Motivated by a long-standing conjecture of Pólya and Szegö about the Newtonian capacity of convex bodies, we discuss the role of concavity inequalities in shape optimization, and we provide several counterexamples to the Blaschke-concavity of variational functionals, including capacity. We then introduce a new algebraic structure on convex bodies, which allows to obtain global concavity and indecomposability results, and we discuss their application...

We consider the following problem: find on ${ℂ}^2$ a plurisubharmonic function with a given order function. In particular, we prove that any positive ambiguous function on $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^1$ which is constant outside a polar set is the order function of a plurisubharmonic function.

We study the sequence $u_n$, which is solution of $-div\left(a(x,𝔻u_n)\right)+{\Phi }^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(\right|u_n\left|\right)u_n=f_n+g_n$ in $\Omega$ an open bounded set of ${𝐑}^N$ and $u_n=0$ on $\partial \Omega$, when $f_n$ tends to a measure concentrated on a set of null Orlicz-capacity. We consider the relation between this capacity and the $N$-function $\Phi$, and prove a non-existence result.

We study the sequence un, which is solution of $-\mathrm{div}\left(a(x,\nabla u_n)\right)+{\Phi }^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(\right|u_n\left|\right)u_n=f_n+g_n$ in Ω an open bounded set of RN and un= 0 on ∂Ω, when fn tends to a measure concentrated on a set of null Orlicz-capacity. We consider the relation between this capacity and the N-function Φ, and prove a non-existence result.