Research Articles


    Here you can find the articles of my research, in order of completion. All manuscripts are available for free.
    Note that, for some of them, the pdf version has typos corrected and improvements implemented.
    If you find any mistake, have questions about them, or want to discuss, please feel free to contact me.

    [26] R. Cristoferi, L. Pignatelli - Phase separation in multiply periodic materials with fine microstructures
                 Submitted (2025)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv)

    [25] R. Cristoferi, L. D'Elia - First-order homogenization
                 To appear on Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section A: Mathematics (2026)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv)

    [24] R. Cristoferi, G. Fissore, M. Morandotti - Geometrically constrained walls in three dimensions
                 Advances in Mathematical Sciences and Applications, 35-1 (2026)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [23] R. Cristoferi, R. Ferreira, I. Fonseca, J. A. Iglesias - Monotonicity of the jump set and jump amplitudes in one-dimensional TV denoising
                 Journal of Nonlinear Science, 36-13 (2026)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [22] M. Bonacini, R. Cristoferi, I. Topaloglu - A stability inequality for the planar lens partition
                 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section A: Mathematics, 1-34 (2025)- Open Access
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [21] R. Cristoferi, G. Fissore - Two dimensional graph model for epitaxial crystal growth with adatoms
                Advances in Calculus of Variations (2025) - Open access
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [20] R. Cristoferi, M.G. Mora, L. Scardia - Shape optimisation for nonlocal anisotropic energies
                Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 49-9, pp. 780-804 (2024)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [19] R. Cristoferi, I. Fonseca, L. Ganedi - Homogenization and phase separation with fixed wells - The supercritical case
                SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 57-2 (2025)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [18] M. Bonacini, R. Cristoferi, I. Topaloglu - Stability of the ball for attractive-repulsive energies
                SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 56-1, p.588-615 (2024)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [17] R. Cristoferi, I. Fonseca, L. Ganedi - Homogenization and phase separation with space dependent wells - The subcritical case
                Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 247 - Article number: 94 (2023) - Open access
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [16] M. Bonacini, R. Cristoferi - Area quasi-minimizing partitions with a graphical constraint: relaxation and two-dimensional partial regularity
                Journal of Nonlinear Science, 32, Article Number: 93 (2022) - Open Access
                 (pdf - extended version) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [15] R. Cristoferi, I. Fonseca, R. Venkatraman - Phase separation in heterogeneous media
                Special AWM series volume Research in the Mathematics of Materials Science, 31 (2022), pp 367-382
                 (pdf) (link to article)

    [14] M. Bonacini, R. Cristoferi, I. Topaloglu - Riesz-type inequalities and overdetermined problems for triangles and quadrilaterals
                The Journal of Geometric Analysis, 32, Article number: 48 (2022)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [13] D. Bourne, R. Cristoferi - Asymptotic optimality of the triangular lattice for a class of optimal location problems
                Communications in Mathematical Physics, 387-3, pp. 1549-1602 (2021) - Open Access
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [12] R. Cristoferi, G. Gravina - On the relaxation of functionals with contact terms on non-smooth domains
                Indiana University Mathematical Journal 72 (2023), pp. 197-238
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [11] R. Cristoferi, G. Gravina - Sharp interface limit of a multi-phase transition model under non-isothermal conditions
                Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 60, Article number: 142 (2021) - Open Access
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [10] M. Bonacini, R. Cristoferi, I. Topaloglu - Minimality of polytopes in a nonlocal anisotropic isoperimetric problem
                Nonlinear Analysis, 205 (2021)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [9] R. Cristoferi - Exact solutions for the denoising problem of piecewise constant images in dimension one
                Journal of Applied Analysis, 27-1 (2020), pp. 13-33 - Open Access
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [8] M. Caroccia, R. Cristoferi - On the Gamma convergence of functionals defined over pairs of measures and energy-measures
                Journal of Nonlinear Science, 30-4 (2020), pp. 1723-1769 - Open Access
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [7] R. Cristoferi, M. Thorpe - Large data limit for a phase transition model with the p-Laplacian on point clouds
                 European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 31-2, (2020), pp. 185-231
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [6] R. Cristoferi, I. Fonseca, A. Hagerty, C. Popovici - A homogenization result in the gradient theory of phase transitions
                Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 21-3 (2019), pp. 367-408
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [5] R. Cristoferi, I. Fonseca - Piecewise constant reconstruction of damaged color images
                ESAIM: COCV, 25-37 (2019)
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [4] M. Caroccia, R. Cristoferi, L. Dietrich - Equilibria configurations for epitaxial crystal growth with adatoms
                Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 230-3 (2018), pp. 785-838
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [3] R. Cristoferi - On periodic critical points and local minimizers of the Ohta-Kawasaki functional
                Nonlinear Analysis, 168 (2018), pp. 81-109
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [2] R. Cristoferi - A second order local minimality criterion for the triple junction singularity of the Mumford-Shah functional
                 ESAIM: COCV, 24-1 (2018), pp. 401-435
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

    [1] M. Bonacini, R. Cristoferi - Local and global minimality results for a nonlocal isoperimetric problem on \mathbb{R}^N
                SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 46-4 (2014), pp. 2310-2349
                 (pdf) (ArXiv) (link to article)

Reports and proceedings


    [3] R. Cristoferi - Phase separation in heterogeneous media
                Calculus of Variations. Oberwolfach Reports - Organized by: Lia Bronsard, László Székelyhidi, Yoshihiro Tonegawa, Tatiana Toro (2022)
                 (pdf)

    [2] R. Cristoferi - Clustering of Big Data: consistency of a nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau type model
                Rendiconti Sem. Mat. Univ. Pol. Torino, 77-2 (2019), pp. 7–31 - Open Access
                 (pdf) (link to article)

    [1] M. Bonacini, R. Cristoferi - Local and global minimality results for a nonlocal isoperimetric problem on \mathbb{R}^N
                Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni, 27-1 (2016), pp. 37-50
                 (link to article)

Review Articles


    [1] M. Bonacini, R. Cristoferi, I. Topaloglu - Alexandrov's Soap Bubble Theorem for Polygons
                 The American Mathematical Monthly, 1–10 (2025)
                 (ArXiv) (link to article)