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We consider the problem of optimal distribution of a limited amount of conductive material in systems governed by local and non-local scalar diffusion laws. Of particular interest for these problems is the study of the limiting case, which appears when the amount of available material is driven to zero. Such a limiting process is of both theoretical and practical interest and continues to be a subject of active study. In the local case, the limiting optimization problem is convex and has a well understood basis pursuit structure. Still this local problem is quite challenging both analytically and numerically because it is posed in the space of vector-valued Radon measures. With this in mind we focus on identifying the vanishing material limit for the corresponding nonlocal optimal design problem. Similarly to the local case, the resulting nonlocal problem is convex and has the basis pursuit structure in terms of nonlocal antisymmetric two-point fluxes. In stark contrast with the local case, the nonlocal problem admits solutions in Lebesgue spaces with mixed exponents. When the nonlocal interaction horizon is driven to zero, the ``vanishing material limit nonlocal problems provide a one-sided estimate for the corresponding local measure-valued optimal design problem. The surprising fact is that in order to transform the one-sided estimate into a true limiting process it is sufficient to disregard the antisymmetry requirement on the two point fluxes. This result relies on duality and requires generalizing some of the well known nonlocal characterizations of Sobolev spaces to the case of mixed Lebesgue exponents.
In this paper, we analyze a model composed by coupled local and nonlocal diffusion equations acting in different subdomains. We consider the limit case when one of the subdomains is thin in one direction (it is concentrated to a domain of smaller dimension) and as a limit problem we obtain coupling between local and nonlocal equations acting in domains of different dimension. We find existence and uniqueness of solutions and we prove several qualitative properties (like conservation of mass and convergence to the mean value of the initial condition as time goes to infinity).
We study the minimization of a spectral functional made as the sum of the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian and the relative strength of a Riesz-type interaction functional. We show that when the Riesz repulsion strength is below a critical value, existence of minimizers occurs. Then we prove, by means of an expansion analysis, that the ball is a rigid minimizer when the Riesz repulsion is small enough. Eventually we show that for certain regimes of the Riesz repulsion, regular minimizers do not exist.
In this paper, we consider the transmission eigenvalue problem associated with a general conductive transmission condition and study the geometric structures of the transmission eigenfunctions. We prove that under a mild regularity condition in terms of the Herglotz approximations of one of the pair of the transmission eigenfunctions, the eigenfunctions must be vanishing around a corner on the boundary. The Herglotz approximation can be regarded as the Fourier transform of the transmission eigenfunction in terms of the plane waves, and the growth rate of the transformed function can be used to characterize the regularity of the underlying wave function. The geometric structures derived in this paper include the related results in [5,19] as special cases and verify that the vanishing around corners is a generic local geometric property of the transmission eigenfunctions.
A shape optimization problem arising from the optimal reinforcement of a membrane by means of one-dimensional stiffeners or from the fastest cooling of a two-dimensional object by means of ``conducting wires is considered. The criterion we consider is the maximization of the first eigenvalue and the admissible classes of choices are the one of one-dimensional sets with prescribed total length, or the one where the constraint of being connected (or with an a priori bounded number of connected components) is added. The corresponding relaxed problems and the related existence results are described.
We study the consequences of the $f(R/Box)$ gravity models for the Solar system and the large scale structure of the universe. The spherically symmetric solutions can be used to obtain bounds on the constant and the linear parts of the correction terms. The evolution of cosmological matter structures is shown to be governed by an effective time dependent Newtons constant. We also analyze the propagation of the perturbation modes. Tensor and vector modes are only slightly modified, but two new scalar degrees of freedom are present. Their causality and stability is demonstrated, and their formal ghost conditions are related to a singularity of the cosmological background. In general, the Newtonian limit of these models has no apparent conflicts with observations but can provide useful constraints.