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We continue the development, by reduction to a first order system for the conormal gradient, of $L^2$ \textit{a priori} estimates and solvability for boundary value problems of Dirichlet, regularity, Neumann type for divergence form second…

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We consider viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations on bounded domains. We prove comparison principles and a priori supremum bounds for the solutions. We also address the eigenvalue problem and, in many…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Tilak Bhattacharya , Leonardo Marazzi

We prove a comparison principle for local weak solutions to a class of widely degenerate elliptic equations of the form \begin{equation} -\text{div} \left( \left(|Du|-1 \right)^{p-1}_+\frac{Du}{|Du|} \right) = f(x,u) \qquad \text{ in }…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Antonio Giuseppe Grimaldi , Stefania Russo

In this paper, we study parabolic equations in divergence form with coefficients that are singular degenerate as some Muckenhoupt weight functions in one spatial variable. Under certain conditions, weighted reverse H\"{o}lder's inequalities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Hongjie Dong , Tuoc Phan

We establish a microscopic convexity principle for nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations in general form.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Baojun Bian , Pengfei Guan

We study the asymptotic behavior of Lipschitz continuous solutions of nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations in the periodic setting. Our results apply to a large class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. Defining S as the set where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Olivier Ley , Vinh Duc Nguyen

We analyze the local elliptic regularity of weak solutions to the Dirichlet problem associated with the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ on an arbitrary bounded open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$. For $1<p<2$, we obtain regularity in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Umberto Biccari , Mahamadi Warma , Enrique Zuazua

In terms of layer potential methods, this paper is devoted to study the $L^2$ boundary value problems for nonhomogeneous elliptic operators with rapidly oscillating coefficients in a periodic setting. Under a low regularity assumption on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Qiang Xu , Peihao Zhao , Shulin Zhou

We consider the comparison principle for semicontinuous viscosity sub- and supersolutions of second order elliptic equations on the form $F(D^2 w,x) = 0$. A structural condition on the operator is presented that seems to unify the different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Karl K. Brustad

We start in this paper a systematic study of the superpositions of elliptic operators with different orders, mixing classical and fractional scenarios. For concreteness, we focus on the sum of the Laplacian and the fractional Laplacian, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Stefano Biagi , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Eugenio Vecchi

We prove sharp regularity estimates for solutions of highly degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations. These are free boundary models in which a nonlinear diffusion process drives the system only in the region where the gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Damião Araújo , Aelson Sobral , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We present comparison principles, Lipschitz estimates and study state constraints problems for degenerate, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-08 Scott N. Armstrong , Hung V. Tran

We study the doubly nonlinear PDE $$ |\partial_t u|^{p-2}\,\partial_t u-\textrm{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=0. $$ This equation arises in the study of extremals of Poincar\'e inequalities in Sobolev spaces. We prove spatial Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Ryan Hynd , Erik Lindgren

We obtain new oscillation and gradient bounds for the viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations where the Hamiltonian is a sum of a sublinear and a superlinear part in the sense of Barles and Souganidis (2001). We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Olivier Ley , Vinh Duc Nguyen

We apply improved elliptic regularity results to a concrete symmetric Dirichlet form and various non-symmetric Dirichlet forms with possibly degenerate symmetric diffusion matrix. Given the (non)-symmetric Dirichlet form, using elliptic…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Jiyong Shin

We extend known existence and uniqueness results of weak measure solutions for systems of non-local continuity equations beyond the usual Lipschitz regularity. Existence of weak measure solutions holds for uniformly continuous vector fields…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Marco Inversi , Giorgio Stefani

A sharp pointwise differential inequality for vectorial second-order partial differential operators, with Uhlenbeck structure, is offered. As a consequence, optimal second-order regularity properties of solutions to nonlinear elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Anna Kh. Balci , Andrea Cianchi , Lars Diening , Vladimir Maz'ya

We characterize the validity of the Maximum Principle in bounded domains for fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic operators in terms of the sign of a suitably defined generalized principal eigenvalue. Here, maximum principle refers to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-14 Henri Berestycki , Italo Capuzzo Dolcetta , Alessio Porretta , Luca Rossi

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Guozhen Lu , Jiuyi Zhu

We present recent advances in the regularity theory for weak solutions to some classes of elliptic and parabolic equations with strongly singular or degenerate structure. The equations under consideration satisfy standard $p$-growth and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Pasquale Ambrosio