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This paper is concerned with two properties of positive weak solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations with nonlinear gradient terms. First, we show a Liouville-type theorem for positive weak solutions of the equation involving the…
In this article we review a new method for proving the nonexistence of positive solutions of elliptic inequalities in unbounded domains in $\rn$, which was recently introduced by the authors. We expose our method and new results on the two…
We establish Liouville type theorems for elliptic systems with various classes of non-linearities on $\mathbb{R}^N$. We show among other things, that a system has no semi-stable solution in any dimension, whenever the infimum of the…
We study the existence problem for positive solutions $u \in L^{r}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$, $0<r<\infty$, to the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -\Delta_{p} u = \sigma u^{q} \quad \text{in} \;\; \mathbb{R}^n \] in the sub-natural growth case…
Nonexistence results for positive supersolutions of the equation $$-Lu=u^p\quad\text{in $\mathbb R^N_+$}$$ are obtained, $-L$ being any symmetric and stable linear operator, positively homogeneous of degree $2s$, $s\in(0,1)$, whose spectral…
In \cite{LWZ}, we establish Liouville-type theorems and decay estimates for solutions of a class of high order elliptic equations and systems without the boundedness assumptions on the solutions. In this paper, we continue our work in…
A fundamental theorem of Liouville asserts that positive entire harmonic functions in Euclidean spaces must be constant. A remarkable Liouville-type theorem of Caffarelli-Gidas-Spruck states that positive entire solutions of $-\Delta u=u^{…
We study existence and asymptotic behavior of radial positive solutions of some fully nonlinear equations involving Pucci's extremal operators in dimension two. In particular we prove the existence of a positive solution of a fully…
We prove nonexistence results of Liouville type for nonnegative viscosity solutions of some equations involving the fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic operators ${\cal P}^\pm_k$, defined respectively as the sum of the largest and the…
We study the existence/nonexistence of positive solution to the problem of the type: \begin{equation}\tag{$P_{\lambda}$} \begin{cases} \Delta^2u-\mu a(x)u=f(u)+\lambda b(x)\quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}\\ u>0 \quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}\\…
We consider the fractional elliptic inequality with variable-exponent nonlinearity $$ (-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} u+\lambda\, \Delta u \geq |u|^{p(x)}, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N, $$ where $N\geq 1$, $\alpha\in (0,2)$, $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$…
We establish a Liouville type theorem for fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations in exterior domains in half spaces under quadratic boundary data and a quadratic growth condition, that is, any viscosity solution tends to a quadratic…
We prove a Liouville-type theorem that is one-dimensional symmetry and classification results for non-negative $L^q$-viscosity solutions of the equation \begin{equation*} -\mathcal{M}_{\lambda, \Lambda}^{\pm}(D^2u)\pm |Du|^p=0, x\in…
In this paper we study solutions, possibly unbounded and sign-changing, of the following problem: -\D_{\lambda} u=|x|_{\lambda}^a |u|^{p-1}u, in R^n,\;n\geq 1,\; p>1, and a \geq 0, where \D_{\lambda} is a strongly degenerate elliptic…
In this paper, we consider the existence (and nonexistence) of solutions to \[ -\mathcal{M}_{\lambda,\Lambda}^\pm (u'') + V(x) u = f(u) \quad {\rm in} \ \mathbf{R} \] where $\mathcal{M}_{\lambda,\Lambda}^+$ and…
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 consider weak distributional solutions to the equation $-\Delta_pu=f(u)$ in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We assume that the nonlinearity is positive and superlinear at zero. For $p>2$ (the case $1<p\leq2$ is…
We study symmetry properties of viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations. We show that if $u$ is a viscosity solution of a rotationally invariant equation of the form $F(x,D^2u)+f(x,u)=0$, then the operator…
We study fully nonlinear elliptic equations such as \[ F(D^2u) = u^p, \quad p>1, \] in $\R^n$ or in exterior domains, where $F$ is any uniformly elliptic, positively homogeneous operator. We show that there exists a critical exponent,…
We investigate the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for the quasilinear elliptic inequality $L_\mathcal{A} u= -{\rm div}[\mathcal{A}(x, u, \nabla u)]\geq (I_\alpha\ast u^p)u^q$ in $\Omega$, where $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N,…