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In this paper, we are concerned with the following elliptic equation $$ ( SC_\varepsilon ) \qquad \begin{cases} -\Delta u = |u|^{4/(n-2)}u [\ln (e+|u|)]^\varepsilon & \hbox{ in } \Omega,\\ u = 0 & \hbox{ on }\partial \Omega, \end{cases} $$…

We develop a new, unified approach to the following two classical questions on elliptic PDE: the strong maximum principle for equations with non-Lipschitz nonlinearities, and the at most exponential decay of solutions in the whole space or…

We study the degenerate elliptic equation $-\mathop{\rm div}(|x|^\alpha\nabla u) =f(u)+t\phi(x)+h(x)$ in a bounded open set $\Omega$ with homogeneous Neumann boundary condition, where $\alpha\in(0,2)$ and $f$ has a linear growth. The main…

For a class of systems of semi-linear elliptic equations, including \[ -\Delta u_i=f_i(x,u_i) - \beta u_i\sum_{j\neq i}a_{ij}u_j^p,\qquad i=1,\dots,k, \] for $p=2$ (variational-type interaction) or $p = 1$ (symmetric-type interaction), we…

Let $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\geq 3$) be a $C^2$ bounded domain and $\Sigma \subset \partial\Omega$ be a $C^2$ compact submanifold without boundary, of dimension $k$, $0\leq k \leq N-1$. We assume that $\Sigma = \{0\}$ if $k = 0$ and…

In 1995, D. Jerison and C. Kenig in \cite{JK-1995} considered the the inhomogeneous Dirichlet problem $\Delta u= f$ on $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$ in Lipschitz domains. One of their main results shows that the $W^{1,p}$ estimate…

We describe a new method of proving a priori bounds for positive supersolutions and solutions of superlinear elliptic PDE, based on global weak Harnack inequalities and a quantitative Hopf lemma. Novel results based on the method include:…

We study the {\it Hamiltonian elliptic system} \begin{eqnarray}\label{HS1-abstract} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -\Delta u & = \lambda |v|^{r-1}v +|v|^{p-1}v \qquad &\hbox{in} \ \ \Omega ,\\ -\Delta v & = \mu |u|^{s-1}u +|u|^{q-1}u \qquad…

We consider nonlinear second order elliptic problems of the type \[ -\Delta u=f(u) \text{ in } \Omega, \qquad u=0 \text{ on } \partial \Omega, \] where $\Omega$ is an open $C^{1,1}$-domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 2$, under some general…

In this note we show the existence of at least three nontrivial solutions to the following quasilinear elliptic equation $-\Delta_p u = |u|^{p^*-2}u + \lambda f(x,u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\R^N$ with homogeneous Dirichlet…

We study the critical points of the solution of second elliptic equations in divergence and diagonal form with a bounded and positive definite coefficient, under the assumption that the statement of the Hopf lemma holds (sign assumptions on…

We prove a result of existence of positive solutions of the Dirichlet problem for $-\Delta_p u=\mathrm{w}(x)f(u,\nabla u)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, where $\Delta_p$ is the $p$-Laplacian and $\mathrm{w}$ is a weight…

We prove a multiplicity result for non-constant weak solutions $u \in H^1(\Omega)$ for the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ \begin{cases} \displaystyle-\text{div}(A(x,u)\nabla u) + \frac{1}{2} D_sA(x,u)\nabla u \cdot \nabla u = g(x,u) -…

In this paper, we consider the system $-\Delta u =\lambda (v+1)^p,\;\;-\Delta v = \gamma (u+1)^\theta$ on a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition $u=v=0$ on $\partial \Omega.$ Here $…

In this paper we study quasilinear elliptic systems given by \begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} -\Delta_{p_1}u_1 & =-|u_1|^{p_1-2}u_1 \quad && \text{in } \Omega,\newline -\Delta_{p_2}u_2 & =-|u_2|^{p_2-2}u_2 \quad && \text{in }…

The Stokes resolvent problem $\lambda u - \Delta u + \nabla \phi = f$ with $\mathrm{div}(u) = 0$ subject to homogeneous Dirichlet or homogeneous Neumann-type boundary conditions is investigated. In the first part of the paper we show that…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^{N}$, $N\geq3$ with smooth boundary, $a>0, \lambda>0$ and $0<\delta<3$ be real numbers. Define $2^*:=\displaystyle\frac{2N}{N-2}$ and the characteristic function of a set $A$ by $\chi_A$. We…

We consider the following singularly perturbed elliptic problem \[ - {\varepsilon ^2}\Delta u + u = f(u){\text{ in }}\Omega ,{\text{ }}u > 0{\text{ in }}\Omega ,{\text{ }}u = 0{\text{ on }}\partial \Omega , \] where $\Omega$ is a domain in…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ be a bounded domain and $\delta(x)$ be the distance of a point $x\in \Omega$ to the boundary. We study the positive solutions of the problem $\Delta u +\frac{\mu}{\delta(x)^2}u=u^p$ in $\Omega$, where $p>0,…

We will prove multiplicity results for the mixed local-nonlocal elliptic equation of the form \begin{eqnarray} \begin{split} -\Delta_pu+(-\Delta)_p^s u&=\frac{\lambda}{u^{\gamma}}+u^r \text { in } \Omega, \\u&>0 \text{ in } \Omega,\\u&=0…