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We study the regularity of minimizers to the composite membrane problem in the plane (ie given a domain omega and a positive number A, smaller than the measure of omega, minimize the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the Schrodinger operator…

We give a H\"ormander type $L^2-$estimate for the $\bar{\partial}-$equation with respect to the measure $\delta_\Omega^{-\alpha}dV$, $\alpha<1$, on any bounded pseudoconvex domain with $C^2-$boundary. Several applications to the function…

We provide isoperimetric Szeg\"{o}-Weinberger type inequalities for the first nontrivial Neumann eigenvalue $\mu_{1}(\Omega)$ in Gauss space, where $\Omega$ is a possibly unbounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$. Our main result consists in…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^2$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$, and let $\omega_h$ be the set of points in $\Omega$ whose distance from the boundary is smaller than $h$. We prove that the eigenvalues of the…

We consider optimization problems with manifold-valued constraints. These generalize classical equality and inequality constraints to a setting in which both the domain and the codomain of the constraint mapping are smooth manifolds. We…

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\|…

Consider operators $L_{V}:=\Delta + V$ in a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$. Assume that $V\in C^\alpha(\Omega)$ satisfies $|V(x)| \leq \bar a\,\mathrm{dist}(x,\partial\Omega)^{-2}$ in $\Omega$ and that $L_V$ has a…

We study the minimisation of the positive principal eigenvalue for an indefinite-weight problem under inhomogeneous Robin boundary conditions. The model is motivated by diffusive logistic equations in spatially heterogeneous environments,…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded domain satisfying a Hayman-type asymmetry condition, and let $ D $ be an arbitrary bounded domain referred to as "obstacle". We are interested in the behaviour of the first Dirichlet eigenvalue…

In this paper we present an approximation result concerning the first eigenvalue of the 1-Laplacian operator. More precisely, for $\Omega$ a bounded regular open domain, we consider a minimisation of the functional ${\ds \int_\Omega}|\nabla…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $R^n$ with $C^2$-smooth boundary of co-dimension 1, and let $H=-\Delta +V(x)$ be a Schr\"odinger operator on $\Omega$ with potential V locally bounded. We seek the weakest conditions we can find on the…

Let $(M, g, f, \tau)$ be a complete Ricci shrinker satisfying $\textrm{Ric}+\nabla^2f=\frac{g}{2\tau}$ and let $R$ denote its scalar curvature. For a confined function $V$ on $M$, we obtain a lower bound for the lowest eigenvalue of the…

We consider the domain dependence of the best constant in the subcritical fractional Sobolev constant, $$ \lambda_{s,p}(\Omega):=\inf \left\{ [u]_{H^s(\mathbb{R}^N)}^2,\,\, u\in C^\infty_c(\Omega),\,\, \|u\|_{L^p(\Omega)}=1 \right\}, $$…

We study the boundary value problem $-{\rm div}((|\nabla u|^{p\_1(x) -2}+|\nabla u|^{p\_2(x)-2})\nabla u)=f(x,u)$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in $\RR^N$. We focus on the cases when…

We address extremum problems for spectral quantities associated with operators of the form $\Delta^2-\tau\Delta$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions, for non-negative values of $\tau$. The focus is on two shape optimisation problems:…

The aim of this work is to study the continuity and compactness of the operators $W^{1, q}(\Omega ; \mathtt {V}_0, \mathtt {V}_1 ) \rightarrow L^{q_0} (\Omega ; \mathtt {V}_2)$ and $W^{1, q} (\Omega ; \mathtt {V}_0, \mathtt {V}_1 )…

We study the geometry of the first two eigenvalues of a magnetic Steklov problem on an annulus $\Sigma$ (a compact Riemannian surface with genus zero and two boundary components), the magnetic potential being the harmonic one-form having…

We consider the problem of minimising the $k$th eigenvalue, $k \geq 2$, of the ($p$-)Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions with respect to all domains in $\mathbb{R}^N$ of given volume $M$. When $k=2$, we prove that the second eigenvalue…

We consider a partially hinged rectangular plate and its normal modes. The dynamical properties of the plate are influenced by the spectrum of the associated eingenvalue problem. In order to improve the stability of the plate, it seems…