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We study local and global properties of positive solutions of $-{\Delta}u=u^p]{\left |{\nabla u}\right |}^q$ in a domain ${\Omega}$ of ${\mathbb R}^N$, in the range $1\<p+q$, $p\geq 0$, $0\leq q\< 2$. We first prove a local Harnack…
By a combination of variational and topological techniques in the presence of invariant cones, we detect a new type of positive axially symmetric solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the elliptic equation $$ -\Delta u + u = a(x)|u|^{p-2}u…
In this paper we are going to show the existence of a nontrivial solution to the following model problem, \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{lll} -\Delta (u) = 2uln(1+u^2)+\frac{|u|^2}{1+u^2}2u+u(sin(u)-cos(u)) \mbox{a.e. on } \Omega…
We study a class of semilinear elliptic equations on spaces of tempered ultradistributions of Beurling and Roumieu type. Assuming that the linear part of the equation is an elliptic pseudodifferential operator of infinite order with a…
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We obtain an improved version of a recent result concerning the existence of nonnegative nonradial solutions $u\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^{N})\cap L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{N},\left| x\right| ^{-\alpha }dx)$ to the equation \[ -\triangle…
We study the existence/nonexistence of positive solution of $$ {\Delta^2u-\mu\frac{u}{|x|^4}=\frac{|u|^{q_{\beta}-2}u}{|x|^{\beta}}\quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}} $$ when $\Omega$ is a bounded domain and $N\geq 5$,…
Let $p\in(0,\frac{N}{N-2\alpha})$, $\alpha\in(0,1)$ and $\Omega\subset \R^N$ be a bounded $C^2$ domain containing $0$. If $\delta_0$ is the Dirac measure at $0$ and $k>0$, we prove that the weakly singular solution $u_k$ of $(E_k)$ $…
We study entire bounded solutions to the equation $\Delta u - u + u^3 = 0$ in $\mathbb R^2$. Our approach is purely variational and is based on concentration arguments and symmetry considerations. This method allows us to construct in a…
In this paper, we establish Liouville type theorems for stable solutions on the whole space $\mathbb R^N$ to the fractional elliptic equation $$(-\Delta)^su=f(u)$$ where the nonlinearity is nondecreasing and convex. We also obtain a…
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 the semilinear elliptic inequality $-\Delta u\geq\varphi(\delta_K(x))f(u)$ in $R^N\setminus K,$ where $\varphi, f$ are non-negative and continuous functions, $K\subset R^N$ $(N\geq 2)$ is a compact set and $\delta_K(x)={\rm…
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