Related papers: Maximum principles for boundary-degenerate linear …

We are concerned in this paper with the degenerate fractional diffusion advection equations posed in bounded domains. Due to a suitable formulation, we show the existence of weak entropy solutions for measurable and bounded initial and…

We study the generation property for a fourth order operator in divergence or in non divergence form with suitable Neumann boundary conditions. As a consequence we obtain the well posedness for the parabolic equations governed by these…

We investigate linear parabolic, second-order boundary value problems with mixed boundary conditions on rough domains. Assuming only boundedness and ellipticity on the coefficient function and very mild conditions on the geometry of the…

This paper investigates the link between the Maximum Principle and the sign of the (generalized) principal eigenvalue for elliptic operators in unbounded domains. Our approach covers the cases of Dirichlet, Neumann, and (indefinite) Robin…

In this note we consider boundary point principles for partial differential inequalities of elliptic type. Firstly, we highlight the difference between conditions required to establish classical strong maximum principles and classical…

In this paper we extend classical criteria for determining lower bounds for the least point of the essential spectrum of second-order elliptic differential operators on domains $\Omega\subset\R^n$ allowing for degeneracy of the coefficients…

We study the obstacle problem for fully nonlinear elliptic operators with an anisotropic degeneracy on the gradient: \[ \min \left\{f-|Du|^\gamma F(D^2u),u-\phi\right\} = 0 \quad\textrm{ in }\quad \Omega. \] We obtain existence of solutions…

We consider non-negative, weak solutions to the doubly nonlinear parabolic equation $$ \partial_t u^q-\mbox{div}(|Du|^{p-2}Du)=0 $$ in the super-critical fast diffusion regime $0<p-1<q<\frac{N(p-1)}{(N-p)_+}$. We show that when solutions…

We consider a periodic-parabolic eigenvalue problem with a non-negative potential $\lambda m$ vanishing on a non-cylindrical domain $D_m$ satisfying conditions similar to those for the parabolic maximum principle. We show that the limit as…

Consider the Dirichlet problem with respect to an elliptic operator \[ A = - \sum_{k,l=1}^d \partial_k \, a_{kl} \, \partial_l - \sum_{k=1}^d \partial_k \, b_k + \sum_{k=1}^d c_k \, \partial_k + c_0 \] on a bounded Wiener regular open set…

In this article, we set up the continuous maximal regularity theory for a class of linear differential operators on manifolds with singularities. These operators exhibit degenerate or singular behaviors while approaching the singular ends.…

We present a new duality theory for non-convex variational problems, under possibly mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The dual problem reads nicely as a linear programming problem, and our main result states that there is no…

We consider equations of the form $\Delta u +\lambda^2 V(x)e^{\,u}=\rho$ in various two dimensional settings. We assume that $V>0$ is a given function, $\lambda>0$ is a small parameter and $\rho=\mathcal O(1)$ or $\rho\to +\infty$ as…

We establish gradient higher integrability results for weak solutions to degenerate parabolic equations of double phase type $$ u_t-\operatorname{div} \left(|Du|^{p-2}Du + a(x,t)|Du|^{q-2}Du\right)=0 $$ in $\Omega_T := \Omega\times (0,T)$,…

We investigate qualitative properties of weak solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the equation $-\Delta_p u = \lambda m(x)|u|^{p-2}u + \eta a(x)|u|^{q-2}u + f(x)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, where $q<p$. Under…

In this paper we consider the fourth order operators A1u := (au")" and A2u := au"" in divergence form and non divergence form, respectively, where a, defined in [0, 1] with values in R+, degenerates in an interior point of the interval.…

We obtain local boundedness and maximum principles for weak subsolutions to certain infinitely degenerate elliptic divergence form equations, and the local boundedness turns out to be sharp in more than two dimensions, answering the `Moser…

In this paper we investigate the validity and the consequences of the maximum principle for degenerate elliptic operators whose higher order term is the sum of "k" eigenvalues of the Hessian. In particular we shed some light on some very…

This paper is a generalization of the author's previous work [14]. We extend the argument [14] for any uniformly elliptic operator in divergence form $\mathcal{L}u=-div(A(x)\nabla u)$, more precisely, we study a fractional type degenerate…

We consider the nonlinear eigenvalue problem, with Dirichlet boundary condition, for a class of very degenerate elliptic operators, with the aim to show that, at least for square type domains having fixed volume, the symmetry of the domain…