The problem of distributing two conducting materials with a prescribed volume ratio in a ball so as to minimize the first eigenvalue of an elliptic operator with Dirichlet conditions is considered in two and three dimensions. The gap ε between the two conductivities is assumed to be small (low contrast regime). The main result of the paper is to show, using asymptotic expansions with respect to ε and to small geometric perturbations of the optimal shape, that the global minimum of the first eigenvalue...

In the present note, we review some recent results on the spectral statistics of random operators in the localized phase obtained in [12]. For a general class of random operators, we show that the family of the unfolded eigenvalues in the localization region considered jointly with the associated localization centers is asymptotically ergodic. This can be considered as a generalization of [10]. The benefit of the present approach is that one can vary the scaling of the unfolded eigenvalues covariantly...

We consider a class of possibly degenerate second order elliptic operators on ℝⁿ. This class includes hypoelliptic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type operators having an additional first order term with unbounded coefficients. We establish global Schauder estimates in Hölder spaces both for elliptic equations and for parabolic Cauchy problems involving . The Hölder spaces in question are defined with respect to a possibly non-Euclidean metric related to the operator . Schauder estimates are deduced by sharp...

By using the theory of strongly continuous cosine families and the properties of completely continuous maps, we study the existence of mild, strong, classical and asymptotically almost periodic solutions for a functional second order abstract Cauchy problem with nonlocal conditions.

We consider boundary value problems for nonlinear $2m$th-order eigenvalue problem $$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {(-1)}^m{u}^{\left(2m\right)}\left(t\right)& =\lambda a\left(t\right)f\left(u\right(t\left)\right),0<t<1,\hfill \\ \hfill u^{\left(2i\right)}\left(0\right)& =u^{\left(2i\right)}\left(1\right)=0,i=0,1,2,\cdots ,m-1.\hfill \end{array}$$ where $a\in C\left(\right[0,1],[0,\infty \left)\right)$ and $a\left(t_0\right)>0$ for some $t_0\in [0,1]$, $f\in C\left(\right[0,\infty ),[0,\infty \left)\right)$ and $f\left(s\right)>0$ for $s>0$, and $f_0=\infty$, where $f_0={lim}_{s\to 0^{+}}f\left(s\right)/s$. We investigate the global structure of positive solutions by using Rabinowitz’s global bifurcation theorem.

We establish global existence and scattering for radial solutions to the energy-critical focusing Hartree equation with energy and Ḣ¹ norm less than those of the ground state in $ℝ\times {ℝ}^d$, d ≥ 5.

We study, with purely analytic tools, existence, uniqueness and gradient estimates of the solutions to the Neumann problems associated with a second order elliptic operator with unbounded coefficients in spaces of continuous functions in an unbounded open set Ω in ${ℝ}^N$.