Significant information about the topology of a bounded domain $\Omega$ of a Riemannian manifold $M$ is encoded into the properties of the distance, $d_{\partial \Omega }$, from the boundary of $\Omega$. We discuss recent results showing the invariance of the singular set of the distance function with respect to the generalized gradient flow of $d_{\partial \Omega }$, as well as applications to homotopy equivalence.

Using a construction similar to an iterated function system, but with functions changing at each step of iteration, we provide a natural example of a continuous one-parameter family of holomorphic functions of infinitely many variables. This family is parametrized by the compact space of positive integer sequences of prescribed growth and hence it can also be viewed as a parametric description of a trivial analytic multifunction.

There are many types of midconvexities, for example Jensen convexity, t-convexity, (s,t)-convexity. We provide a uniform framework for all the above mentioned midconvexities by considering a generalized middle-point map on an abstract space X. We show that we can define and study the basic convexity properties in this setting.

Let $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 2$, be a bounded connected domain of the class $C^{1,\theta }$ for some $\theta \in (0,1]$. Applying the generalized Moser-Trudinger inequality without boundary condition, the Mountain Pass Theorem and the Ekeland Variational Principle, we prove the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial weak solutions to the problem $$u\in W^1{L}^{\Phi }\left(\Omega \right),-div\left({\Phi }^{\text{'}}\left(\right|\nabla u\left|\right)\frac{\nabla u}{\left|\nabla u\right|}\right)+V\left(x\right){\Phi }^{\text{'}}\left(\right|u\left|\right)\frac{u}{\left|u\right|}=f(x,u)+\mu h\left(x\right)\text{in}\Omega ,\frac{\partial u}{\partial 𝐧}=0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,$$ where $\Phi$ is a Young function such that the space $W^1{L}^{\Phi }\left(\Omega \right)$ is embedded into exponential or multiple exponential Orlicz space, the nonlinearity $f(x,t)$ has the corresponding critical growth, $V\left(x\right)$ is a continuous potential,...

Let n ≥ 2 and let Ω ⊂ ℝn be an open set. We prove the boundedness of weak solutions to the problem $$u\in W_0^1{L}^{\Phi }\left(\Omega \right)and-div\left({\Phi }^{\text{'}}\left(\left|\nabla u\right|\right)\frac{\nabla u}{\left|\nabla u\right|}\right)+V\left(x\right){\Phi }^{\text{'}}\left(\left|u\right|\right)\frac{u}{\left|u\right|}=f\left(x,u\right)+\mu h\left(x\right)in\Omega ,$$ where ϕ is a Young function such that the space W 01 L Φ(Ω) is embedded into an exponential or multiple exponential Orlicz space, the nonlinearity f(x, t) has the corresponding critical growth, V(x) is a continuous potential, h ∈ L Φ(Ω) is a non-trivial continuous function and µ ≥ 0 is a small parameter. We consider two classical cases: the case of Ω being an open bounded set and the case of Ω =...

We prove that for a normed linear space $X$, if $f_1:X\to ℝ$ is continuous and semiconvex with modulus $\omega$, $f_2:X\to ℝ$ is continuous and semiconcave with modulus $\omega$ and $f_1\le f_2$, then there exists $f\in C^{1,\omega }\left(X\right)$ such that $f_1\le f\le f_2$. Using this result we prove a generalization of Ilmanen lemma (which deals with the case $\omega \left(t\right)=t$) to the case of an arbitrary nontrivial modulus $\omega$. This generalization (where a $C_{loc}^{1,\omega }$ function is inserted) gives a positive answer to a problem formulated by A. Fathi and M. Zavidovique in 2010.