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In this paper we look for the convex hull of a set using the geometric evolution by minimal curvature of a hypersurface that surrounds the set. To find the convex hull, we study the large time behavior of solutions to an obstacle problem for the level set formulation of the geometric flow driven by the minimum of the principal curvatures (that coincides with the mean curvature flow only in two dimensions). We prove that the superlevel set where the solution to this obstacle problem is positive converges as time goes to infinity to the convex hull of the obstacle. Our approach is based on a game-theoretic approximation for this geometric flow that is inspired by previous results for the mean curvature flow.

In this paper we study the two membranes problem for operators given in terms of a mean value formula on a regular tree. We show existence of solutions under adequate conditions on the boundary data and the involved source terms. We also show that, when the boundary data are strictly separated, the coincidence set is separated from the boundary and thus it contains only a finite number of nodes.

We study the behavior of the fractional convexity when the fractional parameter goes to 1. For any notion of convexity, the convex envelope of a datum prescribed on the boundary of a domain is defined as the largest possible convex function inside the domain that is below the datum on the boundary. Here we prove that the fractional convex envelope inside a strictly convex domain of a continuous and bounded exterior datum converges when $s\nearrow 1$ to the classical convex envelope of the restriction to the boundary of the exterior datum., Comment: 14 pages

In this paper we analyze iterations of the obstacle problem for two different operators. We solve iteratively the obstacle problem from above or below for two different differential operators with obstacles given by the previous functions in the iterative process. When we start the iterations with a super or a subsolution of one of the operators this procedure generates two monotone sequences of functions that we show that converge to a solution to the two membranes problem for the two different operators. We perform our analysis in both the variational and the viscosity settings.

In this paper we find viscosity solutions to the two membranes problem (that is a system with two obstacle-type equations) with two different $p-$Laplacian operators taking limits of value functions of a sequence of games. We analyze two-player zero-sum games that are played in two boards with different rules in each board. At each turn both players (one inside each board) have the choice of playing without changing board or to change to the other board (and then play one round of the other game). We show that the value functions corresponding to this kind of games converge uniformly to a viscosity solution of the two membranes problem. If in addition the possibility of having the choice to change boards depends on a coin toss we show that we also have convergence of the value functions to the two membranes problem that is supplemented with an extra condition inside the coincidence set.

In this paper we introduce two new fractional versions of the Laplacian. The first one is based on the classical formula that writes the usual Laplacian as the sum of the eigenvalues of the Hessian. The second one comes from looking at the classical fractional Laplacian as the mean value (in the sphere) of the 1-dimensional fractional Laplacians in lines with directions in the sphere. To obtain this second new fractional operator we just replace the mean value by the mid-range of 1-dimensional fractional Laplacians with directions in the sphere. For these two new fractional operators we prove a comparison principle for viscosity sub and supersolutions and then we obtain existence and uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem. We also show that solutions are $C^\gamma$ smooth up to the boundary when the exterior datum is also H\"older continuous. Finally, we prove that for the first operator we recover the classical Laplacian in the limit as $s\nearrow 1$.

The starting point of this paper is the study of the asymptotic behavior, as $p\to\infty$, of the following minimization problem $$ \min\left\{\frac1{p}\int|\nabla v|^{p}+\frac12\int(v-f)^2 \,, \quad \ v\in W^{1,p} (\Omega)\right\}. $$ We show that the limit problem provides the best approximation, in the $L^2$-norm, of the datum $f$ among all Lipschitz functions with Lipschitz constant less or equal than one. Moreover such approximation verifies a suitable PDE in the viscosity sense. After the analysis of the model problem above, we consider the asymptotic behavior of a related family of nonvariational equations and, finally, we also deal with some functionals involving the $(N-1)$-Hausdorff measure of the jump set of the function.

