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We consider solutions of the competitive elliptic system \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u_i = - \sum_{j \neq i} u_i u_j^2 & \text{in $\mathbb{R}^N$} \\ u_i >0 & \text{in $\mathbb{R}^N$} \end{array}\right. \qquad i=1,\dots,k. \] We are…

We study quasilinear elliptic equations of the form $\text{div} \mathbf{A}(x,u,\nabla u) = \text{div}\mathbf{F} $ in bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 1$. The vector field $\mathbf{A}$ is allowed to be discontinuous in $x$,…

We consider the elliptic quasilinear equation --$\Delta$ m u = u p |$\nabla$u| q in R N with q $\ge$ m and p > 0, 1 < m < N. Our main result is a Liouville-type property, namely, all the positive C 1 solutions in R N are constant. We also…

We prove that the Dirichlet problem for degenerate elliptic equations $\mathrm{div}(A \nabla u) = 0$ in the upper half-space $(x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+$ is solvable when $n\geq2$ and the boundary data is in $L^p_\mu(\mathbb{R}^n)$ for…

We prove convergence of positive solutions to \[ u_t = u\Delta u + u\int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|^2, \qquad u\rvert_{\partial\Omega} =0, \qquad u(\cdot,0)=u_0 \] in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 1$, with smooth boundary in…

Consider the KPP-type equation of the form $\Delta u+f(u)=0$, where $f:[0,1] \to \mathbb R_{+}$ is a concave function. We prove for arbitrary dimensions that there is no solution bounded in $(0,1)$. The significance of this result from the…

A new variational approach to solve the problem of estimating the (possibly discontinuous) coefficient functions $p$, $q$ and $f$ in elliptic equations of the form $-\nabla \cdot (p(x)\nabla u) + \lambda q(x) u = f$, $x \in \Omega \subset…

We study the behavior of weak solutions to the singular quasilinear elliptic problem $-\Delta_p u + \vartheta |\nabla u|^q = \frac{1}{u^\gamma} + f(u)$, in a bounded domain with the Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$, $\gamma>0$,…

We consider the boundary value problem \begin{equation*} - \Delta u = \lambda c(x)u+ \mu(x) |\nabla u|^2 + h(x), \quad u \in H^1_0(\Omega) \cap L^{\infty}(\Omega) \eqno{(P_{\lambda})} \end{equation*} where $\Omega \subset \R^N, N \geq 3$ is…

We examine the equation given by \begin{equation} \label{eq_abstract} -\Delta u + a(x) \cdot \nabla u = u^p \qquad \mbox{in $ \IR^N$,} \end{equation} where $p>1$ and $ a(x)$ is a smooth vector field satisfying some decay conditions. We show…

We obtain the inequality $$\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u(x)|^ph(u(x))dx\leq C(n,p)\int_{\Omega} \left( \sqrt{ |\Delta u(x)||{\cal T}_{h,C}(u(x))|}\right)^{p}h(u(x))dx,$$ where $\Omega\subset \mathbf{R}^n$ is a bounded Lipschitz domain, $u\in…

In this article, we study the following problem $$-{\rm div} (\omega(x)|\nabla u|^{N-2} \nabla u) = \lambda\ f(x,u) \quad\mbox{ in }\quad B, \quad u=0 \quad\mbox{ on } \quad\partial B,$$ where $B$ is the unit ball of $\mathbb{R^{N}}$,…

We consider non linear elliptic equations of the form $\Delta u = f(u,\nabla u)$ for suitable analytic nonlinearity $f$, in the vinicity of infinity in $\mathbb{R}^d$, that is on the complement of a compact set.We show that there is a…

Our purpose is to find positive solutions $u \in D^{1,2}(\rz^N)$ of the semilinear elliptic problem $-\laplace u - \lambda V(x) u = h(x) u^{p-1}$ for $2<p$. The functions $V$ and $h$ may have an indefinite sign and the linearized operator…

In this paper we establish a new existence result for the quasilinear elliptic problem \[ -{\rm div}(A(x,u)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u) +\frac1p A_t(x,u)|\nabla u|^p + V(x)|u|^{p-2} u = g(x,u)\quad\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^N, \] with $N\ge 2$,…

We consider quasilinear elliptic problems of the form \[ -\operatorname{div}\big(\phi(|\nabla u|)\nabla u\big)+V(x)\phi (|u|)u=f(u)\qquad u\in W^{1,\Phi}(\mathbb{R}^{N}), \] where $\phi$ and $f$ satisfy suitable conditions. The positive…

We study a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. More precisely, $$ u_t=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla (-\Delta)^{-s}u), \quad \ 0<s<1. $$ The problem is posed in $\{x\in\ren, t\in…

We consider the Robin boundary value problem $\mathrm{div} (A \nabla u) = \mathrm{div} \mathbf{f}+F$ in $\Omega$, $\mathcal{C}^1$ domain, with $(A \nabla u - \mathbf{f})\cdot \mathbf{n} + \alpha u = g$ on $\Gamma$, where the matrix $A$…

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a positive solution with zero boundary values to the elliptic equation \[ \mathcal{L}u = \sigma u^{q} + \mu \quad \text{in} \;\; \Omega, \] in the sublinear case $0<q<1$, with…

We establish a new $W^{1,2\frac{n-1}{n-2}}$ estimate for the extremal solution of $-\Delta u=\lambda f(u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, which is convex, for arbitrary positive and increasing nonlinearities $f\in…