We consider linear elliptic equations $-\Delta u+q\left(x\right)u=\lambda u+f$ in bounded Lipschitz domains $D\subset {ℝ}^N$ with mixed boundary conditions $\partial u/\partial n=\sigma \left(x\right)\lambda u+g$ on $\partial D$. The main feature of this boundary value problem is the appearance of $\lambda$ both in the equation and in the boundary condition. In general we make no assumption on the sign of the coefficient $\sigma \left(x\right)$. We study positivity principles and anti-maximum principles. One of our main results states that if $\sigma$ is somewhere negative, $q\ge 0$ and ${\int }_{D}q\left(x\right)dx>0$ then there exist two eigenvalues ${\lambda }_{-1}$, ${\lambda }_1$ such the positivity...

In this paper we study some potential theoretical properties of solutions and super-solutions of some PDE systems (S) of type $L_{1}u=-{\mu }_{1}v$, $L_{2}v=-{\mu }_{2}u$, on a domain $D$ of ${ℝ}^d$, where ${\mu }_1$ and ${\mu }_2$ are suitable measures on $D$, and $L_1$, $L_2$ are two second order linear differential elliptic operators on $D$ with coefficients of class ${𝒞}^{\infty }$. We also obtain the integral representation of the nonnegative solutions and supersolutions of the system (S) by means of the Green kernels and Martin boundaries associated with $L_1$ and $L_2$, and...

We take another approach to the well known theorem of Korovkin, in the following situation: X, Y are compact Hausdorff spaces, M is a unital subspace of the Banach space C(X) (respectively, $C_{ℝ}\left(X\right)$) of all complex-valued (resp., real-valued) continuous functions on X, S ⊂ M a complex (resp., real) function space on X, ϕₙ a sequence of unital linear contractions from M into C(Y) (resp., $C_{ℝ}\left(Y\right)$), and ${\varphi }_{\infty }$ a linear isometry from M into C(Y) (resp., $C_{ℝ}\left(Y\right)$). We show, under the assumption that ${\Pi }_N\subset {\Pi }_T$, where ${\Pi }_N$ is...

We consider functionals of a potential energy ${\mathbb{P}}_{\psi }\left(u\right)$ corresponding to $\mathrm{𝑎𝑛}\mathrm{𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐}\mathrm{𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦}-\mathrm{𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒}\mathrm{𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚}$. We are dealing with $𝑎\mathrm{𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛}\mathrm{𝑜𝑓}𝑎\mathrm{𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛}\mathrm{𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟}\mathrm{𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒}$ with $\mathrm{𝑁𝑒𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑛}\mathrm{𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦}\mathrm{𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠}$. Various types of the subsoil of the plate are described by various types of the $\mathrm{𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒}$ nonlinear term $\psi \left(u\right)$. The aim of the paper is to find a suitable computational algorithm.

Consider the family uₜ = Δu + G(u), t > 0, $x\in {\Omega }_{\epsilon }$, ${\partial }_{{\nu }_{\epsilon }}u=0$, t > 0, $x\in \partial {\Omega }_{\epsilon }$, $\left(E_{\epsilon }\right)$ of semilinear Neumann boundary value problems, where, for ε > 0 small, the set ${\Omega }_{\epsilon }$ is a thin domain in ${ℝ}^l$, possibly with holes, which collapses, as ε → 0⁺, onto a (curved) k-dimensional submanifold of ${ℝ}^l$. If G is dissipative, then equation $\left(E_{\epsilon }\right)$ has a global attractor ${}_{\epsilon }$. We identify a “limit” equation for the family $\left(E_{\epsilon }\right)$, prove convergence of trajectories and establish an upper semicontinuity result for the family ${}_{\epsilon }$ as ε → 0⁺. ...

