Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113948
Francesca Bianchi , Giorgio Stefani , Anna Chiara Zagati
We give a partial negative answer to a question left open in a previous work by Brasco and the first and third-named authors concerning the sharp constant in the fractional Hardy inequality on convex sets. Our approach has a geometrical flavor and equivalently reformulates the sharp constant in the limit case as the Cheeger constant for the fractional perimeter and the Lebesgue measure with a suitable weight. As a by-product, we obtain new lower bounds on the sharp constant in the 1-dimensional case, even for non-convex sets, some of which optimal in the case .
{"title":"A geometrical approach to the sharp Hardy inequality in Sobolev–Slobodeckiĭ spaces","authors":"Francesca Bianchi , Giorgio Stefani , Anna Chiara Zagati","doi":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113948","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113948","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We give a partial negative answer to a question left open in a previous work by Brasco and the first and third-named authors concerning the sharp constant in the fractional Hardy inequality on convex sets. Our approach has a geometrical flavor and equivalently reformulates the sharp constant in the limit case <span><math><mrow><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></math></span> as the Cheeger constant for the fractional perimeter and the Lebesgue measure with a suitable weight. As a by-product, we obtain new lower bounds on the sharp constant in the 1-dimensional case, even for non-convex sets, some of which optimal in the case <span><math><mrow><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49749,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Analysis-Theory Methods & Applications","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 113948"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145134829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113950
Jongmin Han, Kyungwoo Song
We construct multiple solutions of the generalized self-dual abelian Chern–Simons–Higgs equation in a two-dimensional flat torus by the topological degree method.
{"title":"Existence of multiple solutions for the generalized abelian Chern–Simons–Higgs model on a torus","authors":"Jongmin Han, Kyungwoo Song","doi":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113950","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113950","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We construct multiple solutions of the generalized self-dual abelian Chern–Simons–Higgs equation in a two-dimensional flat torus by the topological degree method.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49749,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Analysis-Theory Methods & Applications","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 113950"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145134830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We consider Riesz-type nonlocal energies with general interaction kernels and their discretizations related to particle systems. We prove that the discretized energies -converge in the weak- topology to the Riesz functional defined over the space of probability measures. We also address the minimization problem for the discretized energies, and prove the existence of minimal configurations of particles in a very general and natural setting.
{"title":"Particle approximation of nonlocal interaction energies","authors":"Davide Carazzato , Aldo Pratelli , Ihsan Topaloglu","doi":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113974","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113974","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We consider Riesz-type nonlocal energies with general interaction kernels and their discretizations related to particle systems. We prove that the discretized energies <span><math><mi>Γ</mi></math></span>-converge in the weak-<span><math><mo>∗</mo></math></span> topology to the Riesz functional defined over the space of probability measures. We also address the minimization problem for the discretized energies, and prove the existence of minimal configurations of particles in a very general and natural setting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49749,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Analysis-Theory Methods & Applications","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 113974"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145269716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113952
Hans-Bert Rademacher
We show that for a generic Riemannian metric on a compact manifold of dimension all geodesic loops based at a fixed point have no self-intersections. We also show that for an open and dense subset of the space of Riemannian metrics on an -disc with and with a strictly convex boundary there are geometrically distinct orthogonal geodesic chords without self-intersections. We use a perturbation result for intersecting geodesic segments of the author Rademacher (2024) and a genericity statement due to Bettiol and Giambò (2010) and existence results for orthogonal geodesic chords by Giambò et al. (2018).
{"title":"Geodesic loops and orthogonal geodesic chords without self-intersections","authors":"Hans-Bert Rademacher","doi":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113952","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We show that for a generic Riemannian metric on a compact manifold of dimension <span><math><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></math></span> all geodesic loops based at a fixed point have no self-intersections. We also show that for an open and dense subset of the space of Riemannian metrics on an <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span>-disc with <span><math><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></math></span> and with a strictly convex boundary there are <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span> geometrically distinct orthogonal geodesic chords without self-intersections. We use a perturbation result for intersecting geodesic segments of the author Rademacher (2024) and a genericity statement due to Bettiol and Giambò (2010) and existence results for orthogonal geodesic chords by Giambò et al. (2018).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49749,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Analysis-Theory Methods & Applications","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 113952"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-11DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113975
Diego Alonso-Orán , Claudia García , Rafael Granero-Belinchón
In this note, we study the existence of traveling waves of a surface model in a non-newtonian fluid with odd viscosity. The proof relies on nonlinear bifurcation techniques.
本文研究了奇黏度非牛顿流体中表面模型行波的存在性。该证明依赖于非线性分岔技术。
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113973
Gabriele Fioravanti
In this paper, we investigate the Dirichlet problem on lower dimensional manifolds for a class of weighted elliptic equations with coefficients that are singular on such sets. Specifically, we study the problem where , , , and is the lower dimensional manifold where the equation loses uniform ellipticity.
Our primary objective is to establish and regularity estimates up to , under suitable assumptions on the coefficients and the data. Our approach combines perforated domain approximations, Liouville-type theorems and a blow-up argument.
