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This article deals with the lower compactness property of a sequence of integrands and the use of this key notion in various domains: convergence theory, optimal control, non-smooth analysis. First about the interchange of the weak…

This paper mainly addresses the extrema of a nonconvex functional with double-well potential in higher dimensions through the approach of nonlinear partial differential equations. Based on the canonical duality method, the corresponding…

We announce new existence and $\varepsilon$-regularity results for minimisers of the relaxation of strongly quasiconvex integrals that on smooth maps $u\colon\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}\to\mathbb{R}^{N}$ are defined by $$u\mapsto…

Let T be a unital triangular algebra, let n > 1 be an integer, let gamma be an invertible element of Z(T), the center of T, and let Psi, Omega:\mathcal{T}\rightarrow \mathcal{T}$ be additive mappings satisfying \begin{align*} \Psi(X^n) =…

In this paper we apply both the procedure of dimension reduction and the incorporation of structured deformations to a three-dimensional continuum in the form of a thinning domain. We apply the two processes one after the other, exchanging…

A natural construction of the logarithmic extension of the M(2,p) minimal models is presented, which generalises our previous model [0708.0802] of percolation (p=3). Its key aspect is the replacement of the minimal model irreducible modules…

In this paper, we study the $L^{p}$ boundedness and $L^{p}(w)$ boundedness ($1<p<\infty$ and $w$ a Muckenhoupt $A_{p}$ weight) of fractional maximal singular integral operators $T_{\Omega,\alpha}^{\#}$ with homogeneous convolution kernel…

In the paper we introduce Orlicz type functional spaces defined in terms of nonlocal convolution type integral functionals and study the main properties of these spaces. We show in particular that, under natural convexity and growth…

This article studies an integral representation of functionals of linear growth on metric measure spaces with a doubling measure and a Poincar\'e inequality. Such a functional is defined through relaxation, and it defines a Radon measure on…

We prove a relaxation result for a quasi-convex bulk integral functional with variable exponent growth in a suitable space of bounded variation type. A key tool is a decomposition under mild assumptions of the energy into absolutely…

We study the problem of minimizing the second Dirichlet eigenvalue for the Laplacian operator among sets of given perimeter. In two dimensions, we prove that the optimum exists, is convex, regular, and its boundary contains exactly two…

Non-trivial outer algebra automorphisms may be utilized in $\lambda$-deformations of (gauged) WZW models thus providing an efficient way to construct new integrable models. We provide two such integrable deformations of the exact coset CFT…

In this note we present a sufficient condition ensuring lower semicontinuity for nonlocal supremal functionals of the type $$W^{1,\infty}(\Omega;\mathbb R^d)\ni u \mapsto \sup{\rm ess}_{(x,y)\in \Omega} W(x,y, \nabla u(x),\nabla u(y)),$$…

We consider minimization problems of functionals given by the difference between the Willmore functional of a closed surface and its area, when the latter is multiplied by a positive constant weight $\Lambda$ and when the surfaces are…

In this paper, we consider localized integral operators whose kernels have mild singularity near the diagonal and certain Holder regularity and decay off the diagonal. Our model example is the Bessel potential operator ${\mathcal J}_\gamma,…

The constrained minimisers of convex integral functionals of the form $\mathscr F(v)=\int_\Omega F(\nabla^k v(x))\mathrm d x $ defined on Sobolev mappings $v\in \mathrm W^{k,1}_g(\Omega , \mathbb R^N )\cap K$, where $K$ is a closed convex…

Let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ be open, $A$ a complex uniformly strictly accretive $d\times d$ matrix-valued function on $\Omega$ with $L^\infty$ coefficients, and $V$ a locally integrable function on $\Omega$ whose negative part is…

We investigate the three-dimensional compressible Euler-Maxwell system, a model for simulating the transport of electrons interacting with propagating electromagnetic waves in semiconductor devices. First, we show the global well-posedness…

We consider families $u_p$ of solutions to the problem \begin{equation}\label{problemAbstract} \left\{\begin{array}{lr}-\Delta u= u^p & \mbox{ in }\Omega\\ u>0 & \mbox{ in }\Omega\\ u=0 & \mbox{ on }\partial \Omega…

For a given second-order linear elliptic operator $L$ which admits a positive minimal Green function, and a given positive weight function $W$, we introduce a family of weighted Lebesgue spaces $L^p(\phi_p)$ with their dual spaces, where…