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We introduce a notion of subunit vector field for fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations. We prove that an interior maximum of a viscosity subsolution of such an equation propagates along the trajectories of subunit vector fields.…

In this paper we prove a strong comparison principle for radially decreasing solutions $u,v\in C_{0}^{1,\alpha}(\Bar{B_R})$ of the singular equations $-\Delta_p u-\frac{1}{u^\delta}=f(x)$ and $-\Delta_p v-\frac{1}{v^\delta}=g(x)$ in $B_R$.…

The weak and strong comparison principles, respectively, are investigated for quasi-linear elliptic boundary value problems with the $p$-Laplacian in one space dimension. We treat the degenerate case of $2 < p < \infty$ and allow also for…

In this paper, we obtain the strong comparison principle and Hopf Lemma for locally Lipschitz viscosity solutions to a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic operators of the form $\nabla^2 \psi + L(x,\nabla \psi)$, including the conformal…

Based on works by Hopf, Weinberger, Hamilton and Evans, we state and prove the strong elliptic maximum principle for smooth sections in vector bundles over Riemannian manifolds and give some applications in Differential Geometry. Moreover,…

We prove a strong version of the comparison principle for bounded plurisubharmonic function on complex varieties. we then apply our main result to study convergence of Mong-Ampere mesures for bounded plurisubharmonic functions.

We prove the comparison principle for viscosity sub/super-solutions of degenerate subelliptic equations in non-divergence form that include the sub-elliptic infinity Laplacian and the normalized p-Laplacian. The equations are defined by a…

We establish a comparison principle for viscosity subsolutions and supersolutions of a broad class of second-order quasilinear, maximally subelliptic PDEs on general manifolds. In fact, we prove the comparison theorem for a larger class of…

In this paper, we prove a Talenti-type comparison theorem for the $p$-Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions on open subsets of a $\mathrm{RCD}(K,N)$ space with $K>0$ and $N\in (1,\infty)$. The obtained Talenti-type comparison theorem…

In considering a class of quasilinear elliptic equations on a Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, we give a new proof of Tolksdorf's result on the construction of separable $p$-harmonic functions in a cone.

We generalize the Gaffney-Lazarsfeld theorem on higher ramification loci of branched coverings of $\mathbb{P}^n$ to homogeneous spaces with Picard number one.

In this paper, we investigate the strong maximum principle for generalized solutions of Monge-Amp\`ere type equations. We prove that the strong maximum principle holds at points where the function is strictly convex but not necessarily…

In this paper we solve a problem raised by Guti\'errez and Montanari about comparison principles for $H-$convex functions on subdomains of Heisenberg groups. Our approach is based on the notion of the sub-Riemannian horizontal normal…

In the setting of a Lie group of polynomial volume growth, we derive inequalities of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type, where the weights involved are powers of the Carnot-Caratheodory distance associated with a fixed system of vector fields…

In the following we show the strong comparison principle for the fractional $p$-Laplacian, i.e. we analyze functions $v,w$ which satisfy $v\geq w$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ and \[ (-\Delta)^s_pv+q(x)|v|^{p-2}v\geq (-\Delta)^s_pw+q(x)|w|^{p-2}w…

This work provides a comparison principle for viscosity solutions to boundary value problems on (partially) bounded, cylindrical spaces. The comparison principle is based on a test function framework, that allows for the simultaneous…

For the positive solutions of the competitive Gross-Pitaevskii system of two equations, we prove that L^\infty boundedness implies uniform H\"older boundedness as the competition parameter goes to infinity. Moreover we prove that the…

We generalize to the setting of Arveson's maximal subdiagonal subalgebras of finite von Neumann algebras, the Szeg\"o $L^p$-distance estimate, and classical theorems of F. and M. Riesz, Gleason and Whitney, and Kolmogorov. In so doing, we…

We consider several variants of Baumgartner's axiom for $\aleph_1$-dense sets defined on the Baire and Cantor spaces in terms of Lipschitz functions with respect to the usual metric. A variation of Baumgartner's original argument shows that…

We give a sufficient criterion, which we call stability, for a coarse Lipschitz map $f$ from a complete manifold $X$ with Ricci curvature bounded below to a proper Hadamard space $Y$ to be within bounded distance of a harmonic map. We prove…