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We study the semilinear elliptic equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta u=u^\alpha |\log u|^\beta\quad\text{in }B_1\setminus\{0\}, \end{equation*} where $B_1\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\geq 3$, $\frac{n}{n-2} < \alpha < \frac{n+2}{n-2}$ and…
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We study the problem of maximizing the first Laplace-Beltrami eigenvalue normalized by area in a conformal class on a torus. By a result of Nadirashvili, El Soufi, and Ilias, critical metrics for the $k$-th normalized Laplace-Beltrami…
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We study the behavior near the origin of $C^2$ positive solutions $u(x)$ and $v(x)$ of the system $0\leq -\Delta u\leq f(v)$ $0\leq -\Delta v\leq g(u)$ in $B_1(0)\backslash\{0\}$ where $f,g:(0,\infty)\to (0,\infty)$ are continuous…
In this paper, we study the following singular nonlinear elliptic problem \begin{equation}\label{eq:1} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \displaystyle (-\Delta)^{\frac \alpha 2} u=\lambda |u|^{r-2}u+\mu\frac{|u|^{q-2}u}{|x|^{s}}\quad &{\rm in…
This paper studies Laplace's equation $-\Delta\,u=0$ in an exterior region $U\varsubsetneq{\mathbb R}^N$, when $N\geq3$, subject to the nonlinear boundary condition $\frac{\partial…
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We study the structure of the branch set of solutions to Plateau's problem in metric spaces satisfying a quadratic isoperimetric inequality. In our first result, we give examples of spaces with isoperimetric constant arbitrarily close to…
We study quasilinear elliptic equations of the type $$-\Delta_pu=\sigma \, u^q \quad \text{in} \, \, \, \mathbb{R}^n,$$ where $\Delta_p u=\nabla \cdot(\nabla u |\nabla u|^{p-2})$ is the $p$-Laplacian (or a more general $\mathcal{A}$-Laplace…
We study a conformal field theory with cubic anisotropic symmetry in presence of a line defect. We compute the correlators of the low lying defect operators using Feynman diagrams and derive explicit expressions for the two, three and four…
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We have considered the following semi linear elliptic problem on the unit disk $B$ $-\Delta u = \lambda_1 u+e^u+f $ in $B$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition and $f$ satisfying the following condition : $f\in L^r(B)$, for some $r>2$ and…
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