Continuity of the first eigenvalue for a family of degenerate eigenvalue problems

For each \({\alpha\in[0,2)}\) we consider the eigenvalue problem \({-{\rm div}(|x|^\alpha \nabla u)=\lambda u}\) in a bounded domain \({\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N}\) (\({N\geq 2}\)) with smooth boundary and \({0\in \Omega}\) subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Denote by \({\lambda_1(\alpha)}\) the first eigenvalue of this problem. Using \({\Gamma}\)-convergence arguments we prove the continuity of the function \({\lambda_1}\) with respect to \({\alpha}\) on the interval \({[0,2)}\).     

The exact asymptotic behavior of boundary blow-up solutions to infinity Laplacian equations

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of viscosity solutions to boundary blow-up elliptic problem \({\Delta_{\infty}u=b(x)f(u),\, x\in\Omega,\,u|_{\partial\Omega}=+\infty,}\) where \({\Omega}\) is a bounded domain with C²-boundary in \({\mathbb{R}^{N}}\), \({b\in \rm C(\bar{\Omega})}\) is positive in \({\Omega}\), which may be vanishing on the boundary, \({f\in C^{1}([0, \infty))}\) is regularly varying or is rapidly varying at infinity.     

Asymptotic behavior of the p-torsion functions as p goes to 1

Let \({\Omega}\) be a Lipschitz bounded domain of \({\mathbb{R}^N}\), \({N\geq2}\), and let \({u_p\in W_0^{1,p}(\Omega)}\) denote the p-torsion function of \({\Omega}\), p > 1. It is observed that the value 1 for the Cheeger constant \({h(\Omega)}\) is threshold with respect to the asymptotic behavior of u_p, as \({p\rightarrow 1^+}\), in the following sense: when \({h(\Omega) > 1}\), one has \({\lim_{p\rightarrow 1^+}\left\|u_{p}\right\| _{L^\infty(\Omega)}=0}\), and when \({h(\Omega) < 1}\), one has \({\lim_{p\rightarrow 1^+}\left\|u_p\right\| _{L^\infty(\Omega)}=\infty}\). In the case \({h(\Omega)=1}\), it is proved that \({\limsup_{p\rightarrow1^+}\left\|u_p\right\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}<\infty}\). For a radial annulus \({\Omega_{a,b}}\), with inner radius a and outer radius b, it is proved that \({\lim_{p\rightarrow 1^+}\left\|u_p\right\| _{L^\infty(\Omega_{a,b})}=0}\) when \({h(\Omega_{a,b})=1}\).     

Bound states for semilinear Schrödinger equations with sign-changing potential

We study the existence and the number of decaying solutions for the semilinear Schrödinger equations \({-\varepsilon^{2}\Delta u + V(x)u = g(x,u)}\), \({\varepsilon > 0}\) small, and \({-\Delta u + \lambda V(x)u = g(x,u)}\), \({\lambda > 0}\) large. The potential V may change sign and g is either asymptotically linear or superlinear (but subcritical) in u as \({|u| \to \infty}\) .     

Stable equilibria of a singularly perturbed reaction–diffusion equation when the roots of the degenerate equation contact or intersect along a non-smooth hypersurface

We use the variational concept of \({\Gamma}\)-convergence to prove existence, stability and exhibit the geometric structure of four families of stationary solutions to the singularly perturbed parabolic equation \({u_t=\epsilon^2 {\rm div}(k\nabla u)+f(u,x)}\), for \({(t,x)\in \mathbb{R}^+\times\Omega}\), where \({\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n}\), \({n\geq 1}\), supplied with no-flux boundary condition. The novelty here lies in the fact that the roots of the bistable function f are not isolated, meaning that the graphs of its roots are allowed to have contact or intersect each other along a Lipschitz-continuous (n ? 1)-dimensional hypersurface \({\gamma \subset \Omega}\); across this hypersurface, the stable equilibria may have corners. The case of intersecting roots stems from the phenomenon known as exchange of stability which is characterized by \({f(\cdot,x)}\) having only two roots.     

