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In this paper we consider the system involving fully nonlinear nonlocal operators: $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} F_{\alpha}(u(x)) = C_{n,\alpha} PV \int_{{R}^n} \frac{G(u(x)-u(y))}{|x-y|^{n+\alpha}} dy=f(v(x)), F_{\beta}(v(x)) = C_{n,\beta}…

In this paper, we consider nonlinear equations involving the fractional p-Laplacian $$ (-\lap)_p^s u(x)) \equiv C_{n,s,p} PV \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^{p-2}[u(x)-u(y)]}{|x-z|^{n+ps}} dz= f(x,u).$$ We prove a {\em maximum…

In this paper, we consider the following non-linear equations in unbounded domains $\Omega$ with exterior Dirichlet condition: \begin{equation*}\begin{cases} (-\Delta)_p^s u(x)=f(u(x)), & x\in\Omega,\\ u(x)>0, &x\in\Omega,\\ u(x)\leq0,…

This paper is concerned about maximum principles and radial symmetry for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear partial differential equations. We obtain the radial symmetry and monotonicity properties for nonnegative viscosity solutions of…

We study one-sided nonlocal equations of the form $$\int_{x_0}^\infty\frac{u(x)-u(x_0)}{(x-x_0)^{1+\alpha}} dx=f(x_0),$$ on the real line. Notice that to compute this nonlocal operator of order $0<\alpha<1$ at a point $x_0$ we need to know…

In this paper, we investigate the monotonicity of solutions for a nonlinear equations involving the fractional Laplacian with variable exponent. We first prove different maximum principles involving this operator. Then we employ the direct…

In this paper, we study semilinear fractional equations $$(-\Delta)^s u(x) = f(u(x))$$ in a half-space and prove that all positive solutions are strictly increasing in the $x_n$-direction. Previous results typically require the solution $u$…

We consider the nonlinear problem \[(P) \;\; I u=f(x,u) \text{ in $\Omega$,} \;\; u=0 \text{ on $\mathbb{R}^{N}\setminus\Omega$ }\] in an open bounded set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, where $I$ is a nonlocal operator which may be…

In this paper, we study the semilinear integro-differential equations \begin{equation*} \mathcal{L}_{K}u(x)\equiv C_n\text{P.V.}\int_{\R^n}\left(u(x)-u(y)\right)K(x-y)dy=f(x,u), \end{equation*} and the full nonlinear integro-differential…

In this paper, we establish the following Liouville theorem for fractional \emph{p}-harmonic functions. {\em Assume that $u$ is a bounded solution of $$(-\lap)^s_p u(x) = 0, \;\; x \in \mathbb{R}^n,$$ with $0<s<1$ and $p \geq 2$. Then $u$…

We study different maximum principles for non-local non-linear operators with non-standard growth that arise naturally in the context of fractional Orlicz-Sobolev spaces and whose most notable representative is the fractional $g-$Laplacian:…

We study the validity of the comparison and maximum principles, and their relation with principal eigenvalues, for a class of degenerate nonlinear operators that are extremal among operators with one dimensional fractional diffusion.

In this paper, we discuss the maximum principle for a time-fractional diffusion equation $$ \partial_t^\alpha u(x,t) = \sum_{i,j=1}^n \partial_i(a_{ij}(x)\partial_j u(x,t)) + c(x)u(x,t) + F(x,t),\ t>0,\ x \in \Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^n$$…

In this paper, we study solvability and qualitative properties of nonnegative solutions for a sublinear nonlocal problem with fully nonlinear structure in the form $$ \mathcal{M}^{\pm}[u]+a(x)u^{q}(x)=0 \; \text{ in }\Omega,\qquad u\geq 0…

The necessity of a Maximum Principle arises naturally when one is interested in the study of qualitative properties of solutions to partial differential equations. In general, to ensure the validity of these kind of principles one has to…

We study the fully nonlinear elliptic equation $F(D^2u,Du,u,x) = f$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$, under the assumption the nonlinearity $F$ is uniformly elliptic and positively homogeneous. Recently, it has been shown that such…

We consider fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations with quadratic growth in the gradient, such as $$ -F(x,u,Du,D^2u) =\lambda c(x)u+\langle M(x)D u, D u \rangle +h(x) $$ in a bounded domain with a Dirichlet boundary condition, here…

We investigate nonnegative solutions $u(x,t)$ and $v(x,t)$ of the nonlinear system of inequalities \[0\leq(\partial_t -\Delta)^\alpha u\leq v^\lambda\] \[ 0\leq (\partial_t -\Delta)^\beta v\leq u^\sigma\] in $\mathbb{R}^n \times\mathbb{R}$,…

In this paper, we establish various maximum principles and develop the method of moving planes and the sliding method (on general unbounded domains) for equations involving the uniformly elliptic nonlocal Bellman operator. As a consequence,…

In this paper, we first study the dual fractional parabolic equation \begin{equation*} \partial^\alpha_t u(x,t)+(-\Delta)^s u(x,t) = f(u(x,t))\ \ \mbox{in}\ \ B_1(0)\times\R , \end{equation*} subject to the vanishing exterior condition. We…