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Let $u$ be a weak solution of the free boundary problem $$\mathcal L u=\lambda_0 \mathcal H^1\lfloor\partial\{u>0\}, u\ge 0,$$ where $\mathcal L u={\text{div}}(g(\nabla u)\nabla u)$ is a quasilinear elliptic operator and $g(\xi)$ is a given…

We study regularity properties of solutions to operator equations on patchwise smooth manifolds $\partial\Omega$ such as, e.g., boundaries of polyhedral domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$. Using suitable biorthogonal wavelet bases…

Assume that $p > 1$ and $p - 1 \le \alpha \le p$ are real numbers and $\Omega$ is a non-empty open subset of ${\mathbb R}^n$, $n \ge 2$. We consider the inequality $$ {\rm div} \, A (x, D u) + b (x) |D u|^\alpha \ge 0, $$ where $D =…

In this paper, we study the minimization of $\lambda_{1}(\Omega)$, the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, within the class of open sets $\Omega$ of fixed volume in a Riemmanian manifold $(M,g)$. In the Euclidian…

We study a nonlinear generalization of a free boundary problem that arises in the context of thermal insulation. We consider two open sets $\Omega\subseteq A$, and we search for an optimal $A$ in order to minimize a non-linear energy…

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^{n+1}$, $n\geq2$, be an open set satisfying the corkscrew condition with $n$-Ahlfors regular boundary $\partial\Omega$, but without any connectivity assumption. We study the connection between solvability of the…

We show that, for a fixed order $\gamma\geq 1$, each local minimizer of a rather general nonsmooth optimization problem in Euclidean spaces is either M-stationary in the classical sense (corresponding to stationarity of order $1$),…

This paper concerns almost minimizers of the functional $$ J(v,\Omega) = \int_\Omega \left( |D v^+|^p + |D v^-|^q \right) dx, $$ where $1<p \neq q< \infty$ and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 1$. We prove the…

Given a linear closed but not necessarily densely defined operator $A$ on a Banach space $E$ with nonempty resolvent set and a multivalued map $F\colon I\times E\map E$ with weakly sequentially closed graph, we consider the…

Given a Lipschitz domain $\Omega $ in ${\mathbb R} ^N $ and a nonnegative potential $V$ in $\Omega $ such that $V(x)\, d(x,\partial \Omega)^2$ is bounded in $\Omega $ we study the fine regularity of boundary points with respect to the…

This paper is concerned with error estimates for the numerical approximation for affine optimal control problems subject to semilinear elliptic PDEs. To investigate the error estimates, we focus on local minimizers that satisfy certain…

We study the regularity of minimizers of the functional $\mathcal E(u):= [u]_{H^s(\Omega)}^2 +\int_\Omega fu$. This corresponds to understanding solutions for the regional fractional Laplacian in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^N$. More precisely,…

We consider periodic homogenization of boundary value problems for quasilinear second-order ODE systems in divergence form of the type $a(x,x/\varepsilon,u(x),u'(x))'= f(x,x/\varepsilon,u(x),u'(x))$ for $x \in [0,1]$. For small…

Regularity results for minimal configurations of variational problems involving both bulk and surface energies and subject to a volume constraint are established. The bulk energies are convex functions with p-power growth, but are otherwise…

We show how to infer sharp partial regularity results for relaxed minimizers of degenerate, nonuniformly elliptic quasiconvex functionals, using tools from Nonlinear Potential Theory. In particular, in the setting of functionals with…

We work in a class of Sobolev $W^{1,p}$ maps, with $p > d-1$, from a bounded open set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$ to $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ that do not exhibit cavitation and whose trace on $\partial \Omega$ is also $W^{1,p}$. Under the…

The purpose of this paper is to prove some existence and non-existence theorems for the nonlinear elliptic problems of the form -{\Delta}_{p}u={\lambda}k(x)u^{q}\pmh(x)u^{{\sigma}} if x\in{\Omega}, subject to the Dirichlet conditions…

We here establish the higher fractional differentiability for solutions to a class of obstacle problems with non-standard growth conditions. We deal with the case in which the solutions to the obstacle problems satisfy a variational…

We present a way to study a wide class of optimal design problems with a perimeter penalization. More precisely, we address existence and regularity properties of saddle points of energies of the form $$ (u,A) \quad \mapsto \quad…