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Inhomogeneous-growth problems including a linear-growth term

Inhomogeneous-growth problems including a linear-growth term

Wojciech Gorny (ORCID: 0000-0001-5682-5149)
  • Grant DOI 10.55776/ESP88
  • Funding program ESPRIT
  • Status ongoing
  • Start October 1, 2022
  • End September 30, 2025
  • Funding amount € 294,016
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Disciplines

Mathematics (100%)

Keywords

    Calculus Of Variations, Partial Differential Equations, Nonlinear And Singular Operators, Linear Growth, Inhomogeneous Growth, P-Laplacian

Abstract

Calculus of variations is a branch of mathematics, whose main goal is finding minima of functions defined on infinite-dimensional objects. It first appeared in relation to mathematical physics: it was observed by Euler and Lagrange in the XVIII century that behaviour of systems governed by some partial differential equations can often be equivalently described by a minimisation problem. This fact is the basis of the use of variational methods to problems in physics. Then, the infinite- dimensional objects are function spaces, and the minimised object is a functional, whose input is a function and its output is a number. A typical example is the heat flow, when the corresponding functional is the integral of the square of the gradient of a function. In every problem at the interface of the calculus of variations and partial differential equations, three issues are most relevant. The first one is existence of solutions in some properly chosen class. The second one is uniqueness of solutions in said class, and the third one is their regularity; this term covers any additional properties of the solution such as smoothness, energy bounds, or boundary behaviour. This applies both to elliptic problems (modelling stationary states) and parabolic problems (modelling evolution in time). It turns out that many properties of solutions depend on the rate of growth of the minimised functional. For instance, linear equations correspond to quadratic growth of the functional, and in this case one can obtain very strong results. Most of the modern techniques are best suited to the case when the growth is given by some power greater than 1. Let us highlight two cases outside of this framework: when the functional has linear growth and when the growth is inhomogeneous, i.e. its rate may depend on location or direction. In this project, we study problems which are at the interface between these two cases: the main goal of the project is to study parabolic and elliptic problems featuring both inhomogeneous growth and linear growth. To be exact, we are interested in equations in which associated functionals include a term with linear growth and a term with faster growth. They appear naturally in models of crystal growth and Bingham fluids. Moreover, they are used in some algorithms in image processing. So far, there have been very few rigid results concerning such problems. We plan to study existence, uniqueness, and regularity of solutions, and to complement it with an analysis of qualitative properties of solutions such as formation of facets or approximate behaviour of solutions to evolution problems for large times. The underlying theme is that there is a competition between the linear term and the superlinear term: the former favors phase transitions and formation of discontinuities, while the latter may have regularising properties.

Research institution(s)
  • Universität Wien - 100%
International project participants
  • Iwona Chlebicka, Uniwersytet Warszawski - Poland
  • Jose Mazon, Universidad de Valencia - Spain

Research Output

  • 2 Citations
  • 4 Publications
Publications
  • 2025
    Title A characterization of l1 double bubbles with general interface interaction
    DOI 10.1515/acv-2023-0131
    Type Journal Article
    Author Friedrich M
    Journal Advances in Calculus of Variations
  • 2025
    Title Strongly anisotropic Anzellotti pairings and their applications to the anisotropic p-Laplacian
    DOI 10.1016/j.jmaa.2025.129734
    Type Journal Article
    Author Górny W
    Journal Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
    Pages 129734
    Link Publication
  • 2025
    Title Weak solutions to gradient flows of functionals with inhomogeneous growth in metric spaces
    DOI 10.1007/s00028-025-01071-z
    Type Journal Article
    Author Górny W
    Journal Journal of Evolution Equations
    Pages 44
    Link Publication
  • 2025
    Title Evolution problems with perturbed 1-Laplacian type operators on random walk spaces
    DOI 10.1007/s00208-025-03180-z
    Type Journal Article
    Author Górny W
    Journal Mathematische Annalen
    Pages 1-63
    Link Publication

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