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We present pointwise gradient bounds for solutions to $p$-Laplacean type non-homogeneous equations employing non-linear Wolff type potentials, and then prove similar bounds, via suitable caloric potentials, for solutions to parabolic…

Let $A_1$ and $A_2$ be two circular annuli and let $\rho$ be a radial metric defined in the annuli $A_2$. We study the existence and uniqueness of the extremal problem for weighted combined energy between $A_1$ and $A_2$, and obtain that…

Let $\lambda$ be a probability measure on $\mathbb T^{n-1}$ where $n=2$ or 3. Suppose $\lambda$ is invariant, ergodic and has positive entropy with respect to the linear transformation defined by a hyperbolic matrix. We get a measure $\mu $…

Convolution with an appropriate surface measure on a paraboloid in R^d defines a bounded operator T from L^p(R^d) to L^q(R^d) for certain exponents p,q. In this article it is proved that there exist functions which extremize the associated…

We study nonlinear elliptic equations modeled on \[ -\mathrm{div}\,(|Du|^{p-2}Du+a(x)|Du|^{q-2}Du) = \mu, \] where $2\le p<q<\infty$, $a(\cdot) \ge 0$, and $\mu$ is a signed Borel measure with finite total mass. We prove local…

We propose a generic recipe for deforming extremal black holes into non-extremal black holes and we use it to find and study the non-extremal black-hole solutions of several N=2,d=4 supergravity models (SL(2,R)/U(1), CPn and STU with four…

Let $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$ be two complex-valued Borel measures on the real line such that $\operatorname{supp} \mu_1 =[\alpha_1,\beta_1] < \operatorname{supp} \mu_2 =[\alpha_2,\beta_2]$ and ${\rm d}\mu_i(x) = -\rho_i(x){\rm d}x/2\pi {\rm i}$,…

We derive lower bounds for the $L^p(\mu)$ norms of monic extremal polynomials with respect to compactly supported probability measures $\mu$. We obtain a sharp universal lower bound for all $0<p<\infty$ and all measures in the Szeg\H{o}…

In this paper we investigate the level sets of extremal Sobolev functions for subcritical exponents p. We conjecture that as p increases the corresponding extremal functions become more peaked, which we can measure by comparing their…

We employ Clarkson's inequality to deduce that each extremal of Morrey's inequality is axially symmetric and is antisymmetric with respect to reflection about a plane orthogonal to its axis of symmetry. We also use symmetrization methods to…

We describe a duality method to prove both existence and uniqueness of solutions to nonlocal problems like $$ (-\Delta)^s v = \mu \quad \text{in}\ \mathbb{R}^N, $$ with vanishing conditions at infinity. Here $\mu$ is a bounded Radon measure…

Let $s\in(0,1),$ $1<p<\frac{N}{s}$ and $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ be an open bounded set. In this work we study the existence of solutions to problems ($E_\pm$) $Lu\pm g(u)=\mu$ and $u=0$ a.e. in $\mathbb{R}^N\setminus\Omega,$ where $g\in…

We consider a number of boundary value problems involving the $p$-Laplacian. The model case is $-\Delta_p u=V|u|^{p-2}u$ for $u\in W_0^{1,2}(D)$ with $D$ a bounded domain in ${\bf R}^n$. We derive necessary conditions for the existence of…

In this paper, we prove the existence of multiple nontrivial solutions of the following equation. \begin{align*} \begin{split} -\Delta_{p}u & = \frac{\lambda}{u^{\gamma}}+g(u)+\mu~\mbox{in}\,\,\Omega, u & = 0\,\, \mbox{on}\,\,…

Semilinear elliptic equations of the form $-\Delta u =\lambda|u|^{p-2}u- |u|^{q-2}u$ in bounded and unbounded domains are considered. In the plane of exponents $p\times q$, the so-called critical exponents curve is introduced which…

This paper considers a pair of coupled nonlinear Helmholtz equations \begin{align*} -\Delta u - \mu u = a(x) \left( |u|^\frac{p}{2} + b(x) |v|^\frac{p}{2} \right)|u|^{\frac{p}{2} - 2}u, \end{align*} \begin{align*} -\Delta v - \nu v = a(x)…

Under certain circumstances, some of which are made explicit here, one can deduce bounds on the full sum of a perturbation series of a physical quantity by using a variational Borel map on the partial series. The method is illustrated by…

The paper develops various estimates for solutions of a fourth order nonlinear PDE, which corresponds to prescribing the scalar curvature of a toric Kahler metric.

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded, smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N},$ $N\geq2.$ For $p>N$ and $1\leq q(p)<\infty$ set \[ \lambda_{p,q(p)}:=\inf\left\{ \int_{\Omega}\left\vert \nabla u\right\vert ^{p}\mathrm{d}x:u\in W_{0}^{1,p}(\Omega)\text{ \ and…

We examine regularity of the extremal solution of nonlinear nonlocal eigenvalue problem \begin{eqnarray} \left\{ \begin{array}{lcl} \hfill \mathcal L u &=& \lambda F(u,v) \qquad \text{in} \ \ \Omega, \\ \hfill \mathcal L v &=& \gamma G(u,v)…