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We consider the fourth order problem $\Delta^{2}u=\lambda f(u)$ on a general bounded domain $\Omega$ in $R^{n}$ with the Navier boundary condition $u=\Delta u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Here, $\lambda$ is a positive parameter and $…

We show that any classical solution of the diffusive Hamilton-Jacobi (DHJ) equation $-\Delta u= |\nabla u|^p$ in a half-space with zero boundary conditions for $1<p\le 2$ is necessarily one-dimensional. This improves the previously known…

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Given a smooth compact k-dimensional manifold \Lambda embedded in $\mathbb {R}^m$, with m\geq 2 and 1\leq k\leq m-1, and given \epsilon>0, we define B_\epsilon (\Lambda) to be the geodesic tubular neighborhood of radius \epsilon about…

We consider the nonlinear biharmonic Schr\"odinger equation $$i\partial_tu+(\Delta^2+\mu\Delta)u+f(u)=0,\qquad (\text{BNLS})$$ in the critical Sobolev space $H^s(\R^N)$, where $N\ge1$, $\mu=0$ or $-1$, $0<s<\min\{\fc N2,8\}$ and $f(u)$ is a…

We study the existence and non-existence of positive solutions for the following class of nonlinear elliptic problems in the hyperbolic space $$ -\Delta_{\mathbb{B}^N} u-\lambda u=a(x)u^{p-1} \, + \, \varepsilon u^{2^*-1}…

Motivated by its relation to models of flame propagation, we study globally Lipschitz solutions of $\Delta u=f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $f$ is smooth, non-negative, with support in the interval $[0,1]$. In such setting, any "blow-down"…

We study the semilinear indefinite elliptic problem \[ -\Delta u = Q_\Omega |u|^{p-2}u \quad \text{in } \mathbb{R}^N, \] where $Q_\Omega = \chi_\Omega - \chi_{\mathbb{R}^N \setminus \Omega}$, $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ is a bounded…

We examine the equation given by \begin{equation} \label{eq_abstract} -\Delta u + a(x) \cdot \nabla u = u^p \qquad \mbox{in $ \IR^N$,} \end{equation} where $p>1$ and $ a(x)$ is a smooth vector field satisfying some decay conditions. We show…

In this paper, we use variational methods to prove the existence of positive solution for the following class of elliptic equation $$ -\epsilon^{2}\Delta{u}+V(z)u=f(u) \,\,\, \mbox{in} \,\,\, \mathbb{R}^{2}, $$ where $\epsilon >0$ is a…

In this paper, we consider the weighted fourth order equation $$\Delta(|x|^{-\alpha}\Delta u)+\lambda \text{div}(|x|^{-\alpha-2}\nabla u)+\mu|x|^{-\alpha-4}u=|x|^\beta u^p\quad \text{in} \quad \mathbb{R}^n \backslash \{0\},$$ where $n\geq…

We shall prove a multiplicity result for semilinear elliptic problems with a super-critical nonlinearity of the form, \begin{equation}\label{con-c} \left \{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u =|u|^{p-2} u+\mu |u|^{q-2}u, & x \in \Omega\\ u=0, & x…

We consider the problem of multiplicity and uniqueness of radial solutions of a nonlinear elliptic equation of the form \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{gathered} \Delta u +f(u)=0,\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^N, N\geq 2, \lim\limits_{|x|\to\infty}u(x)=0.…

We study stable solutions of a fourth order nonlinear elliptic equation, both in entire space and in bounded domains.

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We prove that, if $g$ is a continuous asymptotically convex function, any solution $u$ of $-\Delta u+g(u)=0$ in a ball B which tends to infinity on $\partial B$ is radially symmetric.