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We consider the following Dirichlet problems for elliptic equations with singular drift $\mathbf{b}$: \[ \text{(a) } -\operatorname{div}(A \nabla u)+\operatorname{div}(u\mathbf{b})=f,\quad \text{(b) } -\operatorname{div}(A^T \nabla…
This article deals with the existence of the following quasilinear degenerate singular elliptic equation \begin{equation*} (P_\la)\left\{ \begin{split} -\text{div}(w(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u) &= g_{\la}(u),\;u>0\; \text{in}\; \Om, u&=0 \;…
Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ and let $m$ be a possibly discontinuous and unbounded function that changes sign in $\Omega$. Let $f:\left[ 0,\infty\right) \rightarrow\left[ 0,\infty\right) $ be a continuous…
In this manuscript we deal with elliptic equations with superlinear first order terms in divergence form of the following type \[ -\mbox{div}(M(x)\nabla u)= -\mbox{div}(h(u)E(x))+f(x), \] where $M$ is a bounded elliptic matrix, the vector…
In this paper we prove existence of (viscosity) solutions of Dirichlet problems concerning fully nonlinear elliptic operator, which are either degenerate or singular when the gradient of the solution is zero. For this class of operators it…
We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a positive solution with zero boundary values to the elliptic equation \[ \mathcal{L}u = \sigma u^{q} + \mu \quad \text{in} \;\; \Omega, \] in the sublinear case $0<q<1$, with…
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We study the Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear, degenerate elliptic equations of the form f(Hess, u)=0 on a smoothly bounded domain D in R^n. In our approach the equation is replaced by a subset F of the space of symmetric nxn-matrices,…
The aim of this paper is to study the obstacle problem with an elliptic operator having degenerate coercivity. We prove the existence of an entropy solution to the obstacle problem under the assumption of $L^{1}-$summability on the data.…
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We initiate the study of inverse source problems for quasilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \nabla \cdot (\gamma(x,u,\nabla u) \nabla u) = F & \text{in } \Omega, \\ u = f & \text{on } \partial\Omega,…
We establish existence and uniqueness of solution for the homogeneous Dirichlet problem associated to a fairly general class of elliptic equations modeled by $$ -\Delta u= h(u){f} \ \ \text{in}\,\ \Omega, $$ where $f$ is an irregular datum,…
We consider local weak solutions of widely degenerate elliptic PDEs of the type \begin{equation} \label{equazione mia} \mathrm{div}\Biggl(a(x)(|Du|-1)^{p-1}_+\frac{Du}{|Du|}\Biggr)=b(x,u) \ \ \text{ in }\Omega, \end{equation} where $2\leq…
In the paper we consider elliptic equations of the form $-Au=u^{-\gamma}\cdot\mu$, where $A$ is the operator associated with a regular symmetric Dirichlet form, $\mu$ is a positive nontrivial measure and $\gamma>0$. We prove the existence…
A classical regularity result is that non-negative solutions to the Dirichlet problem $\Delta u =f$ in a bounded domain $\Omega$, where $f\in L^q(\Omega)$, $q>\frac{n}2$, satisfy $\|u\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)} \leq C\|f\|_{L^q(\Omega)}$. We…
In this paper we consider positive supersolutions of the nonlinear elliptic equation \[- \Delta u = \rho(x) f(u)|\nabla u|^p, \qquad \hfill \mbox{ in } \Omega,\] where $0\le p<1$, $ \Omega$ is an arbitrary domain (bounded or unbounded) in $…
We study a class of Dirichlet boundary value problems whose prototype is \begin{equation}\label{1.2abs} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -\Delta_p u =h(u)|\nabla u|^p+u^{q-1}+f(x)\, &\quad\hbox{in } \ \Omega\,,\\ u\ge 0\,,&{\quad\hbox{in } \…
In this paper, we study the Dirichlet problem for the implicit degen- erate nonlinear elliptic equation with variable exponent in a bounded domain. We obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution with- out regularization and…
In this paper we consider the following Dirichlet problem for the $p$-Laplacian in the positive parameters $\lambda$ and $\beta$: [{{array} [c]{rcll}% -\Delta_{p}u & = & \lambda h(x,u)+\beta f(x,u,\nabla u) & \text{in}\Omega u & = & 0 &…
We study existence of nontrivial solutions to problem \begin{equation*} \left\lbrace \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u &=& \lambda u+f(u)&\text{ in }\Omega,\\ u&=&0&\text{ on }\partial \Omega, \end{array}\right. \end{equation*} where $\Omega…