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We consider the problem $(P)$, $$ -\Delta u =c(x)u+\mu|\nabla u|^2 +f(x), \quad u \in H^1_0(\Omega) \cap L^{\infty}(\Omega),$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N \geq 3$, $\mu>0, \, c \in…
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We give a survey at an introductory level of old and recent results in the study of critical points of solutions of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. To keep the presentation simple, we mainly consider four exemplary…
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We consider the following elliptic system with Neumann boundary: \begin{equation} \begin{cases} -\Delta u + \mu u=v^p, &\hbox{in } \Omega, \\-\Delta v + \mu v=u^q, &\hbox{in } \Omega, \\\frac{\partial u}{\partial n} = \frac{\partial…
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The paper concerns with positive solutions of problems of the type $-\Delta u+a(x)\, u=u^{p-1}+\varepsilon u^{2^*-1}$ in $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\ge 3$, $2^*={2N\over N-2}$, $2<p<2^*$. Here $\Omega$ can be an exterior domain, i.e.…
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N$, $N \geq 2$, be a smooth bounded domain. We consider a boundary value problem of the form $$-\Delta u = c_{\lambda}(x) u + \mu(x) |\nabla u|^2 + h(x), \quad u \in H^1_0(\Omega)\cap L^{\infty}(\Omega)$$ where…
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We study the effect of lower order perturbations in the existence of positive solutions to the following critical elliptic problem involving the fractional Laplacian: (-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u=\lambda u^q+u^{\frac{N+\alpha}{N-\alpha}}, \quad…
We study nonnegative solutions of the boundary value problem $$-\Delta u = \lambda c(x)u + \mu(x)|\nabla u|^2 + h(x),\quad u\in H^1_0(\Omega)\cap L^\infty(\Omega), \leqno(P_\lambda)$$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain, $\mu, c\in…
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