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In this paper we study the equation \[ -\Delta u +(\log |\cdot|*|u|^2)u=(\log|\cdot|*|u|^q)|u|^{q-2}u, \qquad \hbox{ in }\mathbb{R}^2, \] where $8/3 < q < 4$. By means of variational arguments, we find infinitely many radially symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Antonio Azzollini , Pietro d'Avenia , Alessio Pomponio

We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\bi u=\f{\lambda}{(1-u)^2}$, which models a simple Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device on a ball $B\subset\IR^N$, under Dirichlet boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Craig Cowan , Pierpaolo Esposito , Nassif Ghoussoub , Amir Moradifam

In this paper, we study the regularity of solutions to a linear elliptic equation involving a mixed local-nonlocal operator of the form $$Lu - \operatorname{div}\big(a(x)\nabla u(x)\big)= f, \quad \text{in } \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n,$$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Pedro Fellype Pontes , Minbo Yang

This paper investigates the regularity of stable radial solutions to semilinear elliptic equations arising in MEMS problems, modeled by the Dirichlet problem $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in the unit ball $B_1$, where the nonlinearity $f\in C^1([0,1))$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Fa Peng , Salvador Villegas

We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\bi u=\f{\lambda}{(1-u)^2}$, which models a simple Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device on a ball $B\subset\IR^N$, under Dirichlet boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-31 Craig Cowan , Pierpaolo Esposito , Nassif Ghoussoub

We study the regularity of minimizers of the functional $\mathcal E(u):= [u]_{H^s(\Omega)}^2 +\int_\Omega fu$. This corresponds to understanding solutions for the regional fractional Laplacian in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^N$. More precisely,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study existence and uniqueness of solutions of (E 1) --$\Delta$u + $\mu$ |x| ^{-2} u + g(u) = $\nu$ in $\Omega$, u = $\lambda$ on $\partial$$\Omega$, where $\Omega$ $\subset$ R N + is a bounded smooth domain such that 0 $\in$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Huyuan Chen , Laurent Veron

In this paper, we study semilinear fractional equations $$(-\Delta)^s u(x) = f(u(x))$$ in a half-space and prove that all positive solutions are strictly increasing in the $x_n$-direction. Previous results typically require the solution $u$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Wenxiong Chen , Yahong Guo , Leyun Wu

In this work we consider the boundary blow-up problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta u = f(u) & \hbox{in } B\\ \ \ u=+\infty & \hbox{on }\partial B \end{array} \right. $$ where $B$ stands for the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^N$ and $f$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Carmen Cortázar , Manuel Elgueta , Jorge García-Melián

We consider fully nonlinear obstacle-type problems of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} F(D^{2}u,x)=f(x) & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\cap\Omega,|D^{2}u|\le K & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\backslash\Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Emanuel Indrei , Andreas Minne

We consider Lipschitz solutions to the possibly highly degenerate elliptic equation $ {\rm div} G(\nabla u)=0$ in $B_1\subset\mathbb{R}^2 $, for any continuous strictly monotone vector field $G \colon \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2$. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Thibault Lacombe

We prove under general assumptions that solutions of the thin obstacle or Signorini problem in any space dimension achieve the optimal regularity $C^{1,1/2}$. This improves the known optimal regularity results by allowing the thin obstacle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-06 Nestor Guillen

In this paper we treat the numerical approximation of the two-phase parabolic obstacle-like problem: \[\Delta u -u_t=\lambda^+\cdot\chi_{\{u>0\}}-\lambda^-\cdot\chi_{\{u<0\}},\quad (t,x)\in (0,T)\times\Omega,\] where $T < \infty, \lambda^+…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Avetik Arakelyan

In the present paper we investigate the following semilinear singular elliptic problem: \begin{equation*} (\rm P)\qquad \left \{\begin{array}{l} -\Delta u = \dfrac{p(x)}{u^{\alpha}}\quad \text{in} \Omega \\ u = 0\ \text{on} \Omega,\ u>0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Brahim Bougherara , Jacques Giacomoni , Jesus Hernandez

We study the nodal set of solutions to equations of the form $$ (-\Delta)^s u = \lambda_+ (u_+)^{q-1} - \lambda_- (u_-)^{q-1}\quad\text{in $B_1$}, $$ where $\lambda_+,\lambda_->0, q \in [1,2)$, and $u_+$ and $u_-$ are respectively the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Giorgio Tortone

We consider the problem -\Delta u - g(u) = \lambda u, u \in H^1(\R^N), \int_{\R^N} u^2 = 1, \lambda\in\R, in dimension $N\ge2$. Here $g$ is a superlinear, subcritical, possibly nonhomogeneous, odd nonlinearity. We deal with the case where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Thomas Bartsch , Sébastien de Valeriola

This paper deals with solutions of semilinear elliptic equations of the type \[ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u = f(|x|, u) \qquad & \text{ in } \Omega, \\ u= 0 & \text{ on } \partial \Omega, \end{array} \right. \] where $\Omega$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Francesca Gladiali

We prove {the first} regularity theorem for the free boundary of solutions to shape optimization problems involving integral functionals, for which the energy of a domain $\Omega$ is obtained as the integral of a cost function $j(u,x)$…

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 $\mathbb{R^{N}}$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Brahim Dridi , Rached Jaidane

Solutions to elliptic equations often exhibit higher regularity properties such as \emph{higher integrability}. That is, for instance, a solution $u$ to a system that a priori only satisfies $ u \in W^{1,r}$ is more regular and even in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Stefan Schiffer