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain of class $C^2$ in $ℝ$N and let $K$ be a compact subset of $\partial \Omega$. Assume that $q\ge (N+1)/\left(N-1\right)$ and denote by $U_K$ the maximal solution of $-\Delta u+u^q=0$ in $\Omega$ which vanishes on $\partial \Omega \setminus K$. We obtain sharp upper and lower estimates for $U_K$ in terms of the Bessel capacity $C_{2/q,q^{\text{'}}}$ and prove that $U_K$ is $\sigma$-moderate. In addition we describe the precise asymptotic behavior of $U_K$ at points $\sigma \in K$, which depends on the “density” of $K$ at $\sigma$, measured in terms of the capacity $C_{2/q,q^{\text{'}}}$.

We consider the integral functional $J\left(u\right)={\int }_{\Omega }\left[f\right(\left|Du\right|\left)-u\right]dx$, $u\in W_0^{1,1}\left(\Omega \right)$, where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 2$, is a nonempty bounded connected open subset of ${ℝ}^n$ with smooth boundary, and $ℝ\ni s\mapsto f\left(\right|s\left|\right)$ is a convex, differentiable function. We prove that if $J$ admits a minimizer in $W_0^{1,1}\left(\Omega \right)$ depending only on the distance from the boundary of $\Omega$, then $\Omega$ must be a ball.

We deal with the problem ⎧ -Δu = f(x,u) + λg(x,u), in Ω, ⎨ ($P_{\lambda }$) ⎩ $u_{\mid \partial \Omega }=0$ where Ω ⊂ ℝⁿ is a bounded domain, λ ∈ ℝ, and f,g: Ω×ℝ → ℝ are two Carathéodory functions with f(x,0) = g(x,0) = 0. Under suitable assumptions, we prove that there exists λ* > 0 such that, for each λ ∈ (0,λ*), problem ($P_{\lambda }$) admits a non-zero, non-negative strong solution $u_{\lambda }\in {\bigcap }_{p\ge 2}{W}^{2,p}\left(\Omega \right)$ such that $li{m}_{\lambda \to 0⁺}\left|\right|u_{\lambda }{\left|\right|}_{W^{2,p}\left(\Omega \right)}=0$ for all p ≥ 2. Moreover, the function $\lambda \mapsto I_{\lambda }\left(u_{\lambda }\right)$ is negative and decreasing in ]0,λ*[, where $I_{\lambda }$ is the energy functional related to ($P_{\lambda }$). ...

In this paper we prove the following theorems in incidence geometry. 1. There is $\delta >0$ such that for any $P_1,\cdots ,P_4$, and $Q_1,\cdots ,Q_n\in {ℂ}^2$, if there are $\le n^{(1+\delta )/2}$ many distinct lines between $P_i$ and $Q_j$ for all $i$, $j$, then $P_1,\cdots ,P_4$ are collinear. If the number of the distinct lines is $<c{n}^{1/2}$ then the cross ratio of the four points is algebraic. 2. Given $c>0$, there is $\delta >0$ such that for any $P_1,P_2,P_3\in {ℂ}^2$ noncollinear, and $Q_1,\cdots ,Q_n\in {ℂ}^2$, if there are $\le c{n}^{1/2}$ many distinct lines between $P_i$ and $Q_j$ for all $i$, $j$, then for any $P\in {ℂ}^2\setminus \{P_1,P_2,P_3\}$, we have $\delta n$ distinct lines between $P$ and $Q_j$. 3. Given...

Let $D$ be a ${𝒞}^d$ $q$-convex intersection, $d\ge 2$, $0\le q\le n-1$, in a complex manifold $X$ of complex dimension $n$, $n\ge 2$, and let $E$ be a holomorphic vector bundle of rank $N$ over $X$. In this paper, ${𝒞}^k$-estimates, $k=2,3,\cdots ,\infty$, for solutions to the $\overline{\partial }$-equation with small loss of smoothness are obtained for $E$-valued $(0,s)$-forms on $D$ when $n-q\le s\le n$. In addition, we solve the $\overline{\partial }$-equation with a support condition in ${𝒞}^k$-spaces. More precisely, we prove that for a $\overline{\partial }$-closed form $f$ in ${𝒞}_{0,q}^k(X\setminus D,E)$, $1\le q\le n-2$, $n\ge 3$, with compact support and for $\epsilon$ with $0<\epsilon <1$ there...