Near operators theory and fully nonlinear elliptic equations

We give a short survey of the Campanato near operators theory and of its applications to fully nonlinear elliptic equations.     

Convergence analysis of a nonlinear Lagrangian algorithm for nonlinear programming with inequality constraints

In this paper, we establish a nonlinear Lagrangian algorithm for nonlinear programming problems with inequality constraints. Under some assumptions, it is proved that the sequence of points, generated by solving an unconstrained programming, convergents locally to a Kuhn-Tucker point of the primal nonlinear programming problem.     

Boundary hemivariational inequality problems with doubly nonlinear operators

In this paper, we investigate a class of nonlinear boundary hemivariational inequality problems. Under suitable hypotheses, the existence of solutions is established via rewriting these problems into a class of evolution inclusions and using the discretization method and the theory of pseudomonotone operators. Moreover, the continuous dependence result of the solutions to the initial data is given.     

Evolution hemivariational inequality problems with doubly nonlinear operators

This paper deals with a class of doubly nonlinear hemivariational inequality problems. We establish the existence results and investigate the periodic and symmetric solutions under suitable conditions.     

Analytic semigroups,degenerate elliptic operators and applications to nonlinear cauchy problems

In this paper we prove L^p () and -norm estimates for the solution of the elliptic equation:

An existence result of a quasi-variational inequality associated to an equilibrium problem

In this paper we consider a Walrasian pure exchange economy with utility function which is a particular case of a general economic equilibrium problem, without production. We assume that each agent is endowed with at least of a commodity, his preferences are expressed by an utility function and it prevails a competitive behaviour: each agent regards the prices payed and received as independent of his own choices. The Walrasian equilibrium can be characterized as a solution to a quasi-variational inequality. By using this variational approach, our goal is to prove an existence result of equilibrium solutions.     

Self-adjointness of some infinite-dimensional elliptic operators and application to stochastic quantization

We consider an operator K˚ϕ = Lϕ−: <CDU(x), Dϕ> in a Hilbert space H, where L is an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operator, U∈W ^1,4(H, μ) and μ is the invariant measure associated with L. We show that K˚ is essentially self-adjoint in the space L ²(H, ν) where ν is the “Gibbs” measure ν(dx) = Z ^−:1 e ^−:2U(x) dx. An application to Stochastic quantization is given. Received: 13 August 1998 / Revised version: 20 September 1999 / Published online: 8 August 2000     

Symmetry results for nonlinear elliptic operators with unbounded drift

We prove the one-dimensional symmetry of solutions to elliptic equations of the form ?div(e ^G(x) a(|?u|)?u) = f(u) e ^G(x), under suitable energy conditions. Our results holds without any restriction on the dimension of the ambient space.     

On the normalized eigenvalue problems for nonlinear elliptic operators

This paper solves the following form of normalized eigenvalue problem:

     

Strict inequality of Robin eigenvalues for elliptic differential operators on Lipschitz domains

On a bounded Lipschitz domain we consider two selfadjoint operator realizations of the same second order elliptic differential expression subject to Robin boundary conditions, where the coefficients in the boundary conditions are functions. We prove that inequality between these functions on the boundary implies strict inequality between the eigenvalues of the two operators, provided that the inequality of the functions in the boundary conditions is strict on an arbitrarily small nonempty, open set.     

Deterministic homogenization of nonlinear degenerate elliptic operators with nonstandard growth

We study the deterministic homogenization of nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations with nonstandard growth.One fundamental in this topic is to extend the classical compactness results of theΣ-convergence method to the Orlicz spaces.We also show that one can homogenize nonlinear Dirichlet problems in a general way by leaning on a simple abstract hypothesis contrary to what has been done in the determinstic homogenization theory.     

On the existence of solutions to stochastic quasi-variational inequality and complementarity problems

Variational inequality problems allow for capturing an expansive class of problems, including convex optimization problems, convex Nash games and economic equilibrium problems, amongst others. Yet in most practical settings, such problems are complicated by uncertainty, motivating the examination of a stochastic generalization of the variational inequality problem and its extensions in which the components of the mapping contain expectations. When the associated sets are unbounded, ascertaining existence requires having access to analytical forms of the expectations. Naturally, in practical settings, such expressions are often difficult to derive, severely limiting the applicability of such an approach. Consequently, our goal lies in developing techniques that obviate the need for integration and our emphasis lies in developing tractable and verifiable sufficiency conditions for claiming existence. We begin by recapping almost-sure sufficiency conditions for stochastic variational inequality problems with single-valued maps provided in our prior work Ravat and Shanbhag (in: Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), 2010), Ravat and Shanbhag (SIAM J Optim 21: 1168–1199, 2011) and provide extensions to multi-valued mappings. Next, we extend these statements to quasi-variational regimes where maps can be either single or set-valued. Finally, we refine the obtained results to accommodate stochastic complementarity problems where the maps are either general or co-coercive. The applicability of our results is demonstrated on practically occuring instances of stochastic quasi-variational inequality problems and stochastic complementarity problems, arising as nonsmooth generalized Nash-Cournot games and power markets, respectively.     

Harnack inequality for singular fully nonlinear operators and some existence results

In this article we further advance in the theory of singular fully nonlinear operators modeled on the q-laplacian proving a Harnack inequality. We provide also several applications of this inequality and the ideas used for proving it. In doing so we have left various open questions, all of them related to the fact that the operator is not sub-linear.     

Single phase problem with curvature for a class of fully nonlinear elliptic operators

We prove regularity of Lipschitz free boundaries of one phase problems for fully nonlinear elliptic operators where the mean curvature appears in the free boundary condition.      

Convergence and approximation of semigroups of nonlinear operators in Banach spaces

A general convergence theorem for semigroups of nonlinear operators in a general Banach space is proved. It is then applied to obtain an approximation theorem for such semigroups. These results extend the previously known results for semigroups of linear operators in Banach space.     

Principal eigenvalues and the Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear elliptic operators

We study uniformly elliptic fully nonlinear equations of the type F(D²u,Du,u,x)=f(x). We show that convex positively 1-homogeneous operators possess two principal eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, and study these objects; we obtain existence and uniqueness results for nonproper operators whose principal eigenvalues (in some cases, only one of them) are positive; finally, we obtain an existence result for nonproper Isaac's equations.