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We consider weak distributional solutions to the equation $-\Delta_pu=f(u)$ in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We assume that the nonlinearity is positive and superlinear at zero. For $p>2$ (the case $1<p\leq2$ is…

We prove comparison, uniqueness and existence results for viscosity solutions to a wide class of fully nonlinear second order partial differential equations $F(x, u, du, d^{2}u)=0$ defined on a finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$.…

In this paper we deal with the equation \[-\Delta_p u+|u|^{p-2}u=|u|^{q-2}u\] for $1<p<2$ and $q>p$, under Neumann boundary conditions in the unit ball of $\mathbb R^N$. We focus on the three positive, radial, and radially non-decreasing…

We establish theorems on the existence and compactness of solutions to the $\sigma_2$-Nirenberg problem on the standard sphere $\mathbb S^2$. A first significant ingredient, a Liouville type theorem for the associated fully nonlinear…

Let $(M,g)$ and $(K,\kappa)$ be two Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $m$ and $k ,$ respectively. Let $\omega\in C^2(N),$ $\omega> 0.$ The warped product $ M\times _\omega K$ is the $ (m+k)$-dimensional product manifold $M\times K$…

General properties of a class of two-dimensional dilaton gravity (DG) theories with multi-exponential potentials are studied and a subclass of these theories, in which the equations of motion reduce to Toda and Liouville equations, is…

We investigate the nonexistence and existence of nontrivial positive solutions to $\Delta_m u+u^p|\nabla u|^q\leq0$ on noncompact geodesically complete Riemannian manifolds, where $m>1$, and $(p,q)\in \mathbb{R}^2$. According to…

In this paper we consider the gradient estimates on positive solutions to the following elliptic equation defined on a complete Riemannian manifold $(M,\,g)$: $$\Delta v+v^r-v^s= 0,$$ where $r$ and $s$ are two real constants. When$(M,\,g)$…

We prove a Liouville theorem for ancient solutions to the supercritical Fujita equation \[\partial_tu-\Delta u=|u|^{p-1}u, \quad -\infty <t<0, \quad p>\frac{n+2}{n-2},\] which says if $u$ is close to the ODE solution…

We study radial symmetry of large solutions of the semi-linear elliptic problem \Delta u + \nabla h.\nabla u = f(|x|,u), and we provide sharp conditions under which the problem has a radial solution. The result is independent of the rate of…

We consider the defocusing, energy subcritical wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = -|u|^{p-1} u$ in 4 to 6 dimensional spaces with radial initial data. We define $w=r^{(d-1)/2} u$, reduce the equation above to one-dimensional…

We study the local H\"older regularity of strong solutions $u$ of second-order uniformly elliptic equations having a gradient term with superquadratic growth $\gamma > 2$, and right-hand side in a Lebesgue space $L^q$. When $q >…

We establish existence and qualitative properties of saddle-shaped solutions of the elliptic fractional equation $(-\Delta)^{1/2}u=f(u)$ in all the space $\re^{2m}$, where $f$ is of bistable type. These solutions are odd with respect to the…

We examine the weighted elliptic system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u=(1+|x|^2)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} v,\\ -\Delta v=(1+|x|^2)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} u^p, \end{cases} \quad \mbox{in}\;\ \mathbb{R}^N, \end{equation*}where $N \ge 5$,…

We prove that all positive solutions of $-\Delta u = u^{\frac{2n}{n-2}}$ on the upper half space $\mathbb{R}^n_{+}$ (for $n \geq 3$) satisfying the boundary condition $D_{x_n}u = -u^{\frac{n}{n-2}}$ are of the form $u(x) = a \left(…

For a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold (M,g) of dimension $N \geg 3$, we are interested in the critical equation $$\Delta_g u+(N-2/4(N-1) S_g+\epsilon h)u=u^{N+2/N-2} in M, u>0 in M,$$ where \Delta_g is the Laplace--Beltrami operator,…

We show that if $u$ is a solution to a linear elliptic differential equation of order $2m\geq 2$ in the half-space with $t$-independent coefficients, and if $u$ satisfies certain area integral estimates, then the Dirichlet and Neumann…

In this paper, we investigate the following curvature equation: \begin{equation} \Delta u+e^{u}=8\pi (\delta _{0}+\delta _{\frac{\omega _{k}}{2}})\text{ in } E_{\tau }\text{, }\tau \in \mathbb{H} (0.1) \label{a} \end{equation} Here $E_{\tau…

We introduce an iterative scheme to solve the Yamabe equation $ - a\Delta_{g} u + S u = \lambda u^{p-1} $ on small domains $(\Omega,g)\subset {\mathbb R}^n$ equipped with a Riemannian metric $g$. Thus $g$ admits a conformal change to a…

We prove that if an orientable 3-manifold $M$ admits a complete Riemannian metric whose scalar curvature is positive and has at most $C$-quadratic decay at infinity for some $C > \frac{2}{3}$, then it decomposes as a (possibly infinite)…