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Sharp Trace Hardy-Soboev-Maz'ya Inequalities and the Fractional Laplacian

We establish trace Hardy and trace Hardy-Sobolev-Maz'ya inequalities with best Hardy constants, for domains satisfying suitable geometric assumptions such as mean convexity or convexity. We then use t...

Statics and dynamics of dislocations: A variational approach

Dislocations are line defects in crystals and they are considered the main mechanism of plastic deformations in metals. We will consider straight dislocations, so that their positions are completely i...

Asymptotics for critical nonlinear dispersive equations and Universality properties

We consider various examples of critical nonlinear partial differential equations which have the following common features: they are Hamiltonian, of dispersive nature, have a conservation law invarian...

Analisi multi-scala di dislocazioni in etero-strutture sottili

Le dislocazioni sono uno dei difetti piu' comuni dei solidi cristallini e la loro presenza influenza il comportamento dei materiali in svariati modi. Per esempio, nell'elettronica dei semiconduttori l...

Blow-up for a time-oscillating nonlinear heat equation

I will study a nonlinear heat equation with a periodic timeoscillating term in factor of the nonlinearity. In particular, I will give examples showing how the behavior of the solution can drastically ...

The sharp Faber-Krahn inequality

The classical Faber-Krahn inequality asserts that balls (uniquely) minimize the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet-Laplacian among sets with given volume. I will show a sharp quantitative enhancement o...

Compressible Stokes and Navier Stokes equations

I will first give two (similar) ways for proving the existence of a weak solution for the compressible (stationary) stokes problem : passing to the limit using (in particular) a viscous approximation ...

Turning and breakdown of waves for incompressible fluids

We consider the evolution of an interface generated between two immiscible, incompressible and irrotational fluids. Specifically we study the Muskat equation (the interface between oil and water in sa...

Motion of elastic films by anisotropic surface diffusion with curvature regularization

We present short time existence, uniqueness, and regularity results for a surface diffusion evolution equation with curvature regularization in the context of epitaxially strained two-dimensional film...

Controllability and Lipschitz stability for degenerate parabolic operators of Grushin type

Baouendi-Grushin operators are important classes of degenerate elliptic operators which are strongly connected with other domains of mathematics such as subriemannian geometry. Parabolic problems asso...

Omogeneizzazione stocastica di equazioni di tipo porous medium

In un recente lavoro, Ambrosio, Frid e Silva studiano un problema di omogeneizzazione per una classe di equazioni di tipo porous medium in cui la funzione flusso è un processo stocastico stazionario s...

Sulla dissipatività in L^{p} degli operatori differenziali alle derivate parziali

In questo seminario discuterò alcuni risultati ottenuti in collaborazione con Vladimir Maz'ya. Questi riguardano la dissipatività negli spazi L^{p} (1 < p < +\infty ), degli operatori differenzi...