In this paper we study the evolution problem associated with the first fractional eigenvalue. We prove that the Dirichlet problem with homogeneous boundary condition is well posed for this operator in the framework of viscosity solutions (the problem has existence and uniqueness of a solution and a comparison principle holds). In addition, we show that solutions decay to zero exponentially fast as $t\to \infty$ with a bound that is given by the first eigenvalue for this problem that we also study., Comment: 20 pages

We study a natural alternating method of Schwarz type (domain decomposition) for certain class of couplings between local and nonlocal operators. We show that our method fits into Lion's framework and prove, as a consequence, convergence in both, the continuous and the discrete settings.

In this paper we prove an asymptotic $C^{1,\gamma}$-estimate for value functions of stochastic processes related to uniformly elliptic dynamic programming principles. As an application, this allows us to pass to the limit with a discrete gradient and then to obtain a $C^{1,\gamma}$-result for the corresponding limit PDE.

In this paper we study the Dirichlet problem for systems of mean value equations on a regular tree. We deal both with the directed case (the equations verified by the components of the system at a node in the tree only involve values of the unknowns at the successors of the node in the tree) and the undirected case (now the equations also involve the predecessor in the tree). We find necessary and sufficient conditions on the coefficients in order to have existence and uniqueness of solutions for continuous boundary data. In a particular case, we also include an interpretation of such solutions as a limit of value functions of suitable two-players zero-sum games.

In this paper we study the limit as $p\to \infty$ in the evolution problem driven by the $p-$Laplacian with dynamical boundary conditions. We prove that the natural energy functional associated with this problem converges to a limit in the sense of Mosco convergence and as a consequence we obtain convergence of the solutions to the evolution problems. For the limit problem we show an interpretation in terms of optimal mass transportation and provide examples of explicit solutions for some particular data.

We obtain asymptotic mean-value formulas for solutions of second-order elliptic equations. Our approach is very flexible and allows us to consider several families of operators obtained as an infimum, a supremum, or a combination of both infimum and supremum, of linear operators. The families of equations that we consider include well-known operators such as Pucci, Issacs, and $k$-Hessian operators.

In this paper we study two different ways of coupling a local operator with a nonlocal one in such a way that the resulting equation is related to an energy functional. In the first strategy the coupling is given via source terms in the equation and in the second one a flux condition in the local part appears. For both models we prove existence and uniqueness of a solution that is obtained via direct minimization of the related energy functional. In the second part of this paper we extend these ideas to deal with local/nonlocal elasticity models in which we couple classical local elasticity with nonlocal peridynamics.

In this paper we find viscosity solutions to a coupled system composed by two equations, the first one is parabolic and driven by the infinity Laplacian while the second one is elliptic and involves the usual Laplacian. We prove that there is a two-player zero-sum game played in two different boards with different rules in each board (in the first one we play a Tug-of-War game taking the number of plays into consideration and in the second board we move at random) whose value functions converge uniformly to a viscosity solution to the PDE system., Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2003.08969

In this paper we characterize viscosity solutions to nonlinear parabolic equations (including parabolic Monge-Amp\`ere equations) by asymptotic mean value formulas. Our asymptotic mean value formulas can be interpreted from a probabilistic point of view in terms of Dynamic Programming Principles for certain two-player, zero-sum games.

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 convex and quasiconvex functions on a metric graph. Given a set of points in the metric graph, we consider the largest convex function below the prescribed datum. We characterize this largest convex function as the unique largest viscosity subsolution to a simple differential equation, $u''=0$ on the edges, plus nonlinear transmission conditions at the vertices. We also study the analogous problem for quasiconvex functions and obtain a characterization of the largest quasiconvex function that is below a given datum., Comment: 17 pages and 4 figures

