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We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\beta \Delta^2 u-\tau \Delta u=\frac{\lambda}{(1-u)^2}$ on a ball $B \subset \R^N$, under Navier boundary conditions $u=\Delta u=0$ on $\partial B$,…
Let $\lambda^{*}>0$ denote the largest possible value of $\lambda$ such that $$ \{{array}{lllllll} \Delta^{2}u=\frac{\lambda}{(1-u)^{p}} & \{in}\ \ B, 0<u\leq 1 & \{in}\ \ B, u=\frac{\partial u}{\partial n} =0 & \{on}\ \ \partial B. {array}…
We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\bi u=\f{\lambda}{(1-u)^2}$, which models a simple Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device on a ball $B\subset\IR^N$, under Dirichlet boundary…
We study stable solutions to the equation $(-\Delta)^{1/2} u = f(u)$, posed in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$. For nonnegative convex nonlinearities, we prove that stable solutions are smooth in dimensions $n\leq 4$. This result, which…
We consider the fourth order problem $\Delta^{2}u=\lambda f(u)$ on a general bounded domain $\Omega$ in $R^{n}$ with the Navier boundary condition $u=\Delta u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Here, $\lambda$ is a positive parameter and $…
This work concerns with the existence of solutions for the following class of nonlocal elliptic problems \begin{equation*}\label{00} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} (-\Delta)^{s}u + u = |u|^{p-2}u\;\;\mbox{in $\Omega$},\\ u \geq 0 \quad \mbox{in}…
We study the fractional laplacian problem (-\Delta)^s u &=& u^p -\epsilon u^q \quad\text{in }\quad \Omega, u &\in& H^s(\Omega)\cap L^{q+1}(\Omega),u &>&0 \quad\text{in }\quad \Omega, u&=&0 \quad\text{in}\quad \mathbb{R}^N\setminus\Omega,…
The integral fractional Laplacian of order $s \in (0,1)$ is a nonlocal operator. It is known that solutions to the Dirichlet problem involving such an operator exhibit an algebraic boundary singularity regardless of the domain regularity.…
We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\bi u=\f{\lambda}{(1-u)^2}$, which models a simple Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device on a ball $B\subset\IR^N$, under Dirichlet boundary…
We show optimal existence, nonexistence and regularity results for nonnegative solutions to Dirichlet problems as $$ \begin{cases} \displaystyle -\Delta_1 u = g(u)|D u|+h(u)f & \text{in}\;\Omega,\\ u=0 & \text{on}\;\partial\Omega,…
We examine the fourth order problem $\Delta^2 u = \lambda f(u) $ in $ \Omega$ with $ \Delta u = u =0 $ on $ \partial \Omega$, where $ \lambda > 0$ is a parameter, $ \Omega$ is a bounded domain in $ R^N$ and where $f$ is one of the following…
We consider, for $a,l\geq1,$ $b,s,\alpha>0,$ and $p>q\geq1,$ the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the equation $-\Delta_{p}u=\lambda u^{q-1}+\beta u^{a-1}\left\vert \nabla u\right\vert ^{b}+mu^{l-1}e^{\alpha u^{s}}$ in a smooth bounded…
This paper is concerned with the Dirichlet problem for an equation involving the 1--Laplacian operator $\Delta_1 u$ and having a singular term of the type $\frac{f(x)}{u^\gamma}$. Here $f\in L^N(\Omega)$ is nonnegative, $0<\gamma\le1$ and…
We consider the class of semi-stable positive solutions to semilinear equations $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ of double revolution, that is, a domain invariant under rotations of the first $m$ variables and…
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We provide a Hopf boundary lemma for the regional fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s_{\Omega}$, with $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ a bounded open set. More precisely, given $u$ a pointwise or weak super-solution of the equation…
In this article, we study the following fractional Laplacian equation with critical growth and singular nonlinearity $$\quad (-\Delta)^s u = \lambda a(x) u^{-q} + u^{2^*_s-1}, \quad u>0 \; \text{in}\; \Omega,\quad u = 0 \; \mbox{in}\;…
In this paper, we consider the following non-linear equations in unbounded domains $\Omega$ with exterior Dirichlet condition: \begin{equation*}\begin{cases} (-\Delta)_p^s u(x)=f(u(x)), & x\in\Omega,\\ u(x)>0, &x\in\Omega,\\ u(x)\leq0,…
We examine equations of the form {eqnarray*} \{{array}{lcl} \hfill \HA u &=& \lambda g(x) f(u) \qquad \text{in}\ \Omega \hfill u&=& 0 \qquad \qquad \qquad \text{on}\ \pOm, {array}. {eqnarray*} where $ \lambda >0$ is a parameter and $…