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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…

Despite significant recent advances in the regularity theory for obstacle problems with integro-differential operators, some fundamental questions remained open. On the one hand, there was a lack of understanding of parabolic problems with…

We give a generalization of a theorem of B\^ocher for the Laplace equation to a class of conformally invariant fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations. We also prove a Harnack inequality for locally Lipschitz viscosity solutions and a…

In this paper we study Liouville properties of smooth steady axially symmetric solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. First, we provide another version of the Liouville theorem of \cite{kpr15} in the case of zero swirl, where we replaced…

Local boundedness and Harnack inequalities are studied for solutions to parabolic and elliptic integro-differential equations whose governing nonlocal operators are associated with nonsymmetric forms. We present two independent proofs, one…

In this paper, we first study the dual fractional parabolic equation \begin{equation*} \partial^\alpha_t u(x,t)+(-\Delta)^s u(x,t) = f(u(x,t))\ \ \mbox{in}\ \ B_1(0)\times\R , \end{equation*} subject to the vanishing exterior condition. We…

We prove continuity and Harnack's inequality for bounded solutions to elliptic equations of the type $$ \begin{aligned} {\rm div}\big(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\,\nabla u+a(x)|\nabla u|^{q-2}\,\nabla u\big)=0,& \quad a(x)\geqslant0, \\…

In this paper we investigate the existence, uniqueness and stability of weak solutions of the initial boundary value problem with the Dirichlet boundary conditions for a parabolic equation with a drift $b\in L_2$. We prove $L_1$-stability…

In the present paper we study perturbation theory for the $L^p$ Dirichlet problem on bounded chord arc domains for elliptic operators in divergence form with potentially unbounded antisymmetric part in BMO. Specifically, given elliptic…

We consider parabolic PDEs associated with fractional type operators drifted by non-linear singular first order terms. When the drift enjoys some boundedness properties in appropriate Lebesgue and Besov spaces, we establish by exploiting a…

We study relations and characterizations of various elliptic Harnack inequalities for symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms on metric measure spaces. We allow the scaling function be state-dependent and the state space possibly disconnected.…

We prove new boundary Harnack inequalities in Lipschitz domains for equations with a right hand side. Our main result applies to non-divergence form operators with bounded measurable coefficients and to divergence form operators with…

In this paper we extend previous results on the regularity of solutions of integro-differential parabolic equations. The kernels are non necessarily symmetric which could be interpreted as a non-local drift with the same order as the…

We prove a Liouville type classification theorem in half-spaces for infinite boundary value problems related to fully nonlinear, uniformly elliptic operators. We then apply the result in order to obtain gradient boundary blow up rates for…

We consider the operator $L=-{\rm div}(A\nabla)$, where the $n\times n$ matrix $A$ is real-valued, elliptic, with the symmetric part of $A$ in $L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$, and the anti-symmetric part of $A$ only belongs to the space…

We prove that the Neumann, Dirichlet and regularity problems for divergence form elliptic equations in the half space are well posed in $L_2$ for small complex $L_\infty$ perturbations of a coefficient matrix which is either real symmetric,…

The aim of this article is to develop the regularity theory for parabolic equations driven by nonlocal operators associated with nonsymmetric forms. H\"older regularity and weak Harnack inequalities are proved using extensions of recently…

We prove that solution operators of elliptic obstacle-type variational inequalities (or, more generally, locally Lipschitz continuous functions possessing certain pointwise-a.e. convexity properties) are Newton differentiable when…

We establish a Liouville type result for a backward global solution to the Navier-Stokes equations in the half plane with the no-slip boundary condition. No assumptions on spatial decay for the vorticity nor the velocity field are imposed.…

In this paper, first we study carefully the positive solutions to $\Delta u+\lambda_{1}u\ln u +\lambda_{2}u^{b+1}=0$ defined on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ with $Ric(g)\geq -Kg$, which can be regarded as…