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We characterize the differentiable points of the distance function from a closed subset $N$ of an arbitrary dimensional Finsler manifold in terms of the number of $N$-segments. In the case of a 2-dimensional Finsler manifold, we prove the…

A property of smooth convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is that if two points on the boundary $x, y \in \partial \Omega$ are close to each other, then their normal vectors $n(x), n(y)$ point roughly in the same direction and this…

We study the Riemannian distance function from a fixed point (a point-wise target) of Euclidean space in the presence of a compact obstacle bounded by a smooth hypersurface. First, we show that such a function is locally semiconcave with a…

We prove that the boundary distance map of a smooth compact Finsler manifold with smooth boundary determines its topological and differentiable structures. We construct the optimal fiberwise open subset of its tangent bundle and show that…

We study symmetry and quantitative approximate symmetry for an overdetermined problem involving the fractional torsion problem in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$. More precisely, we prove that if the fractional torsion…

In this paper we consider minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} \min \big\{ \lambda_1(\Omega)+\cdots+\lambda_k(\Omega) + \Lambda|\Omega|, \ : \ \Omega \subset D \text{ open} \big\} \end{equation*} where $D\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ is a…

Assume that $p > 1$ and $p - 1 \le \alpha \le p$ are real numbers and $\Omega$ is a non-empty open subset of ${\mathbb R}^n$, $n \ge 2$. We consider the inequality $$ {\rm div} \, A (x, D u) + b (x) |D u|^\alpha \ge 0, $$ where $D =…

In this work we prove that given an open bounded set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with a $C^2$ boundary, there exists $\epsilon := \epsilon(\Omega)$ small enough such that for all $0 < \delta < \epsilon$ the maximum of $\{\lambda_1(\Omega…

In this paper we consider the functional \begin{equation*} E_{p,\la}(\Omega):=\int_\Omega \dist^p(x,\pd \Omega )\d x+\la \frac{\H^1(\pd \Omega)}{\H^2(\Omega)}. \end{equation*} Here $p\geq 1$, $\la>0$ are given parameters, the unknown…

We consider the minimization of an average distance functional defined on a two-dimensional domain $\Omega$ with an Euler elastica penalization associated with $\pd \Omega$, the boundary of $\Omega$. The average distance is given by…

Let $\Omega$ be an open subset of $\mathbb R^n$, and let $f: \Omega \to \mathbb R$ be differentiable $\mathcal H^k$-almost everywhere, for some nonnegative integer $k < n$, where $\mathcal H^k$ denotes the $k$=dimensional Hausdorff measure.…

We investigate the distance function $\boldsymbol{\delta}_{K}^{\phi}$ from an arbitrary closed subset $ K $ of a~finite-dimensional Banach space $ (\mathbf{R}^{n}, \phi) $, equipped with a uniformly convex $\mathcal{C}^{2}$-norm $ \phi $.…

It is a generally shared opinion that significant information about the topology of a bounded domain $\Omega $ of a riemannian manifold $M$ is encoded into the properties of the distance, $d_{\partial\Omega}$, %, $d:\Omega\rightarrow…

For any bounded convex domain $\Omega$ with $C^{2}$ boundary in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$, we show that there exist positive constants $C_{1}$ and $C_{2}$ such that \[ C_{1}\sqrt{\dfrac{K\left(w,w\right)}{\delta\left(w\right)}}\leq\left\Vert…

We describe some sufficient conditions, under which smooth and compactly supported functions are or are not dense in the fractional Sobolev space $W^{s,p}(\Omega)$ for an open, bounded set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$. The density property…

In this paper we prove that the shape optimization problem $$\min\left\{\lambda_k(\Omega):\ \Omega\subset\R^d,\ \Omega\ \hbox{open},\ P(\Omega)=1,\ |\Omega|<+\infty\right\},$$ has a solution for any $k\in\N$ and dimension $d$. Moreover,…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a convex domain and let $f:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a positive, subharmonic function (i.e. $\Delta f \geq 0$). Then $$ \frac{1}{|\Omega|} \int_{\Omega}{f dx} \leq \frac{c_n}{ |\partial \Omega| }…

Let $\Omega$ be an open set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $C^1$-boundary and $\Sigma$ be the skeleton of $\Omega$, which consists of points where the distance function to $\partial\Omega$ is not differentiable. This paper characterizes the cut…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a $C^1$ domain, or more generally, a Lipschitz domain with small local Lipschitz constant. In this paper it is shown that if $u$ is a function harmonic in $\Omega$ and continuous in $\overline \Omega$ which…