Fields of interest.

Partial differential equations: fully nonlinear
equations, elliptic p.d.e. on nonregular domains, subelliptic operators,
Schwarz symmetrization, variational inequalities.
Free boundary problems: regularity of the free boundary.
Isoperimetric inequalities: relative isoperimetric inequalities, curvature measures and quermassintegrals.
 

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CURRICULUM

Meetings:

INDAM SCHOOL ON SYMMETRY FOR ELLIPTIC PDEs, Roma, May 25-29, 2009

SEMINARI DI ANALISI MATEMATICA, giornata in ricordo di Bruno Pini  Bologna 27 Novembre 2009

MATHEMATICS & APPLICATIONS,  Milan, January 11, 2010 and  Cagliari, June 3-5, 2010

SEMINARI DI ANALISI MATEMATICA, giornata in ricordo di Bruno Pini  Bologna 26 Novembre 2010

Some recent papers:

F. Ferrari, S.Salsa,  Regularity of the solutions for parabolic two-phase free  boundary problems,  accettato per la pubblicazione, apparirà in Communications in Part. Diff. Equations.

I. Birindelli, F. Ferrari, E. Valdinoci, Semilinear PDEs
in the Heisenberg group: the role of the right invariant vector fields, accettato per la pubblicazione apparirà in Nonlinear Analysis Series A: Theory, Methods & Applications (in corso di stampa apparirà nel numero 72, 987--997 (2010)); doi:10.1016/j.na.2009.07.039

Fausto Ferrari, Enrico Valdinoci,
A geometric inequality in the Heisenberg group and its applications to stable solutions of semilinear problems,
to appear in Math. Ann., avalaible on line  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00208-008-0274-8

Nicola Arcozzi, Fausto Ferrari,
The Hessian of the distance from a surface in the Heisenberg group , Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ Mathematica, 33, 35-63 (2008).

Fausto Ferrari, Bruno Franchi, Hervé Pajot,
The Geometric Traveling Salesman Theorem in the Heisenberg group,   Revista Mathematica Iberoamericana, Volume 23, Number 2, 437-480 (2007).

Fausto Ferrari, Sandro Salsa,
Regularity of the free boundary in two-phase Problems  for linear elliptic operators, Advances in Mathematics 214, 288-322, (2007)  .

Fausto Ferrari, A Steiner formula in the Heisenberg group, (preprint 2006)

Nicola Arcozzi, Fausto Ferrari,
Metric normal and distance function in the  Heisenberg group (Received: 11 March 2005  Accepted: 9 September 2006  Published online: 6 January 2007 in Mathematische Zeitschrift), Volume 256,3,
661-684 (2007)

Fausto Ferrari,
Two-phase problems for a class of fully nonlinear elliptic operators. Lipschitz free boundaries are $C^{1,\gamma}$,   American Journal of Mathematics 128, 3, 541--571 (2006)

Fausto Ferrari, Sandro Salsa,
Subsolutions of elliptic operators in divergence form and application to two-phase free boundary problems, Bound. Value Probl. 2007, Art. ID 57049, 21 pp.

Fausto Ferrari, Bruno Franchi, Hervé Pajot,
The Geometric Traveling Salesman Theorem in the Heisenberg group, (Prépublication de L'INSTITUT FOURIER Université de Grenoble I, CNRS, n. 667, Anneé 2005), accepted paper, to appear in Revista Mathematica Iberoamericana.

Fausto Ferrari, Bruno Franchi, Guozhen Lu,
On a relative Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalitiy for convex bodies in Euclidean spaces,   Forum Mathematicum 18, 907-921 (2006)

Fausto Ferrari,
Harnack inequality for two-weight subelliptic p-Laplace operators,   Mathematische Nachrichten, Vol 279, 8,  815-830  (2006)

M. Cristina Cerutti, Fausto Ferrari, Sandro Salsa,
Two phase problems for linear elliptic operators with variable coefficients: Lipschitz free boundaries are C^{1,\gamma},
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Vol 171, n.3, pp. 329 - 348 (2004)

Fausto Ferrari, Bruno Franchi,
A local doubling formula for the harmonic measure associated with subelliptic operators and applications,
Communication in Partial Differential Equations, vol 28 (1,2) 1-60 ( 2003).
 

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