Gelfand type problem for singular quadratic quasilinear equations

In this paper, we study the existence of positive solutions for the quasilinear elliptic singular problem

$$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}-\Delta u + c\,\frac{|\nabla u|^2}{u^\gamma} = \lambda\,f(u), \quad \quad \mbox{in $\Omega$},\\ u=0, \quad \qquad \qquad \qquad \quad \, \, \, \, \, \mbox{on $\partial$$\Omega$},\end{array}\right.$$

where \({c,\lambda >0}\), \({\gamma \in (0,1)}\), f is strictly increasing and derivable in \({[0,\infty)}\) with \({f(0)>0}\). We show that there exists \({\lambda^*>0}\) such that \({(0,\lambda^*]}\) is the maximal set of values such there exists solution. In addition, we prove that for \({\lambda<\lambda^*}\) there exists minimal and bounded solutions. Moreover, we give sufficient conditions for existence and regularity of solutions for \({\lambda=\lambda^*}\).

     

A semilinear parabolic problem with singular term at the boundary

In this paper, we deal with a class of semilinear parabolic problems related to a Hardy inequality with singular weight at the boundary.

More precisely, we consider the problem

$$\left\{\begin{array}{l@{\quad}l}u_t-\Delta u=\lambda \frac{u^p}{d^2}&\text{ in }\,\Omega_{T}\equiv\Omega \times (0,T), \\u>0 &\text{ in }\,{\Omega_T}, \\u(x,0)=u_0(x)>0 &\text{ in }\,\Omega, \\u=0 &\text{ on }\partial \Omega \times (0,T),\end{array}\right.$$

(P)

where Ω is a bounded regular domain of \({\mathbbm{R}^N}\), \({d(x)=\text{dist}(x,\partial\Omega)}\), \({p > 0}\), and \({\lambda > 0}\) is a positive constant.

We prove that

1. 1.
   If \({0 < p < 1}\), then (P) has no positive very weak solution.
    
2. 2.
   If \({p=1}\), then (P) has a positive very weak solution under additional hypotheses on \({\lambda}\) and \({u_0}\).
    
3. 3.
   If \({p > 1}\), then, for all \({\lambda > 0}\), the problem (P) has a positive very weak solution under suitable hypothesis on \({u_0}\).
    

Moreover, we consider also the concave–convex-related case.

     

A Beurling-Blecher-Labuschagne Theorem for Noncommutative Hardy Spaces Associated with Semifinite von Neumann Algebras

We prove a Beurling-Blecher-Labuschagne theorem for \({H^\infty}\)-invariant spaces of \({L^p(\mathcal{M},\tau)}\) when \({0 < p \leq\infty}\), using Arveson’s non-commutative Hardy space \({H^\infty}\) in relation to a von Neumann algebra \({\mathcal{M}}\) with a semifinite, faithful, normal tracial weight \({\tau}\). Using the main result, we are able to completely characterize all \({H^\infty}\)-invariant subspaces of \({L^p(\mathcal{M} \rtimes_\alpha \mathbb{Z},\tau)}\), where \({\mathcal{M} \rtimes_\alpha \mathbb{Z} }\) is a crossed product of a semifinite von Neumann algebra \({\mathcal{M}}\) by the integer group \({\mathbb{Z}}\), and \({H^\infty}\) is a non-selfadjoint crossed product of \({\mathcal{M}}\) by \({\mathbb{Z}^+}\). As an example, we characterize all \({H^\infty}\)-invariant subspaces of the Schatten p-class \({S^p(\mathcal{H})}\), where \({H^\infty}\) is the lower triangular subalgebra of \({B(\mathcal{H})}\), for each \({0 < p \leq\infty}\).     

Rectifiability of harmonic measure

In the present paper we prove that for any open connected set \({\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}\), \({n\geq 1}\), and any \({E\subset \partial \Omega}\) with \({\mathcal{H}^n(E)<\infty}\), absolute continuity of the harmonic measure \({\omega}\) with respect to the Hausdorff measure on E implies that \({\omega|_E}\) is rectifiable. This solves an open problem on harmonic measure which turns out to be an old conjecture even in the planar case \({n=1}\).     

