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We prove existence, uniqueness and initial time regularity for variational solutions to nonlocal total variation flows associated with image denoising and deblurring. In particular, we prove existence of parabolic minimisers $u$, that is,…

We prove the local minimality of halfspaces in Carnot groups for a class of nonlocal functionals usually addressed as nonlocal perimeters. Moreover, in a class of Carnot groups in which the De Giorgi's rectifiability Theorem holds, we…

We investigate the regularity of local weak solutions to evolution equations of the form \[…

We prove the higher differentiability of integer order of locally bounded minimizers of integral functionals of the form \begin{equation*} \mathcal{F}(u,\Omega):= \,\sum_{i=1}^{n} \dfrac{1}{p_i}\displaystyle \int_\Omega \, a_i(x) \lvert…

In this paper, we consider the following free boundary problem $$ (P)\left\{\begin{array}{ll} \Delta u = \lambda \phi(x)\Sum_{i=1}^n H(u-\mu_i )& \quad \mbox{ in }\ \Omega=\Omega_2\setminus \overline{\Omega}_1, \\[0.3cm]u =0 &\quad \mbox{…

In this note, we prove the finite ${(Q-1)}$-Hausdorff measure of the free boundary in the obstacle problem in a Carnot group $\mathbb{G}$. Here, $Q$ represents the homogeneous dimension of $\mathbb{G}$. Our main result, Theorem 1.1,…

We show the existence of a Lipschitz viscosity solution $u$ in $\Omega$ to a system of fully nonlinear equations involving Pucci-type operators. We study the regularity of the interface $\partial \{ u> 0 \}\cap\Om$ and we show that the…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 2$, be an open bounded connected set. We consider the fractional weighted eigenvalue problem $(-\Delta)^s u =\lambda \rho u$ in $\Omega$ with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, where…

We consider smooth bounded surfaces with a smooth boundary and a prescribed background metric g_0. We now consider all metrics g conformal to g_0 which have a prescribed volume M. We now minimize the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator…

We study Dirichlet problems for fractional Laplace equations of the form $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} u = f(x,u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for $0<\alpha<n$ where the nonlinearity $f(x,u) = \sum_{i=1}^{M} \sigma_{i} u^{q_i} + \omega$ involves…

We study the regularity of minimizers of a two-phase free boundary problem. For a class of n-dimensional convex domains, we establish the Lipschitz continuity of the minimizer up to the fixed boundary under Neumann boundary conditions. Our…

We introduce a new method for the analysis of singularities in the unstable problem $$\Delta u = -\chi_{\{u>0\}},$$ which arises in solid combustion as well as in the composite membrane problem. Our study is confined to points of…

In this paper, by variational and topological arguments based on linking and $\nabla$-theorems, we prove the existence of multiple solutions for the following nonlocal problem with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary data, $$ \left\{…

In this paper we study the regularity of the optimal sets for the shape optimization problem \[ \min\Big\{\lambda_1(\Omega)+\dots+\lambda_k(\Omega)\ :\ \Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d,\ \text{open}\ ,\ |\Omega|=1\Big\}, \] where…

We introduce the concept of boundary degeneracy of topologically ordered states on a compact orientable spatial manifold with boundaries, and emphasize that the boundary degeneracy provides richer information than the bulk degeneracy.…

The free boundary Allen--Cahn equation $\Delta u=0$ in $\{|u|<1\}$, $|\nabla u|=1/\varepsilon$ on $\partial\{|u|<1\}$ has recently attracted considerable attention because it retains the essential features of the classical Allen--Cahn…

This paper is devoted to a complete characterization of the free boundary of all solutions to the following spectral $k$-partition problem with measure and inclusion constraints: \[ \inf \left\{\sum_{i=1}^k \lambda_1(\omega_i)\; : \;…

We study a natural biharmonic analogue of the classical Alt-Caffarelli problem, both under Dirichlet and under Navier boundary conditions. We show existence, basic properties and $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity of minimisers. For the Navier…

In this paper we study vector-valued almost minimizers of the energy functional $$ \int_D\left(|\nabla\mathbf{u}|^2+2|\mathbf{u}|\right)\,dx . $$ We establish the regularity for both minimizers and the "regular" part of the free boundary.…

We prove that, given~$p>\max\left\{\frac{2n}{n+2},1\right\}$, the nonnegative almost minimizers of the nonlinear free boundary functional $$ J_p(u,\Omega):=\int_{\Omega}\Big( |\nabla u(x)|^p+\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x)\Big)\,dx$$ are Lipschitz…