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The quantum theory of a free particle in two dimensions with non-local boundary conditions on a circle is known to lead to surface and bulk states. Such a scheme is here generalized to the quantized Maxwell field, subject to mixed boundary…

This paper is concerned with the differential sensitivity analysis of variational inequalities in Banach spaces whose solution operators satisfy a generalized Lipschitz condition. We prove a sufficient criterion for the directional…

For a second-order symmetric strongly elliptic operator A on a smooth bounded open set \Omega in R^n with boundary \Sigma, the mixed problem is defined by a Neumann-type condition on a part Sigma_+ of the boundary and a Dirichlet condition…

We study a nonlinear Neumann boundary value problem associated to a nonhomogeneous differential operator. Taking into account the competition between the nonlinearity and the bifurcation parameter, we establish sufficient conditions for the…

In this paper operator pencils $A(x,D,\lambda)$ are investigated which depend polynomially on the parameter $\lambda$ and act on a manifold with boundary. The operator A is assumed to satisfy the condition of N-ellipticity with parameter…

The boundary value problem is examined for the system of elliptic equations of from $-\Delta u + A(x)u = 0 \quad\text{in} \Omega,$ where $A(x)$ is positive semidefinite matrix on $\mathbb{R}^{{k}\times{k}},$ and $\frac{\partial u}{\partial…

We study sharp conditions for the existence and nonexistence of infinitely many nonnegative solutions to the problem $-\Delta_p u = \lambda f(u)$ in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where $f$ is a continuous function…

We study elliptic and parabolic problems governed by the singular elliptic operators \begin{align*} \mathcal L=y^{\alpha_1}\mbox{Tr }\left(QD^2_xu\right)+2y^{\frac{\alpha_1+\alpha_2}{2}}q\cdot \nabla_xD_y+\gamma y^{\alpha_2}…

We study the regularity of solutions of elliptic second order boundary value problems on a bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb R^3$. The coefficients are not necessarily continuous and the boundary conditions may be mixed, i.e. Dirichlet on…

We investigate existence and uniqueness of solutions to second-order elliptic boundary value problems containing a power nonlinearity applied to a fractional Laplacian. We detect the critical power separating the existence from the…

In this paper we are concerned with the initial boundary value problems of linear and semi-linear parabolic equations with mixed boundary conditions on non-cylindrical domains in spatial-temporal space. We obtain the existence of a weak…

We prove the first positive results concerning boundary value problems in the upper half-space of second order parabolic systems only assuming measurability and some transversal regularity in the coefficients of the elliptic part. To do so,…

Second order nonlinear eigenvalue problems are considered for which the spectrum is an interval. The boundary conditions are of Robin and Dirichlet type. The shape and the number of solutions are discussed by means of a phase plane…

In this paper we give a comprehensive treatment of a two-penalty boundary obstacle problem for a divergence form elliptic operator, motivated by applications to fluid dynamics and thermics. Specifically, we prove existence, uniqueness and…

For an elliptic, semilinear differential operator of the form $S(u) = A : D^2 u + b(x, u , Du)$, consider the functional $E_\infty(u) = \mathop{\mathrm{ess \, sup}}_\Omega |S(u)|$. We study minimisers of $E_\infty$ for prescribed boundary…

We consider the Neumann problem in $C^2$ bounded domains for fully nonlinear second order operators which are elliptic, homogenous with lower order terms. Inspired by \cite{bnv}, we define the concept of principal eigenvalue and we…

We consider divergence form elliptic operators of the form $L=-\dv A(x)\nabla$, defined in $R^{n+1} = \{(x,t)\in R^n \times R \}$, $n \geq 2$, where the $L^{\infty}$ coefficient matrix $A$ is $(n+1)\times(n+1)$, uniformly elliptic, complex…

In this paper, we consider spectral problem for the nth order ordinary differential operator with degenerate boundary conditions. We construct a nontrivial example of boundary value problem which has no eigenvalues.

We prove sharp lower bound estimates for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the non-linear elliptic diffusion operator $L_p$ on a smooth metric measure space, without boundary or with a convex boundary and Neumann boundary condition,…

We study boundary value problems posed in a semistrip for the elliptic sine-Gordon equation, which is the paradigm of an elliptic integrable PDE in two variables. We use the method introduced by one of the authors, which provides a…