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We study existence and qualitative properties of the minimizers for a Thomas--Fermi type energy functional defined by $$E_\alpha(\rho):=\frac{1}{q}\int_{\mathbb{R}^d}|\rho(x)|^q…

We show that the molecular relativistic Thomas-Fermi-Weizs\"acker functional consisting of atoms of atomic numbers $Z_1,...,Z_k$ has a minimizer, if the particle number $N$ is constrained to a number less or equal to the total nuclear…

We study the ionization problem in the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizs\"acker theory for atoms and molecules. We prove the nonexistence of minimizers for the energy functional when the number of electrons is large and the total nuclear charge…

In this paper, using a discrete Schwarz rearrangement on lattice graphs developed in \cite{DSR}, we study the existence of global minimizers for the following functional $I:H^1\left(\mathbb{Z}^N\right)\to \R$, $$I(u)=\frac{1}{2}…

We propose a density functional theory of Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizs\"acker type to describe the response of a single layer of graphene resting on a dielectric substrate to a point charge or a collection of charges some distance away from…

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $N\geq 3$ and we let $\Sigma$ to be a closed submanifold of dimension $1 \leq k \leq N-2. $ In this paper we study existence and non-existence of minimizers of Hardy…

In this paper, we study the existence of minimizers for a class of constrained minimization problems derived from the Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson equations: $$-\Delta u+V(x)u+(|x|^{-1}*u^2)u-|u|^\frac{4}{3}u=\lambda u,~~x\in\R^3$$ on the…

We establish lower semi-continuity and strict convexity of the energy functionals for a large class of vector equilibrium problems in logarithmic potential theory. This in particular implies the existence and uniqueness of a minimizer for…

We consider minimizers of \[ F(\lambda_1(\Omega),\ldots,\lambda_N(\Omega)) + |\Omega|, \] where $F$ is a function nondecreasing in each parameter, and $\lambda_k(\Omega)$ is the $k$-th Dirichlet eigenvalue of $\Omega$. This includes, in…

Let $z\in \mathbb{H}:=\{z= x+ i y\in\mathbb{C}: y>0\}$ and $\mathcal{K}(\alpha;z):=\sum_{ (m,n)\in \mathbb{Z} ^2 }\frac{{\left| mz+n \right|}^2}{{{\Im}(z)}}e^{-\pi\alpha\frac{ \left|mz+n\right|^2}{\Im(z)}}.$ In this paper, we characterize…

We establish conditions to ensure the existence of minimizer for a class of mass-constrained functionals involving a nonattractive point interaction in three dimensions. The existence of minimizers follows from the compactness of minimizing…

We study the periodic Hartree-Fock model used for the description of electrons in a crystal. The existence of a minimizer was previously shown by Catto, Le Bris and Lions (Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Anal. Non Lineaire} 18 (2001), no.6,…

This doctoral thesis is devoted to the analysis of some minimization problems that involve nonlocal functionals. We are mainly concerned with the $s$-fractional perimeter and its minimizers, the $s$-minimal sets. We investigate the behavior…

The paper studies the existence of minimizers for Rayleigh quotients $\mu_{\Omega}=\inf\frac{\int_\Omega|\nabla u|^2}{\int_\Omega V{|u|^2}} $, where $\Omega$ is a domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$, and $V$ is a nonzero nonnegative function that may…

We prove the existence of minimizers for some constrained variational problems on $BV(\Omega)$, under subcritical and critical restrictions, involving the affine energy introduced by Zhang in \cite{Z}. Related functionals have non-coercive…

In this paper, we study the existence of minimizers to the following functional related to the nonlinear Choquard equation: $$ E(u)=\frac{1}{2}\ds\int_{\R^N}|\nabla…

We consider minimization problems of the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizs\"{a}cker (TFDW) type, in which the Newtonian potential is perturbed by a background potential satisfying mild conditions and which ensures the existence of minimizers. We…

We propose here a proof of existence of a minimizer of a segmentation functional based on a priori information on target shapes, and formulated with level sets. The existence of a minimizer is very important, because it guarantees the…

We study existence of minimizers of the least gradient problem \[\inf_{v \in BV_g} \int_{\Omega}\varphi(x, Dv),\] where $BV_g=\{v \in BV(\Omega): \int_{\partial \Omega}gv=1\}$, $\varphi(x,p): \Omega\times \R^n \rightarrow \R$ is a convex,…

Existence of minimizers for the Dirac--Fock model in crystals was recently proved by Paturel and S\'er\'e and the authors \cite{crystals} by a retraction technique due to S\'er\'e \cite{Ser09}. In this paper, inspired by Ghimenti and…