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We consider the problem $(P)$, $$ -\Delta u =c(x)u+\mu|\nabla u|^2 +f(x), \quad u \in H^1_0(\Omega) \cap L^{\infty}(\Omega),$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N \geq 3$, $\mu>0, \, c \in…

This paper is concerned about maximum principles and radial symmetry for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear partial differential equations. We obtain the radial symmetry and monotonicity properties for nonnegative viscosity solutions of…

We consider elliptic equations with non-Lipschitz nonlinearity $$ -\Delta u = \lambda |u|^{\beta-1}u-|u|^{\alpha-1}u$$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 3$, with Dirichlet boundary conditions; here…

We study the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions in the whole Euclidean space of coercive quasi-linear elliptic equations such as \[ \Delta_p u = f(u)\pm g(\left|\nabla u\right|) \] where $f\in C([0,\infty))$ and $g\in…

We study the existence of a maximal solution of $-\Gd u+g(u)=f(x)$ in a domain $\Gw\subset \BBR^N$ with compact boundary, assuming that $f\in (L^1_{loc}(\Gw))_+$ and that $g$ is nondecreasing, $g(0)\geq 0$ and $g$ satisfies the…

We study the behavior near the origin of $C^2$ positive solutions $u(x)$ and $v(x)$ of the system $0\leq -\Delta u\leq f(v)$ $0\leq -\Delta v\leq g(u)$ in $B_1(0)\backslash\{0\}$ where $f,g:(0,\infty)\to (0,\infty)$ are continuous…

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 investigate qualitative properties of weak solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the equation $-\Delta_p u = \lambda m(x)|u|^{p-2}u + \eta a(x)|u|^{q-2}u + f(x)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, where $q<p$. Under…

We investigate the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for the quasilinear elliptic inequality $L_\mathcal{A} u= -{\rm div}[\mathcal{A}(x, u, \nabla u)]\geq (I_\alpha\ast u^p)u^q$ in $\Omega$, where $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N,…

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…

We study the existence problem for positive solutions $u \in L^{r}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$, $0<r<\infty$, to the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -\Delta_{p} u = \sigma u^{q} \quad \text{in} \;\; \mathbb{R}^n \] in the sub-natural growth case…

We study sharp conditions for the existence and nonexistence of infinitely many nonnegative solutions to the problem $-\Delta_p u = \lambda f(u)$ in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where $f$ is a continuous function…

Let $u$ be a bounded positive solution to the problem $-\Delta_p u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$ and $f$ is a locally Lipschitz continuous function. Among other things, we show that if…

In this article, we study the existence of positive solutions to elliptic equation (E1) $$(-\Delta)^\alpha u=g(u)+\sigma\nu \quad{\rm in}\quad \Omega,$$ subject to the condition (E2) $$u=\varrho\mu\quad {\rm on}\quad \partial\Omega\ \ {\rm…

We discuss the occurrence of positive solutions which decay to 0 as $| x|\to+\infty$ to the differential equation $\Delta u+f(x,u)+g(| x|)x\cdot\nabla u=0$, $| x|>R>0$, $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$, where $n\geq 3$, $g$ is nonnegative valued and…

In this article, we prove existence results of positive solutions for the following nonlinear elliptic problem with gradient terms: \begin{eqnarray*} \left\{\begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} (-\Delta)^\alpha u=f(x,u,v,\nabla u, \nabla v) &{\rm…

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We derive a priori bounds for positive supersolutions of $ - \Delta_{p} u = \rho(x) f(u) $, where $p>1$ and $\Delta_{p}$ is the $p$-Laplace operator, in a smooth bounded domain of $R^{N}$ with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. We apply…

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We study classical positive solutions of the biharmonic inequality $-\Delta^2 v \geq f(v)$ in exterior domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ where $f:(0,\infty)\to (0,\infty)$ is continuous function. We give lower bounds on the growth of $f(s)$ at…