Related papers: Plateau's problem via the Allen--Cahn functional

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of minimal energy solutions to the Lane-Emden system $-\Delta u = v^p$ and $-\Delta v = u^q$ on bounded domains as the index $(p,q)$ approaches to the critical hyperbola from below. Precisely,…

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}_+$, $\partial D=\Gamma \cup \Sigma$,…

The Poisson problem consists in finding an immersed surface $\Sigma\subset\mathbb{R}^m$ minimising Germain's elastic energy (known as Willmore energy in geometry) with prescribed boundary, boundary Gauss map and area which constitutes a…

Using $\Gamma$-convergence, we study the Cahn-Hilliard problem with interface width parameter $\varepsilon > 0$ for phase transitions on manifolds with conical singularities. We prove that minimizers of the corresponding energy functional…

We study a functional on the boundary of a compact Riemannian 3-manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature. The functional arises as the second variation of the Wang-Yau quasi-local energy in general relativity. We prove that the functional…

We show that stable solutions $u:\mathbb{R}^4\to (-1,1)$ to the Allen-Cahn equation with bounded energy density (or equivalently, with cubic energy growth) are one-dimensional. This is known to entail important geometric consequences, such…

We investigate the overdetermined problem given by \begin{equation*} \Delta u=0 \text{ in } \Omega,\quad \frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu} =\sigma_1 u \text{ on } \partial \Omega, \quad |\nabla u|=\text{constant on } \partial \Omega,…

Let $M$ be a complete simply connected manifold which is in addition Gromov hyperbolic, coercive and roughly starlike. For a given harmonic function on $M$, a local Fatou Theorem and a pointwise criteria of non-tangential convergence coming…

We consider the sublinear problem \begin {equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{r c l c} -\Delta u & = &|u|^{q-2}u & \textrm{in }\Omega, \\ u_n & = & 0 & \textrm{on }\partial\Omega,\end{array}\right. \end {equation*} where $\Omega \subset…

For $N\geq 4$, we let $\Omega$ to be a smooth bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $\Gamma$ a smooth closed submanifold of $\Omega$ of dimension $k$ with $1\leq k \leq N-2$ and $h$ a continuous function defined on $\Omega$. We denote by…

For a fixed smooth map $u_0$ between two Riemann surfaces $\Sigma$ and $S$ with non-zero degree, we consider the energy function on Teichm\"uller space $\mc{T}$ of $\Sigma$ that assigns to a complex structure $t\in \mc{T}$ on $\Sigma$ the…

For $\Omega$ a perturbation of the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we establish the existence of a sequence of local minimizers for the vector Allen-Cahn energy. The sequence converges in $L^1$ to a partition of $\Omega$ whose skeleton is…

We establish an epsilon-regularity theorem at points in the free boundary of almost-minimizers of the energy $\mathrm{Per}_{w}(E)=\int_{\partial^*E}w\,\mathrm{d} {\mathscr{H}}^{n-1}$, where $w$ is a weight asymptotic to…

We establish a $\Gamma$-convergence result for $h\to 0$ of a thin nonlinearly elastic 3D-plate of thickness $h>0$ which is assumed to be glued to a support region in the 2D-plane $x_3=0$ over the $h$-2D-neighborhood of a given closed set…

In this paper we are interested on solvability of the problem \begin{align*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u=0 & \text{in} \;\;\;\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{+}\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\\ \;\;\displaystyle{\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}} = V(x)u+b \vert…

The Lane-Emden system is written as \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = v^p &\text{in } \Omega,\\ -\Delta v = u^q &\text{in } \Omega,\\ u, v > 0 &\text{in } \Omega,\\ u = v = 0 &\text{on } \partial \Omega \end{cases} \end{equation*}…

We consider three-dimensional Einstein gravity in Euclidean signature with a finite boundary of torus topology endowed with an induced metric of fixed conformal class and a constant trace of extrinsic curvature $K$. For vanishing, positive,…

We prove that the critical points of the 3d nonlinear elasticity functional on shells of small thickness $h$ and around the mid-surface $S$ of arbitrary geometry, converge as $h\to 0$ to the critical points of the von K\'arm\'an functional…

In this manuscript, we delve into the study of maps $u\in W^{1,2}(\Omega;\overline M)$ that minimize the Alt-Caffarelli energy functional $$ \int_\Omega (|Du|^2 + q^2 \chi_{u^{-1}(M)})\,dx, $$ under the condition that the image $u(\Omega)$…

In part II we constructed the lower bound, in the spirit of $\Gamma$- $\liminf$ for some general classes of singular perturbation problems, with or without the prescribed differential constraint, taking the form E_\e(v):=\int_\Omega…