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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 establish the uniqueness of the higher radial bound state solutions of $$ \Delta u +f(u)=0,\quad x\in \RR^n. \leqno(P) $$ We assume that the nonlinearity $f\in C(-\infty,\infty)$ is an odd function satisfying some convexity and growth…

Given $k\in\mathbb N$, we define a class of continuous piecewise functions $f$ having abrupt but controlled magnitude changes so that the problem $$\Delta u +f(u)=0,\quad x\in \mathbb R^N, N> 2, $$ has at least $k$ radially symmetric ground…

In this paper we establish the existence of bound state solutions of any given order to $$ \Delta_m u +f(u)=0, x\in R^N, N\ge m>1, (P) $$ where $\Delta_m u=\nabla\cdot(|\nabla u|^{m-2}\nabla u)$ using the same techniques as in [GST] to…

We prove the existence of a solution of (--$\Delta$) s u + f (u) = 0 in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ with a prescribed boundary value $\mu$ in the class of positive Radon measures for a large class of continuous functions f satisfying a…

In this article, we investigate the existence and multiplicity of solutions to the Robin problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = \lambda f(u) & \text{in } \Omega, \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} + \gamma u=0 & \text{on }…

In this paper we define a new operator $J$ for the study of $$ \Delta u +f(u)=0,\quad x\in R ^N, N> 2. $$ Using $J$ we can easily see some qualitative properties of the solutions, for example we can determine how many times $u$ changes…

We establish the uniqueness of positive radial solutions of $$\begin{cases} \Delta u +f(u)=0,\quad x\in A \\ u(x) =0 \quad x\in \partial A \end{cases} $$ where $A:=A_{a,b}=\{ x\in {\mathbb R}^n : a<|x|<b \}$, $0<a<b\le\infty$. We assume…

Assuming $B_{R}$ is a ball in $\mathbb R^{N}$, we analyze the positive solutions of the problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u+u= |u|^{p-2}u, &\text{ in } B_{R},\newline \partial_{\nu}u=0,&\text{ on } \partial B_{R}, \end{cases} \] that branch…

We study the multiplicity of positive solutions for a two-point boundary value problem associated to the nonlinear second order equation $u''+f(x,u)=0$. We allow $x \mapsto f(x,s)$ to change its sign in order to cover the case of scalar…

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, we study the behavior of multiple continua of solutions to the semilinear elliptic problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = \lambda f(u) &\text{ in } \Omega, u=0 &\text{ on } \partial\Omega, \end{cases}…

In this paper, we study radial solutions of $\Delta u + K(|x|) f(u)+\frac{ (N-2)^2 u}{|x|^{2+(N-2)\delta}} =0, \ 0<\delta<2$ in the exterior of the ball of radius $R>0$ in ${\mathbb R}^{N}$ where $f$ grows superlinearly at infinity and is…

We consider the nonlinear elliptic equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta u + V(x)u = f(u), \qquad u\in D^{1,2}_0(\Omega), \end{equation*} in an exterior domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$, where $V$ is a scalar potential that decays to zero at…

We prove the existence of multiple positive radial solutions to the sign-indefinite elliptic boundary blow-up problem \[ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \Delta u + \bigl(a^+(\vert x \vert) - \mu a^-(\vert x \vert)\bigr) g(u) = 0, & \; \vert x…

: We establish existence of an infinite family of exponentially-decaying non-radial $C^2$ solutions to the equation $\Delta u + f(u) = 0$ on $R^2$ for a large class of nonlinearities $f$. These solutions have the form $u(r,\theta )=e^{i…

We study the monotonicity and one-dimensional symmetry of positive solutions to the problem $-\Delta_p u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ under zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$ and $f:(0,+\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$ is a locally…

The existence of a positive solution to the following fractional semilinear equation is proven, in a situation where a ground state solution may not exist. More precisely, we consider for $0<s<1$ the equation $$ (-\Delta)^s u +…

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…

In this paper the question of finding infinitely many solutions to the problem $-\Delta u+a(x)u=|u|^{p-2}u$, in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $u \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N)$, is considered when $N\geq 2$, $p \in (2, 2N/(N-2))$, and the potential $a(x)$ is a…