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Using a capacity approach, and the theory of measure's perturbation of Dirichlet forms, we give the probabilistic representation of the General Robin boundary value problems on an arbitrary domain $\Omega$, involving smooth measures, which…

We consider a functional being a difference of two differentiable convex functionals on a closed ball. Existence and multiplicity of critical points is investigated. Some applications are given.

We verify a conjecture proposed by X. Chen and Y. Shi, which arises from their study of the Green function on spheres in Euclidean space. More precisely, let $M\subset \mathbb{R}^3$ be a closed $C^{2}$ embedded surface and suppose that…

We establish the existence and nonexistence of entire solutions to a semilinear elliptic problem whose nonlinearity is the critical power multiplied by a function that takes the value 1 in an open bounded region and the value -1 in its…

In this paper we show that there exists a family of domains $\Omega_{\varepsilon}\subseteq\mathbb{R}^N$ with $N\ge2$, such that the $stable$ solution of the problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u= g(u)&\hbox{in }\Omega_\varepsilon\\…

We study the minimizing problem $\inf\left\{\displaystyle\int_{\Omega}p(x)|\nabla u|^{2}dx,\,u\in H^{1}_{0}(\Omega),\,\|u\|_{L^{\frac{2N}{N-2}}(\Omega)}=1\right\}$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain of $\R^{N}$, $N\geq 3$ and $p$ a…

We prove an existence result for the Poisson equation on non-compact Riemannian manifolds satisfying weighted Poincar\'e inequalities outside compact sets. Our result applies to a large class of manifolds including, for instance, all…

Let $R$ be a constant. Let $\mathcal{M}^R_\gamma$ be the space of smooth metrics $g$ on a given compact manifold $\Omega^n$ ($n\ge 3$) with smooth boundary $\Sigma $ such that $g$ has constant scalar curvature $R$ and $g|_{\Sigma}$ is a…

We investigate the quantum phase transition of the O(3) nonlinear $\sigma$ model {\it without Berry phase} in two spacial dimensions. Utilizing the $CP^{1}$ representation of the nonlinear $\sigma$ model, we obtain an effective action in…

We consider the problem $$(P_\eps)\qquad \Delta u +\lambda {e^{u}\over\int\limits_{\Omega\setminus B(\xi,\eps)}e^u}=0\ \hbox{in}\ \Omega\setminus B(\xi,\eps),\quad u =0\ \hbox{on}\ \partial\(\Omega\setminus B(\xi,\eps)\), $$ where $\Omega$…

We study the existence and nonexistence of positive singular solutions to second-order non-divergence type elliptic inequalities with measurable coefficients. We prove the existence of a critical value $p^*$ that separates the existence…

Recall that an integer is $t-$free iff it is not divisible by $p^t$ for some prime $p.$ We give a method to check Robin inequality $\sigma(n) < e^\gamma n\log\log n,$ for $t-$free integers $n$ and apply it for $t=6,7.$ We introduce…

We construct the Green function for second-order elliptic equations in non-divergence form when the mean oscillations of the coefficients satisfy the Dini condition. We show that the Green's function is BMO in the domain and establish…

In three-dimensional O(N) models, we investigate the low-momentum behavior of the two-point Green's function G(x) in the critical region of the symmetric phase. We consider physical systems whose criticality is characterized by a…

We classify the non-negative critical points in $W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)$ of \[ J(v)=\int_\Omega H(Dv)-F(x, v)\, dx \] where $H$ is convex and positively $p$-homogeneous, while $t\mapsto \partial_tF(x, t)/t^{p-1}$ is non-increasing. Since $H$ may…

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior, as $\beta \to 0$, of positive solutions to the semilinear elliptic Robin problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = u^p, & \text{in } \Omega,\\ u > 0, & \text{in } \Omega,\\…

We investigate the distribution of critical points of certain isotropic random functions $\Phi$ on $\mathbb{R}^m$. We show that the distribution of critical points of $\Phi(Rx)$, suitably normalized, converge a.s. and $L^2$ as random…

It is widely believed that the energy functional $E_p:(\mathbb{S}^2)^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ $$ E_p = \sum_{i,j=1 \atop i \neq j}^{n} \frac{1}{\|x_i-x_j\|^p}$$ has a number of critical points, $\nabla E(x) = 0$, that grows exponentially…

We prove a central limit theorem concerning the number of critical points in large cubes of an isotropic Gaussian random function on a Euclidean space.

In this paper we construct families of bounded domains $\Omega_\varepsilon$ and solutions $u_\varepsilon$ of \[\begin{cases} -\Delta u_\varepsilon=1&\text{ in }\ \Omega_\varepsilon\\ u_\varepsilon=0&\text{ on }\ \partial\Omega_\varepsilon…