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We establish uniform a-priori estimates for solutions of the semilinear Dirichlet problem \begin{equation} \begin{cases} (-\Delta)^m u=h(x,u)\quad&\mbox{in }\Omega,\\ u=\partial_nu=\cdots=\partial_n^{m-1}u=0\quad&\mbox{on }\partial\Omega,…

Let $\Omega$ be an open, simply connected, and bounded region in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, and assume its boundary $\partial\Omega$ is smooth. Consider solving the eigenvalue problem $Lu=\lambda u$ for an elliptic partial differential…

We deal with existence, uniqueness and regularity of nonnegative solutions to a Dirichlet problem for equations as \begin{equation*} \displaystyle -\operatorname{div}\left(\frac{|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u}{(1+u)^{\theta(p-1)}}\right) = h(u)f…

A doubly nonlinear parabolic equation of the form $\alpha(u_t)-\Delta u+W'(u)= f$, complemented with initial and either Dirichlet or Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions, is addressed. The two nonlinearities are given by the maximal…

We prove the existence, uniqueness, and sharp bilateral pointwise estimates for positive bounded solutions to the Lane--Emden type problem \[ \begin{cases} L u = \sum\limits_{i=1}^{m}\sigma_{i} u^{q_{i}}+\sigma_0, \quad u\geq0 & \text{in }…

In this paper we prove some existence and regularity results concerning parabolic equations dtu = F(D u, D2 u) + f(x,u) with some boundary conditions, on Omega times ]0,T[, where Omega is some bounded domain which possesses the cone…

We study the zero Dirichlet problem for the equation $-\Delta_p u -\Delta_q u = \alpha |u|^{p-2}u+\beta |u|^{q-2}u$ in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, with $1<q<p$. We investigate the relation between two critical curves on…

We investigate strong maximum (and minimum) principles for fully nonlinear second order equations on Riemannian manifolds that are non-totally degenerate and satisfy appropriate scaling conditions. Our results apply to a large class of…

In this paper, we study the existence of nontrivial solutions of the Dirichlet boundary value problem for the following elliptic system: \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -\Delta u & = au + bv + f(x,u,v); &\quad\mbox{ for…

We investigate the positive solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation \begin{align*} \sum^{N}_{i=1}\left(-\partial_{ii}\right)^{s}u=u^{p} \end{align*} with one-dimensional symmetric $2s$-stable operators. Firstly, in the whole space…

Consider a complete $d$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal M,g)$, a point $p\in\mathcal M$ and a nonlinearity $f(q,u)$ with $f(p,0)>0$. We prove that for any odd integer $N\ge3$, there exists a sequence of smooth domains…

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 study positive solutions of the Dirichlet problem $-\Delta u = u^p$ in a uniformly convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb S^2$, $u= 0$ on $\partial\Omega.$ For $p=1$, we assume that the right-hand side is replaced by $\lambda_1 u$, where…

We study the semilinear elliptic equation $\Delta u + g(x,u,Du) = 0$ in $\R^n$. The nonlinearities $g$ can have arbitrary growth in $u$ and $Du$, including in particular the exponential behavior. No restriction is imposed on the behavior of…

We consider the nonlinear problem \[(P) \;\; I u=f(x,u) \text{ in $\Omega$,} \;\; u=0 \text{ on $\mathbb{R}^{N}\setminus\Omega$ }\] in an open bounded set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, where $I$ is a nonlocal operator which may be…

In this paper we prove existence of nonnegative solutions to parabolic Cauchy-Dirichlet problems with superlinear gradient terms which are possibly singular. The model equation is \[ u_t - \Delta_pu=g(u)|\nabla u|^q+h(u)f(t,x)\qquad…

We investigate the existence of a curve $q\mapsto u_{q}$, with $q\in(0,1)$, of positive solutions for the problem $(P_{a,q})$: $-\Delta u=a(x)u^{q}$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded and smooth domain of…

We investigate symmetry properties of positive solutions for fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic systems, such as $$ F_i \,(x,Du_i,D^2u_i) +f_i \,(x,u_1, \ldots , u_n,Du_i)=0, \;\; 1 \leq i \leq n, $$ in a bounded domain $\Omega$ in…

In this paper we show the existence of two principal eigenvalues associated to general non-convex fully nonlinear elliptic operators with Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded $C^2$ domain. We study these objects and we establish some of…

We obtained estimates for first eigenvalues of the Dirichlet boundary value problem for elliptic operators in divergence form (i.e. for the principal frequency of non-homogeneous membranes) in bounded domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb C$…