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We prove the existence of entire solutions with exponential growth for the semilinear elliptic system [\begin{cases} -\Delta u = -u v^2 & \text{in $\R^N$} -\Delta v= -u^2 v & \text{in $\R^N$} u,v>0, \end{cases}] for every $N \ge 2$. Our…
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We consider elliptic operators in divergence form with lower order terms of the form $Lu=-$div$\nabla u+bu)-c\nabla u-du$, in an open set $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 3$, with possibly infinite Lebesgue measure. We assume that the…
Given a smooth and bounded domain $\Omega(\subset\mathbf{R}^N)$, we prove the existence of two non-trivial, non-negative solutions for the semilinear degenerate elliptic equation \begin{align} \left. \begin{array}{l} -\Delta_\lambda u=\mu…
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We consider a class of semilinear elliptic system of the form $-\Delta u(x,y)+\nabla W(u(x,y))=0,\quad (x,y)\in\R^{2}$ where $W:\R^{2}\to\R$ is a double well non negative symmetric potential. We show, via variational methods, that if the…
In this paper, we study the mathematical structure and numerical approximation of elliptic problems posed in a (3D) domain $\Omega$ when the right-hand side is a (1D) line source $\Lambda$. The analysis and approximation of such problems is…
In this paper, we develop and study algorithms for approximately solving the linear algebraic systems: $\mathcal{A}_h^\alpha u_h = f_h$, $ 0< \alpha <1$, for $u_h, f_h \in V_h$ with $V_h$ a finite element approximation space. Such problems…
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…
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 consider a smooth, complete and non-compact Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal{M},g)$ of dimension $d \geq 3$, and we look for positive solutions to the semilinear elliptic equation $$ -\Delta_g w + V w = \alpha f(w) + \lambda w…
This paper is the second part of a work devoted to the study of elliptic systems involving multiple Hardy-Sobolev critical exponents: $$\begin{cases} -\Delta u-\lambda \frac{|u|^{2^*(s_1)-2}u}{|x|^{s_1}}=\kappa\alpha…
We analyze numerical approximation of the fractional elliptic problem $L^{\beta}u=f$, ${\beta>0}$, where $L$ is a second-order self-adjoint elliptic operator with homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The paper develops a…
We establish existence and qualitative properties of saddle-shaped solutions of the elliptic fractional equation $(-\Delta)^{1/2}u=f(u)$ in all the space $\re^{2m}$, where $f$ is of bistable type. These solutions are odd with respect to the…
In this paper, we investigate the existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic system \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases}{ccc} -\mbox{div}(\phi_1(|\nabla u|)\nabla u)+V_1(x)\phi_1(|u|)u=\lambda F_u(x, u,v), \ \ x\in \mathbb R^N,…
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In this article, we prove existence results of positive solutions for the following nonlinear elliptic problem with gradient terms: \begin{eqnarray*} \left\{\begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} (-\Delta)^\alpha u=f(x,u,v,\nabla u, \nabla v) &{\rm…
We construct multibump nodal solutions of the elliptic equation $$ -\Delta u=a^+[\lambda u+ f(\, \cdot\,, u)]-\mu a^- g(\, \cdot\,, u) $$ in $H^1_0(\Omega)$, when $\mu$ is large, under appropriate assumptions, for $f$ superlinear and…
In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear elliptic equation with gradient term: \[ \left\{ \begin{gathered} - \Delta u - \frac{1}{2}(x \cdot \nabla u) + (\lambda a(x)+b(x))u = \beta u^q +u^{2^*-1}, \hfill 0<u \in…