In this paper we consider the homogenization of the evolution problem associated with a jump process that involves three different smooth kernels that govern the jumps to/from different parts of the domain. We assume that the spacial domain is divided into a sequence of two subdomains $A_n \cup B_n$ and we have three different smooth kernels, one that controls the jumps from $A_n$ to $A_n$, a second one that controls the jumps from $B_n$ to $B_n$ and the third one that governs the interactions between $A_n$ and $B_n$.Assuming that $\chi_{A_n} (x) \to X(x)$ weakly in $L^\infty$ (and then $\chi_{B_n} (x) \to 1-X(x)$ weakly in $L^\infty$) as $n \to \infty$ and that the initial condition is given by a density $u_0$ in $L^2$ we show that there is an homogenized limit system in which the three kernels and the limit function $X$ appear. When the initial condition is a delta at one point, $\delta_{\bar{x}}$ (this corresponds to the process that starts at $\bar{x}$) we show that there is convergence along subsequences such that $\bar{x} \in A_{n_j}$ or $\bar{x} \in B_{n_j}$ for every $n_j$ large enough. We also provide a probabilistic interpretation of this evolution equation in terms of a stochastic process that describes the movement of a particle that jumps in $\Omega$ according to the three different kernels and show that the underlying process converges in distribution to a limit process associated with the limit equation. We focus our analysis in Neumann type boundary conditions and briefly describe at the end how to deal with Dirichlet boundary conditions., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2003.03407

We introduce a notion of fractional convexity that extends naturally the usual notion of convexity in the Euclidean space to a fractional setting. With this notion of fractional convexity, we study the fractional convex envelope inside a domain of an exterior datum (the largest possible fractional convex function inside the domain that is below the datum outside) and show that the fractional convex envelope is characterized as a viscosity solution to a non-local equation that is given by the infimum among all possible directions of the $1-$dimensional fractional Laplacian. For this equation we prove existence, uniqueness and a comparison principle (in the framework of viscosity solutions). In addition, we find that solutions to the equation for the convex envelope are related to solutions to the fractional Monge-Ampere equation., Comment: 25 pages

We introduce a definition of a quasiconvex function on an infinite directed regular tree that depends on what we understood by a segment on the tree. Our definition is based on thinking on segments as sub-trees with the root as the midpoint of the segment. A convex set in the tree is then a subset such that it contains every midpoint of every segment with terminal nodes in the set. Then a quasiconvex function is a real map on the tree such that every level set is a convex set. For this concept of quasiconvex functions on a tree, we show that given a continuous boundary datum there exists a unique quasiconvex envelope on the tree and we characterize the equation that this envelope satisfies. It turns out that this equation is a mean value property that involves a median among values of the function on successors of a given vertex. We also relate the quasiconvex envelope of a function defined inside the tree with the solution of an obstacle problem for this characteristic equation., Comment: 19 pages

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in whether a mean value property, known to characterize harmonic functions, can be extended in some weak form to solutions of nonlinear equations. This question has been partially motivated by the surprising connection between Random Tug-of-War games and the normalized $p-$Laplacian discovered some years ago, where a nonlinear asymptotic mean value property for solutions of a PDE is related to a dynamic programming principle for an appropriate game. Currently, asymptotic nonlinear mean value formulas are rare in the literature and our goal is to show that an asymptotic nonlinear mean value formula holds for the classical Monge-Amp\`ere equation.

We study local (the heat equation) and nonlocal (convolution type problems with an integrable kernel) evolution problems on a metric connected finite graph in which some of the edges have infinity length. We show that the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions to both local and nonlocal problems is given by the solution of the heat equation, but on a star shaped graph in which there is only one node and as many infinite edges as in the original graph. In this way we obtain that the compact component that consists in all the vertices and all the edges of finite length can be reduced to a single point when looking at the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions. For this star shaped limit problem the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions is just given by the solution to the heat equation in a half line with a Neumann boundary condition at $x = 0$ and initial datum $(2M/N)\delta_{x=0}$ where M is the total mass of the initial condition for our original problem and $N$ is the number of edges of infinite length. In addition, we show that solutions to the nonlocal problem converge, when we rescale the kernel, to solutions to the heat equation (the local problem), that is, we find a relaxation limit., Comment: To appear in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata

In this paper we consider the homogenization problem for a nonlocal equation that involve different smooth kernels. We assume that the spacial domain is divided into a sequence of two subdomains $A_n \cup B_n$ and we have three different smooth kernels, one that controls the jumps from $A_n$ to $A_n$, a second one that controls the jumps from $B_n$ to $B_n$ and the third one that governs the interactions between $A_n$ and $B_n$. Assuming that $\chi_{A_n} (x) \to X(x)$ weakly-* in $L^\infty$ (and then $\chi_{B_n} (x) \to (1-X)(x)$ weakly-* in $L^\infty$) as $n \to \infty$ we show that there is an homogenized limit system in which the three kernels and the limit function $X$ appear. We deal with both Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions. Moreover, we also provide a probabilistic interpretation of our results.

