Related papers: Characterizing the Strong Maximum Principle

In this work we consider viscosity solutions to second order partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds. We prove maximum principles for solutions to Dirichlet problem on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. Using a…

In this paper, we consider equations involving fully nonlinear nonlocal operators $$F_{\alpha}(u(x)) \equiv C_{n,\alpha} PV \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{G(u(x)-u(z))}{|x-z|^{n+\alpha}} dz= f(x,u).$$ We prove a maximum principle and obtain key…

In this paper we prove strong unique continuation for the following degenerate elliptic equation \begin{equation}\label{e0} \Delta_zu +|z|^2\partial_t^2u = Vu,\quad (z,t) \in \mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R} \end{equation} where the potential…

We prove that every weak solution to a certain class of infinitely degenerate quasilinear equations is continuous. An essential feature of the operators we consider is that their Fefferman-Phong associated metric may be non doubling with…

We study the fully nonlinear elliptic equation $F(D^2u,Du,u,x) = f$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$, under the assumption the nonlinearity $F$ is uniformly elliptic and positively homogeneous. Recently, it has been shown that such…

We prove higher-order fractional Sobolev regularity for fully nonlinear, uniformly elliptic equations in the presence of unbounded source terms. More precisely, we show the existence of a universal number $0< \varepsilon <1$, depending only…

We study classical positive solutions of the biharmonic inequality $-\Delta^2 v \geq f(v)$ in exterior domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ where $f:(0,\infty)\to (0,\infty)$ is continuous function. We give lower bounds on the growth of $f(s)$ at…

This is a study of a class of nonlocal nonlinear diffusion equations. We present a strong maximum principle for nonlocal time-dependent Dirichlet problems. Results are for bounded functions of space, rather than (semi)-continuous functions.…

In this paper we derive a strong maximum principle for weak supersolutions of nonlocal equations of the form $Iu=c(x) u$ in $\Omega$, where $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ is a domain, $c\in L^{\infty}(\Omega)$ and $I$ is an operator of the…

By a maximum principle under global control map from $R^{n+1}$ to$S^2,$ $\delta $-viscosity supersolution and subsolution of multidimensional Landau-Lifshitz equations with second approximation of effective field are built. Utilizing the…

We show that, for $n\geq 3$, $\lim_{t \to 0} e^{it\Delta}f(x) = f(x)$ holds almost everywhere for all $f \in H^s (\mathbb{R}^n)$ provided that $s>\frac{n}{2(n+1)}$. Due to a counterexample by Bourgain, up to the endpoint, this result is…

In this paper we consider a semilinear elliptic equation with a strong singularity at $u=0$, namely $ \displaystyle u\geq 0 \mbox{ in } \Omega$, $ \displaystyle - div \,A(x) D u = F(x,u) \mbox{ in} \; \Omega$, $u = 0 \mbox{ on} \; \partial…

It is well known that if a function $f$ satisfies $$\|f(x) e^{\pi \alpha |x|^2}\|_p + \| \widehat{f}(\xi) e^{\pi \alpha |\xi|^2} \|_q<\infty \qquad\qquad\qquad(*)$$ with $\alpha=1$ and $1\le p,q<\infty$, then $f\equiv 0.$ We prove that if…

This paper is concerned with existence and qualitative properties of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in bounded domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We show the existence of positive solutions in the vicinity of…

We obtain optimal boundary and global regularity estimates for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations whose ellipticity degenerates at the critical points of a given solution. We show that any solution is $C^{1,\alpha}$…

We introduce a new method for proving the nonexistence of positive supersolutions of elliptic inequalities in unbounded domains of $\mathbb{R}^n$. The simplicity and robustness of our maximum principle-based argument provides for its…

We consider viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations on bounded domains. We prove comparison principles and a priori supremum bounds for the solutions. We also address the eigenvalue problem and, in many…

The main point of this paper is to prove the following useful result: If the almost everywhere 2-jet of a locally quasi-convex function u satisfies a degenerate elliptic constraint F, then u is F-subharmonic, i.e., u is a viscosity…

If mu is a smooth density on a hypersurface in R^d whose curvature never vanishes to infinite order, and A is a d-by-d matrix whose eigenvalues all have absolute value greater than 1, then the maximal function given by convolving f with…

We prove sharp regularity estimates for solutions of obstacle type problems driven by a class of degenerate fully nonlinear operators; more specifically, we consider viscosity solutions of \[ |D u|^\gamma F(x, D^2u) = f(x)\chi_{\{u>\phi\}}…