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In two dimensions every weak solution to a nonlinear elliptic system $\rm{div} a(x,u,Du)=0$ has H\"older continuous first derivatives provided that standard continuity, ellipticity and growth assumptions hold with a growth exponent $p \geq…

We consider the problem of existence and uniqueness of strong a.e. solutions $u: \mathbb{R}^n \longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^N$ to the fully nonlinear PDE system \[\label{1} \tag{1} F(\cdot,D^2u ) \,=\, f, \ \ \text{ a.e. on }\mathbb{R}^n, \]…

We study uniqueness of solutions to degenerate parabolic problems, posed in bounded domains, where no boundary conditions are imposed. Under suitable assumptions on the operator, uniqueness is obtained for solutions that satisfy an…

This survey is devoted to discussing the problems of the unique determination of surfaces that are the boundaries of (generally speaking) nonconvex domains. First (in Sec. 2) we examine some results on the problem of the unique…

For any $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ smooth and bounded domain, we prove uniqueness of positive solutions of free boundary problems arising in plasma physics on $\Omega$ in a neat interval depending only by the best constant of the Sobolev…

We are interested in an anisotropic singular diffusion equation in the plane and in its regularization. We establish existence, uniqueness and basic regularity of solutions to both equations. We construct explicit solutions showing the…

For a genuinely nonlinear $2\times 2$ hyperbolic system of conservation laws, assuming that the initial data have small ${\bf L}^\infty$ norm but possibly unbounded total variation, the existence of global solutions was proved in a…

We study the properties of solutions of fully nonlinear, positively homogeneous elliptic equations near boundary points of Lipschitz domains at which the solution may be singular. We show that these equations have two positive solutions in…

We study the evolution of complete non-compact convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ by the inverse mean curvature flow. We establish the long time existence of solutions and provide the characterization of the maximal time of…

By virtue of a weak comparison principle in small domains we prove axial symmetry in convex and symmetric smooth bounded domains as well as radial symmetry in balls for regular solutions of a class of quasi-linear elliptic systems in…

A second order finite-difference equation has two linearly independent solutions. It is shown here that, like in the continuous case, at most one of the two can be a polynomial solution. The uniqueness in the classical continuous…

We show that a viscosity solution of a uniformly elliptic, fully nonlinear equation which vanishes on an open set must be identically zero, provided that the equation is $C^{1,1}$. We do not assume that the nonlinearity is convex or…

We prove the existence, uniqueness and non negativity of solutions for a nonlinear stationary Doi-Edwards equation. The existence is proved by a perturbation argument. We get the uniqueness and the non negativity by showing the convergence…

In this paper, we consider radial distributional solutions of the quasilinear equation $-\Delta_N u=f(u)$ in the punctured open ball $ B_R\backslash\{0\}\subset \RR^N$, $N \geq 2$. We obtain sharp conditions on the nonlinearity $f$ for…

In this paper we present some basic uniqueness results for evolutive equations under density constraints. First, we develop a rigorous proof of a well-known result (among specialists) in the case where the spontaneous velocity field…

We proof a uniqueness and periodicity theorem for bounded solutions of uniformly elliptic equations in certain unbounded domains.

We prove a contraction in $L^1$ property for the solutions of a nonlinear reaction--diffusion system whose special cases include intercellular transport as well as reversible chemical reactions. Assuming the existence of stationary…

We prove the uniqueness of the infinite length axisymmetric solution to the capillary equation. We observe that capillary equation can be viewed, at large depth, as a perturbation of an integrable two-dimensional differential system.…

In this paper, we provide an affirmative answer to the {\it conjecture A} for bounded simple rotationally symmetric domains $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n(n\geq 3)$ along $x_n$ axis. Precisely, we use a new simple argument to study the…

Equation $(-\Delta+k^2)u+f(u)=0$ in $D$, $u\mid_{\partial D}=0$, where $k=\const>0$ and $D\subset\R^3$ is a bounded domain, has a solution if $f:\R\to\R$ is a continuous function in the region $|u|\geq a$, piecewise-continuous in the region…