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In this paper we present new embedding results for Musielak-Orlicz Sobolev spaces of double phase type. Based on the continuous embedding of $W^{1,\mathcal{H}}(\Omega)$ into $L^{\mathcal{H}_*}(\Omega)$, where $\mathcal{H}_*$ is the Sobolev…

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…

Diffuse domain methods (DDMs) have gained significant attention for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. These methods approximate the domain by replacing sharp boundaries with a diffuse layer of thickness…

We minimise the Canham-Helfrich energy in the class of closed immersions with prescribed genus, surface area and enclosed volume. Compactness is achieved in the class of oriented varifolds. The main result is a lower-semicontinuity estimate…

We consider the mixed local/nonlocal semilinear equation \begin{equation*} -\epsilon^{2}\Delta u +\epsilon^{2s}(-\Delta)^s u +u=u^p\qquad \text{in } \Omega \end{equation*} with zero Dirichlet datum, where $\epsilon>0$ is a small parameter,…

In this paper an iterative minimization method is proposed to approximate the minimizer to the double-well energy functional arising in the phase-field theory. The method is based on a quadratic functional posed over a nonempty closed…

We study a finite-element based space-time discretisation for the 2D stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded domain supplemented with no-slip boundary conditions. We prove optimal convergence rates in the energy norm with respect to…

We consider the well-known minimizing-movement approach to the definition of a solution of gradient-flow type equations by means of an implicit Euler scheme depending on an energy and a dissipation term. We perturb the energy by considering…

We propose a new approximation for the relaxed energy $E$ of the Dirichlet energy and prove that the minimizers of the approximating functionals converge to a minimizer $u$ of the relaxed energy, and that $u$ is partially regular without…

We establish a new estimate for the Ginzburg-Landau energies $E_{\epsilon}(u)=\int_M\frac{1}{2}|du|^2+\frac{1}{4\epsilon^2}(1-|u|^2)^2$ of complex-valued maps $u$ on a compact, oriented manifold $M$ with $b_1(M)\neq 0$, obtained by…

We study the Dirichlet problem for the following prescribed mean curvature PDE $$ \begin{cases} -\operatorname{div}\dfrac{\nabla v}{\sqrt{1+|\nabla v|^{2}}}=f(x,v) \text{ in }\Omega\\ v=\varphi \text{ on }\partial\Omega. \end{cases} $$…

In this paper we continue to study the connection among the area minimizing problem, certain area functional and the Dirichlet problem of minimal surface equations in a class of conformal cones with a similar motivation from \cite{GZ20}.…

We study the extension problem on the Sierpinski Gasket ($SG$). In the first part we consider minimizing the functional $\mathcal{E}_{\lambda}(f) = \mathcal{E}(f,f) + \lambda \int f^2 d \mu$ with prescribed values at a finite set of points…

We study the nonlocal equation $$-\varepsilon^2 \Delta u_\varepsilon + V u_\varepsilon = \varepsilon^{-\alpha} \bigl(I_\alpha \ast \lvert u_\varepsilon\rvert^p\bigr) \lvert u_\varepsilon \rvert^{p - 2} u_\varepsilon\quad\text{in…

We study the asymptotic behaviour, as a small parameter $\varepsilon$ tends to zero, of minimisers of a Ginzburg-Landau type energy with a nonlinear penalisation potential vanishing on a compact submanifold $\mathcal{N}$ and with a given…

We obtain density estimates for the free boundaries of minimizers $u \ge 0$ of the Alt-Phillips functional involving negative power potentials $$\int_\Omega \left(|\nabla u|^2 + u^{-\gamma} \chi_{\{u>0\}}\right) \, dx, \quad \quad \gamma…

Variational models of phase transitions take into account double-well energies singularly perturbed by gradient terms, such as the Cahn-Hilliard free energy. The derivation by $\Gamma$-convergence of a sharp-interface limit for such energy…

We consider Riesz-type nonlocal energies with general interaction kernels and their discretizations related to particle systems. We prove that the discretized energies $\Gamma$-converge in the weak-$*$ topology to the Riesz functional…

Recent years have seen the emergence of nonlinear methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). While these approaches often perform well in practice, their theoretical analysis…

We study a variational problem on $H^1({\mathbb R})$ under an $L^\infty$-constraint related to Sobolev-type inequalities for a class of generalized potentials, including $L^p$-potentials, non-positive potentials, and signed Radon measures.…