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We show that the Dirichlet problem at infinity is unsolvable for the p-Laplace equation for any nonconstant continuous boundary data, for certain range of p>n, on an n-dimensional Cartan-Hadamard manifold constructed from a complete…

We provide a simple method for obtaining new Liouville theorems for scaling invariant superlinear parabolic problems with gradient structure. To illustrate the method we prove Liouville theorems (guaranteeing nonexistence of positive…

We study nonnegative solutions to the following Hardy-H\'enon type equations involving higher order fractional Laplacians $$ (-\Delta)^\sigma u = |x|^{-\alpha}u^{p} ~~~~~~ \mbox{in} ~ \mathbb{R}^n \backslash \{0\} $$ with a possible…

We consider the H\'enon problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array} - - \Delta u = |x|^{\alpha} u^{\frac{N+2+2\alpha}{N-2}-\varepsilon} & \ \ \text{in} \ B_1, \\ u > 0 & \ \ \text{in} \ B_1, \\ u=0 & \ \ \text{on} \ \partial B_1,…

We prove the existence of a family of non-trivial solutions of the Liouville equation in dimensions two and four with infinite volume. These solutions are perturbations of a finite-volume solution of the same equation in one dimension less.…

In this work we analyze the existence of solutions to the nonlinear elliptic system: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u & = & v^q+\a g & \text{in }\Omega , \\ -\Delta v& = &|\nabla u|^{p}+\l f &\text{in }\Omega , \\…

In this paper, we are concerned with the critical Hardy-Sobolev equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta_{p}u = \frac{u^{p^{*}_s-1}}{|x|^{s}}, \ \ x\in \mathbb{R}^n \end{equation*} where $p^{*}_s = \frac{(n-s)p}{n-p}$ denotes the critical…

We prove that if the elliptic problem $-\Delta u+b(x)|\nabla u|=c(x)u$ with $c\ge0$ has a positive supersolution in a domain $\Omega$ of $ \IR^{N\ge 3}$, then $c,b$ must satisfy the inequality \[\sqrt{ \int_\Omega c\phi^2}\le \sqrt{…

We consider the elliptic equation $-\Delta u = u^q|\nabla u|^p$ in $\mathbb R^n$ for any $p\ge 2$ and $q>0$. We prove a Liouville-type theorem, which asserts that any positive bounded solution is constant. The proof technique is based on…

In this paper, we are concerned with the non-critical higher order Lane-Emden-Hardy equations \begin{equation*} (-\Delta)^{m}u(x)=\frac{u^{p}(x)}{|x|^{a}} \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, \text{in} \,\,\, \mathbb{R}^{n} \end{equation*} with…

The question of triviality of solutions of the semilinear Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation, \[ \Delta w-\frac{1}{2} \langle x,\nabla w\rangle-\frac{\lambda}{p-1}w+|w|^{p-1}w=0, \] is considered. It is shown, that if $p>1$ is Sobolev subcritical…

In dimension $N\geq 5$, and for $0<s<4$ with $\gamma\in\mathbb{R}$, we study the existence of nontrivial weak solutions for the doubly critical problem $$\Delta^2 u-\frac{\gamma}{|x|^4}u=…

We study the existence/nonexistence of positive solution of $$ {\Delta^2u-\mu\frac{u}{|x|^4}=\frac{|u|^{q_{\beta}-2}u}{|x|^{\beta}}\quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}} $$ when $\Omega$ is a bounded domain and $N\geq 5$,…

We are interested in entire solutions for the semilinear biharmonic equation $\Delta^{2}u=f(u)$ in $\R^N$, where $f(u)=e^{u}$ or $-u^{-p}\ (p>0)$. For the exponential case, we prove that any classical entire solution verifies $-\Delta u>0$…

We prove that the Dirichlet problem for the Lane-Emden equation in a half-space has no positive solutions which grow at most like the distance to the boundary to a power given by the natural scaling exponent of the equation; in other words,…

Let $(M^n,g)$ be an n-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold. We consider gradient estimates and Liouville type theorems for positive solutions to the following nonlinear elliptic equation: $$\Delta u+au\log u=0,$$ where $a$ is a nonzero…

This article establishes existence, non-existence and Liouville-type theorems for nonlinear equations of the form $$-div (|x|^{a} D u ) = f(x,u), ~ u > 0,\, \mbox{ in } \Omega,$$ where $N \geq 3$, $\Omega$ is an open domain in…

We establish the nonexistence of nontrivial ancient solutions to the nonlinear heat equation $u_t=\Delta u+|u|^{p-1}u$ which are smaller in absolute value than the self-similar radial singular steady state, provided that the exponent $p$ is…

We consider the semilinear heat equation $u_t=\Delta u+u^p$ on ${\mathbb R}^N$. Assuming that $N\ge 3$ and $p$ is greater than the Sobolev critical exponent $(N+2)/(N-2)$, we examine entire solutions (classical solutions defined for all…

In this paper, we prove an analogue of Gibbons' conjecture for the extended fourth order Allen-Cahn equation in R N , as well as Liouville type results for some solutions converging to the same value at infinity in a given direction. We…