Related papers: Unique continuation for differential inclusions

Let $g_0$ be a smooth Riemannian metric on a closed manifold $M^n$ of dimension $n\geq 3$. We study the existence of a smooth metric $g$ conformal to $g_0$ whose Schouten tensor $A_g$ satisfies the differential inclusion…

We consider a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 3$, and $h$ a continuous function on $\Omega$. Let $\Gamma$ be a closed curve contained in $\Omega$. We study existence of positive solutions $u\in H^1_0(\Omega)$ to the…

We consider the problem $$ \epsilon^2 \Delta u-V(y)u+u^p\,=\,0,~~u>0~~\quad\mbox{in}\quad\Omega,~~\quad\frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}\,=\,0\quad\mbox{on}~~~\partial \Omega, $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^2$ with…

As an application of Brouwer's fixed-point theorem we prove that a continuously differentiable convex function with gradient of constant norm is an affine mapping. It is a first-order characterization of affine mappings among continuously…

Let $\Gamma$ denote a smooth simple curve in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq2$, possibly with boundary. Let $\Omega_{R}$ be the open normal tubular neighborhood of radius 1 of the expanded curve $R\Gamma:=\{Rx\mid x\in…

We study absolute continuity of harmonic measure with respect to surface measure on domains $\Omega$ that have large complements. We show that if $\Gamma\subset \mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ is $d$-Ahlfors regular and splits $ \mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ into…

We study both existence and nonexistence of nonnegative solutions for nonlinear elliptic problems with singular lower order terms that have natural growth with respect to the gradient, whose model is $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u +…

The classical Hopf's lemma can be reformulated as uniqueness of continuation result. We aim in the present work to quantify this property. We show precisely that if a solution $u$ of a divergence form elliptic equation attains its maximum…

In this paper we investigate the boundary value problem ${div(\gamma\nabla u)=0 in \Omega, u=f on \partial\Omega$ where $\gamma$ is a complex valued $L^\infty$ coefficient, satisfying a strong ellipticity condition. In Electrical Impedance…

We study the De Giorgi type conjecture, that is, one dimensional symmetry problem for entire solutions of an two components elliptic system in $\mathbb{R}^n$, for all $n\geq 2$. We prove that, if a solution $(u,v)$ has a linear growth at…

We consider entire solutions $u$ to the minimal surface equation in $R^N$, with $ N\ge8,$ and we prove the following sharp result : if $N-7$ partial derivatives $ \frac{\partial u }{\partial {x_j}}$ are bounded on one side (not necessarily…

In this manuscript, we investigate geometric regularity estimates for problems governed by quasi-linear elliptic models in non-divergence form, which may exhibit either degenerate or singular behavior when the gradient vanishes, under…

We study the problem $-\Delta u = \gamma$, where $\gamma$ is a singular measure, with support on a curve or a point. We prove that optimal rates of convergence for the finite element method can be obtained using properly graded meshes. In…

We consider variational integrals of linear growth satisfying the condition of $\mu$-ellipticity for some exponent $\mu >1$ and prove that stationary points $u$: $\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^N$ with the property \[ \limsup_{|x|\to \infty}…

A long standing problem asks whether every group is sofic, i.e., can be separated by almost-homomorphisms to the symmetric group $Sym(n)$. Similar problems have been asked with respect to almost-homomorphisms to the unitary group $U(n)$,…

In this note, we prove a uniqueness result, up to a positive multiplicative constant, for nontrivial convex solutions to a system of Monge-Amp\`ere equations \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{alignedat}{2} \det D^2 u~& = \gamma…

Let $\Gamma$ be a smooth, closed, oriented, $(n-1)$-dimensional submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. We show that there exist arbitrarily small perturbations $\Gamma'$ of $\Gamma$ with the property that minimizing integral $n$-currents with…

We are concerned with the inverse boundary problem of determining anomalies associated with a semilinear elliptic equation of the form $-\Delta u+a(\mathbf x, u)=0$, where $a(\mathbf x, u)$ is a general nonlinear term that belongs to a…

In this paper, we first prove some propositions of Sobolev spaces defined on a locally finite graph $G=(V,E)$, which are fundamental when dealing with equations on graphs under the variational framework. Then we consider a nonlinear…

We show that for a very general class of curvature functions defined in the positive cone, the problem of finding a complete strictly locally convex hypersurface in $H^n+1$ satisfying $f(\kappa)=\sigma\in(0, 1)$ with a prescribed asymptotic…