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We consider the problem $$ (P_\lambda)\quad -\Delta_{p}u=\lambda u^{p-1}+a(x)u^{q-1},\quad u\geq0\quad\mbox{ in }\Omega $$ under Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. Here $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$…
Motivated by establishing Neumann Talenti type comparison results, we concern the minimization of the following shape functional under volume constraint: \begin{align*} T(\Omega):=\inf\left\{\frac12 \int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|^2\,dx…
We are interested in the behavior of solutions to the damped inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $ i\partial_tu+\Delta u+\mu|x|^{-b}|u|^{\alpha}u+iau=0$, $\mu \in\mathbb{C} $, $b>0$, $a \in \mathbb{C}$ such that $\Re…
We give estimates for positive solutions for the Schr\"odinger equation $(\Delta_\mu+W)u=0$ on a wide class of parabolic weighted manifolds $(M, d\mu)$ when $W$ decays to zero at infinity faster than quadratically. These can be combined…
In this paper, we analyze an operator splitting scheme of the nonlinear heat equation in $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\geq 1$): $\partial_t u = \Delta u + \lambda |u|^{p-1} u$ in $\Omega\times(0,\infty)$, $u=0$ in…
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…
Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\R^n$, $n\ge 5$. We consider the semilinear heat equation at the critical Sobolev exponent $$ u_t = \Delta u + u^{\frac{n+2}{n-2}} \inn \Omega\times (0,\infty), \quad u =0 \onn \pp\Omega\times…
In this paper, we obtain optimal upper bounds for all the Neumann eigenvalues in two situations (that are closely related). First we consider a one-dimensional Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem where the density is a function $h(x)$ whose…
We study the following nonlinear heat equation with damping and pumping effects (a reaction-diffusion equation) posed on a bounded simply connected convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 1$ with Lipschitz boundary…
We study the regularity of the extremal solution $u^*$ to the singular reaction-diffusion problem $-\Delta_p u = \lambda f(u)$ in $\Omega$, $u =0$ on $\partial \Omega$, where $1<p<2$, $0 < \lambda < \lambda^*$, $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$…
We discuss a nonlinear system of partial differential equations modelling the formation of granuloma during tuberculosis infections and prove the global solvability of the homogeneous Neumann problem for \begin{align*} \begin{cases} u_t =…
We consider positive solutions for the fractional heat equation with critical exponent \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t = -(-\Delta)^{s}u + u^{\frac{n+2s}{n-2s}}\text{ in } \Omega\times (0, \infty), u = 0\text{ on }…
In an approach to noncommutative gauge theories, where the full noncommutative behavior is delimited by the presence of the UV and IR cutoffs, we consider the possibility of describing a system at a temperature T in a box of size L.…
We consider the equation $-\epsilon^{2}\Delta u + u = u^ {p}$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\R^{3}$ with edges. We impose Neumann boundary conditions, assuming $1<p<5$, and prove concentration of solutions at suitable points of…
This work deals with the consumption chemotaxis problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases*} u_t = \Delta u - \chi \nabla \cdot u\nabla v + \lambda u - \mu u^2 - c \lvert \nabla u \rvert^\gamma, & \text{in $\Omega\times(0,\tmax)$}, v_t = \Delta…
We give new criteria for the existence of weak solutions to an equation with a super linear source term \begin{align*}-\Delta u = u^q ~~\text{in}~\Omega,~~u=\sigma~~\text{on }~\partial\Omega\end{align*}where $\Omega$ is a either a bounded…
This paper deals with the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the Hermite operator defined in a convex, possibly unbounded, planar domain $\Omega$, having one axis of symmetry passing through the origin. We prove a sharp lower bound for the…
We give a simple proof of a lower bound for the Dirichlet heat kernel in terms of the Gaussian heat kernel. Using this we establish a non-existence result for semilinear heat equations with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions and initial…
In this paper, we consider the finite element approximation for a parabolic problem on a smooth domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ with the inhomogeneous Neumann boundary condition. We emphasize that the domain can be non-convex in…
We study existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to (F) $\partial\_t u+ (-\Delta)^\alphau+h(t, u)=0 $ in $(0,\infty)\times\R^N$,with initial condition $u(0,\cdot)=\nu$ in $\R^N$, where $N\ge2$, the operator $(-\Delta)^\alpha$is the…