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In this paper we present an elementary theory about the existence of eigenvalues for fully nonlinear radially symmetric 1-homogeneous operators. A general theory for first eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of 1-homogeneous fully nonlinear…
We establish the interior $C^{1,\alpha}$-estimate for viscosity solutions of degenerate/singular fully nonlinear parabolic equations $$u_t = |Du|^{\gamma}F(D^2u) + f.$$ For this purpose, we prove the well-posedness of the regularized…
Given $\Omega$ a bounded open subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$, we consider nonnegative solutions to the singular semilinear elliptic equation $-\Delta\,u\,=\,\frac{f}{u^{\beta}}$ in $H^1_{loc}(\Omega)$, under zero Dirichlet boundary conditions.…
We study the uniqueness problem of $\sigma$-regular solution of the equation, $$-\Delta_p u+ \abs u^{q-1}u =h \quad on\quad \RN, $$ where $q>p-1>0.$ and $N> p.$ Other coercive type equations associated to more general differential operators…
We prove the interior $C^{1,1}$ regularity of the indirect utilities which solve a subclass of principal-agent problems originally considered by Figalli, Kim, and McCann. Our approach is based on construction of a suitable comparison…
We study the boundary regularity of solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the nonlocal operator with a kernel of variable orders. Since the order of differentiability of the kernel is not represented by a single number, we consider the…
We show the $L^r(\mathbb{R}^d, \mu)$-uniqueness for any $r \in (1, 2]$ and the essential self-adjointness of a Dirichlet operator $Lf = \Delta f +\langle \frac{1}{\rho}\nabla \rho , \nabla f \rangle$, $f \in C_0^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ with…
We establish $C^{1,1}$-regularity and uniqueness of the first eigenfunction of the complex Hessian operator on strongly $m$-pseudoconvex manifolds, along with a variational formula for the first eigenvalue. From these results, we derive a…
We establish some existence and regularity results to the Dirichlet problem, for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations involving a partial differential operator, depending on the gradient of the solution. Our results are formulated in…
For a non-local semilinear eigenvalue problem, we prove simplicity and isolation of the first eigenvalue with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on open sets supporting a suitable compact Sobolev embedding.
In this paper, we deal with the initial value problem for a class of fully nonlinear parabolic equations with a singular Dirichlet boundary condition in one space dimension. The interior equation includes, for example, a fully nonlinear…
This paper is devoted to the proof of the existence of the principal eigenvalue and related eigenfunctions for fully nonlinear degenerate or singular uniformly elliptic equations posed in a punctured ball, in presence of a singular…
The existence and multiplicity of positive periodic solutions for first non-autonomous singular systems are established with superlinearity or sublinearity assumptions at infinity for an appropriately chosen parameter. The proof of our…
We address the self-similar solvability of a singular parabolic problem and show that solutions to parabolic fully nonlinear equations are not expected to be $C^{2,1}$.
We consider nonconstant periodic constrained minimizers of semilinear elliptic equations for integro-differential operators in $\mathbb{R}$. We prove that, after an appropriate translation, each of them is necessarily an even function which…
We study the interior regularity of solutions to the Dirichlet problem $Lu=g$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ in $\R^n\setminus\Omega$, for anisotropic operators of fractional type $$ Lu(x)= \int_{0}^{+\infty}\,d\rho \int_{S^{n-1}}\,da(\omega)\, \frac{…
We study a free transmission problem driven by degenerate fully nonlinear operators. Our first result concerns the existence of solutions to the associated Dirichlet problem. By framing the equation in the context of viscosity inequalities,…
In this paper, we consider fully nonlinear integro-differential equations with possibly nonsymmetric kernels. We are able to find different versions of Alexandroff-Backelman-Pucci estimate corresponding to the full class $\cS^{\fL_0}$ of…
The Convex Envelope of a given function was recently characterized as the solution of a fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equation (PDE). In this article we study a modified problem: the Dirichlet problem for the underlying PDE. The main…