In this paper we find viscosity solutions to an elliptic system governed by two different operators (the Laplacian and the infinity Laplacian) using a probabilistic approach. We analyze a game that combines the Tug-of-War with Random Walks in two different boars. We show that these value functions converge uniformly to a viscosity solution of the elliptic system as the step size goes to zero. In addition, we show uniqueness for the elliptic system using pure PDE techniques.

In this paper we study the homogenization of a stochastic process and its associated evolution equations in which we mix a local part (given by a Brownian motion with a reflection on the boundary) and a nonlocal part (given by a jump process with a smooth kernel). We consider a sequence of partitions of the (fixed) spacial domain into two parts (local and nonlocal) that are mixed in such a way that they both have positive density at every point in the limit. Under adequate hypotheses on the sequence of partitions, we prove convergence of the associated densities (that are solutions to an evolution equation with coupled local and nonlocal parts in two different regions of the domain) to the unique solution to a limit evolution system in which the local part disappears and the nonlocal part survives but divided into two different components. We also obtain convergence in distributions of the processes associated to the partitions and prove that the limit process has a density pair that coincides with the limit of the densities., Comment: 32 pages

In this paper, we study some qualitative properties for an evolution problem that combines local and nonlocal diffusion operators acting in two different subdomains and, coupled in such a way that, the resulting evolution problem is the gradient flow of an energy functional. The coupling takes place at the interface between the regions in which the different diffusions take place. We prove existence and uniqueness results, as well as, that the model preserves the total mass of the initial condition. We also study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions. Finally, we show a suitable way to recover the heat equation at the whole domain from taking the limit at the nonlocal rescaled kernel.

In this paper we study nonlocal problems that are analogous to the local ones given by the Laplacian or the p-Laplacian with dynamical boundary conditions. We deal both with smooth and with singular kernels and show existence and uniqueness of solutions and study their asymptotic behaviour as t goes to infinity.

In this paper we study a convection-diffusion equation on a star-shaped graph composed by $n$ incoming edges and $m$ outgoing edges with a nonlinearity $f\in C^1(\rr)$ satisfying some additional general conditions. First, we prove the global well-posedness of the solutions of the system under consideration. Next, in the particular case that the nonlinear convection is given by $\partial_x(f(u(t, x))$ with $f(s)=-a|s|^{q-1}s$ with $q\geq 2$ and $a\in \rr$ verifying $(n-m)a\geq 0$, we analyze the long time behavior of the solutions. For $q> 2$ we find that the asymptotic behavior of the solutions is given by some self-similar profiles of the heat equation on the considered structure. In the case $q=2$, the nonnegative/nonpositive solutions converge to the self-similar profiles of Burgers' equation. Explicit representations of the limit profiles are obtained., Comment: 32 pag, 1 figure

We introduce two notions of convexity for an infinite regular tree. For these two notions we show that given a continuous boundary datum there exists a unique convex envelope on the tree and characterize the equation that this envelope satisfies. We also relate the equation with two versions of the Laplacian on the tree. Moreover, for a function defined on the tree, the convex envelope turns out to be the solution to the obstacle problem for this equation., Comment: 24 pages

