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Let $\sigma>1$ and let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold. In a recent work [9], Grigor$^{\prime}$yan and Sun proved that a pointwise upper bound of volume growth is sufficient for uniqueness of nonnegative solutions of elliptic…

We study the existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for the following quasilinear elliptic system: \[ \begin{cases} -\mathrm{div}(A_1(x,u_1)\nabla u_1) + \displaystyle\frac{1}{2} D_{u_1}A_1(x,u_1)\nabla u_1 \cdot \nabla u_1 =…

We provide a sufficient condition for the existence of a positive solution to $-\Delta u+V(|x|) u=u^p$ in $B_1$, when p is large enough. Here $B_1$ is the unit ball of $R^n$, n greater or equal to 2, and we deal both with Neumann and…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ ($N \geq 3$) be a $C^2$ bounded domain and $\Sigma \subset \Omega$ be a compact, $C^2$ submanifold without boundary, of dimension $k$ with $0\leq k < N-2$. Put $L_\mu = \Delta + \mu d_\Sigma^{-2}$ in…

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a positive finite energy solution to the inhomogeneous quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -\Delta_{p} u = \sigma u^{q} + \mu \quad \text{on} \;\; \mathbb{R}^n \] in the…

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of weak solutions to the model equation $$-\Delta_p u=\sigma \, u^q \quad \text{on} \, \, \, \R^n,$$ in the case $0<q<p-1$, where $\sigma\ge 0$ is an arbitrary locally integrable…

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n $ be any open set and $u$ be a weak supersolution of $\mathcal{L}u=c(x)g(|u|)\frac{u}{|u|}$ where \[\mathcal{L}u(x)=\text{p.v.} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} g\left(\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|}{|x-y|^s}\right)…

We consider fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations with quadratic growth in the gradient, such as $$ -F(x,u,Du,D^2u) =\lambda c(x)u+\langle M(x)D u, D u \rangle +h(x) $$ in a bounded domain with a Dirichlet boundary condition, here…

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$ and $\delta(x)=\text{dist}\,(x,\partial \Omega)$. Assume $\mu>0$, $\nu$ is a nonnegative finite measure on $\partial \Omega$ and $g \in C(\Omega \times \mathbb{R}_+)$. We study…

In this paper we prove the monotonicity of positive solutions to $ -\Delta_p u = f(u) $ in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, for $(2N+2)/(N+2) < p < 2$ and for a general class of regular changing-sign nonlinearities $f$.…

For $p>2$, we consider the quasilinear equation $-\Delta_p u+|u|^{p-2}u=g(u)$ in the unit ball $B$ of $\mathbb R^N$, with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. The assumptions on $g$ are very mild and allow the nonlinearity to be…

We prove weak and strong maximum principles, including a Hopf lemma, for smooth subsolutions to equations defined by linear, second-order, partial differential operators whose principal symbols vanish along a portion of the domain boundary.…

We are interested in the following Dirichlet problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u + \lambda u - \mu \frac{u}{|x|^2} - \nu \frac{u}{\mathrm{dist}\,(x,\mathbb{R}^N \setminus \Omega)^2} = f(x,u) & \quad \mbox{in } \Omega \\ u = 0 &…

In this paper we consider a semilinear elliptic equation with a strong singularity at $u=0$, namely $ \displaystyle u\geq 0 \mbox{ in } \Omega$, $ \displaystyle - div \,A(x) D u = F(x,u) \mbox{ in} \; \Omega$, $u = 0 \mbox{ on} \; \partial…

We prove bilateral capacitary estimates for the maximal solution $U_F$ of $-\Delta u+u^q=0$ in the complement of an arbitrary closed set $F\subset\mathbb R^N$, involving the Bessel capacity $C_{2,q'}$, for $q$ in the supercritical range…

Let $\Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^N$ ($N \geq 3$) be a $C^2$ bounded domain and $\delta$ be the distance to $\partial \Omega$. We study positive solutions of equation (E) $-L_\mu u+ g(|\nabla u|) = 0$ in $\Omega$ where $L_\mu=\Delta +…

The anti-maximum principle for the homogeneous Dirichlet problem to $-\Delta_p u = \lambda |u|^{p-2}u + f(x)$ with positive $f \in L^\infty(\Omega)$ states the existence of a critical value $\lambda_f > \lambda_1$ such that any solution of…

In this paper, we study the existence of solutions for the following superlinear elliptic equation with nonlinear boundary value condition $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u+u=|u|^{r-2}u &\text{in} \; \Omega,\\ \\ \frac{\partial…

In this paper, we will prove the existence of infinitely many positive solutions to the following supercritical problem by using the Liapunov-Schmidt reduction method and asymptotic analysis: {ll}\Delta u + u^{p}+f(x)=0, u>0 {in} R^{n},…

Our purpose of this paper is to investigate positive solutions of the elliptic equation with regional fractional Laplacian $$ ( - \Delta )_{B_1}^s u +u= h(x,u) \quad {\rm in} \ \, B_1,\qquad u\in C_0(B_1), $$ where $( - \Delta )_{B_1}^s$…