Maximum Principle for H-Surfaces in the Unit Cone and Dirichlet’s Problem for their Equation in Central Projection

In the unit cone\({\mathcal{C} := \{(x, y, z)} \in {\mathbb R}^{3} : {x}^{2} + {y}^{2} < {z}^{2}, {z} > {0}\}\) we establish a geometric maximum principle for H-surfaces, where its mean curvature \({H = H(x, y, z)}\) is optimally bounded. Consequently, these surfaces cannot touch the conical boundary \({\partial \mathcal{C}}\) at interior points and have to approach \({\partial \mathcal{C}}\) transversally. By a nonlinear continuity method, we then solve the Dirichlet problem of the H-surface equation in central projection for Jordan-domains \({\Omega}\) which are strictly convex in the following sense: On its whole boundary \({\partial \mathcal{C}(\Omega)}\) their associate cone \({\mathcal{C}(\Omega) := \{(rx, ry, r) \in {\mathbb R}^{3} : (x, y) \in \Omega, r \in (0,+\infty)}\}\) admits rotated unit cones \({O \circ \mathcal{C}}\) as solids of support, where \({O \in {\mathbb R}^{3\times3}}\) represents a rotation in the Euclidean space. Thus we construct the unique H-surface with one-to-one central projection onto these domains \({\Omega}\) bounding a given Jordan-contour \({\Gamma \subset \mathcal{C} \backslash \{0\}}\) with one-toone central projection.     

Perturbation from symmetry for indefinite semilinear elliptic equations

We prove the existence of an unbounded sequence of solutions for an elliptic equation of the form \({-\Delta u=\lambda u + a(x)g(u)+f(x), u\in H^1_0(\Omega)}\), where \({\lambda \in \mathbb{R}, g(\cdot)}\) is subcritical and superlinear at infinity, and a(x) changes sign in Ω; moreover, g( ? s) =  ? g(s) \({\forall s}\). The proof uses Rabinowitz’s perturbation method applied to a suitably truncated problem; subsequent energy and Morse index estimates allow us to recover the original problem. We consider the case of \({\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N}\) bounded as well as \({\Omega=\mathbb{R}^N, \, N\geqslant 3}\).     

Compactness and existence results in weighted Sobolev spaces of radial functions. Part II: existence

We apply the compactness results obtained in the first part of this work, to prove existence and multiplicity results for finite energy solutions to the nonlinear elliptic equation

$$-\triangle u + V \left(\left|x\right|\right) u = g \left(\left|x\right|, u\right) \quad {\rm in} \Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{N},\,N \geq 3,$$

where \({\Omega}\) is a radial domain (bounded or unbounded) and u satisfies u =  0 on \({\partial\Omega}\) if \({\Omega \neq\mathbb{R}^{N}}\) and \({u \rightarrow 0}\) as \({\left|x\right| \rightarrow \infty}\) if \({\Omega}\) is unbounded. The potential V may be vanishing or unbounded at zero or at infinity and the nonlinearity g may be superlinear or sublinear. If g is sublinear, the case with a forcing term \({g\left(\left|\cdot\right|, 0\right) \neq 0}\) is also considered. Our results allow to deal with V and g exhibiting behaviours at zero or at infinity which are new in the literature and, when \({\Omega = \mathbb{R}^{N}}\), do not need to be compatible with each other.

     

On generalized Hyers-Ulam stability of additive mapings on restricted domains of Banach spaces

