Rigidity results for some boundary quasilinear phase transitions

We consider a quasilinear equation given in the half-space, i.e. a so called boundary reaction problem. Our concerns are a geometric Poincar\'e inequality and, as a byproduct of this inequality, a result on the symmetry of low-dimensional bounded stable solutions, under some suitable assumptions on the nonlinearities. More precisely, we analyze the following boundary problem \left\{\begin{matrix} -{\rm div} (a(x,|\nabla u|)\nabla u)+g(x,u)=0 \qquad {on $\R^n\times(0,+\infty)$} -a(x,|\nabla u|)u_x = f(u) \qquad{\mbox{on $\R^n\times\{0\}$}}\end{matrix} \right. under some natural assumptions on the diffusion coefficient $a(x,|\nabla u|)$ and the nonlinearities $f$ and $g$. Here, $u=u(y,x)$, with $y\in\R^n$ and $x\in(0,+\infty)$. This type of PDE can be seen as a nonlocal problem on the boundary $\partial \R^{n+1}_+$. The assumptions on $a(x,|\nabla u|)$ allow to treat in a unified way the $p-$laplacian and the minimal surface operators

Conformal Spectrum and Harmonic maps

This paper is devoted to the study of the conformal spectrum (and more precisely the first eigenvalue) of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a smooth connected compact Riemannian surface without boundary, endowed with a conformal class. We give a constructive proof of a critical metric which is smooth except at some conical singularities and maximizes the first eigenvalue in the conformal class of the background metric. We also prove that the map associating a finite number of eigenvectors of the maximizing $\lambda_1$ into the sphere is harmonic, establishing a link between conformal spectrum and harmonic maps

A note on precised Hardy inequalities on Carnot groups and Riemannian manifolds

We prove non local Hardy inequalities on Carnot groups and Riemannian manifolds, relying on integral representations of fractional Sobolev norms

Some elliptic PDEs on Riemannian manifolds with boundary

The goal of this paper is to investigate some rigidity properties of stable solutions of elliptic equations set on manifolds with boundary. We provide several types of results, according to the dimension of the manifold and the sign of its Ricci curvature

A new class of Traveling Solitons for cubic Fractional Nonlinear Schrodinger equations

We consider the one-dimensional cubic fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $$i\partial_tu-(-\Delta)^\sigma u+|u|^{2}u=0,$$ where $\sigma \in (\frac12,1)$ and the operator $(-\Delta)^\sigma$ is the fractional Laplacian of symbol $|\xi|^{2\sigma}$. Despite of lack of any Galilean-type invariance, we construct a new class of traveling soliton solutions of the form $$u(t,x)=e^{-it(|k|^{2\sigma}-\omega^{2\sigma})}Q_{\omega,k}(x-2t\sigma|k|^{2\sigma-2}k),\quad k\in\mathbb{R},\ \omega>0$$ by a rather involved variational argument

Some possibly degenerate elliptic problems with measure data and non linearity on the boundary

The goal of this paper is to study some possibly degenerate elliptic equation in a bounded domain with a nonlinear boundary condition involving measure data. We investigate two types of problems: the first one deals with the laplacian in a bounded domain with measure supported on the domain and on the boundary. A second one deals with the same type of data but involves a degenerate weight in the equation. In both cases, the nonlinearity under consideration lies on the boundary. For the first problem, we prove an optimal regularity result, whereas for the second one the optimality is not guaranteed but we provide however regularity estimates

Besov algebras on Lie groups of polynomial growth

We prove an algebra property under pointwise multiplication for Besov spaces defined on Lie groups of polynomial growth. When the setting is restricted to the case of H-type groups, this algebra property is generalized to paraproduct estimates