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In 1992, P. Pol\'{a}\v{c}ik\cite{P2} showed that one could linearly imbed any vector fields into a scalar semi-linear parabolic equation on $\Omega$ with Neumann boundary condition provided that there exists a smooth vector field…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be an open set and $f_k \in W^{s,p}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^n)$ be a sequence of homeomorphisms weakly converging to $f \in W^{s,p}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^n)$. It is known that if $s=1$ and $p > n-1$ then $f$ is…

We consider Sobolev mappings $f\in W^{1,q}(\Omega,\IC)$, $1<q<\infty$, between planar domains $\Omega\subset \IC$. We analyse the Radon-Riesz property for convex functionals of the form \[f\mapsto \int_\Omega \Phi(|Df(z)|,J(z,f)) \; dz \]…

In the present paper we investigate the following semilinear singular elliptic problem: \begin{equation*} (\rm P)\qquad \left \{\begin{array}{l} -\Delta u = \dfrac{p(x)}{u^{\alpha}}\quad \text{in} \Omega \\ u = 0\ \text{on} \Omega,\ u>0…

In this paper, we construct and analyze divergence-free finite element methods for the Stokes problem on smooth domains. The discrete spaces are based on the Scott-Vogelius finite element pair of arbitrary polynomial degree greater than…

The vector potential is a fundamental concept widely applied across various fields. This paper presents an existence theorem of a vector potential for divergence-free functions in $W^{m,p}(\mathbb{R}^N,\mathbb{T})$ with general $m,p,N$.…

We consider the classical point vortex model in the mean-field scaling regime, in which the velocity field experienced by a single point vortex is proportional to the average of the velocity fields generated by the remaining point vortices.…

In this work, we revisit the following estimate due to Dahlberg \cite{Dahl}. Let $\textit{\textbf x}_0$ a fixed point in a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$. Then there exists a constant $C > 0$ such that if $u$ is a harmonic function in…

We study spaces $\mathcal{CV}^{k}(\Omega,E)$ of $k$-times continuously partially differentiable functions on an open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ with values in a locally convex Hausdorff space $E$. The space…

Suppose $\Omega\Subset \mathbb R^2$ and $f\in BV_{loc}(\Omega)\cap C^0(\Omega)$ with $|f|>0$ in $\Omega$. Let $u\in C^0(\Omega)$ be a viscosity solution to the inhomogeneous $\infty$-Laplace equation $$ -\Delta_{\infty} u…

The constrained minimisers of convex integral functionals of the form $\mathscr F(v)=\int_\Omega F(\nabla^k v(x))\mathrm d x $ defined on Sobolev mappings $v\in \mathrm W^{k,1}_g(\Omega , \mathbb R^N )\cap K$, where $K$ is a closed convex…

We provide a novel approach to approximate bounded Lipschitz domains via a sequence of smooth, bounded domains. The flexibility of our method allows either inner or outer approximations of Lipschitz domains which also possess weakly defined…

We study a conormal boundary value problem for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations in bounded domain $\Omega$ whose coefficients can be degenerate or singular of the type $\text{dist}(x, \partial \Omega)^\alpha$, where $\partial…

We introduce a general $L_p$-solvability result for the Poisson equation in non-smooth domains $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, with the zero Dirichlet boundary condition. Our sole assumption on the domain $\Omega$ is the Hardy inequality:…

We construct a large class of incompressible vector fields with Sobolev regularity, in dimension $d \geq 3$, for which the chain rule problem has a negative answer. In particular, for any renormalization map $\beta$ (satisfying suitable…

We consider an ultra-weak first order system discretization of the Helmholtz equation. When employing the optimal test norm, the `ideal' method yields the best approximation to the pair of the Helmholtz solution and its scaled gradient…

Let $\Omega=\widetilde{\Omega}\setminus \overline{D}$ where $\widetilde{\Omega}$ is a bounded domain with connected complement in $\mathbb C^n$ (or more generally in a Stein manifold) and $D$ is relatively compact open subset of…

We consider the structure of divergence-free vector measures on the plane. We show that such measures can be decomposed into measures induced by closed simple curves. More generally, we show that if the divergence of a planar vector-valued…

Let $0<p\leq 1$, and let $\omega:\mathbb N^2 \to [1,\infty)$ be an almost monotone weight. Let $\mathbb H$ be the closed right half plane in the complex plane. Let $\widetilde a$ be a complex valued function on $\mathbb H^2$ such that…

This paper is concerned with orthonormal systems in real intervals, given with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. More specifically, our interest is in systems with a skew-symmetric differentiation matrix (this excludes orthonormal…