Exploratory project supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, reference 2024.14494.PEX
https://doi.org/10.54499/2024.14494.PEX
Total funding: 59.959,38€
Starting date: February 1st, 2026
Duration: 18 months
Principal Investigator: Delia Schiera
Team members:
Assistant Professor at Universidad de Chile
Full Professor at Università degli Studi della Campania
Associate Professor at Università degli Studi della Campania
Francesco Balducci
Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Brief description.
Combining tools and methodologies from functional analysis, geometry, PDEs, and calculus of variations, the team will explore spectral properties for anisotropic and fully-nonlinear operators. Expected outcomes include a complete study of optimization of the principal eigenvalue of the anisotropic p-Laplace operator with respect to a sign-changing weight, or with respect to the anisotropy. Moreover, the team aims to develop a comprehensive spectral theory for Pucci operators with sign-changing weights, with the objective of addressing spectral optimization problems for these operators.
Preprints:
I. M. Bulai, F. Gladiali, B. Pellacci, Optimization of the total tumor population under Gompertz growth, arXiv:2607.24468.
P.S. Corrêa Junior, E. Moreira dos Santos, D. Schiera, Analysis of an Emden-Fowler-Hénon type equation, arXiv:2607.07631.
S. McCurdy, A. Saldaña, D. Schiera, On Neumann p-Laplacian Lane-Emden equations and their asymptotic relationship with relative isoperimetric problems, arXiv:2606.08222.
S. Bove, G. Croce, G. Pisante, An existence result for a quantitative isoperimetric inequality in R^3 involving the Hausdorff asymmetry, arXiv:2605.29046.
G. Pisante, F. Prinari, Sharp Makai-type inequalities for the best Poincaré-Sobolev constants, arXiv:2604.11973.
M. Clapp, A. Saldaña, D. Schiera, Sublinear elliptic equations with a sharp change of sign in the nonlinearity, arXiv:2603.11766.