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Publications and source records attributed to Alberto Farina.
In this note we establish a unified growth rate for the operator norm of $C_0$-semigroups on Hilbert spaces whose generators satisfy the generalized Kreiss resolvent condition. Our bound contains and improves several known estimates in the literature. In particular, it captures the transition between different super-linear growth behaviors.
We study the Liouville equation $-\Delta u = e^u$ on a complete, connected, non-compact, boundaryless Riemannian surface $(M, g)$ with non-negative Ricci curvature. Assuming only some asymptotic lower bound on the solution, we establish classification results for both the solutions and the ambient manifold, discussing also their optimality. Our results reveal a close connection between the volume growth of the manifold and the classification of both the solutions and the underlying manifold.
We prove some rigidity and classification results for graphs with prescribed mean curvature and locally constant Dirichlet and Neumann data, for instance as they appear in capillarity problems. We consider domains in Riemannian manifolds, with emphasis on $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}^3$. We classify both the underlying domain and the resulting solution, providing general splitting theorems in this setting.
We study model semilinear equations on complete and non-compact weighted Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature. Our main goal is to classify positive solutions of the equation at the Sobolev-critical exponent, and furthermore to prove that the existence of such solutions implies rigidity of the manifold and triviality of the weight. This is possible when the weighted manifold has non-negative finite dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature, and even under the weaker condition of non-negative infinite dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature, up to imposing some additional conditions in the latter case. To exhibit the sharpness of these additional conditions, we construct a non-trivial positive solution of the critical problem on a weighted manifold with positive infinite dimensional curvature. We also obtain a corresponding rigidity result for solutions of the Liouville equation on weighted Riemannian surfaces. Finally, we prove some non-existence theorems when the nonlinearity is sub-critical or simply under certain volume growth conditions. In particular, the latter rules out all positive solutions on shrinking gradient Ricci solitons.
We provide density estimates for level sets of minimizers of the energy $\frac{1}{2} \int_Ω\int_Ω \frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^p}{|x-y|^{n+sp}}dxdy+\int_Ω\int_{\mathbb{R}^n\setminusΩ} \frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^p}{|x-y|^{n+sp}}dxdy+\int_ΩW(u(x))dx$ where $p\in(1,+\infty)$ and $s\in\left(0,\frac{1}{p}\right)$ and $W$ is a double-well potential with polynomial growth $m\in [p,+\infty)$ from the minima. These kinds of potentials are ''degenerate'', since they detach ''slowly'' from the minima, therefore they provide additional difficulties if one wishes to determine the relative sizes of the ''layers'' and the ''pure phases''. To overcome these challenges, we introduce new barriers allowing us to rely on the fractional Sobolev inequality and on a suitable iteration method. The proofs presented here are robust enough to consider the case of quasilinear nonlocal equations driven by the fractional $p$-Laplacian, but our results are new even for the case $p=2$.
We prove new one-dimensional symmetry results for non-negative solutions, possibly unbounded, to the semilinear equation $ -Δu= f(u)$ in the upper half-space $\mathbb{R}^{N}_{+}$. Some Liouville-type theorems are also proven in the case of differential inequalities in $\mathbb{R}^{N}_{+}$, even without imposing any boundary condition. Although subject to dimensional restrictions, our results apply to a broad family of functions $f$. In particular, they apply to all non-negative $f$ that behaves at least linearly at infinity.
In this paper we provide density estimates for a class of functions which includes all the minimizers of the energy $\mathcal{E}_s^p(u,Ω):=(1-s)\left(\frac{1}{2}\int_Ω\int_Ω\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^p}{|x-y|^{n+sp}}\,dx\,dy +\int_Ω\int_{\mathbb{R}^n \setminus Ω}\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^p}{|x-y|^{n+sp}}\,dx\,dy\right)+\int_ΩW(u(x))\,dx,$ where $p\in (1,+\infty)$, $s \in \left(0,1\right)$ and $W$ is a double-well potential with polynomial growth $m\in \left[p,+\infty\right)$ from the minima. The nonlocal estimates obtained are uniform as $s\to1$. Moreover, making use of a $Γ$-convergence result for $\mathcal{E}_s^p$ as $s\to 1$, we obtain density estimates for the minimizers of the limit energy functional, which takes the form $\mathcal{E}_1^p(u,Ω):=\frac{K_{n,p}}{2p}\int_Ω \left|\nabla u(x)\right|^p+\int_Ω W(u(x))\,dx,$ for a suitable $K_{n,p}\in (0,+\infty)$.
We consider positive solutions, possibly unbounded, to the semilinear equation $-Δu=f(u)$ on continuous epigraphs bounded from below. Under the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, we prove new monotonicity results for $u$, when $f$ is a (locally or globally) Lipschitz-continuous function satisfying $ f(0) \geq 0$. As an application of our new monotonicity theorems, we prove some classification and/or non-existence results. To prove our results, we first establish some new comparison principles for semilinear problems on general unbounded open sets of $\mathbb{R}^N$, and then we use them to start and to complete a modified version of the moving plane method adapted to the geometry of the epigraph $Ω$. As a by-product of our analysis, we also prove some new results of uniqueness and symmetry for solutions (possibly unbounded and sign-changing) to the homogeneous Dirichlet BVP for the semilinear Poisson equation in fairly general unbounded domains.