In this paper we study the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for solutions to mean value formulas on trees. We give two alternative definition of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. For the first definition (that involves the product of a "gradient" with a "normal vector" and for a linear mean value formula on the directed tree (taking into account only the successors of a given node) we obtain that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map is given by $g\mapsto cg'$ (here $c$ is an explicit constant). Notice that this is a local operator of order one. We also consider linear undirected mean value formulas (taking into account not only the successors but the ancestor and the successors of a given node) and prove a similar result. For this kind of mean value formula we include some existence and uniqueness results for the associated Dirichlet problem. Finally, we give an alternative definition of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (taking into account differences along a given branch of the tree). With this alternative definition, for a certain range of parameters, we obtain that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map is given by a nonlocal operator (as happens for the classical Laplacian in the Euclidean space)., Comment: 26 pages. Added references and referee's suggestions. Corrected typos. Accepted for publication in Potential Analysis

We prove existence, uniqueness and several qualitative properties for evolution equations that combine local and nonlocal diffusion operators acting in different subdomains and coupled in such a way that the resulting evolution equation is the gradient flow of an energy functional. We deal with the Cauchy, Neumann and Dirichlet problems, in the last two cases with zero boundary data. For the first two problems we prove that the model preserves the total mass. We also study the behaviour of the solutions for large times. Finally, we show that we can recover the usual heat equation (local diffusion) in a limit procedure when we rescale the nonlocal kernel in a suitable way.

In this paper we study the evolution problem \[ \left\lbrace\begin{array}{ll} u_t (x,t)- \lambda_j(D^2 u(x,t)) = 0, & \text{in } \Omega\times (0,+\infty), \\ u(x,t) = g(x,t), & \text{on } \partial \Omega \times (0,+\infty), \\ u(x,0) = u_0(x), & \text{in } \Omega, \end{array}\right. \] where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$ (that verifies a suitable geometric condition on its boundary) and $\lambda_j(D^2 u)$ stands for the $j-$st eigenvalue of the Hessian matrix $D^2u$. We assume that $u_0 $ and $g$ are continuous functions with the compatibility condition $u_0(x) = g(x,0)$, $x\in \partial \Omega$. We show that the (unique) solution to this problem exists in the viscosity sense and can be approximated by the value function of a two-player zero-sum game as the parameter measuring the size of the step that we move in each round of the game goes to zero. In addition, when the boundary datum is independent of time, $g(x,t) =g(x)$, we show that viscosity solutions to this evolution problem stabilize and converge exponentially fast to the unique stationary solution as $t\to \infty$. For $j=1$ the limit profile is just the convex envelope inside $\Omega$ of the boundary datum $g$, while for $j=N$ it is the concave envelope. We obtain this result with two different techniques: with PDE tools and and with game theoretical arguments. Moreover, in some special cases (for affine boundary data) we can show that solutions coincide with the stationary solution in finite time (that depends only on $\Omega$ and not on the initial condition $u_0$).

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$ be a smooth bounded domain and $m\in C(\overline{\Omega})$ be a sign-changing weight function. For $1

In this paper we introduce a game whose value functions converge (as a parameter that measures the size of the steps goes to zero) uniformly to solutions to the second order Pucci maximal operators., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1801.03383

In this manuscript we study the following optimization problem with volume constraint: \[ \min\left\{\frac{1}{p}\int_{\Omega} |\nabla v|^pdx- \int_{\partial \Omega} gv\,dS \colon v \in W^{1, p} \left(\Omega\right), \text{ and } |\{v>0\}| \leq \alpha\right\}. \] Here $g$ is acontinuous function and $\alpha$ is a fixed constant such that $0< \alpha< |\Omega|$. Under the assumption that $\displaystyle \int_{\partial \Omega} g(x)dS >0$ we prove that a minimizer exists and satisfies $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ccl} -\Delta_p u_p = 0 &\text{in } &\{u_p>0\} \cup \{u_p<0\}, \\[5pt] |\nabla u_p|^{p-2}\frac{\partial u_p}{\partial \nu} = g & \text{on } &\partial \Omega \cap\partial(\{u_p>0\} \cup \{u_p<0\} ) ,\\[5pt] |\{u_p>0\}| = \alpha. & & \end{array} \right. $$ Next, we analyze the limit as $p\to \infty$. We obtain that any sequence of weak solutions converges, up to a subsequence, $\lim\limits_{p_j \to \infty} u_{p_j}(x)=u_{\infty}(x)$, uniformly in $\overline{\Omega}$, and uniform limits, $u_\infty$, are solutions to the maximization problem with volume constraint $$ \max\left\{ \int_{\partial \Omega} gv\,dS \colon v \in W^{1, \infty} \left(\Omega\right), \|\nabla v\|_{L^{\infty}(\Omega)}\leq 1 \text{ and }|\{v>0\}| \leq \alpha\right\}. $$ Furthermore, we obtain the limit equation that is verified by $u_\infty$ in the viscosity sense. Finally, it turns out that such a limit variational problem is connected to the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem with the involved measures are supported on $\partial \Omega$ and along the limiting free boundary, $\partial \{u_{\infty} \neq 0\}$., Comment: 23 pages, 2 figures

