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We investigate general semilinear (obstacle-like) problems of the form $\Delta u = f(u)$, where $f(u)$ has a singularity/jump at $\{u=0\}$ giving rise to a free boundary. Unlike many works on such equations where $f$ is approximately…
We study the local properties of positive solutions of the equation $-\Delta u+ m\abs{\nabla u}^q-e^{u}=0$ in a punctured domain $\Omega\setminus\{0\}$ of $R^N$, $N\geq 2$, where $m$ is a positive parameter and $q>1$. We study particularly…
Let $\lambda^*>0$ denote the largest possible value of $\lambda$ such that \begin{align*} \left\{\begin{aligned} \Delta^2 u & = \la e^u && \text{in $B $} u &= \pd{u}{n} = 0 && \text{on $ \pa B $} \end{aligned} \right. \end{align*} has a…
The first goal of this paper is to establish the existence of a positive solution for the singular boundary value problem (1.1), where $\mathcal{B}$ is a general boundary operator of Dirichlet, Neumann or Robin type, either classical or…
In this paper we show the uniqueness of the critical point for \emph{semi-stable} solutions of the problem $$\begin{cases} -\Delta u=f(u)&\text{in }\Omega\\ u>0&\text{in }\Omega\\ u=0&\text{on } \partial\Omega,\end{cases}$$ where…
We investigate the structure of the nodal set of solutions to an unstable Alt-Phillips type problem \[ -\Delta u = \lambda_+(u^+)^{p-1}-\lambda_-(u^-)^{q-1} \] where $1 \le p<q<2$, $\lambda_+ >0$, $\lambda_- \ge 0$. The equation is…
In this paper, we consider the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of the biharmonic equation $$ \Delta^2 u = u^p~~~~~~~in ~ B_1 \backslash \{0\}$$ with an isolated singularity, where the punctured ball $B_1 \backslash \{0\} \subset…
In this paper we study the two-phase Bernoulli type free boundary problem arising from the minimization of the functional $$ J(u):=\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^p +\lambda_+^p\,\chi_{\{u>0\}} +\lambda_-^p\,\chi_{\{u\le 0\}}, \quad 1<p<\infty. $$…
We study the singular part of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian, \ $\min\bigl\{(-\Delta)^su,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\mathbb R^n$, for general obstacles $\varphi$. Our main result establishes the…
We construct and study the properties of the precise boundary trace of positive solutions of $-\Delta u+u^q=0$ in a smooth bounded domain of $\mathbb R^N$, in the supercritical case $q\geq q_c=(N+1)/(N-1)$
In this paper we study the following parabolic system \begin{equation*} \Delta \u -\partial_t \u =|\u|^{q-1}\u\,\chi_{\{ |\u|>0 \}}, \qquad \u = (u^1, \cdots , u^m) \ , \end{equation*} with free boundary $\partial \{|\u | >0\}$. For $0\leq…
For the nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt} - c(u)\big(c(u) u_x\big)_x~=~0$, it is well known that solutions can develop singularities in finite time. For an open dense set of initial data, the present paper provides a detailed asymptotic…
We are concerned with solvability of nonlinear systems involving a discrete singular $\phi$-Laplacian operator of type \begin{equation*} u \mapsto \Delta\left[\phi(\Delta u(n-1))\right] \qquad (n\in \{1, \dots, T\}), \end{equation*}…
In this paper we prove existence and uniqueness results for nonlinear parabolic problems with Dirichlet boundary values whose model is \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} &b(u)_t-\Delta_{p}u=\mu\;\mbox{in }(0,T)\times\Omega,\\…
In this paper we investigate the isolated singularities of the Hartree type equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta u (x)= \left(\frac{1}{|x|^\alpha}*e^u\right)e^{u(x)}\quad \text{in } B_{1}\setminus\{0\} , \end{equation*} where $\alpha>0$,…
For the parabolic obstacle-problem-like equation $$\Delta u - \partial_t u = \lambda_+ \chi_{\{u>0\}} - \lambda_- \chi_{\{u<0\}} ,$$ where $\lambda_+$ and $\lambda_-$ are positive Lipschitz functions, we prove in arbitrary finite dimension…
The purpose of this article is two-fold. First, we investigate the inequality $$ -\Delta u+V(x) u\geq f\quad\mbox{ in } B_1\setminus\{0\}\subset \mathbb{R}^N , N \geq 2, $$ where $f\in L^1_{loc}(B_1)$. If $V\geq 0$ is radially symmetric, we…
We revisit and sharpen the results from our previous work, where we investigated the regularity of the singular set of the free boundary in the nonlinear obstacle problem. As in the work of Figalli-Serra on the classical obstacle problem,…
We study the monotonicity and one-dimensional symmetry of positive solutions to the problem $-\Delta_p u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ under zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$ and $f:(0,+\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$ is a locally…
We investigate a class of free boundary problems with oscillatory singularities within stochastic materials. Our main result yields sharp regularity estimates along the free boundary, provided the power of the singularity varies in a…