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In this paper we consider the model semilinear Neumann system $$\left\{ \begin{array}{lll} -\Delta u+a(x)u=\lambda c(x) F_u(u,v)& {\rm in} & \Omega,\\ -\Delta v+b(x)v=\lambda c(x) F_v(u,v)& {\rm in} & \Omega,\\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial…
We go further in the investigation of the Robin problem $(P_{\alpha})$: $-\Delta u=a(x)u^{q}$ in $\Omega$, $u\geq0$ in $\Omega$, $\partial_{\nu}u=\alpha u$ on $\partial \Omega$; on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, with $a$…
We review the indefinite sublinear elliptic equation $-\Delta u=a(x)u^{q}$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, with Dirichlet or Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions. Here $0<q<1$ and $a$ is continuous and changes…
We introduce a new method for the analysis of singularities in the unstable problem $$\Delta u = -\chi_{\{u>0\}},$$ which arises in solid combustion as well as in the composite membrane problem. Our study is confined to points of…
In this paper we derive quantitative uniqueness estimates at infinity for solutions to an elliptic equation with unbounded drift in the plane. More precisely, let $u$ be a real solution to $\Delta u+W\cdot\nabla u=0$ in ${\mathbf R}^2$,…
We study the following semilinear biharmonic equation $$ \left\{\begin{array}{lllllll} \Delta^{2}u=\frac{\lambda}{1-u}, &\quad \mbox{in}\quad \B, u=\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=0, &\quad \mbox{on}\quad \partial\B, \end{array} \right.…
We show that the elliptic problem $\Delta u+f(u)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$, with $f\in C^1(\mathbb{R})$ and $f(0)=0$ does not have nontrivial stable solutions that decay to zero at infinity, provided that $f$ is nonincreasing near the…
In this paper, we study the following class of nonlinear equations: $$ -\Delta u+V(x) u = \left[|x|^{-\mu}*(Q(x)F(u))\right]Q(x)f(u),\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2, $$ where $V$ and $Q$ are continuous potentials, which can be unbounded or vanishing…
We consider the semilinear problem \[ \Delta u = \lambda_+ \left(-\log u^+\right) 1_{\{u > 0\}} - \lambda_- \left(-\log u^- \right) 1_{\{u < 0\}} \qquad \hbox{ in } B_1, \] where $B_1$ is the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and assume…
In the present paper we prove existence results for solutions to nonlinear elliptic Neumann problems whose prototype is \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta_{p} u -\text{div} (c(x)|u|^{p-2}u)) =f & \text{in}\ \Omega, \\ \left( |\nabla…
We address the quantitative uniqueness properties of the solutions of the parabolic equation $ \partial_t u - \Delta u = w_j (x,t) \partial_j u + v(x,t) u $ where $v$ and $w$ are bounded. We prove that for solutions $u$, the order of…
We study the system $-\Delta \mathbf{u}=| \mathbf{u}|^{\alpha-1} \mathbf{u}$ with $1<\alpha\leq\frac{n+2}{n-2}$, where $ \mathbf{u}=(u_1,\dots,u_m)$, $m\geq 1$, is a $C^2$ nonnegative function that develops an isolated singularity in a…
We consider the nonlinear elliptic equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta u + V(x)u = f(u), \qquad u\in D^{1,2}_0(\Omega), \end{equation*} in an exterior domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$, where $V$ is a scalar potential that decays to zero at…
We consider the semilinear heat equation $u_t=\Delta u+|u|^{p-1}u-|u|^{q-1}u$ in $\mathbb{R}^n\times(0,T)$, where $n=5$, $p=\frac{n+2}{n-2}$ and $q\in(0,1)$. By the presence of $-|u|^{q-1}u$, this equation has a finite time extinction…
On a closed Riemannian manifold $(M^n ,g)$ with a proper isoparametric function $f$ we consider the equation $\Delta^2 u -\alpha \Delta u +\beta u = u^q$, where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are positive constants satisfying that $\alpha^2 \geq 4…
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 paper we consider classical solutions $u$ of the semilinear fractional problem $(-\Delta)^s u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ with $u=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^N \setminus \mathbb{R}^N_+$, where $(-\Delta)^s$, $0<s<1$, stands for the fractional…
We consider the following nonlinear Schrodinger equation [{l} \Delta u-(1+\delta V)u+f(u)=0 in \R^N, u>0 in \R^N, u\in H^1(\R^N).] where $V$ is a potential satisfying some decay condition and $ f(u)$ is a superlinear nonlinearity satisfying…
We study positive solutions to the problem $-\Delta_p u + \vartheta |\nabla u|^q = \frac{1}{u^\gamma} + f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ with the zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$, $\gamma>0$, $0<q\le p$, $\vartheta\ge0$ and…
We construct nonnegative weak solutions to the singular parabolic free boundary problem \[ \partial_t u - \Delta u = - \frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d} u} u_+^\gamma , \] where $\gamma \in (0,1]$, $u_+ := \max\{u,0\}$, and the term in the…