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This paper investigates elliptic obstacle problems with generalized Orlicz growth involving measure data, which includes Orlicz growth, variable exponent growth, and double-phase growth as specific cases of this setting. First, we establish…

We consider fractional isoperimetric problems of calculus of variations with double integrals via the recent modified Riemann-Liouville approach. A necessary optimality condition of Euler-Lagrange type, in the form of a multitime fractional…

We study variational problems for integral invariants, which are defined as integrations of invariant functions of the second fundamental form, of a smooth map between pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. We derive the first variational formulae…

Variational problems of splitting-type with mixed linear-superlinear growth conditions are considered. In the twodimensional case the minimizing problem is given by \[ J [w] = \int_{\Omega} \Big[f_1\big(\partial_1 w\big) +…

We investigate solutions to nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet problems of the type \[ \left\{\begin{array}{cl} - {\rm div} A(x,u,\nabla u)= \mu &\qquad \mathrm{ in}\qquad \Omega, u=0 &\qquad \mathrm{ on}\qquad \partial\Omega, \end{array}\right.…

We review the recent generalized fractional calculus of variations. We consider variational problems containing generalized fractional integrals and derivatives and study them using indirect methods. In particular, we provide necessary…

We prove stochastic homogenization for integral functionals defined on Sobolev spaces, where the stationary, ergodic integrand satisfies a degenerate growth condition of the form \begin{equation*} c|\xi A(\omega,x)|^p\leq…

We provide a general treatment of perturbations of a class of functionals modeled on convolution energies with integrable kernel which approximate the $p$-th norm of the gradient as the kernel is scaled by letting a small parameter…

We consider a class of double phase variational integrals driven by nonhomogeneous potentials. We study the associated Euler equation and we highlight the existence of two different Rayleigh quotients. One of them is in relationship with…

The problem of minimizing an integral functional of a vector-valued Lagrangian on a set of admissible arcs with given endpoints is considered. The problem is tackled by embedding it into a set-optimization problem such that the image space…

We establish pointwise estimates expressed in terms of a nonlinear potential of a generalized Wolff type for $A$-superharmonic functions with nonlinear operator $A:\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^n$ having measurable dependence on the…

We consider an inverse extremal problem for variational functionals on arbitrary time scales. Using the Euler-Lagrange equation and the strengthened Legendre condition, we derive a general form for a variational functional that attains a…

We consider a class of integral functionals with convex integrand with respect to the gradient variable, assuming that the function that measures the oscillation of the integrand with respect to the x variable belongs to a suitable Sobolev…

The set of closed (or holonomic) measures provides a useful setting for studying optimization problems because it contains all curves, while also enjoying good compactness and convexity properties. We study the way to do variational…

We study local regularity properties of local minimizer of scalar integral functionals of the form $$\mathcal F[u]:=\int_\Omega F(\nabla u)-f u\,dx$$ where the convex integrand $F$ satisfies controlled $(p,q)$-growth conditions. We…

We give a proper fractional extension of the classical calculus of variations. Necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type for variational problems containing both classical and fractional derivatives are proved. The fundamental…

In this paper, we study the existence of positive non-decreasing radial solutions of a nonlocal non-standard growth problem ruled by the fractional $g$-Laplace operator with exterior Neumann condition. Our argument exploits some properties…

We deal with boundary value problems for second-order nonlinear elliptic equations in divergence form, which emerge as Euler-Lagrange equations of integral functionals of the Calculus of Variations built upon possibly anisotropic norms of…

(Two-scale) gradient Young measures in Orlicz-Sobolev setting are introduced and characterized providing also an integral representation formula for non convex energies arising in homogenization problems with nonstandard growth.

In this paper, we study analogues of the van der Corput lemmas involving Mittag-Leffler functions. The generalisation is that we replace the exponential function with the Mittag-Leffler-type function, to study oscillatory type integrals…