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We establish a general existence and uniqueness result of $L^1$ solution for a multidimensional backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE for short) with generator $g$ satisfying a one-sided Osgood condition as well as a general…

We prove a Liouville type result for bounded, entire solutions to a class of variational semilinear elliptic systems, based on the growth of their potential energy over balls with growing radius. Important special cases to which our result…

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 consider the solution of the problem $$ -\Delta u=f(u) \ \mbox{ and } \ u>0 \ \ \mbox{ in } \ \Omega, \ \ u=0 \ \mbox{ on } \ \Gamma, $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with boundary $\Gamma$ of class $C^{2,\tau}$,…

Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a second-order linear elliptic operator with complex coefficients. We show that if the $L^p$ Dirichlet problem for the elliptic system $\mathcal{L}(u)=0$ in a fixed Lipschitz domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is…

For a second-order elliptic equation in divergence form we investigate conditions on the coefficients which imply that all solutions are Lipschitz continuous or differentiable at a given point. We assume the coefficients have modulus of…

We present a class of one-dimensional systems of nonlinear parabolic equations for which long-time phase dynamics can be described by an ODE with a Lipschitz vector field in R^n. In the considered case of the Dirichlet boundary value…

We study the isoperimetric problem for Euclidean space endowed with a continuous density. In dimension one, we characterize isoperimetric regions for a unimodal density. In higher dimensions, we prove existence results and we derive…

We study stable solutions of the following nonlinear system $$ -\Delta u = H(u) \quad \text{in} \ \ \Omega$$ where $u:\mathbb R^n\to \mathbb R^m$, $H:\mathbb R^m\to \mathbb R^m$ and $\Omega$ is a domain in $\mathbb R^n$. We introduce the…

In this paper we study solutions to elliptic linear equations $L(u)=\partial_i(a^{ij}(x)\partial_j u) + b^i(x) \partial_i u + c(x) u=0$, either on $R^n$ or a Riemannian manifold, under the assumption of Lipschitz control on the coefficients…

We consider a family of positive solutions to the system of $k$ components \[ -\Delta u_{i,\beta} = f(x, u_{i,\beta}) - \beta u_{i,\beta} \sum_{j \neq i} a_{ij} u_{j,\beta}^2 \qquad \text{in $\Omega$}, \] where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$…

On a complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, we consider $L^{p}_{loc}$ distributional solutions of the the differential inequality $-\Delta u + \lambda u \geq 0$ with $\lambda >0$ a locally bounded function that may decay to $0$ at infinity.…

We consider bounded solutions of the nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation $$ (-\Delta)^s u=u-u^3\qquad{\mbox{ in }}{\mathbb{R}}^3,$$ under the monotonicity condition $\partial_{x_3}u>0$ and in the genuinely nonlocal regime in…

We study existence of nontrivial solutions to problem \begin{equation*} \left\lbrace \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u &=& \lambda u+f(u)&\text{ in }\Omega,\\ u&=&0&\text{ on }\partial \Omega, \end{array}\right. \end{equation*} where $\Omega…

A celebrated conjecture due to De Giorgi states that any bounded solution of the equation $\Delta u + (1-u^2) u = 0 \hbox{in} \R^N $ with $\pp_{y_N}u >0$ must be such that its level sets $\{u=\la\}$ are all hyperplanes, {\em \bf at least}…

We construct positive singular solutions for the problem $-\Delta u=\lambda \exp (e^u)$ in $B_1\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 3$), $u=0$ on $\partial B_1$, having a prescribed behaviour around the origin. Our study extends the one in Y.…

We consider pointwise linear elliptic equations of the form $\mathrm{L}_x u_x = \eta_x$ on a smooth compact manifold where the operators $\mathrm{L}_x$ are in divergence form with real, bounded, measurable coefficients that vary in the…

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We prove the monotonicity of positive solutions to the problem $-\Delta u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+ := \{(x',x_N)\in\mathbb{R}^N \mid x_N>0 \}$ under zero Dirichlet boundary condition with a possible singular nonlinearity $f$. In some…

Let $f:[0,+\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ be a (locally) Lipschitz function and $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ a $C^{1,\alpha}$ domain whose boundary is unbounded and connected. If there exists a positive bounded solution to the overdetermined…