Let \({(G,\cdot)}\) be a group (not necessarily Abelian) with unit \({e}\) and \({E}\) be a Banach space. In this paper, we show that there exist \({\alpha(p) > 0}\) for any \({0 < p < 1}\) and \({\beta(p,\varepsilon),\gamma(p,\varepsilon) > 0}\) for any \({0 < \varepsilon < \alpha(p)}\), such that for any surjective map \({f: G\rightarrow E}\) satisfying \({\big|\|f(x) + f(y)\|-\|f(xy) \|\big|\leq\varepsilon \|f(x)+f(y)\|^p}\) for all \({x,y\in G}\), there is a unique additive \({T:G\rightarrow E}\) such that \({\|f(x)-T(x)\|\leq\gamma(p,\varepsilon)\|f(x)\|^p}\) for all \({x\in G}\) satisfying \({\|f(x)\|\geq\beta(p,\varepsilon)}\). Moreover, we have \({\lim_{\varepsilon\rightharpoonup 0}\frac{\gamma(p,\varepsilon)}{\varepsilon} < \infty.}\)     

Weak law of large numbers for linear processes

We establish sufficient conditions for the Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund type weak law of large numbers for a linear process \({\{X_k:k\in\mathbb Z\}}\) defined by \({X_k=\sum_{j=0}^\infty\psi_j\varepsilon_{k-j}}\) for \({k\in\mathbb Z}\), where \({\{\psi_j:j\in\mathbb Z\}\subset\mathbb R}\) and \({\{\varepsilon_k:k\in\mathbb Z\}}\) are independent and identically distributed random variables such that \({{x^p\Pr\{|\varepsilon_0| > x\}\to 0}}\) as \({{x\to \infty}}\) with \({1 < p < 2}\) and \({E \varepsilon_0=0}\). We use an abstract norming sequence that does not grow faster than \({n^{1/p}}\) if \({\sum|\psi_j| < \infty}\). If \({\sum|\psi_j|=\infty}\), the abstract norming sequence might grow faster than \({n^{1/p}}\) as we illustrate with an example. Also, we investigate the rate of convergence in the Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund type weak law of large numbers for the linear process.     

Evolution of curvatures on a surface with boundary to prescribed functions

Let (M, g ₀) be a compact Riemann surface with boundary and with negative Euler characteristic. Let f(x) be a strictly negative smooth function on \({\bar{M}}\) and denote by \({\sigma(x)}\) the value of f in the interior and \({\zeta(x)}\) the value of f on the boundary. By studying the evolution of curvatures on M, we prove that there exist a constant \({\lambda_\infty}\) and a conformal metric \({g_\infty}\) such that \({\lambda_\infty\sigma(x)}\) and \({\lambda_\infty\zeta(x)}\) can be realized as the Gaussian curvature and boundary geodesic curvature of \({g_\infty}\) respectively.     

Existence of maximal solutions for some very singular nonlinear fractional diffusion equations in 1D

We consider nonlinear parabolic equations involving fractional diffusion of the form \({\partial_t u + {(-\Delta)}^{s} \Phi(u)= 0,}\) with \({0 < s < 1}\), and solve an open problem concerning the existence of solutions for very singular nonlinearities \({\Phi}\) in power form, precisely \({\Phi'(u)=c\,u^{-(n+1)}}\) for some \({0 < n < 1}\). We also include the logarithmic diffusion equation \({\partial_t u + {(-\Delta)}^{s} \log(u)= 0}\), which appears as the case \({n=0}\). We consider the Cauchy problem with nonnegative and integrable data \({u_0(x)}\) in one space dimension, since the same problem in higher dimensions admits no nontrivial solutions according to recent results of the author and collaborators. The limit solutions we construct are unique, conserve mass, and are in fact maximal solutions of the problem. We also construct self-similar solutions of Barenblatt type, which are used as a cornerstone in the existence theory, and we prove that they are asymptotic attractors (as \({t\to\infty}\)) of the solutions with general integrable data. A new comparison principle is introduced.     

