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Let $(M,\bar g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with minimal boundary such that the second fundamental form is nowhere vanishing on $\partial M$. We show that for a generic Riemannian metric $\bar g$, the squared norm of the second…

We consider Green's function $ G_K $ of the elliptic operator in divergence form $ \mathcal{L}_K=-\text{div}(K(x)\nabla ) $ on a bounded smooth domain $ \Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n (n\geq 2) $ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $…

In this paper we prove a Morse Lemma for degenerate critical points of a function u which satisfies -\Delta u=f(u) in B_1, where B_1 is the unit ball of R^2 and f is a smooth nonlinearity. Other results on the nondegeneracy of the critical…

The paper studies the large-time behavior of solutions to the Robin problem for PDEs with critical nonlinearities. For the considered problems, nonexistence results are obtained, which complements the interesting recent results by Ikeda et…

We are concerned with the semilinear biharmonic problem under Dirichlet boundary conditions that \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \Delta^2 u=(u^+)^{p} &{\text{in}~\Omega},\\[0.5mm] u \not\equiv 0 &{\text{in}~\Omega},\\[0.5mm] u=\partial u /…

In this paper, we deal with a class of semilinear elliptic equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 3$, with $C\sp{1,1}$ boundary. Using a new fixed point result of the Krasnoselskii's type for the sum of two…

We study the critical points of the solution of second elliptic equations in divergence and diagonal form with a bounded and positive definite coefficient, under the assumption that the statement of the Hopf lemma holds (sign assumptions on…

We consider a semilinear Neumann problem with exponential nonlinearity in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$. We prove that there exists a threshold $\bar{\varepsilon}>0$ such that for all $\varepsilon>\bar{\varepsilon}$,…

Existence and global regularity results for boundary-value problems of Robin type for harmonic and polyharmonic functions in $n$-dimensional half-spaces are offered. The Robin condition on the normal derivative on the boundary of the…

We establish existence and pointwise estimates of fundamental solutions and Green's matrices for divergence form, second order strongly elliptic systems in a domain $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, $n \geq 3$, under the assumption that…

In this paper, we consider a class of integro-differential operators $\mathbb{L}$ posed on a $C^2$ bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ with appropriate homogeneous Dirichlet conditions where each of which admits an inverse operator…

Given a function $f$ on a smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary, we prove that if $p \in M$ is a non-degenerate critical point of $f$, then a neighborhood of $p$ contains a foliation by spheres with mean curvature proportional to $f$.…

In this paper we study some properties of the torsion function with Robin boundary conditions. Here we write the shape derivative of the $L^{\infty}$ and $L^p$ norms, for $p\ge 1$, of the torsion function, seen as a functional on a bounded…

We introduce the nonlocal analogue of the classical free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in an open domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ as the (boundaries of) critical points of the fractional perimeter $\operatorname{Per}_s(\cdot,\,\Omega )$…

In this paper, we consider a biharmonic equation under the Navier boundary condition and with a nearly critical exponent $(P_\epsilon): \Delta^2u=u^{9-\epsilon}, u>0$ in $\Omega$ and $u=\Delta u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a…

We study the statistics and the arithmetic properties of the Robin spectrum of a rectangle. A number of results are obtained for the multiplicities in the spectrum, depending on the Diophantine nature of the aspect ratio. In particular, it…

For a bounded open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^3$ we consider the minimization problem $$ S(a+\epsilon V) = \inf_{0\not\equiv u\in H^1_0(\Omega)} \frac{\int_\Omega (|\nabla u|^2+ (a+\epsilon V) |u|^2)\,dx}{(\int_\Omega u^6\,dx)^{1/3}} $$…

We consider a Br\'ezis-Nirenberg type critical growth $p$-Laplacian problem involving a parameter $\mu > 0$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$. We prove the existence of multiple nontrivial solutions if either $\mu$ or the volume of…

We prove that the Robin ground state and the Robin torsion function are respectively log-concave and $\frac{1}{2}$-concave on an uniformly convex domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ of class $\mathcal{C}^m$, with $[m -\frac{ N}{2}]\geq 4$,…

The paper is devoted to the study of positive solutions of a second-order linear elliptic equation in divergence form in a domain $D\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ that satisfy an oblique boundary condition on a portion of $\partial D$. First, we…