In this paper we analyze nonlocal equations in perforated domains. We consider nonlocal problems of the form $f(x) = \int_{B} J(x-y) (u(y) - u(x)) dy$ with $x$ in a perforated domain $\Omega^\epsilon \subset \Omega$. Here $J$ is a non-singular kernel. We think about $\Omega^\epsilon$ as a fixed set $\Omega$ from where we have removed a subset that we call the holes. We deal both with the Neumann and Dirichlet conditions in the holes and assume a Dirichlet condition outside $\Omega$. In the later case we impose that $u$ vanishes in the holes but integrate in the whole $\mathbb{R}^N$ ($B=\mathbb{R}^N$) and in the former we just consider integrals in $\mathbb{R}^N$ minus the holes ($B=\mathbb{R}^N \setminus (\Omega \setminus \Omega^\epsilon)$). Assuming weak convergence of the holes, specifically, under the assumption that the characteristic function of $\Omega^\epsilon$ has a weak limit, $\chi_{\epsilon} \rightharpoonup \mathcal{X}$ weakly$^*$ in $L^\infty(\Omega)$, we analyze the limit as $\epsilon \to 0$ of the solutions to the nonlocal problems proving that there is a nonlocal limit problem. In the case in which the holes are periodically removed balls we obtain that the critical radius is of order of the size of the typical cell (that gives the period). In addition, in this periodic case, we also study the behavior of these nonlocal problems when we rescale the kernel in order to approximate local PDE problems.

We study the PDE $\lambda_j(D^2 u) = 0$, in $\Omega$, with $u=g$, on $\partial \Omega$. Here $\lambda_1(D^2 u) \leq ... \leq \lambda_N (D^2 u)$ are the ordered eigenvalues of the Hessian $D^2 u$. First, we show a geometric interpretation of the viscosity solutions to the problem in terms of convex/concave envelopes over affine spaces of dimension $j$. In one of our main results, we give necessary and sufficient conditions on the domain so that the problem has a continuous solution for every continuous datum $g$. Next, we introduce a two-player zero-sum game whose values approximate solutions to this PDE problem. In addition, we show an asymptotic mean value characterization for the solution the the PDE.

In this manuscript we deal with regularity issues and the asymptotic behaviour (as $p \to \infty$) of solutions for elliptic free boundary problems of $p-$Laplacian type ($2 \leq p< \infty$): \begin{equation*} -\Delta_p u(x) + \lambda_0(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x) = 0 \quad \mbox{in} \quad \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N, \end{equation*} with a prescribed Dirichlet boundary data, where $\lambda_0>0$ is a bounded function and $\Omega$ is a regular domain. First, we prove the convergence as $p\to \infty$ of any family of solutions $(u_p)_{p\geq 2}$, as well as we obtain the corresponding limit operator (in non-divergence form) ruling the limit equation, $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{rcrcl} \max\left\{-\Delta_{\infty} u_{\infty}, \,\, -|\nabla u_{\infty}| + \chi_{\{u_{\infty}>0\}}\right\} & = & 0 & \text{in} & \Omega \cap \{u_{\infty} \geq 0\} \\ u_{\infty} & = & g & \text{on} & \partial \Omega. \end{array} \right. $$ Next, we obtain uniqueness for solutions to this limit problem together with a number of weak geometric and measure theoretical properties as non-degeneracy, uniform positive density, porosity and convergence of the free boundaries. Finally, we show that any solution to the limit operator is a limit of value functions for a specific Tug-of-War game.

