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We study existence and uniqueness of solutions of (E 1) --$\Delta$u + $\mu$ |x| ^{-2} u + g(u) = $\nu$ in $\Omega$, u = $\lambda$ on $\partial$$\Omega$, where $\Omega$ $\subset$ R N + is a bounded smooth domain such that 0 $\in$…

In this paper we consider semilinear elliptic equations with singularities, whose prototype is the following \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle - div \,A(x) D u = f(x)g(u)+l(x)& \mbox{in} \; \Omega,\\ u = 0 & \mbox{on} \;…

In this article we deal with different forms of the unique continuation property for second order elliptic equations with nonlinear potentials of sublinear growth. Under suitable regularity assumptions, we prove the weak and the strong…

Let $\Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^N$ ($N \geq 3$) be a $C^2$ bounded domain and $\delta$ be the distance to $\partial \Omega$. We study positive solutions of equation (E) $-L_\mu u+ g(|\nabla u|) = 0$ in $\Omega$ where $L_\mu=\Delta +…

Let $L$ be a second order elliptic operator $L$ with smooth coefficients defined on a domain $\Omega $ in $\mathbb{R}^d $, $d\geq3$, such that $L1\leq 0$. We study existence and properties of continuous solutions to the following problem…

We are interested in the following Dirichlet problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u + \lambda u - \mu \frac{u}{|x|^2} - \nu \frac{u}{\mathrm{dist}\,(x,\mathbb{R}^N \setminus \Omega)^2} = f(x,u) & \quad \mbox{in } \Omega \\ u = 0 &…

We study the semilinear elliptic equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta u=u^\alpha |\log u|^\beta\quad\text{in }B_1\setminus\{0\}, \end{equation*} where $B_1\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\geq 3$, $\frac{n}{n-2} < \alpha < \frac{n+2}{n-2}$ and…

We study a semilinear elliptic problem with a singular nonlinear term of the type $g(u)=-u^{-1}$, using a variational approach. Note that the minus sign is important since the corresponding term in the Euler-Lagrange functional is concave.…

Given a smooth domain $\Omega\subset\RR^N$ such that $0 \in \partial\Omega$ and given a nonnegative smooth function $\zeta$ on $\partial\Omega$, we study the behavior near 0 of positive solutions of $-\Delta u=u^q$ in $\Omega$ such that $u…

We study properties of the semilinear elliptic equation $\Delta u = 1/u$ on domains in $R^n$, with an eye toward nonnegative singular solutions as limits of positive smooth solutions. We prove the nonexistence of such solutions in low…

In this paper, we study the existence of solutions for the following superlinear elliptic equation with nonlinear boundary value condition $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u+u=|u|^{r-2}u &\text{in} \; \Omega,\\ \\ \frac{\partial…

Unique continuation principles are fundamental properties of elliptic partial differential equations, giving conditions that guarantee that the solution to an elliptic equation must be uniformly zero. Since finite-element discretizations…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\geq 3$) be a bounded $C^2$ domain and $\Sigma\subset\partial\Omega$ be a compact $C^2$ submanifold of dimension $k$. Denote the distance from $\Sigma$ by $d_\Sigma$. In this paper, we study positive…

We study the asymptotic behavior, as $\gamma$ tends to infinity, of solutions for the homogeneous Dirichlet problem associated to singular semilinear elliptic equations whose model is $$ -\Delta u=\frac{f(x)}{u^\gamma}\,\text{ in }\Omega,…

We consider positive solutions, possibly unbounded, to the semilinear equation $-\Delta u=f(u)$ on continuous epigraphs bounded from below. Under the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, we prove new monotonicity results for $u$, when…

We establish a positivity property for a class of semilinear elliptic problems involving indefinite sublinear nonlinearities. Namely, we show that any nontrivial nonnegative solution is positive for a class of problems the strong maximum…

We investigate the problem $$-\Delta u = \lambda b(x)|u|^{q-2}u +a(x)|u|^{p-2}u \mbox{ in } \Omega, \quad \frac{\partial u}{\partial \mathbf{n}} = 0 \mbox{ on } \partial \Omega, \leqno{(P_\lambda)} $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth…

This paper is concerned with the Dirichlet problem for an equation involving the 1--Laplacian operator $\Delta_1 u$ and having a singular term of the type $\frac{f(x)}{u^\gamma}$. Here $f\in L^N(\Omega)$ is nonnegative, $0<\gamma\le1$ and…

We study stable solutions to fractional semilinear equations $(-\Delta)^s u = f(u)$ in $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, for convex nonlinearities $f$, and under the Dirichlet exterior condition $u=g$ in $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \Omega$ with…

In this paper, we consider the logistic elliptic equation $-\Delta u = u- u^{p}$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq2$, equipped with the sublinear Neumann boundary condition $\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} =…