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In this paper, we are concerned with divergence form, higher-order parabolic systems in a cylindrical domain with a finite number of subdomains. We establish $L_\infty$ and Schauder estimates of solutions when the leading coefficients and…
We prove Liouville theorem for the equation $\Delta v + N v^p + M |\nabla v|^{q}= 0$ in $\mathbb R^n$, with $M, N > 0, q = \frac{2p}{p + 1}$ in the critical and subcritical case. The proof is based on a differential identity and Young…
Liouville type of theorems play a key role in the blow-up approach to study the global regularity of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. In this paper, we will prove Liouville type of theorems to the 3-D axisymmetric…
Liouville theorems for scaling invariant nonlinear elliptic systems (saying that the system does not possess nontrivial entire solutions) guarantee a priori estimates of solutions of related, more general systems. Assume that $p=2q+3>1$ is…
We examine the elliptic system given by {equation} \label{system_abstract} -\Delta u = v^p, \qquad -\Delta v = u^\theta, \qquad \{in} \IR^N, {equation} for $ 1 < p \le \theta$ and the fourth order scalar equation {equation}…
Under the lack of variational structure and nondegeneracy, we investigate three notions of \textit{generalized principal eigenvalue} for a general infinity Laplacian operator with gradient and homogeneous term. A Harnack inequality and…
We prove the parabolic boundary Harnack inequality in parabolic flat Lipschitz domains by blow-up techniques, allowing for the first time a non-zero right-hand side. Our method allows us to treat solutions to equations driven by…
We study regularity for a parabolic problem with fractional diffusion in space and a fractional time derivative. Our main result is a De Giorgi-Nash-Moser Holder regularity theorem for solutions in a divergence form equation. We also prove…
We extend the De Giorgi-Nash-Moser theory to a class of nonlocal hypoelliptic equations arising naturally in kinetic theory, in which a first-order transport operator is coupled with an elliptic nonlocal operator involving fractional…
We prove the one-dimensional symmetry of solutions to elliptic equations of the form $-\dive(e^{G(x)}a(|\nabla u|)\nabla u)=f(u) e^{G(x)}$, under suitable energy conditions. Our results hold without any restriction on the dimension of the…
We prove the $W^{1,2}_{p}$-solvability of second order parabolic equations in nondivergence form in the whole space for $p\in (1,\infty)$. The leading coefficients are assumed to be measurable in one spatial direction and have vanishing…
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 a Harnack inequality for positive solutions of a parabolic equation with slow anisotropic spatial diffusion. After identifying its natural scalings, we reduce the problem to a Fokker-Planck equation and construct a self-similar…
In this paper, we discuss the validity of the Liouville property for $X$-harmonic functions, i.e. positive solution to $\Delta_{X}u=0$, where $X$ is a vector field on a complete, non-compact Riemannian manifold and $\Delta_{X}$ is the…
In this paper, we study the semilinear elliptic equation and inequality on pseudo-Hermitian manifolds. In particular, we first obtain a Liouville theorem for the equation $\Delta_b u+F(u)=0$ based on a generalized Jerison-Lee's formula.…
We prove optimal regularity results in $L_p$-based function spaces in space and time for a large class of linear parabolic equations with a nonlocal elliptic operator in bounded domains with limited smoothness. Here the nonlocal operator is…
In this article we prove the BMO-$L_{\infty}$ estimate $$ \|(-\Delta)^{\gamma/2} u\|_{BMO(\mathbf{R}^{d+1})}\leq N \|\frac{\partial}{\partial t}u-A(t)u\|_{L_{\infty}(\mathbf{R}^{d+1})}, \quad \forall\, u\in C^{\infty}_c(\mathbf{R}^{d+1}) $$…
We investigate weighted Sobolev regularity of weak solutions of non-homogeneous parabolic equations with singular divergence-free drifts. Assuming that the drifts satisfy some mild regularity conditions, we establish local weighted…
This paper is devoted to the study of shape optimization problems for the first eigenvalue of the elliptic operator with drift L = --$\Delta$+V (x)\cdot \nabla with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where V is a bounded vector field. In the…
For a general class of divergence type quasi-linear degenerate parabolic equations with measurable coeffcients and lower order terms from non-linear Kato-type classes, we prove local boundedness and continuity of solutions, and the…