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Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a bounded, convex domain and let $u$ be the solution of $-\Delta u = 1$ vanishing on the boundary $\partial \Omega$. The estimate $$ \| \nabla u\|_{L^{\infty}(\Omega)} \leq c |\Omega|^{1/2}$$ is…
Let $\mathbb{S} \subset \mathbb{C}$ be the circle in the plane, and let $\Omega: \mathbb{S} \to \mathbb{S}$ be an odd bi-Lipschitz map with constant $1+\delta_\Omega$, where $\delta_\Omega>0$ is small. Assume also that $\Omega$ is twice…
In this paper the authors complete their study of the singular Moser-Trudinger embedding [G. Csato and P. Roy, Extremal functions for the singular Moser-Trudinger inequality in 2 dimensions, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, DOI…
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded Reinhardt domain in $\mathbb{C}^n$ and $\phi_1,\ldots,\phi_m$ be finite sums of bounded quasi-homogeneous functions. We show that if the product of Toeplitz operators $T_{\phi_m}\cdots T_{\phi_1}=0$ on the Bergman…
We obtain the inequality $$\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u(x)|^ph(u(x))dx\leq C(n,p)\int_{\Omega} \left( \sqrt{ |\Delta u(x)||{\cal T}_{h,C}(u(x))|}\right)^{p}h(u(x))dx,$$ where $\Omega\subset \mathbf{R}^n$ is a bounded Lipschitz domain, $u\in…
We consider H\"older continuous weak solutions $u\in C^\gamma(\Omega)$, $u\cdot n|_{\partial \Omega}=0$, of the incompressible Euler equations on a bounded and simply connected domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. If $\Omega$ is of class…
We study the existence of non-trivial unbounded domains of $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ where the equation \begin{align} - \lambda u_{xx} -u_{tt} &= u \qquad \text{in $\Omega$,}\nonumber u &=0 \qquad \text{on $\partial \Omega$,}\nonumber…
We consider the equation $\e^{2}\Delta u=(u-a(x))(u^2-1)$ in $\Omega$, $\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} =0$ on $\partial \Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a smooth and bounded domain in $\R^n$, $\nu$ the outer unit normal to $\pa\Omega$, and $a$ a…
We first prove a weighted inequality of Moser-Trudinger type depending on a parameter, in the two-dimensional Euclidean space. The inequality holds for radial functions if the parameter is larger than -1. Without symmetry assumption, it…
Let $n,m\ge 1$, $\alpha\in(0,1)$, and $\beta\ge 0$. For the Grushin-type operator \[ L=-\nabla_x\!\cdot\!\bigl(|x|^{2\alpha}\nabla_x\bigr)+|x|^{2\beta}\Delta_y \qquad \text{on } \mathbb R^n\times \mathbb R^m, \] we prove the isoperimetric…
We prove that if $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$ is a bounded open set and $n\alpha> {\rm dim}_b (\partial \Omega) = d$, then the Brouwer degree deg$(v,\Omega,\cdot)$ of any H\"older function $v\in C^{0,\alpha}\left (\Omega, \mathbb…
Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian surface without boundary, $W^{1,2}(M)$ be the usual Sobolev space, $J: W^{1,2}(M)\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be the functional defined by $$J(u)=\frac{1}{2}\int_M|\nabla u|^2dv_g+8\pi \int_M…
We establish global $C^{1,\beta}$ and $W^{2, p}$ regularity for singular Monge-Amp\`ere equations of the form \[\det D^2 u \sim \text{dist}^{-\alpha}(\cdot,\partial\Omega),\quad \alpha\in (0, 1),\] under suitable conditions on the boundary…
The Hardy constant of a simply connected domain $\Omega\subset\mathbf{R}^2$ is the best constant for the inequality \[ \int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^2dx \geq c\int_{\Omega} \frac{u^2}{{\rm dist}(x,\partial\Omega)^2}\, dx \; , \;\;\quad u\in…
The Aviles-Giga functional $I_{\epsilon}(u)=\int_{\Omega} \frac{\left|1-\left|\nabla u\right|^2\right|^2}{\epsilon}+\epsilon \left|\nabla^2 u\right|^2 \, dx$ is a well known second order functional that models phenomena from blistering to…
In this paper, we first prove an interpolation inequality of Ehrling-type, which is an improvement of a special case to the well known Gargliardo-Nirenberg inequality. Then we apply it to study the classical Keller-Segel system…
Let $1<q<p$ and $a\in C(\overline{\Omega})$ be sign-changing, where $\Omega$ is a bounded and smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$. We show that the functional \[ I_{q}(u):=\int_{\Omega}\left( \frac{1}{p}|\nabla…
We obtain density estimates for the free boundaries of minimizers $u \ge 0$ of the Alt-Phillips functional involving negative power potentials $$\int_\Omega \left(|\nabla u|^2 + u^{-\gamma} \chi_{\{u>0\}}\right) \, dx, \quad \quad \gamma…
In this article, we prove that the double inequality $$\alpha G(a,b)+(1-\alpha)C(a,b)<M(a,b)<\beta G(a,b)+(1-\beta)C(a,b)$$ holds true for all $a,b>0$ with $a\neq b$ if and only if $\alpha\geq 5/9$ and $\beta\leq…
In a smoothly bounded convex domain $\Omega\subset R^n$ with $n\ge 1$, a no-flux initial-boundary value problem for \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} u_t=\Delta \big(u\phi(v)\big), v_t=\Delta v-uv, \end{array} \right. \] is considered under the…