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This paper investigates the regularity of Lipschitz solutions $u$ to the general two-dimensional equation $\text{div}(G(Du))=0$ with highly degenerate ellipticity. Just assuming strict monotonicity of the field $G$ and heavily relying on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Xavier Lamy , Riccardo Tione

In this paper, we study some regularity issues concerning the gradient of weak solutions of $u_t - {\rm div} \mathcal{A}(x,t,\nabla u) = g$, where $\mathcal{A}(x,t,\nabla u)$ is modeled after the $p$-Laplace operator. The main results we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Karthik Adimurthi , Wontae Kim

We prove comparison, uniqueness and existence results for viscosity solutions to a wide class of fully nonlinear second order partial differential equations $F(x, u, du, d^{2}u)=0$ defined on a finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-03-13 Daniel Azagra , Juan Ferrera , Beatriz Sanz

In this manuscript we establish local H\"older regularity estimates for bounded solutions of a certain class of doubly degenerate evolution PDEs. By making use of intrinsic scaling techniques and geometric tangential methods, we derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 J. V. Silva , Elzon C. Júnior , Gleydson C. Ricarte

In this paper, we prove some qualitative properties for the positive solutions to some degenerate elliptic equation given by \[-\operatorname{div}(w|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=f(x,u);\;\;w\in \mathcal{A}_p\] on smooth domain and for varying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Prashanta Garain

In this paper, we consider elliptic boundary value problems with discontinuous coefficients and obtain the asymptotic optimal error estimate $\|u-u_k\|_{1,\Omega}\leqslant Ch|\ln h|^{1/2}\|u\|_{2,\Omega_1+\Omega_2}$ for triangle linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Jinchao Xu

We establish optimal, quantitative H\"oder estimates for the gradient of solutions to a class of degenerate elliptic equations with Hamiltonian terms. The presence of such lower-order terms introduces additional challenges, particularly in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Pêdra D. S. Andrade , Thialita M. Nascimento

In this survey paper, we study the optimal regularity of solutions to uniformly degenerate elliptic equations in bounded domains and establish the H\"older continuity of solutions and their derivatives up to the boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Qing Han , Jiongduo Xie

We study the local H\"older regularity of strong solutions $u$ of second-order uniformly elliptic equations having a gradient term with superquadratic growth $\gamma > 2$, and right-hand side in a Lebesgue space $L^q$. When $q >…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Marco Cirant , Gianmaria Verzini

In this paper, we investigate positive solutions to a class of Laplace equations with a gradient term on a complete, connected, and noncompact Riemannian manifold \((M^n,g)\) with nonnegative Ricci curvature, namely \[-\Delta u =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Jingbo Dou , Benfeng Shi , Tian Wu , Hua Zhu

A uniform gradient for functions u which satisfy a system of N second-order partial differential inequalities is given in this paper. Some structure conditions are given for the coefficients of the matrices of second-order terms and of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-21 M. Arisawa

We consider an elliptic differential inequality: $\vert \Delta u(x) \vert \le C_0(\YYYY^{-\gamma}\vert u(x)\vert + \YYYY^{-\theta}\vert \nabla u(x)\vert)$ in an exterior domain $\R^n \setminus \ooo{U}$, where $U$ is a simply connected…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-21 F. Golgeleyen , O. Y. Imanuvilov , M. Yamamoto

A new variational approach to solve the problem of estimating the (possibly discontinuous) coefficient functions $p$, $q$ and $f$ in elliptic equations of the form $-\nabla \cdot (p(x)\nabla u) + \lambda q(x) u = f$, $x \in \Omega \subset…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Abinash Nayak

In this article we provide existence, uniqueness and regularity results of a degenerate singular elliptic boundary value problem whose prototype is given by \begin{gather*} \begin{cases} -\operatorname{div}(w(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Prashanta Garain

In this article, we investigate the quantitative unique continuation properties of complex-valued solutions to drift equations in the plane. We consider equations of the form $\Delta u + W \cdot \nabla u = 0$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$, where $W =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Blair Davey , Carlos Kenig , Jenn-Nan Wang

In this paper we derive quantitative uniqueness estimates at infinity for solutions to an elliptic equation with unbounded drift in the plane. More precisely, let $u$ be a real solution to $\Delta u+W\cdot\nabla u=0$ in ${\mathbf R}^2$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Carlos Kenig , Jenn-Nan Wang

In this manuscript, we study geometric regularity estimates for degenerate parabolic equations of $p$-Laplacian type ($2 \leq p< \infty$) under a strong absorption condition: $ \Delta_p u - \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = \lambda_0 u_{+}^q…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Joao da Silva , Pablo Ochoa , Analía Silva

An approach to some "optimal" (more precisely, non-improvable) regularity of solutions of the thin film equation u_{t} = -\nabla \cdot(|u|^{n} \nabla \D u) in \ren \times \re_+, u(x,0)=u_0(x) in \re^N, where n in (0,2) is a fixed exponent,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Pablo Alvarez-Caudevilla , Jonathan D. Evans , Victor A. Galaktionov

In this paper, we investigate 1D elliptic equations $-\nabla\cdot (a\nabla u)=f$ with rough diffusion coefficients $a$ that satisfy $0<a_{\min}\le a\le a_{\max}<\infty$ and $f\in L_2(\Omega)$. To achieve an accurate and robust numerical…

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