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The problem of finding the minimizer of a sum of convex functions is central to the field of distributed optimization. Thus, it is of interest to understand how that minimizer is related to the properties of the individual functions in the…

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we cut off a part of a convex surface by a plane near a ridge point and characterize the limiting behavior of the surface measure in $S^2$ induced by this part of surface when the plane approaches…

Let $\Omega $ be a smooth bounded domain in $\R^N, N>1$ and let $n\in \N^*$. We are concerned here with the existence of nonnegative solutions $u\_n$ in $BV(\Omega)$, to the problem $$(P\_n) \begin{cases} -{\rm div} \sigma +2n (\int\_…

In this work we analyze the existence of solutions to the nonlinear elliptic system: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u & = & v^q+\a g & \text{in }\Omega , \\ -\Delta v& = &|\nabla u|^{p}+\l f &\text{in }\Omega , \\…

The aim of this paper is to prove the existence of multiple solutions for a family of nonlinear elliptic systems in divergence form coupled with a pointwise gradient constraint: \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll}…

We study existence of minimizers of the least gradient problem \[\inf_{v \in BV_g} \int_{\Omega}\varphi(x, Dv),\] where $BV_g=\{v \in BV(\Omega): \int_{\partial \Omega}gv=1\}$, $\varphi(x,p): \Omega\times \R^n \rightarrow \R$ is a convex,…

In this paper we study $2$nd order $L^\infty$ variational problems, through seeking to minimise a supremal functional involving the Hessian of admissible functions as well as lower-order terms. Specifically, given a bounded domain…

The aim of this paper is investigating the existence of one or more critical points of a family of functionals which generalizes the model problem \[ \bar J(u)\ =\ \frac1p\ \int_\Omega \bar A(x,u)|\nabla u|^p dx - \int_\Omega G(x,u) dx \]…

Let $L$ be a second order elliptic operator $L$ with smooth coefficients defined on a domain $\Omega $ in $\mathbb{R}^d $, $d\geq3$, such that $L1\leq 0$. We study existence and properties of continuous solutions to the following problem…

We consider the solution of $-\Delta u = 1$ on convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions $u =0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Our main concern is the behavior of $\|\nabla u\|_{L^{\infty}}$, also known as…

Let $G=(V, E)$ be a connected finite graph, $h$ be a positive function on $V$ and $\lambda _{1}(V)$ be the first non-zero eigenvalue of $-\Delta$. For any given finite measure $\mu$ on $V$, define functionals \begin{eqnarray*} J_{ \beta…

Let $ \Omega \subsetneq \mathbf{R}^n\,(n\geq 2)$ be an unbounded convex domain. We study the minimal surface equation in $\Omega$ with boundary value given by the sum of a linear function and a bounded uniformly continuous function in $…

Let $u$ be a harmonic function in the unit ball $B_1 \subset \mathbb R^n$, normalized so that its gradient has magnitude at most 1 on the unit ball. We show that if the gradient of $u$ is $\epsilon$-small in size on a set $E\subset B_{1/2}$…

We prove the existence of a weak solution for a general class of Dirichlet anisotropic elliptic problems such as $\mathcal Au+\Phi(x,u,\nabla u)=\mathfrak{B}u+f$ in $\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded open subset of $\mathbb R^N$ and…

We study the planar least gradient problem with respect to an anisotropic norm $\phi$ for continuous boundary data. We prove existence of minimizers for strictly convex domains $\Omega$. Furthermore, we inspect the issue of uniqueness and…

The convergence behavior of gradient methods for minimizing convex differentiable functions is one of the core questions in convex optimization. This paper shows that their well-known complexities can be achieved under conditions weaker…

We shall prove a multiplicity result for semilinear elliptic problems with a super-critical nonlinearity of the form, \begin{equation}\label{con-c} \left \{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u =|u|^{p-2} u+\mu |u|^{q-2}u, & x \in \Omega\\ u=0, & x…

Let $\Omega \Subset \mathbb R^n$, $f \in C^1(\mathbb R^{N\times n})$ and $g\in C^1(\mathbb R^N)$, where $N,n \in \mathbb N$. We study the minimisation problem of finding $u \in W^{1,\infty}_0(\Omega;\mathbb R^N)$ that satisfies \[ \big\|…

We discuss the Dirichlet problem of the quasi-linear elliptic system \begin{eqnarray*} -e^{-f(U)}div(e^{f(U)}\bigtriangledown U)+&{1/2}f'(U)|\bigtriangledown U|^2&=0, {in $\Omega$}, & U|_{\partial\Omega}&=\phi. \end{eqnarray*} Here $\Omega$…

In this paper, we study existence, multiplicity and concentration of positive solutions for the following class of quasilinear problems \[ - \Delta_{\Phi}u + V(\epsilon x)\phi(\vert u\vert)u = f(u)\quad \mbox{in} \quad \mathbb{R}^{N} \,\,\,…