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most citedDimension reduction via Gamma-convergence for soft active materials

21 citations · 39 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

math.AP2026

-Laplace Serrin problem on planar annuli

Virginia Agostiniani, Chiara Bernardini

We prove a rigidity result for the problem defined on a ring-shaped domain in , when homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed and .…

math.AP2026

Estimates for the p-Green function near the pole

Stefano Borghini, Virginia Agostiniani

We study the asymptotic expansion of p-Green functions and their derivatives near the pole. In the Euclidean setting, we strengthen a theorem from [arXiv:2203.01206] by establishin…

math.DG2026

Riemannian Penrose Inequality for Manifolds with Corners via Non-Linear Potential Theory

Virginia Agostiniani, Christina Karapiperi, Lorenzo Mazzieri

We present a new proof of the Positive Mass Theorem and the Riemannian Penrose Inequality for three-dimensional asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds whose metrics fail to be $C…

math.DG2026

Mass-type invariants in the presence of a cosmological constant

Virginia Agostiniani, Stefano Borghini, Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper, we introduce a new family of mass-type invariants for time-symmetric initial data in space-times satisfying the Dominant Energy Condition. For positive cosmological…

math.AP2026

Singularly Perturbed Gradient Flows and Evolution of Critical Points in Infinite Dimensions

Virginia Agostiniani, Riccarda Rossi, Giuseppe Savaré

We consider singularly perturbed gradient flows in Hilbert spaces, driven by a time-dependent, nonconvex, and nonsmooth energy, and address the convergence of their solutions to cu…

math.AP2025

On the Serrin problem for ring-shaped domains: the -dimensional case

Virginia Agostiniani, Chiara Bernardini, Stefano Borghini +1

We provide several characterizations of ring-shaped rotationally symmetric solutions to the Serrin problem in arbitrary dimensions.

math.DG2022★ 6 cited

Riemannian Penrose inequality via Nonlinear Potential Theory

Virginia Agostiniani, Carlo Mantegazza, Lorenzo Mazzieri +1

We provide a new proof of the Riemannian Penrose inequality for time-symmetric asymptotically flat initial data with a single black-hole horizon. The proof proceeds through a newly…

math.AP2021★ 1 cited

On the Serrin problem for ring-shaped domains

Virginia Agostiniani, Stefano Borghini, Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper, we deal with the long standing open problem of characterising rotationally symmetric solutions to , when Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed on a ring…

math.DG2021★ 9 cited

A Green's function proof of the Positive Mass Theorem

V. Agostiniani, L. Mazzieri, F. Oronzio

In this paper, a new proof of the Positive Mass Theorem is established through a newly discovered monotonicity formula, holding along the level sets of the Green's function of an a…

math.AP2020

A geometric capacitary inequality for sub-static manifolds with harmonic potentials

Virginia Agostiniani, Lorenzo Mazzieri, Francesca Oronzio

In this paper, we prove that associated with a sub-static asymptotically flat manifold endowed with a harmonic potential there is a one-parameter family of functions whic…

math.AP2019

Minkowski Inequalities via Nonlinear Potential Theory

Virginia Agostiniani, Mattia Fogagnolo, Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper, we prove an extended version of the Minkowski Inequality, holding for any smooth bounded set , . Our proof relies on the discovery of…

math.DG2018

Sharp geometric inequalities for closed hypersurfaces in manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature

Virginia Agostiniani, Mattia Fogagnolo, Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper we consider complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and Euclidean volume growth, of dimension . We prove a sharp…

math.AP2017

Heterogeneous elastic plates with in-plane modulation of the target curvature and applications to thin gel sheets

Virginia Agostiniani, Alessandro Lucantonio, Danka Lučić

We rigorously derive a Kirchhoff plate theory, via -convergence, from a three-di\-men\-sio\-nal model that describes the finite elasticity of an elastically heterogeneous, thin…

math.AP2017★ 21 cited

Dimension reduction via Gamma-convergence for soft active materials

Virginia Agostiniani, Antonio DeSimone

We present a rigorous derivation of dimensionally reduced theories for thin sheets of nematic elastomers, in the finite bending regime. Focusing on the case of twist nematic textur…

math.AP2016

Singular vanishing-viscosity limits of gradient flows: the finite-dimensional case

Virginia Agostiniani, Riccarda Rossi

In this note we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow set in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and driven by a smooth, but possibly non convex, time-depe…

math.AP2016

Monotonicity formulas in potential theory

Virginia Agostiniani, Lorenzo Mazzieri

Using the electrostatic potential due to a uniformly charged body , , we introduce a family of monotone quantities associated with the level set f…

math.AP2016

Shape programming for narrow ribbons of nematic elastomers

Virginia Agostiniani, Antonio DeSimone, Konstantinos Koumatos

Using the theory of -convergence, we derive from three-dimensional elasticity new one-dimensional models for non-Euclidean elastic ribbons, i.e. ribbons exhibiting spontaneous c…

math.AP2015

Rigorous derivation of active plate models for thin sheets of nematic elastomers

Virginia Agostiniani, Antonio DeSimone

In the context of finite elasticity, we propose plate models describing the spontaneous bending of nematic elastomer thin films due to variations along the thickness of the nematic…

math.AP2015

On the geometry of the level sets of bounded static potentials

Virginia Agostiniani, Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper we present a new approach to the study of asymptotically flat static metrics arising in general relativity. In the case where the static potential is bounded, we intr…

math.AP2014

Riemannian aspects of potential theory

Virginia Agostiniani, Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper we provide a new method for establishing the rotational symmetry of the solutions to a couple of very classical overdetermined problems arising in potential theory, i…

math.AP2013

On the transversality conditions and their genericity

Virginia Agostiniani, Riccarda Rossi, Giuseppe Savaré

In this note we review some results on the transversality conditions for a smooth Fredholm map between two Banach spaces . These conditions are well-…

math.AP2013★ 1 cited

Attainment results for nematic elastomers

V. Agostiniani, G. Dal Maso, A. DeSimone

We consider a class of non-quasiconvex frame indifferent energy densities which includes Ogden-type energy densities for nematic elastomers. For the corresponding geometrically lin…

math.AP2013

From nonlinear to linearized elasticity via Gamma-convergence: the case of multiwell energies satisfying weak coercivity conditions

Virginia Agostiniani, Timothy Blass, Konstantinos Koumatos

Linearized elasticity models are derived, via Gamma-convergence, from suitably rescaled nonlinear energies when the corresponding energy densities have a multiwell structure and sa…

math.AP2010

Stability in an overdetermined problem for the Green's function

Virginia Agostiniani, Rolando Magnanini

In the plane, we consider the problem of reconstructing a domain from the normal derivative of its Green's function (with fixed pole) relative to the Dirichlet problem for the Lapl…