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The optimal insulation of a heat conducting body by a thin film of variable thickness can be formulated as a nondifferentiable, nonlocal eigenvalue problem. The discretization and iterative solution for the reliable computation of…

Let $(\M^n, g)$ be a $n$ dimensional, complete ( compact or noncompact) Riemannian manifold whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below by a constant $-K \le 0$. Let $u$ be a positive solution of the heat equation on $\M^n \times (0,…

We consider convection in an internally heated layer of fluid that is bounded below by a perfect insulator and above by a poor conductor. The poorly conducting boundary is modelled by a fixed heat flux. Using solely analytical methods, we…

Lower bounds are obtained on the maximum field strength in one or both phases in a body containing two-phases. These bounds only incorporate boundary data that can be obtained from measurements at the surface of the body, and thus may be…

In this article, we present two different approaches for obtaining quantitative inequalities in the context of parabolic optimal control problems. Our model consists of a linearly controlled heat equation with Dirichlet boundary condition…

In this paper, we establish the asymptotic expressions for the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} systems with partially infinity coefficients as two rigid $C^{1,\gamma}$-inclusions are very close but not touching. The novelty of these…

In this paper, we derive the pointwise upper bounds and lower bounds on the gradients of solutions to the Lam\'{e} systems with partially infinite coefficients as the surface of discontinuity of the coefficients of the system is located…

For the two dimensional Schr\"odinger equation in a bounded domain, we prove uniqueness of determination of potentials in $W^1_p(\Omega),\,\, p>2$ in the case where we apply all possible Neumann data supported on an arbitrarily non-empty…

For any natural number $n\in\mathbb{N}$, $ \frac{1}{2n+\frac1{1-\gamma}-2}\le \sum_{i=1}^n\frac1i-\ln n-\gamma<\frac{1}{2n+\frac13}, $ where $\gamma=0.57721566490153286...m$ denotes Euler's constant. The constants $\frac{1}{1-\gamma}-2$ and…

The ball-constrained weighted maximin dispersion problem $(\rm P_{ball})$ is to find a point in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean ball such that the minimum of the weighted Euclidean distance from given $m$ points is maximized. We propose a new…

We investigate the continuum limit of the gauge-ball spectrum in the four-dimensional pure U(1) lattice gauge theory. In the confinement phase we identify various states scaling with the correlation length exponent $\nu \simeq 0.35$. The…

We consider a boundary value problem for the conductivity equation in a bounded domain containing an inclusion which is nearly touching to the domain's boundary. We assume that the domain and the inclusion are disks with conductivity jump…

We prove that the number of unit distances among $n$ planar points is at most $1.94\cdot n^{4/3}$, improving on the previous best bound of $8n^{4/3}$. We also give better upper and lower bounds for several small values of $n$. We also prove…

An eigenvalue problem arising in optimal insulation related to the minimization of the heat decay rate of an insulated body is adapted to enforce a positive lower bound imposed on the distribution of insulating material. We prove the…

We present numerical solutions to the extended Doering-Constantin variational principle for upper bounds on the energy dissipation rate in turbulent plane Couette flow. Using the compound matrix technique in order to reformulate this…

We discuss upper and lower bounds on the electrical conductivity of finite temperature strongly coupled quantum field theories, holographically dual to probe brane models, within linear response. In a probe limit where disorder is…

We solve variationally certain equations of stellar dynamics of the form $-\sum_i\partial_{ii} u(x) =\frac{|u|^{p-2}u(x)}{{\rm dist} (x,{\mathcal A} )^s}$ in a domain $\Omega$ of $\rn$, where ${\mathcal A} $ is a proper linear subspace of…

For martingales with a wide range of integrability, we will quantify the rate of convergence of the central limit theorem via Wasserstein distances of order $r$, $1\le r\le 3$. Our bounds are in terms of Lyapunov's coefficients and the…

Aleksandrov-Bakelman-Pucci maximum principles are studied for a class of fully nonlinear integro-differential equations of order $\sigma\in [2-\varepsilon_0,2)$, where $\varepsilon_0$ is a small constant depending only on given parameters.…

Fix a subset $I\subseteq \mathbb R_{>0}$ such that $\gamma=\inf\{ \sum_{i}n_ib_i-1>0 \mid n_i\in \mathbb Z_{\geq 0}, b_i\in I \}>0$. We give a explicit upper bound $\ell(\gamma)\in O(1/\gamma^2)$ as $\gamma\to 0$, such that for any smooth…