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We consider periodic homogenization of boundary value problems for second-order semilinear elliptic systems in 2D of the type $$ \partial_{x_i}\left(a_{ij}^{\alpha…
In any dimension $N \geq 1$, for given mass $a>0$, we look to critical points of the energy functional $$ I(u) = \frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|\nabla u|^2 dx + \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}u^2|\nabla u|^2 dx - \frac{1}{p}\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|u|^p…
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We consider the optimization problem of minimizing $\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^{p(x)}+ \lambda \chi_{\{u>0\}} dx$ in the class of functions $W^{1,p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$ with $u-\phi_0\in W_0^{1,p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$, for a given $\phi_0\geq 0$ and…
In this article, we study a class of fully nonlinear double-divergence systems with free boundaries associated with a minimization problem. The variational structure of Hessian-dependent functional plays a fundamental role in proving the…
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…
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The free energies of six-vertex models on general domain D with various boundary conditions are investigated with the use of the n-equivalence relation which classifies the thermodynamic limit properties. It is derived that the free energy…
We solve explicitly a certain minimization problem for probability measures in one dimension involving an interaction energy that arises in the modelling of aggregation phenomena. We show that in a certain regime minimizers are absolutely…
We study homogenization of a boundary obstacle problem on $ C^{1,\alpha} $ domain $D$ for some elliptic equations with uniformly elliptic coefficient matrices $\gamma$. For any $ \epsilon\in\mathbb{R}_+$, $\partial D=\Gamma \cup \Sigma$,…
We study the regularity of minimizers of the functional $\mathcal E(u):= [u]_{H^s(\Omega)}^2 +\int_\Omega fu$. This corresponds to understanding solutions for the regional fractional Laplacian in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^N$. More precisely,…
In this paper we show that minima and stable solutions of a general energy functional of the form $$ \int_{\Omega} F(\nabla u,\nabla v,u,v,x)dx $$ enjoy some monotonicity properties, under an assumption on the growth at infinity of the…
The universal method of construction of the rigorous lower bounds to the Weizsacker energy is presented. We study a few-fermion systemat the unitarity. Upper and lower bounds to the density functional theory(DFT) ground state energy within…
In this paper, we mainly establish the existence of at least three non-trivial solutions for a class of nonhomogeneous quasilinear elliptic systems with Dirichlet boundary value or Neumann boundary value in a bounded domain…
We investigate the effect of linear diffusion and interactions with the domain boundary on swarm equilibria by analyzing critical points of the associated energy functional. Through this process we uncover two properties of energy…
In the previous work [Interfaces Free Bound., 19, 351--369, 2017], de Queiroz and Shahgholian established the optimal $C^{1,\log}_{\mathrm{loc}}$ regularity of solutions for the obstacle problem with singular logarithmic forcing term…
In this article we study the quasi-linear equation \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} \mathrm{div}\, \mathcal A(x,u,\nabla u)&=\mathcal B(x,u,\nabla u)&&\text{in }\Omega,\\ u\in H^{1,p}_{loc}&(\Omega;wdx) \end{aligned} \right. \] where $\mathcal A$…
We study a boundary value problem associated with a system of two second order differential equations with cubic nonlinearity which model a film of superconductor material subjected to a tangential magnetic field. We show that for an…