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We investigate symmetry properties of solutions to equations of the form $$ -\Delta u = \frac{a}{|x|^2} u + f(|x|, u)$$ in R^N for $N \geq 4$, with at most critical nonlinearities. By using geometric arguments, we prove that solutions with…
This paper is devoted to study the following Choquard equation \begin{eqnarray*}\left\{ \begin{array}{lll} (-\triangle)^{\alpha/2}u=(|x|^{\beta-n}\ast u^p)u^{p-1},~~~&x\in R^n, u\geq0,\,\,&x\in R^n, \end{array} \right. \end{eqnarray*} where…
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq1$, be a smooth bounded domain, and let $m:\Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ be a possibly sign-changing function. We investigate the existence of positive solutions for the semipositone problem $-\Delta…
We prove a radial symmetry result for bounded nonnegative solutions to the $p$-Laplacian semilinear equation $-\Delta_p u=f(u)$ posed in a ball of $\mathbb R^n$ and involving discontinuous nonlinearities $f$. When $p=2$ we obtain a new…
In this article we study the estimation of bifurcation coefficients in nonlinear branching problems by means of Rayleigh-Ritz approximation to the eigenvectors of the corresponding linearized problem. It is essential that the approximations…
A new transformation for radially symmetric solutions to the subcritical fast diffusion equation with spatially inhomogeneous source $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m+|x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed for $(x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\times(0,\infty)$ and with…
We consider the equation $-\Delta u= |x|^{\alpha}|u|^{p-1}u$ for any $\alpha\geq 0$, either in $\mathbb R^2$ or in the unit ball $B$ of $\mathbb R^2$ centered at the origin with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. We give a sharp…
In this paper, we consider the fractional elliptic equation \begin{align*} \left\{\begin{aligned} &(-\Delta)^s u-\mu\frac{u}{|x|^{2s}} = \frac{|u|^{2_s^\ast (\alpha)-2}u}{|x|^{\alpha}} + f(x,u), && \mbox{in} \ \Omega,\\ &u=0, && \mbox{in} \…
We investigate the problem $$-\Delta u = \lambda b(x)|u|^{q-2}u +a(x)|u|^{p-2}u \mbox{ in } \Omega, \quad \frac{\partial u}{\partial \mathbf{n}} = 0 \mbox{ on } \partial \Omega, \leqno{(P_\lambda)} $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth…
We investigate a nonlinear nonlocal eigenvalue problem involving the sum of fractional $(p,q)$-Laplace operators $(-\Delta)_p^{s_1}+(-\Delta)_q^{s_2}$ with $s_1,s_2\in (0,1)$; $p,q\in(1,\infty)$ and subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions…
We establish a priori $L^\infty$-estimates for non-negative solutions of a semilinear nonlocal Neumann problem. As a consequence of these estimates, we get non-existence of non-constant solutions under suitable assumptions on the diffusion…
In this paper we study the existence of solution for the following class of nonlocal problems \[ L_0u =u \left(\lambda - \int_{\Omega}Q(x,y) |u(y)|^p dy \right) , \ \mbox{in} \ \Omega, \] where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq 1$, is…
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…
Let $B_1$ be the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with $N \geq 2$. Let $f\in C^1([0, \infty), \mathbb{R})$, $f(0)=0$, $f(\beta) = \beta, \ f(s)<s\ \text{for}\ s\in (0,\beta), \ f(s)>s\ \text{for}\ s\in (\beta, \infty)$ and…
We consider the supercritical problem -\Delta u = |u|^{p-2}u in \Omega, u=0 on \partial\Omega, where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N},$ $N\geq3,$ and $p\geq2^{*}:= 2N/(N-2).$ Bahri and Coron showed that if $\Omega$ has…
We consider the problem -\Delta u - g(u) = \lambda u, u \in H^1(\R^N), \int_{\R^N} u^2 = 1, \lambda\in\R, in dimension $N\ge2$. Here $g$ is a superlinear, subcritical, possibly nonhomogeneous, odd nonlinearity. We deal with the case where…
We consider the fully nonlinear problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -F(x,D^2u)=|u|^{p-1}u & \text{in $\Omega$}\\ u=0 & \text{on $\partial\Omega$} \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $F$ is uniformly elliptic, $p>1$ and $\Omega$ is either…
In this paper, the fractional order curvature equation $(-\Delta)^\gamma u = (1 + \varepsilon K(x))u^{\frac{N + 2\gamma}{N - 2\gamma}}$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ is considered. Assuming $K(x)$ has two critical points satisfying certain local…
Many physical systems can be described by nonlinear eigenvalues and bifurcation problems with a linear part that is non-selfadjoint e.g. due to the presence of loss and gain. The balance of these effects is reflected in an antilinear…
We consider elliptic systems with superlinear and subcritical boundary conditions and a bifurcation parameter as a multiplicative factor. By combining the rescaling method with degree theory and elliptic regularity theory, we prove the…