Weyl Type Asymptotics and Bounds for the Eigenvalues of Functional-Difference Operators for Mirror Curves

We investigate Weyl type asymptotics of functional-difference operators associated to mirror curves of special del Pezzo Calabi-Yau threefolds. These operators are \({H(\zeta) = U + U^{-1} + V + \zeta V^{-1}}\) and \({H_{m,n} = U + V + q^{-mn}U^{-m}V^{-n}}\), where \({U}\) and \({V}\) are self-adjoint Weyl operators satisfying \({UV = q^{2}VU}\) with \({q = {\rm e}^{{\rm i}\pi b^{2}}}\), \({b > 0}\) and \({\zeta > 0}\), \({m, n \in \mathbb{N}}\). We prove that \({H(\zeta)}\) and \({H_{m,n}}\) are self-adjoint operators with purely discrete spectrum on \({L^{2}(\mathbb{R})}\). Using the coherent state transform we find the asymptotical behaviour for the Riesz mean \({\sum_{j\ge 1}(\lambda - \lambda_{j})_{+}}\) as \({\lambda \to \infty}\) and prove the Weyl law for the eigenvalue counting function \({N(\lambda)}\) for these operators, which imply that their inverses are of trace class.     

Endomorphism rings of some Young modules

Let \({\Sigma_r}\) be the symmetric group acting on \({r}\) letters, \({K}\) be a field of characteristic 2, and \({\lambda}\) and \({\mu}\) be partitions of \({r}\) in at most two parts. Denote the permutation module corresponding to the Young subgroup \({\Sigma_\lambda}\), in \({\Sigma_r}\), by \({M^\lambda}\), and the indecomposable Young module by \({Y^\mu}\). We give an explicit presentation of the endomorphism algebra \({{\rm End}_{k[\Sigma_r]}(Y^\mu)}\) using the idempotents found by Doty et al. (J Algebra 307(1):377–396, 2007).     

Blow-up phenomena for a nonlocal <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplace equation with Neumann boundary conditions

This paper is concerned with the blow-up of solutions to the following nonlocal p-Laplace equation:

$$u_t-\mathrm{div}(|\nabla{u}|^{p-2}\nabla{u})=|u|^{q-1}u-\frac{1}{|\Omega|} \int\limits_\Omega{|u|^{q-1}u}dx,\quad x\in\Omega,\quad 0 < t < T,$$

under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded smooth domain \({\Omega\subset\mathrm{R}^N}\). For all \({p > 2, q > p-1}\), a blow-up result for the solutions to the above equation with positive initial energy is established. This result improves a recent result by Qu and Liang (Abstr Appl Anal 3:551–552, 2013) which asserts the blow-up of solutions for \({p-1 < q\leq\frac{Np}{(N-p)_+}-1}\).

     

{{C^m}} Positive Eigenvectors for Linear Operators Arising in the Computation of Hausdorff Dimension

We consider a broad class of linear Perron–Frobenius operators \({\Lambda:X \rightarrow X}\), where \({X}\) is a real Banach space of \({C^m}\) functions. We prove the existence of a strictly positive \({C^m}\) eigenvector \({v}\) with eigenvalue \({r=r(\Lambda) =}\) the spectral radius of \({\Lambda}\). We prove (see Theorem 6.5 in Sect. 6 of this paper) that \({r(\Lambda)}\) is an algebraically simple eigenvalue and that, if \({\sigma(\Lambda)}\) denotes the spectrum of the complexification of \({\Lambda,\sigma(\Lambda) \backslash \{r(\Lambda)\}\subseteq \{\zeta \in \mathbb{C} \big| |\zeta| \le r_*\}}\), where \({r_* < r(\Lambda)}\). Furthermore, if \({u \in X}\) is any strictly positive function, \({(\frac 1r \Lambda)^k(u) \rightarrow s_u v}\) as \({k \rightarrow \infty}\), where \({s_u > 0}\) and convergence is in the norm topology on \({X}\). In applications to the computation of Hausdorff dimension, one is given a parametrized family \({\Lambda_s,s > s_*}\), of such operators and one wants to determine the (unique) value \({s_0}\) such that \({r(\Lambda_{s_0})=1}\). In another paper (Falk and Nussbaum in C\({^{\rm m}}\) Eigenfunctions of Perron–Frobenius operators and a new approach to numerical computation of Hausdorff dimension, submitted) we prove that explicit estimates on the partial derivatives of the positive eigenvector \({v_s}\) of \({\Lambda_s}\) can be obtained and that this information can be used to give rigorous, sharp upper and lower bounds for \({s_0}\).