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Our concern is the computation of optimal shapes in problems involving $\(-\Delta)^{1/2}$. We focus on the energy $J(\Omega)$ associated to the solution $u\_\Omega$ of the basic Dirichlet problem $(-\Delta)^{1/2} u\_\Omega = 1$ in $\Omega$,…
In this work we study the existence of solutions to the critical Brezis-Nirenberg problem when one deals with the spectral fractional Laplace operator and mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions, i.e., $$ \left\{\begin{array}{rcl}…
We study a discretization technique for the parabolic fractional obstacle problem in bounded domains. The fractional Laplacian is realized as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a nonuniformly elliptic equation posed on a semi-infinite…
We prove optimality of the Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality $$ \|\nabla u\|_{X}\lesssim\|\nabla^2 u\|_Y^{1/2}\|u\|_Z^{1/2}, $$ where $Y, Z$ are rearrangement invariant Banach function spaces and $X=Y^{1/2}Z^{1/2}$ is the…
A comprehensive analysis of Sobolev-type inequalities for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator in the Gauss space is offered. A unified approach is proposed, providing one with criteria for their validity in the class of rearrangement-invariant…
We study minimizers of the functional $$ \int_{B_1^+}|\nabla u|^2 x_n^a\,d x +2\int_{B_1'} (\lambda_+ u^++\lambda_- u^-)\,d x', $$ for $a\in(-1,1)$. The problem arises in connection with heat flow with control on the boundary. It can also…
In this paper, we study a maximization and a minimization problem associated with a Poisson boundary value problem. Optimal solutions in a set of rearrangements of a given function define stationary and stable flows of an ideal fluid in two…
We prove a uniqueness theorem for the obstacle problem for linear equations involving the fractional Laplacian with zero Dirichlet exterior condition. The problem under consideration arises as the limit of some logistic-type equations. Our…
Nowadays a great attention has been focused on the discrete fractional Laplace operator as the natural counterpart of the continuous one. In this paper, we discretize the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^{s}$ for an arbitrary finite…
The present paper studies the non-local fractional analogue of the famous paper of Brezis and Nirenberg in [4]. Namely, we focus on the following model, $$\begin{align*}\left(\mathcal{P}\right) \begin{cases} \left(-\Delta\right)^s u-\lambda…
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$, be a bounded connected open set. We consider the weighted eigenvalue problem $-\Delta u =\lambda m u$ in $\Omega$ with $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$, $m\in L^\infty(\Omega)$ and with homogeneous…
We prove some basic inequalities relating the Gagliardo-Nirenberg seminorms of a symmetric function $u$ on $\mathbb R^n$ and of its perturbation $u\varphi_\mu$, where $\varphi_\mu$ is a suitably chosen eigenfunction of the Laplace-Beltrami…
We study dynamic minimization problems of the calculus of variations with generalized Lagrangian functionals that depend on a general linear operator $K$ and defined on bounded-time intervals. Under assumptions of regularity, convexity and…
We review the finite element approximation of the classical obstacle problem in energy and max-norms and derive error estimates for both the solution and the free boundary. On the basis of recent regularity results we present an optimal…
For a given domain $\Omega \subset \Bbb{R}^n$, we consider the variational problem of minimizing the $L^1$-norm of the gradient on $\Omega$ of a function $u$ with prescribed continuous boundary values and satisfying a continuous lower…
We study the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian with drift, $\min\left\{(-\Delta)^s u + b \cdot \nabla u,\,u -\varphi\right\} = 0$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, in the critical regime $s = \frac{1}{2}$. Our main result establishes the…
In this work, we are concerned with inverse problems involving poly-fractional operators, where the poly-fractional operator is of the form \[P( (-\Delta_g)^s)u := \sum_{i=1}^M \alpha_i(-\Delta_{g_i})^{s_i}u\] for $s=(s_1,\dots,s_M)$,…
We investigate an approach for the numerical solution of differential equations which is based on the perfect discretization of actions. Such perfect discretizations show up at the fixed points of renormalization group transformations. This…
We consider a semipositone problem involving the fractional $p$ Laplace operator of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} (-\Delta)_p^s u &=\mu( u^{r}-1) \text{ in } \Omega,\\ u &>0 \text{ in }\Omega,\\ u &=0 \text{ on }\Omega^{c},…