In this note we analyze how perturbations of a ball $\mathfrak{B}_r \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ behaves in terms of their first (non-trivial) Neumann and Dirichlet $\infty-$eigenvalues when a volume constraint $\\mathscr{L}^n(\Omega) = \mathscr{L}^n(\mathfrak{B}_r)$ is imposed. Our main result states that $\Omega$ is uniformly close to a ball when it has first Neumann and Dirichlet eigenvalues close to the ones for the ball of the same volume $\mathfrak{B}_r$. In fact, we show that, if $$ |\lambda_{1,\infty}^D(\Omega) - \lambda_{1,\infty}^D(\mathfrak{B}_r)| = \delta_1 \quad \text{and} \quad |\lambda_{1,\infty}^N(\Omega) - \lambda_{1,\infty}^N(\mathfrak{B}_r)| = \delta_2, $$ then there are two balls such that $$\mathfrak{B}_{\frac{r}{\delta_1 r+1}} \subset \Omega \subset \mathfrak{B}_{\frac{r+\delta_2 r}{1-\delta_2 r}}.$$ In addition, we also obtain a result concerning stability of the Dirichlet $\infty-$eigen-functions., Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure

In this note we prove a trace theorem in fractional spaces with variable exponents. To be more precise, we show that if $p\colon\overline{\Omega}\times \overline{\Omega}\to (1,\infty)$ and $q:\partial \Omega \rightarrow (1,\infty)$ are continuous functions such that \[ \frac{(n-1)p(x,x)}{n-sp(x,x)}>q(x) \qquad \mbox{in} \partial \Omega \cap \{x\in\overline{\Omega}\colon n-sp(x,x) >0\}, \] then the inequality $$ \Vert f\Vert _{\scriptstyle L^{q(\cdot)}(\partial \Omega)} \leq C \left\{\Vert f\Vert _{\scriptstyle L^{\bar{p}(\cdot)}(\Omega)}+ [f]_{s,p(\cdot,\cdot)} \right\} $$ holds. Here $\bar{p}(x)=p(x,x)$ and $\lbrack f\rbrack_{s,p(\cdot,\cdot)} $ denotes the fractional seminorm with variable exponent, that is given by \[ \lbrack f\rbrack_{s,p(\cdot,\cdot)} := \inf \left\{\lambda >0\colon \int_{\Omega}\int_{\Omega}\frac{|f(x)-f(y)|^{p(x,y)}}{\lambda ^{p(x,y)} |x-y|^{n+sp(x,y)}}dxdy<1\right\} \] and $\Vert f\Vert _{\scriptstyle L^{q(\cdot)}(\partial \Omega)}$ and $\Vert f\Vert _{\scriptstyle L^{\bar{p}(\cdot)}(\Omega)}$ are the usual Lebesgue norms with variable exponent., Comment: 10 pages

In this article we prove that the first eigenvalue of the $\infty-$Laplacian $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{rclcl} \min\{ -\Delta_\infty v,\, |\nabla v|-\lambda_{1, \infty}(\Omega) v \} & = & 0 & \text{in} & \Omega v & = & 0 & \text{on} & \partial \Omega, \end{array} \right. $$ has a unique (up to scalar multiplication) maximal solution. This maximal solution can be obtained as the limit as $\ell \nearrow 1$ of concave problems of the form $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{rclcl} \min\{ -\Delta_\infty v_{\ell},\, |\nabla v_{\ell}|-\lambda_{1, \infty}(\Omega) v_{\ell}^{\ell} \} & = & 0 & \text{in} & \Omega v_{\ell} & = & 0 & \text{on} & \partial \Omega. \end{array} \right. $$ In this way we obtain that the maximal eigenfunction is the unique one that is the limit of the concave problems as happens for the usual eigenvalue problem for the $p-$Laplacian for a fixed $1