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While there are numerous results on minimizers or stable solutions of the Bernoulli problem proving regularity of the free boundary and analyzing singularities, much less in known about critical points of the corresponding energy. Saddle…
In this paper, we study fully nonlinear second-order elliptic and parabolic equations with Neumann boundary conditions on compact Riemannian manifolds with smooth boundary. We derive oscillation bounds for admissible solutions with Neumann…
Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have been extensively studied in the literature. We initiate the corresponding study of higher critical points by considering a superlinear free boundary problem…
We present a preliminary study of a new phenomena associated with the Euler-Poisson equations -- the so called critical threshold phenomena, where the answer to questions of global smoothness vs. finite time breakdown depends on whether the…
Given $\mu > 0$, we study the elliptic problem: \begin{align*} \text{ find } (u,\lambda) \in H_0^1(\Omega) \times \mathbb{R} \text{ such that } -\Delta u + \lambda u = |u|^{p-2}u \text{ in } \Omega \text{ and } \int_\Omega|u|^2dx = \mu,…
In this paper, we consider the following Kirchhoff problem $$ \left\{\aligned -\bigg(a+b\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^2dx\bigg)\Delta u&= \lambda u^{q-1} + \mu u^{2^*-1}, &\quad \text{in }\Omega, \\ u&>0,&\quad\text{in }\Omega,\\…
In this paper, we investigate the following nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with Neumann boundary conditions: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u+ \lambda u= f(u) & {\rm in} \,~ \Omega,\\ \displaystyle\frac{\partial u}{\partial…
In this paper we consider nonlinear elliptic PDEs of the type $$-\Delta_p u+a(x)|u|^{p-2}u=|u|^{p^*-2}u \qquad \mbox{ in }\Omega,$$ where $1<p<N$ and $p^*=Np/(N-p)$ is the critical Sobolev exponent, and allowing the asymptotic behavior of…
We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the doubly nonlinear parabolic equation \[ \epsilon(x)\partial_t u^m-\nabla\cdot\bigl(\gamma(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)=0 \quad\text{in }(0,T)\times\Omega, \] where…
In this paper, we investigate positive solutions to a class of Laplace equations with a gradient term on a complete, connected, and noncompact Riemannian manifold \((M^n,g)\) with nonnegative Ricci curvature, namely \[-\Delta u =…
We consider the Dirichlet problem for second-order linear elliptic equations in divergence form \begin{equation*} -\mathrm{div }(A\nabla u)+\mathbf{b} \cdot \nabla u+\lambda u=f+\mathrm{div } \mathbf{F}\quad \text{in }…
The focus of this paper is to show the absence of critical points for the solutions to the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{3}$, given by \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} -\rm{div}(a\,\nabla u_{\omega}^{g})-\omega…
We consider an optimization problem related to elliptic PDEs of the form $-{\rm div}(a(x)\nabla u)=f$ with Dirichlet boundary condition on a given domain $\Omega$. The coefficient $a(x)$ has to be determined, in a suitable given class of…
In this paper we study the initial boundary value problem for the system $\mbox{div}(\sigma(u)\nabla\varphi)=0,\ \ u_t-\Delta u=\sigma(u)|\nabla\varphi|^2$. This problem is known as the thermistor problem which models the electrical heating…
This paper is devoted to the existence of positive solutions for a problem related to a fourth-order differential equation involving a nonlinear term depending on a second order differential operator, $$(-\Delta)^2 u=\lambda u+…
In this paper, the author derives an $O(h^4)$-superconvergence for the piecewise linear Ritz-Galerkin finite element approximations for the second order elliptic equation $-\nabla \cdot(A\nabla u)= f$ equipped with Dirichlet boundary…
Local and global pointwise gradient estimates are obtained for solutions to the quasilinear elliptic equation with measure data $-\operatorname{div}(A(x,\nabla u))=\mu$ in a bounded and possibly nonsmooth domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$.…
We consider the existence and nonexistence of positive solution for the following Br\'ezis-Nirenberg problem with logarithmic perturbation: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u={\left|u\right|}^{{2}^{\ast }-2}u+\lambda u+\mu u\log…
By a combination of variational and topological techniques in the presence of invariant cones, we detect a new type of positive axially symmetric solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the elliptic equation $$ -\Delta u + u = a(x)|u|^{p-2}u…
In this note we show the existence of at least three nontrivial solutions to the following quasilinear elliptic equation $-\Delta_p u = |u|^{p^*-2}u + \lambda f(x,u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\R^N$ with homogeneous Dirichlet…