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We study the triviality of the solutions of weighted superlinear heat equations on Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci tensor. We prove a Liouville--type theorem for solutions bounded from below with nonnegative initial data, under…
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In this paper, we study the semilinear elliptic equation and inequality on pseudo-Hermitian manifolds. In particular, we first obtain a Liouville theorem for the equation $\Delta_b u+F(u)=0$ based on a generalized Jerison-Lee's formula.…
We introduce a new condition on elliptic operators $L= {1/2}\triangle + b \cdot \nabla $ which ensures the validity of the Liouville property for bounded solutions to $Lu=0$ on $\R^d$. Such condition is sharp when $d=1$. We extend our…
We consider the Lane-Emden system $-\Delta u = v^p$, $-\Delta v= u^\theta$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, and we prove the nonexistence of smooth positive solutions which are stable outside a compact set, for any $p, \theta > 0$ under the Sobolev…
In this paper we study strongly coupled elliptic systems in non-variational form involving fractional Laplace operators. We prove Liouville type theorems and, by mean of the blow-up method, we establish a priori bounds of positive solutions…
In this paper we establish gradient estimates for positive solutions to the nonlinear elliptic equation $$\Delta_{V}u^{m}+\mu(x)u+p(x)u^{\alpha}=0 , \quad m>1$$on any smooth metric measure space whose $k$-Bakry-\'{E}mery curvature is…
We derive some 1-D symmetry and uniqueness or non-existence results for nonnegative solutions of some elliptic system in the halfspace $\R^N_+$ in low dimension. Our method is based upon a combination of Fourier series and Liouville…
We prove that the Dirichlet problem for the Lane-Emden equation in a half-space has no positive solution which is monotone in the normal direction. As a consequence, this problem does not admit any positive classical solution which is…
In this paper, we establish several Liouville-type theorems for a class of nonhomogenenous quasilinear inequalities. In the first part, we prove various Liouville results associated with nonnegative solutions to \begin{equation*}\tag{$P_s$}…
In this paper we shall classify all positive solutions of $ \Delta u =a u^p$ on the upper half space $ H =\Bbb{R}_+^n$ with nonlinear boundary condition $ {\partial u}/{\partial t}= - b u^q $ on $\partial H$ for both positive parameters $a,…
We consider weak distributional solutions to the equation $-\Delta_pu=f(u)$ in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We assume that the nonlinearity is positive and superlinear at zero. For $p>2$ (the case $1<p\leq2$ is…
We prove Liouville type theorems for $p$-harmonic functions on exterior domains of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, where $1<p<\infty$ and $d\geq 2$. We show that every positive $p$-harmonic function satisfying zero Dirichlet, Neumann…
We prove a theorem for the growth of the energy of bounded, globally minimizing solutions to a class of semilinear elliptic systems of the form $\Delta u=\nabla W(u)$, $x\in \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, with $W:\mathbb{R}^m\to \mathbb{R}$,…
Liouville theorems for scaling invariant nonlinear parabolic equations and systems (saying that the equation or system does not possess positive entire solutions) guarantee optimal universal estimates of solutions of related initial and…
We prove a Liouville type theorem for arbitrarily growing positive viscosity supersolutions of fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations in halfspaces. Precisely, let $M^-_{\lambda, \Lambda}$ be the Pucci's inf- operator, defined as the…
On a complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, we consider $L^{p}_{loc}$ distributional solutions of the the differential inequality $-\Delta u + \lambda u \geq 0$ with $\lambda >0$ a locally bounded function that may decay to $0$ at infinity.…
In this paper, we combine Bochner formula, Saloff-Coste's Sobolev inequality and the Nash-Moser iteration method to study the local and global behaviors of solutions to the nonlinear elliptic equation $\Delta_pu+\Delta_qu+h(u,|\nabla…
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 use the Saloff-Coste Sobolev inequality and Nash-Moser iteration method to study the local and global behaviors of positive solutions to the nonlinear elliptic equation $\Delta_pv+a(v+b)^q=0$ defined on a complete…