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We study compressible and incompressible nonlinear elasticity variational problems in a general context. Our main result gives a sufficient condition for an equilibrium to be a global energy minimizer, in terms of convexity properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Hugo Lavenant , Aaron Zeff Palmer

We show that nonlocal seminorms are strictly decreasing under the continuous Steiner rearrangement. This implies that all solutions to nonlocal equations which arise as critical points of nonlocal energies are radially symmetric and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Matias G. Delgadino , M. Vaughan

We consider a one-phase nonlocal free boundary problem obtained by the superposition of a fractional Dirichlet energy plus a nonlocal perimeter functional. We prove that the minimizers are H\"older continuous and the free boundary has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

Small oscillations of an elastic system of point masses (particles) with a nonlocal interaction are considered. We study the asymptotic behavior of the system, when number of particles tends to infinity, and the distances between them and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-30 E. Khruslov , M. Goncharenko

This article is devoted to the study of certain models for phase transitions involving nonlocal energies. A first part is concerned with to the asymptotic analysis of a system of fractional elliptic equations of Allen-Cahn type as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Thomas Gabard , Vincent Millot

We consider the minimization of an energy functional given by the sum of a density perimeter and a nonlocal interaction of Riesz type with exponent $\alpha$, under volume constraint, where the strength of the nonlocal interaction is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Stan Alama , Lia Bronsard , Ihsan Topaloglu , Andres Zuniga

The study of singular perturbations of the Dirichlet energy is at the core of the phenomenological-description paradigm in soft condensed matter. Being able to pass to the limit plays a crucial role in the understanding of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Andres Contreras , Xavier Lamy , Rémy Rodiac

We address in this work the problem of minimizing quantum entropies under local constraints. We suppose macroscopic quantities such as the particle density, current, and kinetic energy are fixed at each point of $\Rm^d$, and look for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Romain Duboscq , Olivier Pinaud

We develop a rigorous framework for global non-convex optimization by reformulating the minimization problem as a discounted infinite-horizon optimal control problem. For non-convex, continuous, and possibly non-smooth objective functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Hicham Kouhkouh

Inspired by a planar partitioning problem involving multiple improper chambers, this article investigates using classical techniques what can be said of the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of minimizers in a certain free-endpoint…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Stanley Alama , Lia Bronsard , Silas Vriend

We obtain a sharp quantitative isoperimetric inequality for nonlocal $s$-perimeters, uniform with respect to $s$ bounded away from $0$. This allows us to address local and global minimality properties of balls with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Alessio Figalli , Nicola Fusco , Francesco Maggi , Vincent Millot , Massimiliano Morini

This contribution considers optimal control problems subject to nonlocal conservation laws -- those in which the velocity depends nonlocally (i.e., via a convolution) on the solution -- and the so-called singular limit. First, the existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Alexander Keimer , Lukas Pflug , Jakob Rodestock

We study entire minimizers of the Allen-Cahn systems. The specific feature of our systems are potentials having a finite number of global minima, with sub-quadratic behaviour locally near their minima. The corresponding formal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Nicholas D. Alikakos , Dimitrios Gazoulis , Arghir Zarnescu

We study the localization of sets with constant nonlocal mean curvature and prescribed small volume in a bounded open set with smooth boundary, proving that they are {\em sufficiently close} to critical points of a suitable non-local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Andrea Malchiodi , Matteo Novaga , Dayana Pagliardini

We consider a class of non-quasiconvex frame indifferent energy densities which includes Ogden-type energy densities for nematic elastomers. For the corresponding geometrically linear problem we provide an explicit minimizer of the energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-08 V. Agostiniani , G. Dal Maso , A. DeSimone

We discuss the local minimality of certain configurations for a nonlocal isoperimetric problem used to model microphase separation in diblock copolymer melts. We show that critical configurations with positive second variation are local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Emilio Acerbi , Nicola Fusco , Massimiliano Morini

A broad class of optimization problems can be cast in composite form, that is, considering the minimization of the composition of a lower semicontinuous function with a differentiable mapping. This paper investigates the versatile template…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Alberto De Marchi , Patrick Mehlitz

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Abhishek Adimurthi , Peter Sternberg

We consider a class of nonlocal shape optimization problems for sets of fixed mass where the energy functional is given by an attractive/repulsive interaction potential in power-law form. We find that the existence of minimizers of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Almut Burchard , Rustum Choksi , Ihsan Topaloglu

We study a nonlocal perimeter functional inspired by the Minkowski content, whose main feature is that it interpolates between the classical perimeter and the volume functional. This problem is related by a generalized coarea formula to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Annalisa Cesaroni , Serena Dipierro , Matteo Novaga , Enrico Valdinoci