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We study the equation $-\Delta u+u^q=0$, $q>1$, in a bounded $C^2$ domain $\Omega\subset R^N$. A positive solution of the equation is moderate if it is dominated by a harmonic function and $\sigma$-moderate if it is the limit of an…
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We propose and study a concept of renormalized solution to the problem $\Delta_p u=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$, $|\nabla u|^{p-2}u_{\nu} + g(u) = \mu$ on $\partial\mathbb{R}^N_+$, where $1<p\leq N$, $N\geq 2$,…
In this paper we consider the existence of positive solutions for a singular elliptic problem involving an asymtotically linear nonlinearity and depending on one positive parameter. Using variational methods, together with comparison…
We investigate the weak solvability and properties of weak solutions to the Dirichlet problem for a scalar elliptic equation $-\Delta u + b^{(\alpha)}\cdot \nabla u= f$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset {\mathbb R^2}$ containing the…
We study the existence of positive solutions to the quasilinear elliptic problem -\epsilon \Delta u+V(x)u-\epsilon k(\Del(|u|^{2}))u=g(u), \quad u>0, x \in R^N, where g has superlinear growth at infinity without any restriction from above…
This paper concerns the existence of a nontrivial solution for the following problem \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{aligned} -\Delta u + V(x)u & \in \partial_u F(x,u)\;\;\mbox{a.e. in}\;\;\mathbb{R}^{N},\nonumber u \in…
We study the boundary regularity of solutions to the porous medium equation $u_t = \Delta u^m$ in the degenerate range $m>1$. In particular, we show that in cylinders the Dirichlet problem with positive continuous boundary data on the…
We consider the nonlinear string equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions $u_{xx}-u_{tt}=\phi(u)$, with $\phi(u)=\Phi u^{3} + O(u^{5})$ odd and analytic, $\Phi\neq0$, and we construct small amplitude periodic solutions with frequency…
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…
We give a probabilistic representation of the solution to a semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problem with general (discontinuous) boundary data. The boundary behaviour of the solution is in the sense of the controlled convergence initiated by…
In this paper we obtain necessary conditions and sufficient conditions on the initial data for the solvability of the Cauchy problem $$ \partial_t u+(-\Delta)^{\frac{\theta}{2}}u=u^p,\quad x\in{\bf R}^N,\,\,t>0, \qquad u(0)=\mu\ge…
We study the generalized boundary value problem for (E)\; $-\Delta u+|u|^{q-1}u=0$ in a dihedral domain $\Gw$, when $q>1$ is supercritical. The value of the critical exponent can take only a finite number of values depending on the geometry…
We show that if $u$ is a solution to a linear elliptic differential equation of order $2m\geq 2$ in the half-space with $t$-independent coefficients, and if $u$ satisfies certain area integral estimates, then the Dirichlet and Neumann…