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In this paper, we investigate Bernoulli type free boundary problem on collapsed RCD(K,N)-spaces. We prove the existence of minimizers and prove the local Lipschitz continuity of minimizers provided that the negative part is locally…

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We consider almost minimizers to the one-phase energy functional and we prove their optimal Lipschitz regularity and partial regularity of their free boundary. These results were recently obtained by David and Toro, and David, Engelstein,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

We present a class of one-dimensional systems of nonlinear parabolic equations for which long-time phase dynamics can be described by an ODE with a Lipschitz vector field in R^n. In the considered case of the Dirichlet boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-04 A. V. Romanov

The phenomenon of liquid-gas phase transition occurring in heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies is a subject of contemporary interest. In statistical models of fragmentation, the liquid drop model is generally used to calculate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-09 G. Chaudhuri , S. Mallik

We prove that minimizers and almost minimizers of one-phase free boundary energy functionals in periodic media satisfy large scale (1) Lipschitz estimates (2) free boundary flat implies Lipschitz estimates. The proofs are based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 William M Feldman

In this paper we consider minimizers for nonlocal energy functionals generalizing elastic energies that are connected with the theory of peridynamics \cite{Silling2000} or nonlocal diffusion models \cite{Rossi}. We derive nonlocal versions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Mikil D. Foss , Petronela Radu , Cory Wright

We prove $C^{1,\nu}$ regularity for local minimizers of the \oh{multi-phase} energy: \begin{flalign*} w \mapsto \int_{\Omega}\snr{Dw}^{p}+a(x)\snr{Dw}^{q}+b(x)\snr{Dw}^{s} \ dx, \end{flalign*} under sharp assumptions relating the couples…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Cristiana De Filippis , Jehan Oh

We consider a non-local free energy functional, modelling a competition between entropy and pairwise interactions reminiscent of the second order virial expansion, with applications to nematic liquid crystals as a particular case. We build…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Giacomo Canevari , Jamie M. Taylor

We consider in this work the problem of minimizing the von Neumann entropy under the constraints that the density of particles, the current, and the kinetic energy of the system is fixed at each point of space. The unique minimizer is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Romain Duboscq , Olivier Pinaud

Motivated by the construction of time-periodic solutions for the three-dimensional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the case of soft and small ferromagnetic particles, we investigate the regularity properties of minimizers of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Alexander Huber

We consider volume-constrained minimizers of the fractional perimeter with the addition of a potential energy in the form of a volume inte- gral. Such minimizers are solutions of the prescribed fractional curvature problem. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Annalisa Cesaroni , Matteo Novaga

In the present work, we study minimizers of the Landau-de Gennes free energy in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^3$. We prove that at low temperature minimizers do not vanish, even for topologically non-trivial boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Andres Contreras , Xavier Lamy

We use a new approach that we call unification to prove that standard weighted double bubbles in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space minimize immiscible fluid surface energy, that is, surface area weighted by constants. The result is new for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-20 Gary R. Lawlor

Traditionally, the difference in binding energy from the experimental value with respect to the theoretical liquid-drop model value, has been seen as indication of independent-particle character along with magicity for particular number of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-12-11 S. Afsar Abbas

We study a class of Landau-de Gennes energy functionals with a sextic bulk energy density in a three-dimensional domain. We examine the asymptotic behavior of uniformly bounded minimizers in two distinct scenarios: one where their energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

We consider a variational model of electrified liquid drops, involving competition between surface tension and charge repulsion. Since the natural model happens to be ill-posed, we show that by adding to the perimeter a Willmore-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Michael Goldman , Matteo Novaga , Berardo Ruffini

We study a variational problem modeling the behavior at equilibrium of charged liquid drops under convexity constraint. After proving well-posedness of the model, we show C 1,1-regularity of minimizers for the Coulombic interaction in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Michael Goldman , Matteo Novaga , Berardo Ruffini

We prove hyperbolicity of global minimizers for random Lagrangian systems in dimension 1. The proof considerably simplifies a related result in [2]. The conditions for hyperbolicity are almost optimal: they are essentially the same as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Alexandre Boritchev , Konstantin Khanin

In arXiv:1906.09232v2, Golovaty et al. present a $Q$-tensor model for liquid crystal dynamics which reduces to the well-known Oseen-Frank director field model in uniaxial states. We study a closely related model and present an energy stable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Jacob Elafandi , Franziska Weber

For the Landau-de Gennes functional modeling nematic liquid crystals in dimension three, we prove that, if the energy is bounded by $C(\log\frac{1}{\varepsilon}+1)$, then the sequence of minimizers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Haotong Fu , Huaijie Wang , Wei Wang