Related papers: Levi equation and local maximum property

This monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of second order divergence form elliptic operators with bounded measurable t-independent coefficients in spaces of fractional smoothness, in Besov and weighted Sobolev classes. We establish…

A linear quadratic Dirichlet control problem posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain is analyzed. Detailed regularity results are provided in classical Sobolev (Slobodetskii) spaces. In particular, it is proved that in the presence…

We study the behaviour of the first eigenfunction of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a planar convex domain near its maximum. We show that the eccentricity and orientation of the superlevel sets of the eigenfunction stabilise as they approach…

We study the Dirichlet problem in Lipschitz domains and with boundary data in Besov spaces, for divergence form strongly elliptic systems of arbitrary order, with bounded, complex-valued coefficients. Our main result gives a sharp condition…

Maximization and minimization problems of the principle eigenvalue for divergence form second order elliptic operators with the Dirichlet boundary condition are considered. The principal eigen map of such elliptic operators is introduced…

We consider the solution of $-\Delta u = 1$ on convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions $u =0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Our main concern is the behavior of $\|\nabla u\|_{L^{\infty}}$, also known as…

We consider the Stokes resolvent problem in a two-dimensional bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$ subject to homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove $\mathrm{L}^p$-resolvent estimates for $p$ satisfying the condition $\lvert 1 / p…

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

We give a complete characterization, as "stadium-like domains", of convex subsets $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ where a solution exists to Serrin-type overdetermined boundary value problems in which the operator is either the infinity…

This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of the $L^2$ Dirichlet eigenpairs of the operator $-\Delta + V$ on a simply connected $C^2$ bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ containing the origin, where $V$ is a radial…

The Special Lagrangian Potential Equation for a function $u$ on a domain $\Omega\subset {\bf R}^n$ is given by ${\rm tr}\{\arctan(D^2 \,u) \} = \theta$ for a contant $\theta \in (-n {\pi\over 2}, n {\pi\over 2})$. For $C^2$ solutions the…

Let $m$ be a bounded function and $\alpha$ a nonnegative parameter. This article is concerned with the first eigenvalue $\lambda\_\alpha(m)$ of the drifted Laplacian type operator $\mathcal L\_m$ given by $\mathcal L\_m(u)=…

We consider the ground state $\phi_0$ of the Schr\"odinger operator $L=-\Delta+V$ on the bounded convex domain $\Omega\subset\R^n$, satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition. Assume that $V\in C^1(\Omega)$ and it admits an even function…

Let $(E)$ a homogeneous linear differential equation of order $n$ Fuchsien over $\mathbb{P}^{1}(\mathbb{C}) $. The idea of Riemann (1857) was to obtain the properties of solutions of (E) by studying the local system. Thus, he obtained some…

In an earlier paper the authors provided general conditions on a real codimension 2 submanifold $S\subset C^{n}$, $n\ge 3$, such that there exists a possibly singular Levi-flat hypersurface $M$ bounded by $S$. In this paper we consider the…

We prove Sobolev regularity for distributional solutions to the Dirichlet problem for generators of $2s$-stable processes and exterior data, inhomogeneity in weighted $L^2$-spaces. This class of operators includes the fractional Laplacian.…

We study the viscosity solutions to the first eigenvalue equation. We consider $\Omega$ a bounded B-regular domain in $\mathbb{C}^n$ and we prove that the Dirichlet problem $\Lambda_{1}(D_{\mathbb{C}}^2 u)=f$ in $\Omega$ and $u=\varphi$ on…

We consider Cheeger-like shape optimization problems of the form $$\min\big\{|\Omega|^\alpha J(\Omega) : \Omega\subset D\big\}$$ where $D$ is a given bounded domain and $\alpha$ is above the natural scaling. We show the existence of a…

We consider the $2m$-th order elliptic boundary value problem $Lu=f(x,u)$ on a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset\R^N$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\partial\Omega$. The operator $L$ is a uniformly elliptic linear operator of…

We study the Dirichlet problem for the Lagrangian phase operator, in both the real and complex setting. Our main result states that if $\Omega$ is a compact domain in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ or $\mathbb{C}^n$, then there exists a solution to the…