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We provide a suitable variational approach for a class of nonlocal problems involving the fractional laplacian and singular nonlinearities for which the standard techniques fail. As a corollary we deduce a characterization of the solutions.
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Nonlinear modifications of quantum mechanics generically lead to nonlocal effects which violate relativistic causality. We study these effects using the functional Schrodinger equation for quantum fields and identify a type of nonlocality…
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Recently, great attention has been focused on the study of fractional and non-local operators of elliptic type, both for pure mathematical research and in view of concrete real-world applications. Our problem is related to the fractional…
We prove a full Harnack inequality for local minimizers, as well as weak solutions to nonlocal problems with non-standard growth. The main auxiliary results are local boundedness and a weak Harnack inequality for functions in a…
We point out that the moduli sector of the $(2,2)$ string compactification with its nonperturbatively preserved non-compact symmetries is a fertile framework to study global topological defects, thus providing a natural source for the large…
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