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This thesis pertains to the study of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations on "thin" structures. The first main objective is to establish the strong and weak low-dimensional counterparts of the parabolic Neumann problem. The…
On locally conformally flat manifolds we describe a construction which maps generalised conformal Killing tensors to differential operators which may act on any conformally weighted tensor bundle; the operators in the range have the…
Numerous elliptic and parabolic variational problems arising in physics and geometry (Ginzburg-Landau equations, harmonic maps, Yang-Mills fields, Omega-instantons, Yamabe equations, geometric flows in general...) possess a critical…
We construct, for any given $ \ell = \frac{1}{2} + {\mathbb N}_0, $ the second-order \textit{nonlinear} partial differential equations (PDEs) which are invariant under the transformations generated by the centrally extended conformal…
Conformal symmetry underlies the mathematical description of various two-dimensional integrable models (e.g. for their Lax representation, Poisson algebra, zero curvature representation,...) or of conformal models (for the anomalous Ward…
We construct Delaunay-type solutions for the fractional Yamabe problem with an isolated singularity $(-\Delta)^\gamma w = c_{n, \gamma} w^{\frac{n+2\gamma}{n-2\gamma}}, w>0 \ \mbox{in} \ \mathbb{R}^n \backslash \{0\}$ We follow a…
In this paper, we classify the singularities of nonnegative solutions to fractional elliptic equation \begin{equation}\label{eq 0.1} \arraycolsep=1pt \begin{array}{lll} \displaystyle (-\Delta)^\alpha u=u^p\quad &{\rm in}\quad…
On conformal manifolds of even dimension $n\geq 4$ we construct a family of new conformally invariant differential complexes. Each bundle in each of these complexes appears either in the de Rham complex or in its dual. Each of the new…
Let $p,q$ be functions on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ satisfying $1\ll q\ll p\ll N$, we consider $p(x)$-Laplacian problems of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{array} [c]{l}% -\Delta_{p(x)}u+V(x)\vert u\vert ^{p(x)-2}u=\lambda\vert u\vert…
The paper develops the method for construction of the families of particular solutions to the nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDE) without relation to the complete integrability. Method is based on the specific link between…
In this essay we give an introduction to conformal symmetry, based on the example of the Yamabe operator and its use in conformal differential geometry, and in representation theory.
We investigate the problem of entire solutions for a class of fourth order, dilation invariant, semilinear elliptic equations with power-type weights and with subcritical or critical growth in the nonlinear term. These equations define non…
In this paper we study the existence and compactness of positive solutions to a family of conformally invariant equations on closed locally conformally flat manifolds. The family of conformally covariant operators $P_\alpha$ were introduced…
We define a new formal Riemannian metric on a conformal class in the context of the $v_{\frac{n}{2}}$-Yamabe problem. Our construction leads to a new variational characterization and a new parabolic flow approach to this problem. Moreover,…
Variational methods based on optimization strategies are proposed to numerically solve a large family of nonlinear partial differential equations. They are all particular instances of gradient flows with general costs, including the…
We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of weak solutions to the model equation $$-\Delta_p u=\sigma \, u^q \quad \text{on} \, \, \, \R^n,$$ in the case $0<q<p-1$, where $\sigma\ge 0$ is an arbitrary locally integrable…
We look at several problems in even dimensional conformal geometry based around the de Rham complex. A leading and motivating problem is to find a conformally invariant replacement for the usual de Rham harmonics. An obviously related…
We consider an elliptic equation with the fractional Laplacian operator $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}$ in the dissipative term, a singular integral operator ${\bf A}(\cdot)$ in the nonlinear term, and an external source $f$. The key example…
In this note we prove a new symmetrization result, in the form of mass concentration comparison, for solutions of nonlocal nonlinear Dirichlet problems involving fractional p Laplacians. Some regularity estimates of solutions will be…
INTRODUCTION This papers deals with partial differential equations of second order, linear, with constant and not constant coefficients, in two variables, which admit real characteristics. I face the study of PDEs with the mentality of the…