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We study the nonlinear Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equation with a PT-symmetric potential. Using a hydrodynamic formulation and connecting the phase gradient to the field amplitude, allows for a reduction of the model to a Duffing or a generalized…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-30 H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , Q. Zhou , D. J. Frantzeskakis , V. Achilleos , R. Carretero-Gonzalez

Solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation $H(x,-Du(x))=1$, with $H(\cdot,p)$ H\"older continuous and $H(x,\cdot)$ convex and positively homogeneous of degree 1, are shown to be locally semiconcave with a power-like modulus. An essential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-20 Piermarco Cannarsa , Pierre Cardaliaguet

There are two useful ways to extend nonlinear partial differential inequalities of second order: one uses viscosity theory and the other uses the theory of distributions. This paper considers the convex situation where both extensions can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 F. Reese Harvey , H. Blaine Lawson

In this paper we study the existence of multiple-layer solutions to the elliptic Allen-Cahn equation in hyperbolic space: \[ -\Delta_{\mathbb H} u+F'(u)=0; \] here $F$ is a nonnegative double-well potential with nondegenerate minima. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Rafe Mazzeo , MarielSaez

We establish symmetrization results for the solutions of the linear fractional diffusion equation $\partial_t u +(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}u=f$ and itselliptic counterpart $h v +(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}v=f$, $h>0$, using the concept of comparison of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Juan Luis Vázquez , Bruno Volzone

The notion of viscosity solutions of scalar fully nonlinear partial differential equations of second order provides a framework in which startling comparison and uniqueness theorems, existence theorems, and theorems about continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Michael G. Crandall , Hitoshi Ishii , Pierre-Louis Lions

For scalar fully nonlinear partial differential equations depending on the Hessian andspatial coordinates, we present a general theory for obtaining comparison principles and well posedness for the associated Dirichlet problem with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Marco Cirant , Kevin R. Payne

We investigate the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions to the following problem driven by the superposition of the Laplacian and the fractional Laplacian with Hardy potential \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -\Delta u…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Shammi Malhotra , Sarika Goyal , K. Sreenadh

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Mónica Clapp , Carlos Culebro

We consider divergence form elliptic operators L = - div A(x)\nabla, defined in the half space R^{n+1}_+, n \geq 2, where the coefficient matrix A(x) is bounded, measurable, uniformly elliptic, t-independent, and not necessarily symmetric.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Steve Hofmann , Carlos Kenig , Svitlana Mayboroda , Jill Pipher

We consider in this note one-side Liouville properties for viscosity solutions of various fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic inequalities, whose prototype is $F(x,D^2u)\geq H_i(x,u,Du)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, where $H_i$ has superlinear growth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Marco Cirant , Alessandro Goffi

We study the higher differentiability for nonlinear elliptic equation in divergence form $\mathcal{A}(x,Du)=b(x)$. The result covers the cases in which $\mathcal{A}(x, \xi)$ satisfies $p,q$ growth, with $1<p<2$ in $\xi$ and a Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Elvira Mascolo , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

We consider a semilinear elliptic equation with a nonsmooth, locally \hbox{Lipschitz} potential function (hemivariational inequality). Our hypotheses permit double resonance at infinity and at zero (double-double resonance situation). Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leszek Gasi'nski , Dumitru Motreanu , Nikolaos S Papageorgiou

In this paper, we are concerned with the nonlinear Helmholtz system of Hamiltonian type \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{l} -\Delta u-k^2 u=P(x)|v|^{p-2}v,\quad \text{in}\ \mathbb{R}^N, \\ -\Delta v-k^2v=Q(x)|u|^{q-2}u,\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Ruowen Qiu , Fei Yuan , Fukun Zhao

We investigate here the nonlinear elliptic H\'enon type equation: $$\D^{2} u= |x|^a|u|^{p-1}u \; \,\,\mbox{in}\,\,\,\, \R^{n}_{+}, \quad \quad u =\frac{\partial u}{\partial x_n} = 0 \quad \mbox{in}\,\,\,\, \partial \R^{n}_{+},$$ with $p>1$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Foued Mtiri , Abdelbaki Selmi , Cherif Zaid

We investigate Liouville-type results, existence, uniqueness and symmetry to the solution of nonlinear nonlocal elliptic equations of the form \[ Lu = |x|^{\gamma}\,H(u)\,G(\nabla u), \qquad x\in\R^n, \] where $L$ is a symmetric,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Hoang-Hung Vo

In this paper, we deal with the following double phase problem $$ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -\mbox{div}\left(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u+a(x)|\nabla u|^{q-2}\nabla u\right)=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Alessio Fiscella

In this paper we establish the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial solutions to the following problem \begin{align*} \begin{split} (-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}}u+u+(\ln|\cdot|*|u|^2)&=f(u)+\mu|u|^{-\gamma-1}u,~\text{in}~\mathbb{R},…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Debajyoti Choudhuri , Dušan D. Repovš

In this paper, we study the existence of nonnegative weak solutions to (E) $ (-\Delta)^\alpha u+h(u)=\nu $ in a general regular domain $\Omega$, which vanish in $\R^N\setminus\Omega$, where $(-\Delta)^\alpha$ denotes the fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Huyuan Chen , Jianfu Yang

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Alberto Farina , Luigi Montoro , Berardino Sciunzi