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We study elliptic and parabolic problems governed by the singular elliptic operators $$ y^{\alpha}\left(D_{yy}+\frac{c}{y}D_y\right)-V(y),\qquad\alpha \in\mathbb R $$ in $\mathbb R_+$, where $V$ is a potential having non-negative real part.

Let $L$ be a second order divergence form elliptic operator with complex bounded measurable coefficients. The operators arising in connection with $L$, such as the heat semigroup and Riesz transform, are not, in general, of…

In this work, we consider a class of second order uniformly elliptic operators with smooth and bounded coefficients. We provide some estimates on the norm of the semigroup generated by these operators acting on weighted Sobolev spaces,…

We establish norm inequalities for fractional powers of degenerate Laplacians, with degeneracy being determined by weights in the Muckenhoupt class $A_2(\mathbb{R}^n)$, accompanied by specific additional reverse H\"older assumptions. This…

In this paper we consider the symmetric Kolmogorov operator $L=\Delta +\frac{\nabla \mu}{\mu}\cdot \nabla$ on $L^2(\mathbb R^N,d\mu)$, where $\mu$ is the density of a probability measure on $\mathbb R^N$. Under general conditions on $\mu$…

In this paper, we study the following degenerate critical elliptic equations with anisotropic coefficients $$ -div(|x_{N}|^{2\alpha}\nabla u)=K(x)|x_{N}|^{\alpha\cdot 2^{*}(s)-s}|u|^{2^{*}(s)-2}u {in} \mathbb{R}^{N} $$ where…

We prove a Harnack inequality for distributional solutions to a type of degenerate elliptic PDEs in $N$ dimensions. The differential operators in question are related to the Kolmogorov operator, made up of the Laplacian in the last $N-1$…

We consider the operators \[ \nabla_X\cdot(A(X)\nabla_X),\ \nabla_X\cdot(A(X)\nabla_X)-\partial_t,\ \nabla_X\cdot(A(X)\nabla_X)+X\cdot\nabla_Y-\partial_t, \] where $X\in \Omega$, $(X,t)\in \Omega\times \mathbb R$ and $(X,Y,t)\in…

We investigate here the following weighted degenerate elliptic system \begin{align*} -\Delta_{s} u = \Big(1+\|\mathbf{x}\|^{2(s+1)}\Big)^{\frac{\alpha}{2(s+1)}} v^p, \quad -\Delta_{s} v =…

In this work we investigate a class of degenerate Schr\"odinger equations associated to degenerate elliptic operators with irregular potentials on $\Ran$ by introducing a suitable H\"ormander metric $g$ and a $g$-weight $m$. We establish…

We consider divergence form elliptic operators of the form $L=-\dv A(x)\nabla$, defined in $R^{n+1} = \{(x,t)\in R^n \times R \}$, $n \geq 2$, where the $L^{\infty}$ coefficient matrix $A$ is $(n+1)\times(n+1)$, uniformly elliptic, complex…

We analyze $p$-Laplace operators with degenerate elliptic coefficients. This investigation includes Gru\v{s}in type $p$-Laplace operators. We describe a \emph{separation phenomenon} in elliptic and parabolic $p$-Laplace type equations,…

In our previous works, we introduced, for each (super)manifold, a commutative algebra of densities. It is endowed with a natural invariant scalar product. In this paper, we study geometry of differential operators of second order on this…

We present certain Liouville properties of eigenfunctions of second-order elliptic operators with real coefficients, via an approach that is based on stochastic representations of positive solutions, and criticality theory of second-order…

We study a class of nondivergence form second-order degenerate linear parabolic equations in $(-\infty, T) \times {\mathbb R}^d_+$ with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition on $(-\infty, T) \times \partial {\mathbb R}^d_+$, where…

We study second-order hyperbolic equations with degenerate elliptic operators and non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary inputs. We establish existence and regularity of weak solutions in weighted Sobolev spaces under mild assumptions on the…

In $L_2(\mathbb{R}^d;\mathbb{C}^n)$, we consider a selfadjoint matrix strongly elliptic second order differential operator $\mathcal{A}_\varepsilon$, $\varepsilon >0$. The coefficients of the operator $\mathcal{A}_\varepsilon$ are periodic…

We study the following class of quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations with critical nonlinearity \begin{align*} \begin{cases}-\Delta_{\gamma,p} u= \lambda |u|^{q-2}u+|u|^{p_{\gamma}^{*}-2}u & \text{ in } \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N, \\…

Examples are given of degenerate elliptic operators on smooth, compact manifolds that are not globally regular in $C^\infty$. These operators degenerate only in a rather mild fashion. Certain weak regularity results are proved, and an…

In this paper we develop a potential theory for strongly degenerate parabolic operators of the form \[ \mathcal{L}:=\nabla_X\cdot(A(X,Y,t)\nabla_X)+X\cdot\nabla_{Y}-\partial_t, \] in unbounded domains of the form \[…