In this work we establish some rigidity results for Serrin's overdetermined problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{cll} - \Delta u=f(u) & \text{in}& \Omega,\newline u > 0& \text{in} & \Omega,\newline u=0 & \text{on} & \partial \Omega,\newline \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial \eta} = \mathfrak{c} = const. & \text{on} & \partial \Omega, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} when $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ is an epigraph (not necessarily globally Lipschitz-continuous) and $u$ is a classical solution, possibly unbounded. In broad terms, our main results prove that $\Omega$ must be an affine half-space and $u$ must be one-dimensional, provided the epigraph is bounded from below. These results hold when $f$ is of Allen-Cahn type and $ N \geq 2$ or, alternatively, when $f$ is locally Lipschitz-continuous (with no restriction on the sign of $f(0)$) and $ N \leq 3$. These results partially answer a question raised by Berestycki, Caffarelli and Nirenberg in [1]. Finally, when $f(0) <0$, we also prove a new monotonicity result, valid in any dimension $ N \geq 2$.
We consider solutions to some semilinear elliptic equations on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds and study their classification as well as the effect of their presence on the underlying manifold. When the Ricci curvature is non-negative, we prove both the classification of positive solutions to the critical equation and the rigidity for the ambient manifold. The same results are obtained when we consider solutions to the Liouville equation on Riemannian surfaces. The results are obtained via a suitable P-function whose constancy implies the classification of both the solutions and the underlying manifold. The analysis carried out on the P-function also makes it possible to classify non-negative solutions for subcritical equations on manifolds enjoying a Sobolev inequality and satisfying an integrability condition on the negative part of the Ricci curvature. Some of our results are new even in the Euclidean case.
We deal with boundary value problems for second-order nonlinear elliptic equations in divergence form, which emerge as Euler-Lagrange equations of integral functionals of the Calculus of Variations built upon possibly anisotropic norms of the gradient of trial functions. Integrands with non polynomial growth are included in our discussion. The $W^{1,2}$-regularity of the stress-field associated with solutions, namely the nonlinear expression of the gradient subject to the divergence operator, is established under the weakest possible assumption that the datum on the right-hand side of the equation is a merely $L^2$-function. Global regularity estimates are offered in domains enjoying minimal assumptions on the boundary. They depend on the weak curvatures of the boundary via either their degree of integrability or an isocapacitary inequality. By contrast, none of these assumptions is needed in the case of convex domains. An explicit estimate for the constants appearing in the relevant estimates is exhibited in terms of the Lipschitz characteristic of the domains, when their boundary is endowed with Hölder continuous curvatures.
We prove some Liouville-type theorems for stable solutions (and solutions stable outside a compact set) of quasilinear anisotropic elliptic equations. Our results cover the particular case of the pure Finsler p-Laplacian.
On a complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, we consider $L^{p}_{loc}$ distributional solutions of the the differential inequality $-Δu + λu \geq 0$ with $λ>0$ a locally bounded function that may decay to $0$ at infinity. Under suitable growth conditions on the $L^{p}$ norm of $u$ over geodesic balls, we obtain that any such solution must be nonnegative. This is a kind of generalized $L^{p}$-preservation property that can be read as a Liouville type property for nonnegative subsolutiuons of the equation $Δu \geq λu$. An application of the analytic results to $L^{p}$ growth estimates of the extrinsic distance of complete minimal submanifolds is also given.
We prove that 0 the only classical solution of the Lane-Emden equation in the half-space which is stable outside a compact set. We also consider weak solutions and the case of general cones.
We consider inhomogeneous $p$-Laplace type equations of the form $-\mathrm{div}\left(a(\nabla u)\right)=f$ in a possibly anisotropic setting. Under general assumptions on the source term $f$, we obtain quantitative Sobolev regularity results for the stress field $a(\nabla u)$ and weighted $L^2$ estimates for the Hessian of the solution. As far as we know, our results are new or refine the ones available in literature also when restricted to the Euclidean setting.
In this paper we prove the monotonicity of positive solutions to $ -Δ_p u = f(u) $ in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, for $(2N+2)/(N+2) < p < 2$ and for a general class of regular changing-sign nonlinearities $f$. The techniques used in the proof of the main result are based on a fine use of comparison and maximum principles and on an adaptation of the celebrated moving plane method to quasilinear elliptic equations in unbounded domains.
In the present paper, we investigate the regularity and symmetry properties of weak solutions to semilinear elliptic equations which are locally stable.
In this paper we prove the validity of Gibbons' conjecture for the quasilinear elliptic equation $ -Δ_p u = f(u) $ on $\mathbb{R}^N.$ The result holds true for $(2N+2)/(N+2) < p < 2$ and for a very general class of nonlinearity $f$.