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We prove uniqueness for minimizers of the weighted least gradient problem \[\inf \left\lbrace \int_{\Omega} a|Du|: \ \ u\in BV(\Omega), \ \ u|_{\partial \Omega}=f \right\rbrace.\] The weight function $a$ is assumed to be continuous and it…

We investigate non-convex optimization problems in $BV(\Omega)$ with two-sided pointwise inequality constraints. We propose a regularization and penalization method to numerically solve the problem. Under certain conditions, weak limit…

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 establish the higher fractional differentiability of bounded minimizers to a class of obstacle problems with non-standard growth conditions of the form \begin{gather*} \min \biggl\{ \displaystyle\int_{\Omega} F(x,Dw)dx \ : \ w \in…

Bilevel optimization minimizes an objective function, defined by an upper-level problem whose feasible region is the solution of a lower-level problem. We study the oracle complexity of finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point with…

We prove that an open set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ can be approximated by smooth sets of uniformly bounded perimeter from the interior if and only if the open set $\Omega$ satisfies \begin{align*} &\qquad…

We prove the existence of a homogenization limit for solutions of appropriately formulated sequences of boundary obstacle problems for the Laplacian on $C^{1,\alpha}$ domains. Specifically, we prove that the energy minimizers $u_\epsilon$…

The theory of boundary regularity for $p$-harmonic functions is extended to unbounded open sets in complete metric spaces with a doubling measure supporting a $p$-Poincar\'e inequality, $1<p<\infty$. The barrier classification of regular…

We consider the optimization problem of minimizing $\int_{\Omega}G(|\nabla u|) dx$ in the class of functions $W^{1,G}(\Omega)$, with a constrain on the volume of $\{u>0\}$. The conditions on the function $G$ allow for a different behavior…

This paper is dedicated to the spectral optimization problem $$ \mathrm{min}\left\{\lambda_1^s(\Omega)+\cdots+\lambda_m^s(\Omega) + \Lambda \mathcal{L}_n(\Omega)\colon \Omega\subset D \mbox{ s-quasi-open}\right\} $$ where $\Lambda>0,…

Let $\Omega$ be an open, possibly unbounded, set in Euclidean space $\R^m$ with boundary $\partial\Omega,$ let $A$ be a measurable subset of $\Omega$ with measure $|A|$, and let $\gamma \in (0,1)$. We investigate whether the solution…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded domain satisfying the uniform exterior cone condition. We establish existence and uniqueness of continuous solutions of the Dirichlet Problem associated to certain intrinsic nonlinear mean value…

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 3$) such that $0\in\partial \Omega$. In this memoir, we consider issues of non-existence, existence, and multiplicity of variational solutions in $H_{1,0}^2(\Omega)$ for the…

This paper investigates a class of $p$-obstacle problems with subcritical exponents having the form \begin{align} \mathrm{div}\left( a(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\right) =m_1\chi_{\{u>0\}}-m_2u^{\lambda-1}\chi_{\{u>0\}} \ \text{in}\…

We study the minimum problem for the functional $\int_{\Omega}\bigl( \vert \nabla \mathbf{u} \vert^{2} + Q^{2}\chi_{\{\vert \mathbf{u}\vert>0\}} \bigr)dx$ with the constraint $u_i\geq 0$ for $i=1,\cdots,m$ where…

The simplest genuinely multidimensional monopolist's problem involves minimizing a linearly perturbed Dirichlet energy among nonnegative convex functions $u$ on an open domain $X \subset [0, \infty)^2$. The geometry of the region of strict…

We consider the minimization problem of $\phi$-divergences between a given probability measure $P$ and subsets $\Omega$ of the vector space $\mathcal{M}_\mathcal{F}$ of all signed finite measures which integrate a given class $\mathcal{F}$…

We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of the obstacle problem for quasilinear stochastic partial differential equations (OSPDEs for short) with Neumann boundary condition. Our method is based on the analytical technics coming…

On a metric space equipped with a doubling measure supporting a Poincar\'e inequality, we show that given a BV function, discarding a set of small $1$-capacity makes the function continuous outside its jump set and ``one-sidedly" continuous…

We consider the minimization of an average distance functional defined on a two-dimensional domain $\Omega$ with an Euler elastica penalization associated with $\pd \Omega$, the boundary of $\Omega$. The average distance is given by…