Generalised twists,stationary loops,and the Dirichlet energy over a space of measure preserving maps

Let be a bounded Lipschitz domain and consider the Dirichlet energy functional

Noncoercive convection–diffusion elliptic problems with Neumann boundary conditions

We study the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the convective–diffusive elliptic equation

Ground state alternative for <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian with potential term

Let Ω be a domain in , d ≥ 2, and 1 < p < ∞. Fix . Consider the functional Q and its Gateaux derivative Q′ given by If Q ≥ 0 on, then either there is a positive continuous function W such that for all, or there is a sequence and a function v > 0 satisfying Q′ (v) = 0, such that Q(u _k ) → 0, and in . In the latter case, v is (up to a multiplicative constant) the unique positive supersolution of the equation Q′ (u) = 0 in Ω, and one has for Q an inequality of Poincaré type: there exists a positive continuous function W such that for every satisfying there exists a constant C > 0 such that . As a consequence, we prove positivity properties for the quasilinear operator Q′ that are known to hold for general subcritical resp. critical second-order linear elliptic operators.     

Infinitely many solutions of some nonlinear variational equations

The aim of this paper is investigating the existence of one or more critical points of a family of functionals which generalizes the model problem

Solutions of elliptic problems with nonlinearities of linear growth

In this paper, we study existence of nontrivial solutions to the elliptic equation

Variational integrals of splitting-type: higher integrability under general growth conditions

Besides other things we prove that if , , locally minimizes the energy

The Dirichlet problem for constant mean curvature surfaces in Heisenberg space

We study constant mean curvature graphs in the Riemannian three- dimensional Heisenberg spaces . Each such is the total space of a Riemannian submersion onto the Euclidean plane with geodesic fibers the orbits of a Killing field. We prove the existence and uniqueness of CMC graphs in with respect to the Riemannian submersion over certain domains taking on prescribed boundary values. L. J. Alías was partially supported by MEC/FEDER project MTM2004-04934-C04-02 and Fundación Séneca project 00625/PI/04, Spain.     

Bubbling solutions for an anisotropic Emden–Fowler equation

We consider the following anisotropic Emden–Fowler equation where is a bounded smooth domain and a(x) is a positive smooth function. We investigate the effect of anisotropic coefficient a(x) on the existence of bubbling solutions. We show that at given local maximum points of a(x), there exists arbitrarily many bubbles. As a consequence, the quantity can approach to as . These results show a striking difference with the isotropic case [ Constant].     

Numerically satisfactory solutions of Kummer recurrence relations

Pairs of numerically satisfactory solutions as for the three-term recurrence relations satisfied by the families of functions , , are given. It is proved that minimal solutions always exist, except when and z is in the positive or negative real axis, and that is minimal as whenever . The minimal solution is identified for any recurrence direction, that is, for any integer values of and . When the confluent limit , with fixed, is the main tool for identifying minimal solutions together with a connection formula; for , is the main tool to be considered.     

Analytic properties in the spectrum of certain Banach algebras

We show a sufficient condition for a domain in to be a H ^∞-domain of holomorphy. Furthermore if a domain has the Gleason property at a point and the projection of the n − 1th order generalized Shilov boundary does not coincide with Ω then is schlicht. We also give two examples of pseudoconvex domains in which the spectrum is non-schlicht and satisfy several other interesting properties.      

On the Multiplicity of Nodal Solutions to a Singularly Perturbed Neumann Problem

We consider the problem

H ∞-calculus for the Stokes operator on unbounded domains

We consider the Stokes operator A on unbounded domains of uniform C ^1,1-type. Recently, it has been shown by Farwig, Kozono and Sohr that – A generates an analytic semigroup in the spaces , 1 < q < ∞, where for q ≥ 2 and for q ∈ (1, 2). Moreover, it was shown that A has maximal L ^p -regularity in these spaces for p ∈ (1,∞). In this paper we show that ɛ + A has a bounded H ^∞-calculus in for all q ∈ (1, ∞) and ɛ > 0. This allows to identify domains of fractional powers of the Stokes operator. Received: 12 October 2007     

Poincaré inequality and Palais–Smale condition for the <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian

An improved Poincaré inequality and validity of the Palais-Smale condition are investigated for the energy functional on , 1 < p < ∞, where Ω is a bounded domain in , is a spectral (control) parameter, and is a given function, in Ω. Analysis is focused on the case λ = λ₁, where −λ₁ is the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet p-Laplacian Δ _p on , λ₁ > 0, and on the “quadratization” of within an arbitrarily small cone in around the axis spanned by , where stands for the first eigenfunction of Δ _p associated with −λ₁.     

Existence and non-existence of solutions to elliptic equations related to the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities

We investigate elliptic equations related to the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities: and such that . For various parameters α, β and various domains Ω, we establish some existence and non-existence results of solutions in rather general, possibly degenerate or singular settings.     

A mixed problem for the infinity Laplacian via Tug-of-War games

In this paper we prove that a function is the continuous value of the Tug-of-War game described in Y. Peres et al. (J. Am. Math. Soc., 2008, to appear) if and only if it is the unique viscosity solution to the infinity Laplacian with mixed boundary conditions

Nondifferentiability of an objective function at its point of minimum for most minimax problems

In this paper we study a class of minimax problems where . We show that the subclass of all problems for which there exists a point of minimum such that and is small. The paper is dedicated to the memory of Alexander M. Rubinov.     

Elliptic estimates independent of domain expansion

In this paper, we consider elliptic estimates for a system with smooth variable coefficients on a domain containing the origin. We first show the invariance of the estimates under a domain expansion defined by the scale that with parameter R > 1, provided that the coefficients are in a homogeneous Sobolev space. Then we apply these invariant estimates to the global existence of unique strong solutions to a parabolic system defined on an unbounded domain. This paper was supported in part by research funds of Chonbuk National University in 2007.     

Relaxation of an area-like functional for the function $$\frac{x}{|x|}$$

We compute the relaxation

Morse indices and the number of maximum points of some solutions to a two-dimensional elliptic problem

In this note, we consider the problem

Solutions to nonlinear Neumann problems with an inverse square potential

Let Ω be an open bounded domain in with smooth boundary . We are concerned with the critical Neumann problem