{"title":"The Dirichlet problem on lower dimensional boundaries: Schauder estimates via perforated domains","authors":"Gabriele Fioravanti","doi":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we investigate the Dirichlet problem on lower dimensional manifolds for a class of weighted elliptic equations with coefficients that are singular on such sets. Specifically, we study the problem <span><math><mfenced><mrow><mtable><mtr><mtd><mo>−</mo><mo>div</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>a</mi></mrow></msup><mi>A</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>∇</mo><mi>u</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>=</mo><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>a</mi></mrow></msup><mi>f</mi><mo>+</mo><mo>div</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>a</mi></mrow></msup><mi>F</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mi>u</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace><mtext>on</mtext><msub><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><mspace></mspace></mtd></mtr></mtable></mrow></mfenced></math></span> where <span><math><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>∈</mo><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>n</mi></mrow></msup><mo>×</mo><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></math></span>, <span><math><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>≤</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>d</mi></mrow></math></span>, <span><math><mrow><mi>a</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>∈</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span>, and <span><math><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mrow><mo>{</mo><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>}</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> is the lower dimensional manifold where the equation loses uniform ellipticity.</div><div>Our primary objective is to establish <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>α</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> and <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>α</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> regularity estimates up to <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>, under suitable assumptions on the coefficients and the data. Our approach combines perforated domain approximations, Liouville-type theorems and a blow-up argument.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49749,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Analysis-Theory Methods & Applications","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 113973"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113977
Ştefana-Lucia Aniţa
This paper concerns a Mean Field Game (MFG) system related to a Nash type equilibrium for dynamical games associated to large populations. One shows that the MFG system may be viewed as the Euler–Lagrange system for an optimal control problem related to a Fokker–Planck equation with control in the drift. One derives the existence of a weak solution to the MFG system and under more restrictive assumptions one proves some uniqueness results.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113979
Matteo Muratori , Troy Petitt , Fernando Quirós
We investigate the asymptotic behavior as of solutions to a weighted porous medium equation in , whose weight behaves at spatial infinity like with subcritical power, namely . Inspired by some results (Alikakos and Rostamian, 1984; Kamin and Ughi, 1987) from the 1980s on the unweighted problem, we focus on solutions whose initial data are not globally integrable with respect to the weight and behave at infinity like , for . In the special case and we show that self-similar solutions of Barenblatt type, i.e. reminiscent of the usual source-type solutions, still exist, although they are no longer compactly supported. Moreover, they exhibit a transition phenomenon which is new even for the unweighted equation. We prove that such self-similar solutions are attractors for the original problem, and convergence takes place globally in suitable weighted spaces for and even globally in under some mild additional regularity assumptions on the weight. Among the fundamental tools that we exploit, it is worth mentioning a global smoothing effect for non-integrable data.
{"title":"An inhomogeneous porous medium equation with non-integrable data: Asymptotics","authors":"Matteo Muratori , Troy Petitt , Fernando Quirós","doi":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113979","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.na.2025.113979","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the asymptotic behavior as <span><math><mrow><mi>t</mi><mo>→</mo><mo>+</mo><mi>∞</mi></mrow></math></span> of solutions to a weighted porous medium equation in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow></msup></math></span>, whose weight <span><math><mrow><mi>ρ</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> behaves at spatial infinity like <span><math><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>γ</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> with subcritical power, namely <span><math><mrow><mi>γ</mi><mo>∈</mo><mrow><mo>[</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span>. Inspired by some results (Alikakos and Rostamian, 1984; Kamin and Ughi, 1987) from the 1980s on the unweighted problem, we focus on solutions whose initial data <span><math><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> are not globally integrable with respect to the weight and behave at infinity like <span><math><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>α</mi></mrow></msup></math></span>, for <span><math><mrow><mi>α</mi><mo>∈</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>N</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>γ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span>. In the special case <span><math><mrow><mi>ρ</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>=</mo><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>γ</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></math></span> and <span><math><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>=</mo><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>α</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></math></span> we show that self-similar solutions of Barenblatt type, i.e. reminiscent of the usual source-type solutions, still exist, although they are no longer compactly supported. Moreover, they exhibit a transition phenomenon which is new even for the unweighted equation. We prove that such self-similar solutions are attractors for the original problem, and convergence takes place globally in suitable weighted <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> spaces for <span><math><mrow><mi>p</mi><mo>∈</mo><mrow><mo>[</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>∞</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> and even globally in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>∞</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> under some mild additional regularity assumptions on the weight. Among the fundamental tools that we exploit, it is worth mentioning a global smoothing effect for non-integrable data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49749,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Analysis-Theory Methods & Applications","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 113979"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145322044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113971
Denis Brazke , Gianna Götzmann , Hans Knüpfer
We investigate the asymptotic behavior as of singularly perturbed phase transition models of order , given by where is fixed, is an open bounded interval, and is a suitable double-well potential. We find that there exists a positive critical parameter depending on and , such that the -limit of with respect to the -topology is given by a sharp interface functional in the subcritical regime. The cornerstone for the corresponding compactness property is a novel nonlinear interpolation inequality involving higher-order derivatives, which is based on Gagliardo–Nirenberg type inequalities.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2025.113947
Patrick Erik Bradley
The transcendent part of the Drinfel’d -adic upper half plane is shown to be a Polish space. Using Radon measures associated with regular differential 1-forms invariant under Schottky groups allows to construct self-adjoint diffusion operators as Laplacian integral operators with kernel functions determined by the -adic absolute value on the complex -adic numbers. Their spectra are explicitly calculated and the corresponding Cauchy problems for their associated heat equations are found to be uniquely solvable and to determine Markov processes having paths which are càdlàg. The heat kernels are shown to have explicitly given distribution functions, as well as boundary value problems associated with the heat equations under Dirichlet and von Neumann conditions are solved.
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