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The paper is concerned with mappings between planar domains having least Dirichlet energy. The existence and uniqueness (up to a conformal change of variables in the domain) of the energy-minimal mappings is established within the class…
We demonstrate existence of topologically nontrivial energy minimizing maps of a given positive degree from bounded domains in the plane to $\mathbb S^2$ in a variational model describing magnetizations in ultrathin ferromagnetic films with…
These lecture notes contain an extended version of the material presented in the C.I.M.E. summer course in 2017, aiming to give a detailed introduction to the metric Sobolev theory. The notes are divided in four main parts. The first one is…
In the first part of this contribution we prove the global existence and uniqueness of a trajectory that globally converges to the minimizer of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional for a large class of external potentials. Using the…
Subdifferentials of a singular convex functional representing the surface free energy of a crystal under the roughening temperature are characterized. The energy functional is defined on Sobolev spaces of order -1, so the subdifferential…
The notions of higher-order weighted multilinear Poincar\'e and Sobolev inequalities in Carnot groups are introduced. As an application, weighted Leibnitz-type rules in Campanato-Morrey spaces are established.
We study critical surfaces for a surface energy which contains the squared $L^2$ norm of the difference of the mean curvature $H$ and the spontaneous curvature $c_o$, coupled to the elastic energy of the boundary curve. We investigate the…
Energy minimizing maps (E.M.M.s) play a central role in the calculus of variations, partial differential equations (PDEs), and geometric analysis. These maps are often embedded into $C^\infty$ Riemannian manifolds to minimize the Dirichlet…
In this paper, we investigate the constrained minimization problem \begin{equation}\label{eq:0.1} e(a):=\inf_{\{u\in \mathcal{H},\|u\|_2^2=1\}}E_a(u), \end{equation} where the energy functional \begin{equation} \label{eq:0.2}…
We introduce Herz-Sobolev spaces, which unify and generalize the classical Sobolev spaces. We will give a proof of the Sobolev-type embedding for these function spaces. All these results generalize the classical results on Sobolev spaces.…
Capacitary measures form a class of measures that vanish on sets of capacity zero. These measures are compact with respect to so-called $\gamma$-convergence, which relates a sequence of measures to the sequence of solutions of relaxed…
In the present work, we study minimizers of the Landau-de Gennes free energy in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^3$. We prove that at low temperature minimizers do not vanish, even for topologically non-trivial boundary…
We present results supporting the Horowitz-Myers conjecture, that the Horowitz-Myers metrics minimise energy in the relevant classes of metrics.
In our companion paper (S.N. Chandler Wilde, D.P. Hewett, A. Moiola, Sobolev spaces on non-Lipschitz subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with application to boundary integral equations on fractal screens, 2016) we studied a number of different…
We show that in the setting of proper metric spaces one obtains a solution of the classical two-dimensional Plateau problem by minimizing the energy, as in the classical case, once a definition of area (in the sense of convex geometry) has…
In our work, we prove the existence of least-energy nodal solutions for nonlinear equations in which the new fractional Orlicz Laplacian is present. Precisely, we prove a compact embeddings result for weighted fractional Orlicz-Sobolev…
We show existence of minimizers for the Hardy-Sobolev-Maz'ya inequality in $R^{m+n}\setminus\R^n$ for $m=1$ and $n>2$ or for $m>2$ and $n>0$.
The aim of this work is to study the first order Dirac-Sobolev spaces in $L^p$ norm on an open subset of ${\mathbb R}^3$ to clarify its relationship with the corresponding Sobolev spaces. It is shown that for $1< p <\infty$, they coincide,…
We obtain an improved Sobolev inequality in H^s spaces involving Morrey norms. This refinement yields a direct proof of the existence of optimizers and the compactness up to symmetry of optimizing sequences for the usual Sobolev embedding.…
Let $n\in \mathbb N\cap[2,\infty)$. In this article, we show that there exists a bounded $C^1$ domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$ such that, for any given $s\in(1,2)\setminus\{\frac32\}$, \begin{align*} \left[H_0^1(\Omega),H^2(\Omega)\cap…