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We study the minimization of convex, variational integrals of linear growth among all functions in the Sobolev space $W^{1,1}$ with prescribed boundary values (or its equivalent formulation as a boundary value problem for a degenerately…

We study integral operators $\mathcal{L}u(x)=\int_{\mathbb{R^N}}\psi(u(x)-u(y))J(x-y)\,dy$ of the type of the fractional $p$-Laplacian operator, and the properties of the corresponding Orlicz and Sobolev-Orlicz spaces. In particular we show…

We develop arguments on convexity and minimization of energy functionals on Orlicz-Sobolev spaces to investigate existence of solution to the equation $\displaystyle -\mbox{div} (\phi(|\nabla u|) \nabla u) = f(x,u) + h \mbox{in} \Omega$…

In this paper, we consider the following quasilinear elliptic problem with potential $$(P) \begin{cases} -\mbox{div}(\phi(x,|\nabla u|)\nabla u)+ V(x)|u|^{q(x)-2}u= f(x,u) & \ \ \mbox{ in }\Omega, u=0 & \ \ \mbox{ on } \partial\Omega,…

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n}$ be a bounded open set. Given $2\leq m\leq n$, we construct a convex function $\phi :\Omega\to \mathbb{R}$ whose gradient $f= \nabla \phi$ is a H\"older continuous homeomorphism, $f$ is the identity on…

We study Poincare-Sobolev type inequalities for compactly supported smooth functions which are defined in the Euclidean $n$-space and whose absolute value of gradient are Choquet $\delta /n$-integrable with respect to the…

We study Dirichlet problems for fractional Laplace equations of the form $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} u = f(x,u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for $0<\alpha<n$ where the nonlinearity $f(x,u) = \sum_{i=1}^{M} \sigma_{i} u^{q_i} + \omega$ involves…

In this paper, we study the properties of integral functionals induced on $L^1_E (S,\mu)$ by closed convex functions on a Euclidean space $E$. We give sufficient conditions for such integral functions to be strongly rotund (well-posed). We…

Let $L^{m,p}(\R^n)$ denote the Sobolev space of functions whose $m$-th derivatives lie in $L^p(\R^n)$, and assume that $p>n$. For $E \subset \R^n$, denote by $L^{m,p}(E)$ the space of restrictions to $E$ of functions $F \in L^{m,p}(\R^n)$.…

We study properties of the classical fractional Sobolev spaces (or Bessel potential spaces) on non-Lipschitz subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$. We investigate the extent to which the properties of these spaces, and the relations between them, that…

In this work we study the existence of solutions to the following critical fractional problem with concave-convex nonlinearities, \begin{equation*} \left \{ \begin{array}{l} (-\Delta)^su=\lambda u^q+u^{2_s^*-1},\ u>0\quad\text{in…

We establish local higher integrability and differentiability results for minimizers of variational integrals $$ \mathfrak{F}(v,\Omega) = \int_{\Omega} /! F(Dv(x)) \, dx $$ over $W^{1,p}$--Sobolev mappings $u \colon \Omega \subset {\mathbb…

In this paper, we investigate the existence of a "weak solutions" for a Neumann problems of $p(x)$-Laplacian-like operators, originated from a capillary phenomena, of the following form \begin{equation*}…

In this paper we consider the problem of minimizing functionals of the form $E(u)=\int_B f(x,\nabla u) \,dx$ in a suitably prepared class of incompressible, planar maps $u: B \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$. Here, $B$ is the unit disk and…

We prove the local Lipschitz regularity of the local minimizers of scalar integral functionals of the form \begin{equation*} \mathcal{F}(v;\Omega)= \int_{\Omega} f (x, Dv) dx \end{equation*} under $(p,q)$-growth conditions. The main novelty…

In this paper, a new class of Sobolev spaces with kernel function satisfying a L\'evy-integrability type condition on compact Riemannian manifolds is presented. We establish the properties of separability, reflexivity, and completeness. An…

We study the pointwise convergence and the $\Gamma$-convergence of a family of non-local, non-convex functionals $\Lambda_\delta$ in $L^p(\Omega)$ for $p>1$. We show that the limits are multiples of $\int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|^p$. This is a…

We study the solutions of equations of type $f(D,\alpha)u=v$, where $f(D,\alpha)$ is a $p$-adic pseudo-differential operator. If $v$ is a Bruhat-Schwartz function, then there exists a distribution $E_{\alpha}$, a fundamental solution, such…

We study variational problems involving nonlocal supremal functionals $L^\infty(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^m) \ni u\mapsto {\rm ess sup}_{(x,y)\in \Omega\times \Omega} W(u(x), u(y)),$ where $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is a bounded, open set and…

We establish new approximation results in the sense of Lusin for Sobolev functions $f$ with $|\nabla f| \in L\log L$ on infinite-dimensional spaces equipped with Gaussian measures. The proof relies on some new pointwise estimate for the…