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We study a nonlocal capillarity problem with interaction kernels that are possibly anisotropic and not necessarily invariant under scaling. In particular, the lack of scale invariance will be modeled via two different fractional exponents s1,s2∈(0,1) which take into account the possibility that the container and the environment present different features with respect to particle interactions. We determine a nonlocal Young’s law for the contact angle and discuss the unique solvability of the corresponding equation in terms of the interaction kernels and of the relative adhesion coefficient.

We consider an elliptic equation in a cone, endowed with (possibly inhomogeneous) Neumann conditions. The operator and the forcing terms can also allow non-Lipschitz singularities at the vertex of the cone. In this setting, we provide unique continuation results, both in terms of interior and boundary points. The proof relies on a suitable Almgren-type frequency formula with remainders. As a byproduct, we obtain classification results for blow-up limits.

We consider an elliptic equation in a cone, endowed with (possibly inhomogeneous) Neumann conditions. The operator and the forcing terms can also allow non-Lipschitz singularities at the vertex of the cone. In this setting, we provide unique continuation results, both in terms of interior and boundary points. The proof relies on a suitable Almgren-type frequency formula with remainders. As a byproduct, we obtain classification results for blow-up limits.

This paper contains three types of results: 1. the construction of ground state solutions for a long-range Ising model whose interfaces stay at a bounded distance from any given hyperplane, 2. the construction of nonlocal minimal surfaces which stay at a bounded distance from any given hyperplane, 3. the reciprocal approximation of ground states for long-range Ising models and nonlocal minimal surfaces. In particular, we establish the existence of ground state solutions for long-range Ising models with planelike interfaces, which possess scale invariant properties with respect to the periodicity size of the environment. The range of interaction of the Hamiltonian is not necessarily assumed to be finite and also polynomial tails are taken into account (i.e. particles can interact even if they are very far apart the one from the other). In addition, we provide a rigorous bridge between the theory of long-range Ising models and that of nonlocal minimal surfaces, via some precise limit result.

We consider a nonlocal equation set in an unbounded domain with the epigraph property. We prove symmetry, monotonicity and rigidity results. In particular, we deal with halfspaces, coercive epigraphs and epigraphs that are flat at infinity. These results can be seen as the nonlocal counterpart of the celebrated article (Berestycki et al., Commun Pure Appl Math 50(11):1089–1111, 1997).

We discuss some results related to a phase transition model in which the potential energy induced by a double-well function is balanced by a fractional elastic energy. In particular, we present asymptotic results (such as $\Gamma$-convergence, energy bounds and density estimates for level sets), flatness and rigidity results, and the construction of planelike minimizers in periodic media. Finally, we consider a nonlocal equation with a multiwell potential, motivated by models arising in crystal dislocations, and we construct orbits exhibiting symbolic dynamics, inspired by some classical results by Paul Rabinowitz.

We consider the fractional Laplace framework and provide models and theorems related to nonlocal diffusion phenomena. Some applications are presented, including: a simple probabilistic interpretation, water waves, crystal dislocations, nonlocal phase transitions, nonlocal minimal surfaces and Schr\"{o}dinger equations. Furthermore, an example of an $s$-harmonic function, the harmonic extension and some insight on a fractional version of a classical conjecture formulated by De Giorgi are presented. Although this book aims at gathering some introductory material on the applications of the fractional Laplacian, some proofs and results are original. Also, the work is self contained, and the reader is invited to consult the rich bibliography for further details, whenever a subject is of interest.

Aim of this paper is to give the details of the proof of some density properties of smooth and compactly supported functions in the fractional Sobolev spaces and suitable modifications of them, which have recently found application in variational problems. The arguments are rather technical, but, roughly speaking, they rely on a basic technique of convolution (which makes functions C∞), joined with a cut-off (which makes their support compact), with some care needed in order not to exceed the original support.

Aim of this paper is to give the details of the proof of some density properties of smooth and compactly supported functions in the fractional Sobolev spaces and suitable modifications of them, which have recently found application in variational problems. The arguments are rather technical, but, roughly speaking, they rely on a basic technique of convolution (which makes functions C∞), joined with a cut-off (which makes their support compact), with some care needed in order not to exceed the original support.

In this paper, we study a non-local fractional Laplace equation, depending on a parameter, with asymptotically linear right-hand side. Our main result concerns the existence of weak solutions for this equation, and it is obtained using variational and topological methods. We treat both the non-resonant case and the resonant one.

We prove for some singular kernels K(x, y) that viscosity solutions of the integro-differential equation. ∫Rn[u(x+y)+u(x-y)-2u(x)]K(x,y)dy=f(x) locally belong to some Gevrey class if so does f. The fractional Laplacian equation is included in this framework as a special case.

We study the asymptotic analysis of a singularly perturbed weakly parabolic system of m equations of anisotropic reaction-diffusion type. Our main result formally shows that solutions to the system approximate a geometric motion of a hypersurface by anisotropic mean curvature. The anisotropy, supposed to be uniformly convex, is explicit and turns out to be the dual of the star-shaped combination of the m original anisotropies.