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In this paper, we prove some qualitative properties for the positive solutions to some degenerate elliptic equation given by \[-\operatorname{div}(w|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=f(x,u);\;\;w\in \mathcal{A}_p\] on smooth domain and for varying…

In this paper we study the problem $-\mathrm{div}(\rho(x_N)\nabla u)=a|u|^{p-2}u$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$, $-\partial u/\partial x_N=b|u|^{q-2}u$ in $\mathbb{R}^{N-1}$ where $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$, $p,q\in (1,\infty)$ and $\rho$ is a positive…

In this paper, under very general assumptions, we prove existence and regularity of distributional solutions to homogeneous Dirichlet problems of the form $$\begin{cases} \displaystyle - \Delta_{1} u = h(u)f & \text{in}\, \Omega,\newline…

We construct functions $u: \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{C}$ that satisfy an elliptic eigenvalue equation of the form $-\Delta u + W \cdot \nabla u + V u = \lambda u$, where $\lambda \in \mathbb{C}$, and $V$ and $W$ satisfy $|V(x)| \lesssim…

Let $L$ be a second order elliptic operator $L$ with smooth coefficients defined on a domain $\Omega $ in $\mathbb{R}^d $, $d\geq3$, such that $L1\leq 0$. We study existence and properties of continuous solutions to the following problem…

We consider solutions $u\in W^{1,p}\big(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^{N}\big)$ of the $p$-Laplacian PDE \begin{equation} \nabla\cdot\big(a(x)|Du|^{p-2}Du\big)=0,\notag \end{equation} for $x\in\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n}$, where $\Omega$ is open and…

The present paper commences the study of higher order differential equations in composition form. Specifically, we consider the equation Lu=\Div B^*\nabla(a\Div A\nabla u)=0, where A and B are elliptic matrices with complex-valued bounded…

We prove existence and nonexistence results concerning elliptic problems whose basic model is \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle-\Delta u+\mu(x)\frac{|\nabla u|^2}{(u+\delta)^\gamma}= \lambda u^p, &x\in \Omega, \\ u> 0, &x\in…

We prove a priori estimates for solutions of order $2$ linear elliptic PDEs in divergence form on subanalytic domains. More precisely, we study the solutions of a strongly elliptic equation $Lu=f$, with $f\in L^2(\mathcal{\Omega})$ and…

We show that Lipschitz solutions $u$ of $\mathrm{div}\, G(\nabla u)=0$ in $B_1\subset\mathbb R^2$ are $C^1$, for strictly monotone vector fields $G\in C^0(\mathbb R^2;\mathbb R^2)$ satisfying a mild ellipticity condition. If $G=\nabla F$…

In this article we consider a special type of degenerate elliptic partial differential equations of second order in convex domains that satisfy the interior sphere condition. We show that any positive viscosity solution $u$ of $-|\nabla…

We study the problem of the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions to a superlinear second-order divergence type elliptic equation with measurable coefficients $(*)$: $-\nabla\cdot a\cdot\nabla u=u^p$ in an unbounded cone--like…

Let $L $ be a second order elliptic operator with smooth coefficients defined on a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ (possibly unbounded), $d\geq 3$. We study nonnegative continuous solutions $u$ to the equation $L u(x) - \varphi (x,…

We investigate the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for the quasilinear elliptic inequality $L_\mathcal{A} u= -{\rm div}[\mathcal{A}(x, u, \nabla u)]\geq (I_\alpha\ast u^p)u^q$ in $\Omega$, where $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N,…

We consider a class of semilinear elliptic system of the form $-\Delta u(x,y)+\nabla W(u(x,y))=0,\quad (x,y)\in\R^{2}$ where $W:\R^{2}\to\R$ is a double well non negative symmetric potential. We show, via variational methods, that if the…

In this article, we prove the existence of solutions to a nonlinear nonlocal elliptic problem with a singualrity and a discontinuous critical nonlinearity which is given as follows. \begin{align} \begin{split}\label{main_prob}…

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…

In this paper we present some non existence results concerning the stable solutions to the equation $$\operatorname{div}(w(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=g(x)f(u)\;\;\mbox{in}\;\;\mathbb{R}^N;\;\;p\geq 2$$ when $f(u)$ is either…

In the present paper we prove existence results for solutions to nonlinear elliptic Neumann problems whose prototype is \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta_{p} u -\text{div} (c(x)|u|^{p-2}u)) =f & \text{in}\ \Omega, \\ \left( |\nabla…

A theorem on the solutions of the problem $U'(w)=\gamma F(U(w),w),\ U(w_1)=u_2,\ U(w_2)=u_2$ is applied for finding the functional solutions of the system of partial differential equations \begin{equation} \nabla\cdot(a(u,w)\nabla u)=0,\…