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A plasmon of a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ is a non-trivial bounded harmonic function on $\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\partial\Omega$ which is continuous at $\partial\Omega$ and whose exterior and interior normal derivatives at…

We establish the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the variable exponent $p$-Laplacian on a bounded, smooth domain $\Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^n$, where the boundary datum belongs to $W^{1,p}(\Omega)$.…

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Let $\Omega$ be an open convex set in ${\mathbb R}^m$ with finite width, and let $v_{\Omega}$ be the torsion function for $\Omega$, i.e. the solution of $-\Delta v=1, v\in H_0^1(\Omega)$. An upper bound is obtained for the product of $\Vert…

We study boundary regularity for solutions to a class of equations involving the so called regional fractional Lapacians $(-\Delta)^s_\Omega $, with $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$. Recall that the regional fractional Laplacians are generated…

In this M.Sc. thesis (Universit\'e de Montr\'eal, 2007), we consider problems arising in the study of the spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a disk as well as on a circular sector. The first part of the thesis is concerned with the…

We investigate the problem $$-\Delta u = \lambda b(x)|u|^{q-2}u +a(x)|u|^{p-2}u \mbox{ in } \Omega, \quad \frac{\partial u}{\partial \mathbf{n}} = 0 \mbox{ on } \partial \Omega, \leqno{(P_\lambda)} $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth…

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a set of finite measure. The periodic tiling conjecture suggests that if $\Omega$ tiles $\mathbb{R}^d$ by translations then it admits at least one periodic tiling. Fuglede's conjecture suggests that…

In this paper, we consider the following overdetermined eigenvalue problem on an unbounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ with $N\geq1$ \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u=\lambda u\,\, &\text{in}\,\, \Omega,\\ u=0…

Wiener's criterion for the regularity of a boundary point with respect to the Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation has been extended to various classes of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. They include linear…

We prove the boundedness of the non-local operator \[ \mathcal{L}^a u(x)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^d} \left(u(x+y)-u(x)-\chi_\alpha(y)\big(\nabla u(x),y\big)\right) a(x,y)\frac{dy}{|y|^{d+\alpha}} \] from $H_{p,w}^\alpha(\mathbb{R}^d)$ to…

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Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded open connected set with Lipschitz boundary. Let $A^N$ and $A^D$ be the Neumann Stokes operator and Dirichlet Stokes operator on $\Omega$, respectively. Further let $\lambda_1^N \leq \lambda_2^N…

A stability result in terms of the perimeter is obtained for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian operator. In particular, we prove that, once we fix the dimension $n\geq2$, there exists a constant $c>0$, depending only on $n$,…

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