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We study the problem $-\Delta u=\lambda u-u^{-1}$ with a Neumann boundary condition; the peculiarity being the presence of the singular term $-u^{-1}$. We point out that the minus sign in front of the negative power of $u$ is particularly…
For $N \geq 5$ and $a>0$, we consider the following semipositone problem \begin{align*} \Delta^2 u= g(x)f_a(u) \text { in } \mathbb{R}^N, \, \text{ and } \, u \in \mathcal{D}^{2,2}(\mathbb{R}^N),\ \ \ \qquad \quad \mathrm{(SP)} \end{align*}…
We study the stability of radial solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation $\Delta u +f(u)=0$ in ${\bf R^N}$, where $N \geq 3$ and $f$ is a general superciritical nonlinearity. We give a classification of the solution structures with…
We study properties of the semilinear elliptic equation $\Delta u = 1/u$ on domains in $R^n$, with an eye toward nonnegative singular solutions as limits of positive smooth solutions. We prove the nonexistence of such solutions in low…
In this paper, we study real solutions of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation $$ - \Delta u - k^2 u = f(x,u),\qquad x\in \R^N $$ satisfying the asymptotic conditions $$ u(x)=O(|x|^{\frac{1-N}{2}}) \quad \text{and} \quad \frac{\partial^2…
We prove a weak comparison principle in narrow unbounded domains for solutions to $-\Delta_p u=f(u)$ in the case $2<p< 3$ and $f(\cdot)$ is a power-type nonlinearity, or in the case $p>2$ and $f(\cdot)$ is super-linear. We exploit it to…
This paper is devoted to the study of the existence of positive solutions for a problem related to a higher order fractional differential equation involving a nonlinear term depending on a fractional differential operator,…
In the present paper we prove existence results for solutions to nonlinear elliptic Neumann problems whose prototype is \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta_{p} u -\text{div} (c(x)|u|^{p-2}u)) =f & \text{in}\ \Omega, \\ \left( |\nabla…
In this paper, we prove the existence of non-radial solutions to the problem $-\triangle u=f(z,u)$, $u|_{\partial D}=0$ on the unit disc $D:=\{z\in \mathbb C : |z|<1\}$ with $u(z)\in \mathbb R^k$, where $f$ is a sub-linear continuous…
In this paper, we propose an existence result pertaining to a nontrivial solution to the problem \begin{align*} \Bigg\{\begin{split} & \Delta^2_p u -\Delta_p u + \lambda V(x)|u|^{p-2}u = f(x,u)\,,\,x\in \mathbb{R}^N, & u \in…
For $n \geq 5$, we consider positive solutions $u$ of the biharmonic equation \[ \Delta^2 u = u^\frac{n+4}{n-4} \qquad \text{on}\ \mathbb R^n \setminus \{0\} \] with a non-removable singularity at the origin. We show that…
In this work we analyze the existence of solutions to the nonlinear elliptic system: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u & = & v^q+\a g & \text{in }\Omega , \\ -\Delta v& = &|\nabla u|^{p}+\l f &\text{in }\Omega , \\…
The aim of this paper is to prove the existence of weak solutions to the equation $\Delta u + u^p = 0$ which are positive in a domain $\Omega \subset {\Bbb R}^N$, vanish at the boundary, and have prescribed isolated singularities. The…
We prove that all positive solutions of $-\Delta u = u^{\frac{2n}{n-2}}$ on the upper half space $\mathbb{R}^n_{+}$ (for $n \geq 3$) satisfying the boundary condition $D_{x_n}u = -u^{\frac{n}{n-2}}$ are of the form $u(x) = a \left(…
In this paper we shall classify all positive solutions of $ \Delta u =a u^p$ on the upper half space $ H =\Bbb{R}_+^n$ with nonlinear boundary condition $ {\partial u}/{\partial t}= - b u^q $ on $\partial H$ for both positive parameters $a,…
We study fully nonlinear elliptic equations such as \[ F(D^2u) = u^p, \quad p>1, \] in $\R^n$ or in exterior domains, where $F$ is any uniformly elliptic, positively homogeneous operator. We show that there exists a critical exponent,…
We consider equation $-\Delta u+f(x,u)=0$ in smooth bounded domain $\Omega\in\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geqslant2$, with $f(x,r)>0$ in $\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^1_+$ and $f(x,r)=0$ on $\partial\Omega$. We find the condition on the order of degeneracy…
We consider the polyharmonic equation $(-\Delta)^m u=e^u$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with $m \geq 3$ and $N > 2m$. We prove the existence of many entire stable solutions. This answer some questions raised by Farina and Ferrero.
In this paper, we study the semilinear elliptic equation and inequality on pseudo-Hermitian manifolds. In particular, we first obtain a Liouville theorem for the equation $\Delta_b u+F(u)=0$ based on a generalized Jerison-Lee's formula.…
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