radial sets $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 2$ we consider the nonlinear problem \[ (P)\quad Iu=f(|x|,u) \quad\text{in $\Omega$,}\quad u\equiv 0\quad \text{on $\mathbb{R}^N\setminus \Omega$ and }\lim_{|x|\to\infty} u(x)=0, \]…

In the paper, we study the minimization problem of a non-convex sparsity promoting penalty function $$P_{a}(x)=\sum_{i=1}^{n}p_{a}(x_{i})=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{a|x_{i}|}{1+a|x_{i}|}$$ in compressed sensing, which is called fraction function.…

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of least energy nodal solutions $u_p(x)$ to the following fourth-order elliptic problem \[ \begin{cases} \Delta^2 u =|u|^{p-1}u \quad &\hbox{in}\;\Omega, \\ u=\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}=0…

In this paper, we consider the fractional elliptic equation \begin{align*} \left\{\begin{aligned} &(-\Delta)^s u-\mu\frac{u}{|x|^{2s}} = \frac{|u|^{2_s^\ast (\alpha)-2}u}{|x|^{\alpha}} + f(x,u), && \mbox{in} \ \Omega,\\ &u=0, && \mbox{in} \…

We show that the elliptic equation with a non-Lipschitz right-hand side, $-\Delta u = \lambda |u|^{\beta-1}u - |u|^{\alpha-1}u$ with $\lambda>0$ and $0<\alpha<\beta<1$, considered on a smooth star-shaped domain $\Omega$ subject to zero…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded smooth domain (open and connected) in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Given $u_0\in L^2(\Omega)$, $g\in L^\infty(\Omega)$ and $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$, our purpose is to describe the asymptotic behavior of…

In this paper we consider some optimal control problems governed by elliptic partial differential equations. The solution is the state variable, while the control variable is, depending on the case, the coefficient of the PDE, the…

We would like to study the solution stability of a parametric control problem governed by semilinear elliptic equations with a mixed state-control constraint, where the cost function is nonconvex and the admissible set is unbounded. The…

We study local regularity properties of local minimizer of scalar integral functionals of the form $$\mathcal F[u]:=\int_\Omega F(\nabla u)-f u\,dx$$ where the convex integrand $F$ satisfies controlled $(p,q)$-growth conditions. We…

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