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We establish global $W^{2,\delta}$ estimates, for all $\delta<\frac{1}{n-1}$, for convex solutions to the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with positive $C^{2,\beta}$ right-hand side and zero boundary values on general bounded convex domains in…
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a $C^1$ domain, or more generally, a Lipschitz domain with small local Lipschitz constant. In this paper it is shown that if $u$ is a function harmonic in $\Omega$ and continuous in $\overline \Omega$ which…
Using a calibration method we prove that, if $\Gamma\subset \Omega$ is a closed regular hypersurface and if the function $g$ is discontinuous along $\Gamma$ and regular outside, then the function $u_{\beta}$ which solves $$ \begin{cases}…
In this expository paper, we consider the Hardy-Schr\"odinger operator $-\Delta -\gamma/|x|^2$ on a smooth domain \Omega of R^n with 0\in\bar{\Omega}, and describe how the location of the singularity 0, be it in the interior of \Omega or on…
We consider the problem $$(P_\eps)\qquad \Delta u +\lambda {e^{u}\over\int\limits_{\Omega\setminus B(\xi,\eps)}e^u}=0\ \hbox{in}\ \Omega\setminus B(\xi,\eps),\quad u =0\ \hbox{on}\ \partial\(\Omega\setminus B(\xi,\eps)\), $$ where $\Omega$…
We establish uniform a-priori estimates for solutions of the semilinear Dirichlet problem \begin{equation} \begin{cases} (-\Delta)^m u=h(x,u)\quad&\mbox{in }\Omega,\\ u=\partial_nu=\cdots=\partial_n^{m-1}u=0\quad&\mbox{on }\partial\Omega,…
We initiate the study of the finiteness condition $\int_{\Omega}u(x)^{-\beta}\,dx\leq C(\Omega,\beta)<+\infty$ where $\Omega\subseteq{\mathbb{R}}^n$ is an open set and $u$ is the solution of the Saint Venant problem $\Delta u=-1$ in…
Refining the sharp upper bounds $\mu_{k,d}^* $ obtained by Kr\"oger (1999) for the $k$-th Neumann eigenvalue of a convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, we prove the following inequalities: for any $k\in \mathbb{N}$ there exists a…
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded domain satisfying the uniform exterior cone condition. We establish existence and uniqueness of continuous solutions of the Dirichlet Problem associated to certain intrinsic nonlinear mean value…
We prove some new a priori estimates for H_2-convex functions which are zero on the boundary of a bounded smooth domain \Omega in a Carnot group G. Such estimates are global and are geometric in nature as they involve the horizontal mean…
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a convex. If $u: \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ has mean 0, then we have the classical Poincar\'{e} inequality $$ \|u \|_{L^p} \leq c_p \mbox{diam}(\Omega) \| \nabla u \|_{L^p}$$ with sharp constants…
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded domain and let $\lambda_1, \lambda_2, \dots$ denote the sequence of eigenvalues of the Laplacian subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. We consider inequalities for $\lambda_n$ that are…
We consider an initial boundary value problem in a bounded domain $\Omega$ over a time interval $(0, T)$ for a time-fractional wave equation where the order of the fractional time derivative is between $1$ and $2$ and the spatial elliptic…
We consider the following eigenvalue optimization problem: Given a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\R^n$ and numbers $\alpha\geq 0$, $A\in [0,|\Omega|]$, find a subset $D\subset\Omega$ of area $A$ for which the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of…
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded, convex, centrally symmetric in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ with a connected $C^{2,\epsilon}$ ($\epsilon\in(0,1)$) boundary. We show that, if the following overdetermined elliptic problem \begin{equation} -\Delta u=\alpha…
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a quasiconvex Lipschitz domain and $A(x)$ be a $d \times d$ uniformly elliptic, symmetric matrix with Lipschitz coefficients. Assume a nontrivial $u$ solves $-\nabla \cdot (A(x) \nabla u) = 0$ in…
Let $(u_\varepsilon)$ be a family of solutions of the Ginzburg--Landau equation with boundary condition $u_\varepsilon = g$ on $\partial \Omega$ and of degree $0$. Let $u_0$ denote the harmonic map satisfying $u_0 = g$ on $\partial \Omega$.…
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded, smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N},$ $N\geq1.$ For each $p>N$ we study the optimal function $s=s_{p}$ in the pointwise inequality \[ \left\vert v(x)\right\vert \leq s(x)\left\Vert \nabla v\right\Vert…
We consider the problem -\Delta u - g(u) = \lambda u, u \in H^1(\R^N), \int_{\R^N} u^2 = 1, \lambda\in\R, in dimension $N\ge2$. Here $g$ is a superlinear, subcritical, possibly nonhomogeneous, odd nonlinearity. We deal with the case where…
Suppose that $\Omega \in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{S} ^{n-1})$ is homogeneous of degree zero with mean value zero. Then we consider a fractional type Marcinkiewicz integral operator $$\mu_{\Omega ,\beta }f(x) = \left ( \int_{0}^{\infty } \left |…