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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We establish necessary optimality conditions for variational problems with a Lagrangian depending on a combined Caputo derivative of variable fractional order. The endpoint of the integral is free, and thus transversality conditions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-30 Dina Tavares , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this note, we first introduce a boundary problem for Lagrangian submanifolds, analogous to the problem for free boundary hypersurfaces and capillary hypersurfaces. Then we present several interesting examples of Lagrangian submanifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Mingyan Li , Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

The present paper studies the fractional $p$-Laplacian boundary value problems with jumping nonlinearities at zero or infinity and obtain the existence of multiple solutions and sign-changing solutions by constructing the suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Debangana Mukherjee

The aim of this paper is two-fold: first, we look at the fractional Laplacian and the conformal fractional Laplacian from the general framework of representation theory on symmetric spaces and, second, we construct new boundary operators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Maria del Mar Gonzalez , Mariel Saez

This article derives lower bounds on the supremal (strict) p-negative type of finite metric spaces using purely elementary techniques. The bounds depend only on the cardinality and the (scaled) diameter of the underlying finite metric…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2008-07-18 Anthony Weston

New isoperimetric inequalities for lower order eigenvalues of the Laplacian on closed hypersurfaces, of the biharmonic Steklov problems and of the Wentzell-Laplace on bounded domains in a Euclidean space are proven. Some open questions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Fuquan Fang , Changyu Xia

In this paper we examine the existence of multiple solutions of parametric fractional equations involving the square root of the Laplacian $A_{1/2}$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 2$) and with Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Giovanni Molica Bisci , Dušan D. Repovš , Luca Vilasi

The purpose of this work is to study a finite element method for finding solutions to the eigenvalue problem for the fractional Laplacian. We prove that the discrete eigenvalue problem converges to the continuous one and we show the order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Leandro M. Del Pezzo , Sandra Martínez

The main goal of this paper is the study of two kinds of nonlinear problems depending on parameters in unbounded domains. Using a nonstandard variational approach, we first prove the existence of bounded solutions for nonlinear eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Said El Manouni , Hichem Hajaiej , Patrick Winkert

We consider a free boundary problem for the $p$-Laplace operator which is related to the so-called Bernoulli free boundary problem. In this formulation, the classical boundary gradient condition is replaced by a condition on the distance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Maria del Mar Gonzalez , Maria Gualdani , Henrik Shahgholian

This paper mainly investigates the analytic solutions for the approximation of $p$-Laplacian problem. Through an approximation mechanism, we convert the nonlinear partial differential equation with Dirichlet boundary into a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Xiaojun Lu , Xiaofen Lv

In this paper we study the obstacle problems for the fractional Lapalcian of order $s\in(0,1)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$, under mild assumptions on the data.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Roberta Musina , Alexander I. Nazarov , Konijeti Sreenadh

This paper presents necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for problems of the fractional calculus of variations with a Lagrangian depending on the free end-points. The fractional derivatives are defined in the sense of Caputo.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Pablo Ochoa , Analía Silva , Maria José Suarez Marziani

We study an optimal partition problem on the sphere, where the cost functional is associated with the fractional $Q$-curvature in terms of the conformal fractional Laplacian on the sphere. By leveraging symmetries, we prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Héctor A. Chang-Lara , Juan Carlos Fernández , Alberto Saldaña

This is the first of two articles in which we investigate the geometry of free boundary and capillary minimal surfaces in balls $B_R\subset\mathbb{S}^3$. In this article, we extend our previous half-space intersection properties to warped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Keaton Naff , Jonathan J. Zhu

We study global minimizers of biharmonic analogues of the Alt-Caffarelli functional. It turns out that half-space solutions are global minimizers for the two-sided Alt-Caffarelli functional, but not in the one-sided case. In addition, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Hans-Christoph Grunau , Marius Müller

In this paper we study a variational Neumann problem for the higher order $s$-fractional Laplacian, with $s>1$. In the process, we introduce some non-local Neumann boundary conditions that appear in a natural way from a Gauss-like…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-15 B. Barrios , L. Montoro , I. Peral , F. Soria

In this paper, we study local minimizers of a degenerate version of the Alt-Caffarelli functional. Specifically, we consider local minimizers of the functional $J_{Q}(u, \Omega):= \int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|^2 + Q(x)^2\chi_{\{u>0\}}dx$ where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Sean McCurdy