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We study a shape optimization problem associated with the first eigenvalue of a nonlinear spectral problem involving a mixed operator ($p-$Laplacian and Laplacian) with a constraint on the volume. First, we prove the existence of a…

We present monotonicity inequalities for certain functions involving eigenvalues of $p$-Laplacians on signed graphs with respect to $p$. Inspired by such monotonicity, we propose new spectrum-based graph invariants, called (variational)…

We consider a number of boundary value problems involving the $p$-Laplacian. The model case is $-\Delta_p u=V|u|^{p-2}u$ for $u\in W_0^{1,2}(D)$ with $D$ a bounded domain in ${\bf R}^n$. We derive necessary conditions for the existence of…

We consider a problem in eigenvalue optimization, in particular finding a local minimizer of the spectral abscissa - the value of a parameter that results in the smallest value of the largest real part of the spectrum of a matrix system.…

This paper concerns the quasilinear subelliptic function derived from H\"ormander vector fields. Based on the significant work of J. Serrin in \cite{SER}, M. Meier in \cite{MM1}, and L. Capogna, D. Danielli and N. Garofalo in…

If the smooth vector fields $X_1,\ldots,X_m$ and their commutators span the tangent space at every point in $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^N$ for any fixed $m\leq N$, then we establish the full interior regularity theory of quasi-linear…

Given a bounded open subset $\Omega$ of $\mathbb R^n$, we establish the weak closure of the affine ball $B^{\mathcal A}_p(\Omega) = \{f \in W^{1,p}_0(\Omega):\ \mathcal E_p f \leq 1\}$ with respect to the affine functional $\mathcal E_pf$…

We consider a divergence form hypoelliptic operator consisting of a system of real smooth vector fields $X_{1},..., X_{q}$ satisfying H\"ormander condition in some domain $\Omega\subseteq\erren$. Interior $L^{p}$ estimates, $2\leq…

This paper is dedicated to the spectral optimization problem \begin{equation*} \min \big\{ \lambda_1(\Omega)+\cdots+\lambda_k(\Omega) + \Lambda|\Omega| \ : \ \Omega \subset D \text{ quasi-open} \big\} \end{equation*} where…

We consider the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem \[ -\Delta u=\left\vert u\right\vert ^{p-2}u\text{ in }\Omega,\text{\quad }u=0\text{ on }\partial\Omega, \] in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ for supercritical…

We establish an explicit maximum principle for the Dirichlet problem associated with the $p$-Laplacian ($p>1$), where the constant depends on both $p$ and the geometry of the domain. From this result we derive two main applications. First,…

We prove a Lichnerowicz type lower bound for the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian on K\"ahler manifolds. Parallel to the $p = 2$ case, the first eigenvalue lower bound is improved by using a decomposition of the Hessian on…

In this paper we prove a sharp lower bound for the first nontrivial Neumann eigenvalue $\mu_1(\Omega)$ for the $p$-Laplace operator in a Lipschitz, bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\R^n$. Our estimate does not require any convexity assumption on…

For each degree p and each natural number k $\ge$ 1, we construct a oneparameter family of Riemannian metrics on any oriented closed manifold with volume one and the sectional curvature bounded below such that the k-th positive eigenvalue…

In this paper we study the eigenvalue problems for a nonlocal operator of order $s$ that is analogous to the local pseudo $p-$Laplacian. We show that there is a sequence of eigenvalues $\lambda_n \to \infty$ and that the first one is…

We study an eigenvalue problem involving a fully anisotropic elliptic differential operator in arbitrary Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. The relevant equations are associated with constrained minimization problems for integral functionals depending…

We introduce higher-order Poincar'e constants for compact weighted manifolds and estimate them from above in terms of subsets. These estimates imply upper bounds for eigenvalues of the weighted Laplacian and the first nontrivial eigenvalue…

We consider a non-compact Riemannian periodic manifold such that the corresponding Laplacian has a spectral gap. By continuously perturbing the periodic metric locally we can prove the existence of eigenvalues in a gap. A lower bound on the…

In these notes we study the Dirichlet problem for critical points of a convex functional of the form \[ F(u)=\int_{\Omega}\phi\left( \left\vert \nabla u\right\vert \right) , \] where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of a complete Riemannian…

We consider a "convolution mm-Laplacian" operator on metric-measure spaces and study its spectral properties. The definition is based on averaging over small metric balls. For reasonably nice metric-measure spaces we prove stability of…