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For $q \in (0, \infty)$, we consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem to doubly nonlinear systems of the form \begin{align*} \partial_t \big( |u|^{q-1}u \big) - \operatorname{div} \big( D_\xi f(x,u,Du) \big) = - D_u f(x,u,Du) \end{align*} in a…

We prove the existence of solutions for an evolution quasi-variational inequality with a first order quasilinear operator and a variable convex set, which is characterized by a constraint on the absolute value of the gradient that depends…

It is establish regularity results for weak solutions of quasilinear elliptic problems driven by the well known $\Phi$-Laplacian operator given by \begin{equation*} \left\{\ \begin{array}{cl} \displaystyle-\Delta_\Phi u= g(x,u), &…

We consider solutions $u\in W^{1,p}\big(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^{N}\big)$ of the $p$-Laplacian PDE \begin{equation} \nabla\cdot\big(a(x)|Du|^{p-2}Du\big)=0,\notag \end{equation} for $x\in\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n}$, where $\Omega$ is open and…

We study the regularity of local minimisers of a prototypical free-discontinuity problem involving both a manifold-valued constraint on the maps (which are defined on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \R^2$) and a variable-exponent growth in…

We consider the problem of minimizing the Lagrangian $\int [F(\nabla u)+f\,u]$ among functions on $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with given boundary datum $\varphi$. We prove Lipschitz regularity up to the boundary for solutions of this…

For certain class of perturbations of the equation $u_t=f(u) u_x$, we prove the existence of change of coordinates, called quasi-Miura transformations, that reduce these perturbed equations to the unperturbed ones. As an application, we…

It is well known that a strictly convex minimand admits at most one minimizer. We prove a partial converse: Let $X$ be a locally convex Hausdorff space and $f \colon X \mapsto \left( - \infty , \infty \right]$ a function with compact…

We prove that, given~$p>\max\left\{\frac{2n}{n+2},1\right\}$, the nonnegative almost minimizers of the nonlinear free boundary functional $$ J_p(u,\Omega):=\int_{\Omega}\Big( |\nabla u(x)|^p+\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x)\Big)\,dx$$ are Lipschitz…

We consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem to doubly nonlinear systems of the form \begin{align*} \partial_t \big( |u|^{q-1}u \big) - \operatorname{div} \big( D_\xi f(x,u,Du) \big) = - D_u f(x,u,Du) \end{align*} with $q \in (0, \infty)$ in a…

We prove the absence of a Lavrentiev gap for vectorial integral functionals of the form $$ F: g+W_0^{1,1}(\Omega)^m\to\mathbb{R}\cup\{+\infty\},\qquad F(u)=\int_\Omega W(x,\mathrm{D} u)\,\mathrm{d}x, $$ where the boundary datum…

We examine the fourth order problem $\Delta^2 u = \lambda f(u) $ in $ \Omega$ with $ \Delta u = u =0 $ on $ \partial \Omega$, where $ \lambda > 0$ is a parameter, $ \Omega$ is a bounded domain in $ R^N$ and where $f$ is one of the following…

We propose a new approach to the study of (nonlinear) growth and instability for semilinear evolution equations with compact nonlinearities. We show, in particular, that compact nonlinear perturbations of a linear evolution equation can be…

We study the non-autonomous variational problem: \begin{equation*} \inf_{(\phi,\theta)} \bigg\{\int_0^1 \bigg(\frac{k}{2}\phi'^2 + \frac{(\phi-\theta)^2}{2}-V(x,\theta)\bigg)\text{d}x\bigg\} \end{equation*} where $k>0$, $V$ is a bounded…

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 investigate partial regularity for vector valued local minimizers of double phase functionals, under vectorial obstacle type constraints satisfying appropriate topological properties.

We prove improved differentiability results for relaxed minimisers of vectorial convex functionals with $(p, q)$-growth, satisfying a H\"older-growth condition in $x$. We consider both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary data. In addition, we…

We study thin obstacle problems involving the energy functional with $p(x)$-growth. We prove higher integrability and H\"{o}lder regularity for the gradient of minimizers of the thin obstacle problems under the assumption that the variable…

This paper concerns the existence of a solution for the following class of semipositone quasilinear problems \begin{equation*} \left \{ \begin{array}{rclcl} -\Delta_p u = h(x)(f(u)-a),\ & u > 0 & \mbox{in} & \mathbb{R}^N, \end{array}…

We study Sobolev regularity results for minimisers of autonomous, convex variational of linear growth which depend on the symmetric gradient rather than the full gradient. This extends the results available in the literature for the…