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Several results about positive solutions -in a Lipschitz domain- of a nonlinear elliptic equation in a general form $ \Delta u(x)-g(x,u(x))=0$ are proved, extending thus some known facts in the case of $ g(x,t)=t^q$, $q>1$, and a smooth…

We consider nonlinear parabolic equations involving fractional diffusion of the form $\partial_t u + (-\Delta)^s \Phi(u)= 0,$ with $0<s<1$, and solve an open problem concerning the existence of solutions for very singular nonlinearities…

We study the uniqueness of reaction-diffusion steady states in general domains with Dirichlet boundary data. Here we consider "positive" (monostable) reactions. We describe geometric conditions on the domain that ensure uniqueness and we…

We study a nonlinear equation in the half-space $\{x_1>0\}$ with a Hardy potential, specifically \[-\Delta u -\frac{\mu}{x_1^2}u+u^p=0\quad\text{in}\quad \mathbb R^n_+,\] where $p>1$ and $-\infty<\mu<1/4$. The admissible boundary behavior…

In this paper we provide some local and global splitting results on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. We achieve the splitting through the analysis of some pointwise inequalities of Modica type which hold true…

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for the following nonlinear fractional elliptic equation: \begin{eqnarray*} (-\Delta)^\alpha u=\lambda a(x)u-b(x)u^p&{\rm in}\,\,\R^N, \end{eqnarray*} where $…

We consider the singular elliptic problem of the form \[ -\Delta u + V(x)u = \mathcal{B}(x)|u|^{2^*-2}u + \frac{\mathcal{A}(x)}{|u|^{2^*}u}, \qquad u\in H^1(M), \] where the coefficients are allowed to have low regularity. Under natural…

We are concerned with nonexistence results of nonnegative weak solutions for a class of quasilinear parabolic problems with a potential on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we highlight the interplay between the…

Let $N\ge 3$. We are concerned with a Cauchy problem of the semilinear heat equation \[ \begin{cases} \partial_tu-\Delta u=f(u), & x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\ t>0,\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x), & x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \end{cases} \] where $f(0)=0$, $f$ is…

We study an inhomogeneous semilinear heat inequality on the unit sphere \(\mathbb S^N\), \(N\ge3\), in an exterior geodesic domain associated with a fixed pole. The equation involves the singular Hardy-type potential \(\lambda/\sin^2 r\),…

We consider stable solutions of a semilinear elliptic equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. A classical result of Casten, Holland [20] and Matano [44] states that all stable solutions are constant in convex bounded domains.…

This paper is concerned with a scalar nonlinear convolution equation which appears naturally in the theory of traveling waves for monostable evolution models. First, we prove that each bounded positive solution of the convolution equation…

We prove existence and uniqueness of distributional, bounded, nonnegative solutions to a fractional filtration equation in ${\mathbb R}^d$. With regards to uniqueness, it was shown even for more general equations in [19] that if two bounded…

We study existence and nonexistence of strictly positive solutions for the elliptic problems of the form $Lu=m\left( x\right) u^{p}$ in a bounded open interval, with zero boundary conditions, where $L$ is a strongly uniformly elliptic…

I was asked to make my, by now quite old PhD thesis, available on the arxiv, for parts of it was never submitted for publication. The thesis offers a systematic study of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) on non-compact spaces. In…

We consider the partial differential equation $$ u-f={\rm div}\left(u^m\frac{\nabla u}{|\nabla u|}\right) $$ with $f$ nonnegative and bounded and $m\in\mathbb{R}$. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for both the Dirichlet…

In this paper, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence and regularity of the density of the solution to a semilinear stochastic (fractional) heat equation with measure-valued initial conditions. Under a mild cone…

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We study nonlinear diffusion problems of the form $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ with free boundaries. Such problems may be used to describe the spreading of a biological or chemical species, with the free boundary representing the expanding front. For…

Assuming $B_{R}$ is a ball in $\mathbb R^{N}$, we analyze the positive solutions of the problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u+u= |u|^{p-2}u, &\text{ in } B_{R},\newline \partial_{\nu}u=0,&\text{ on } \partial B_{R}, \end{cases} \] that branch…