Partial differential equations and calculus of variations
Partial Differential Equations and Stochastic Processes play an important role in the modeling of physical, biological and financial phenomena. The web page mathematical-analysis.unimore.it contains the updated information on the research activity of our team. The group of researchers is highly skilled in the following specific research topics:
Special materials and regularity in the Calculus of Variations
- Regularity for minimizers of integrals functional with general growth
- Regularity of solutions to obstacle problems
- Existence and qualitative properties of minimizers of integral functionals on multi-dimensional domains
- Existence and concentration properties of solutions to nonlinear elliptic and higher order equations with critical growth
- Sharp limiting inequalities and existence/non-existence of extremal functions
Mathematical models of Financial Markets
- Stochastic processes and Kolmogorov equations
- Black & Scholes model
- Numerical solutions to Kolmogorov equations
- Skewness and risk measurement
Nonlinear evolution equations and applications
- Analysis of solutions to the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with singular, double-well, periodic potentials
- Nonlinear phase-transition models, in particular thermodynamically consistent systems with diffuse interface, arising in Biology
- Porous media models with thermomechanical interactions and phase-transition
- Exact controllability of semilinear equations in Banach spaces
- Tumor growth models
Regularity theory for partial differential equations
- Degenerate Kolmogorov operators
- p-Laplace operators
- Obstacle problem
Staff researchers:
Carlo Benassi, Michela Eleuteri, Stefania Gatti, Luca La Rocca, Maria Manfredini, Stefania Perrotta, Sergio Polidoro, Andrea Sacchetti, Federica Sani, Massimo Villarini.