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In this paper, we prove some qualitative properties for the positive solutions to some degenerate elliptic equation given by \[-\operatorname{div}(w|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=f(x,u);\;\;w\in \mathcal{A}_p\] on smooth domain and for varying…

In this paper we investigate maximum principles for functionals defined on solutions to special partial differential equations of elliptic type, extending results by Payne and Philippin. We apply such maximum principles to investigate one…

We develop subrepresentation inequalities for infinitely degenerate metrics, and obtain corresponding Poincare and Sobolev inequalities. We then derive conditions on the degenerate metric under which weak solutions to associated infinitely…

In this paper we prove existence of radial solutions for the nonlinear elliptic problem \[ -\mathrm{div}(A(|x|)\nabla u)+V(|x|)u=K(|x|)f(u) \quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{N}, \] \noindent with suitable hypotheses on the radial potentials…

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…

We study a nonlinear equation with an elliptic operator having degenerate coercivity. We prove the existence of a W^{1,1}_0 solution which is distributional or entropic, according to the growth assumptions on a lower order term in…

In this work, we establish global gradient estimates to solutions of quasilinear elliptic models in non-divergence form with general degeneracy law and a Hamiltonian term, given by $$ -\Psi(x, |\nabla…

In this paper, we consider the radial symmetry, uniqueness and non-degeneracy of solutions to the degenerate nonlinear elliptic equation $$ -\nabla \cdot \left(|x|^{2a} \nabla u\right) + \omega u=|u|^{p-2}u \quad \mbox{in} \,\, \R^d, $$…

We develop a new, unified approach to the following two classical questions on elliptic PDE: the strong maximum principle for equations with non-Lipschitz nonlinearities, and the at most exponential decay of solutions in the whole space or…

We investigate strong maximum (and minimum) principles for fully nonlinear second order equations on Riemannian manifolds that are non-totally degenerate and satisfy appropriate scaling conditions. Our results apply to a large class of…

We study a nonlinear equation with an elliptic operator having degenerate coercivity. We prove the existence of a unique W^{1,1}_0 distributional solution under suitable summability assumptions on the source in Lebesgue spaces. Moreover, we…

We study regularity properties for solutions to the nakedly degenerate elliptic equation $a_{ij}\partial_{ij}u =0$, where the coefficients satisfy $I \ge a_{ij}(x) \ge \lambda(x) I$ and the only assumption is that $\lambda^{-1} \in L^p$. We…

In this paper we study the linear Weingarten equation defined by the fully non-linear PDE $$a\, \mbox{div}\frac{Du}{\sqrt{1+|Du|^2}}+b\, \frac{\mbox{det}D^2u}{(1+|Du|^2)^2}=\phi\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+|Du|^2}}\right)$$ in a domain…

In this article, we study the following problem $$-{\rm div} (\omega(x)|\nabla u|^{N-2} \nabla u) = \lambda\ f(x,u) \quad\mbox{ in }\quad B, \quad u=0 \quad\mbox{ on } \quad\partial B,$$ where $B$ is the unit ball of $\mathbb{R^{N}}$,…

In this article we provide existence, uniqueness and regularity results of a degenerate singular elliptic boundary value problem whose prototype is given by \begin{gather*} \begin{cases} -\operatorname{div}(w(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla…

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…

In this paper, we consider nonlinear equations involving the fractional p-Laplacian $$ (-\lap)_p^s u(x)) \equiv C_{n,s,p} PV \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^{p-2}[u(x)-u(y)]}{|x-z|^{n+ps}} dz= f(x,u).$$ We prove a {\em maximum…

This paper derives some discrete maximum principles for $P1$-conforming finite element approximations for quasi-linear second order elliptic equations. The results are extensions of the classical maximum principles in the theory of partial…

We introduce a new method for proving the nonexistence of positive supersolutions of elliptic inequalities in unbounded domains of $\mathbb{R}^n$. The simplicity and robustness of our maximum principle-based argument provides for its…