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Let $\Omega\subset\dR^d$ be a bounded or an unbounded Lipschitz domain. In this note we address the problem of continuation of functions from the Sobolev space $H^1(\Omega)$ up to functions in the Sobolev space $H^1(\dR^d)$ via a linear…

We study regularity results for local minimizers of variable growth variational problem in Heisenberg groups under suitable integrability assumption on the horizontal gradient of the exponent function. More precisely, our main focus is on…

We prove uniqueness for minimizers of the weighted least gradient problem \[\inf \left\lbrace \int_{\Omega} a|Du|: \ \ u\in BV(\Omega), \ \ u|_{\partial \Omega}=f \right\rbrace.\] The weight function $a$ is assumed to be continuous and it…

We study the geometry of domains in complete metric measure spaces equipped with a doubling measure supporting a $1$-Poincar\'e inequality. We propose a notion of \emph{domain with boundary of positive mean curvature} and prove that, for…

We propose an algorithmic framework, that employs active subspace techniques, for scalable global optimization of functions with low effective dimension (also referred to as low-rank functions). This proposal replaces the original…

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems for a large class of objective functions, including convex and continuous submodular. Stochastic proximal gradient methods have been widely used to solve such problems; however, their…

The convergence behavior of gradient methods for minimizing convex differentiable functions is one of the core questions in convex optimization. This paper shows that their well-known complexities can be achieved under conditions weaker…

In this paper, with a fixed $p\in (1,+\infty)$ and a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ whose boundary $\partial\Omega$ fulfills the $C^1$ regularity, we study a boundary value problem involving a nonlocal operator assigning to…

We study the obstacle problem for fully nonlinear elliptic operators with an anisotropic degeneracy on the gradient: \[ \min \left\{f-|Du|^\gamma F(D^2u),u-\phi\right\} = 0 \quad\textrm{ in }\quad \Omega. \] We obtain existence of solutions…

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ of boundary $\partial \Omega= \Gamma_1 \cup \Gamma_2$ and such that $\partial \Omega \cap \Gamma_2$ is a neighborhood of $0$, $h \in \mathcal{C}^0(\partial \Omega \cap \Gamma_2)…

We study the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of weak solutions to a class of obstacle problems, where the obstacle condition can be imposed on a subset of the domain. In particular, we establish the optimal H\"older regularity for…

In this work, we establish regularity results for minimizers of the energy functional associated with the thin obstacle problem in Orlicz spaces. More precisely, we prove the Lipschitz continuity and the H\"older continuity of the gradient…

We investigate time-dependent optimization problems in fractional Sobolev spaces with the sparsity promoting $L^p$-pseudo norm for $0<p<1$ in the objective functional. In order to avoid computing the fractional Laplacian on the time-space…

We prove existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of solutions to the stationary obstacle problem defined by the fractional Laplacian operator with drift, in the subcritical regime. We localize our problem by considering a suitable…

We develop a new boundary condition for the weak inverse mean curvature flow, which gives canonical and non-trivial solutions in bounded domains. Roughly speaking, the boundary of the domain serves as an outer obstacle, and the evolving…

We consider the functional $\int_\Omega g(\nabla u+\textbf X^\ast)d\mathscr L^{2n}$ where $g$ is convex and $\textbf X^\ast(x,y)=2(-y,x)$ and we study the minimizers in $BV(\Omega)$ of the associated Dirichlet problem. We prove that, under…

We prove well-posedness in reflexive Sobolev spaces of weak solutions to the stationary Stokes problem with Navier slip boundary condition over bounded domains $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ of class $W^{2-1/s}_s$, $s>n$. Since such domains are…

The paper is concerned with a free boundary problem generated by the biharmonic operator and an obstacle. The main goal is to deduce a fully guaranteed upper bound of the difference between the exact minimizer u and any function…

We propose a deep learning approach to the obstacle problem inspired by the first-order system least-squares (FOSLS) framework. This method reformulates the problem as a convex minimization task; by simultaneously approximating the…

This paper is devoted to the study of shape optimization problems for the first eigenvalue of the elliptic operator with drift L = --$\Delta$+V (x)\cdot \nabla with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where V is a bounded vector field. In the…