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We prove lower bounds for the Dirichlet Laplacian on possibly unbounded domains in terms of natural geometric conditions. This is used to derive uncertainty principles for low energy functions of general elliptic second order divergence…

We consider an integral dissipative operator in its Brodskii-Livshits triangular representation. The main question we are concerned with is similarity of the operator to a normal one. We obtain necessary as well as sufficient conditions for…

We evaluate the spectral determinant for the damped wave equation on an interval of length $T$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions, proving that it does not depend on the damping. This is achieved by analysing the square of the damped wave…

We consider Dirichlet problems for linear elliptic equations of second order in divergence form on a bounded or exterior smooth domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n \ge 3$, with drifts $\mathbf{b}$ in the critical weak $L^n$-space…

We study spectral estimates of the divergence form uniform elliptic operators $-\textrm{div}[A(z) \nabla f(z)]$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition in bounded non-Lipschitz simply connected domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb C$. The…

We consider a second order differential operator $A(\msx) = -\:\sum_{i,j=1}^d \partial_i a_{ij}(\msx) \partial_j \:+\: \sum_{j=1}^d \partial_j \big(b_j(\msx) \cdot \big)\:+\: c(\msx)$ on ${\bbR}^d$, on a bounded domain $D$ with Dirichlet…

We prove that the $A_\infty$ property of parabolic measure for operators in certain time-varying domains is equivalent to a Carleson measure property of bounded solutions. Kircheim, Kenig, Pipher, and T. Toro established this criterion on…

For a second-order elliptic equation of nondivergence form in the plane, we investigate conditions on the coefficients which imply that all strong solutions have first-order derivatives that are Lipschitz continuous or differentiable at a…

In this paper, we introduce the second-order subdifferentials for functions which are G\^ateaux differentiable on an open set and whose G\^ateaux derivative mapping is locally Lipschitz. Based on properties of this kind of second-order…

Let $\varphi$ be a self-map of the unit disk and let $C_\varphi$ denote the composition operator acting on the standard Dirichlet space $\mathcal{D}$. A necessary condition for compactness of a difference of two bounded composition…

We obtain conditions for the differentiability of weak solutions for a second-order uniformly elliptic equation in divergence form with a homogeneous co-normal boundary condition. The modulus of continuity for the coefficients is assumed to…

We investigate a connection between solvability of the Dirichlet problem for an infinitely degenerate elliptic operator and the validity of an Orlicz-Sobolev inequality in the associated subunit metric space. For subelliptic operators it is…

This work provides a systematic study of the variational properties of decomposable functions which are compositions of an outer support function and an inner smooth mapping under certain constraint qualifications. A particular focus is put…

We analyze the spectrum of the operator $\Delta^{-1} [\nabla \cdot (K\nabla u)]$, where $\Delta$ denotes the Laplacian and $K=K(x,y)$ is a symmetric tensor. Our main result shows that this spectrum can be derived from the spectral…

In this paper, we study surfaces $z=\varphi(x,y)$ in Euclidean space that satisfy the equation $\varphi_{xx}+\varphi_{yy}=\frac{\Lambda}{2}$ where $\Lambda\in\r$ is a real constant. We classify these surfaces when they are the zero level…

We study the Dirichlet problem for first order hyperbolic quasi-linear functional PDEs on a simply connected bounded domain of $\R^2$, where the domain has an interior outflow set and a mere inflow boundary. While the question of existence…

Consider a classical elliptic pseudodifferential operator $P$ on ${\Bbb R}^n$ of order $2a$ ($0<a<1)$ with even symbol. For example, $P=A(x,D)^a$ where $A(x,D)$ is a second-order strongly elliptic differential operator; the fractional…

For a sufficiently regular open bounded set $D \subset R^2$ let us consider the equation $(-\Delta)^{1/2} \varphi(x) = 1$, $x \in D$ with the Dirichlet exterior condition $\varphi(x) = 0$, $x \in D^c$. $\varphi$ is the expected value of the…

In this paper we consider the solvability of pseudodifferential operators when the principal symbol vanishes of at least second order at a non-radial involutive manifold $\Sigma_2$. We shall assume that the subprincipal symbol is of…

In this paper, exploiting variational methods, the existence of three weak solutions for a class of elliptic equations involving a general operator in divergence form and with Dirichlet boundary condition is investigated. Several special…