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In this paper we produce families of Riemannian metrics with positive constant $\sigma_k$-curvature equal to $2^{-k} {n \choose k}$ by performing the connected sum of two given compact {\em non degenerate} $n$--dimensional solutions…

We study the critical Neumann problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = |u|^{2^*-2}u &\text{in }\Sigma_\omega,\\ \quad\frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu}=0 &\text{on }\partial\Sigma_\omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} in the unbounded…

In this paper, we show that the existence of a positive weak solution to the equation $(-\Delta_g)^s u=f u^{-q(x)}\;\mbox{in}\; \Omega,$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in $R^N$, $q\in C^1(\overline{\Omega})$, and $(-\Delta_g)^s$…

In this paper we consider an inverse problem of determining a minimal surface embedded in a Riemannian manifold. We show under a topological condition that if $\Sigma$ is a $2$-dimensional embedded minimal surface, then the knowledge of the…

We study existence and stability of solutions of (E 1) --$\Delta$u + $\mu$ |x| 2 u + g(u) = $\nu$ in $\Omega$, u = 0 on $\partial$$\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded, smooth domain of R N , N $\ge$ 2, containing the origin, $\mu$ $\ge$ --…

The Euler-Lagrange equations for the variational approach to the Seiberg-Witten equations always admit reducible solutions. In this context, the existence of unstable reducible solutions is achieved by assuming the existence of a parallel…

In this paper we extend Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities on compact Riemannian manifolds for dimension $n\ne 2$. As one application, we solve a generalized Yamabe problem on locally conforamlly flat manifolds via a new designed energy…

This article provides a general iterative approximation to partial differential equations, and thus establish existence of smooth solution. The heart of the method is to contract (or expand) the boundary conditions uniformly in the domain,…

The study of the $k$-th elementary symmetric function of the Weyl-Schouten curvature tensor of a Riemannian metric, the so called $\sigma_k$ curvature, has produced many fruitful results in conformal geometry in recent years. In these…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq1$, be a smooth bounded domain, and let $m:\Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ be a possibly sign-changing function. We investigate the existence of positive solutions for the semipositone problem $-\Delta…

In this article, we investigate the existence and multiplicity of solutions to the Robin problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = \lambda f(u) & \text{in } \Omega, \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} + \gamma u=0 & \text{on }…

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…

In this paper, we study the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the following fractional problem involving the Hardy potential and concave-convex nonlinearities: $$({-}{ \Delta})^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}u- \gamma \frac{u}{|x|^{\alpha}}=…

The aim of this paper is to prove multiplicity of solutions for nonlocal fractional equations modeled by $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^s u-\lambda u=f(x,u) & {\mbox{ in }} \Omega\\ u=0 & {\mbox{ in }} \mathbb{R}^n\setminus…

Here is one of the results obtained in this paper: Let $\Omega\subset {\bf R}^n$ be a smooth bounded domain, let $q>1$, with $q<{{n+2}\over {n-2}}$ if $n\geq 3$ and let $\lambda_1$ be the first eigenvalue of the problem $$\cases{-\Delta…

Using a calibration method we prove that, if $\Gamma\subset \Omega$ is a closed regular hypersurface and if the function $g$ is discontinuous along $\Gamma$ and regular outside, then the function $u_{\beta}$ which solves $$ \begin{cases}…

We study Dirichlet problems for fractional Laplace equations of the form $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} u = f(x,u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for $0<\alpha<n$ where the nonlinearity $f(x,u) = \sum_{i=1}^{M} \sigma_{i} u^{q_i} + \omega$ involves…

We provide the dual result of the Yamada-Watanabe theorem for mild solutions to semilinear stochastic partial differential equations with path-dependent coefficients. An essential tool is the so-called "method of the moving frame", which…

We consider the equation $u_t = \mbox{Div}(a[u]\nabla u - u\nabla a[u])$, $-\Delta a = u$. This model has attracted some attention in the recents years and several results are available in the literature. We review recent results on…

We consider the problem of finding positive solutions of the problem $\Delta u - \lambda u +u^5 = 0$ in a bounded, smooth domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$, under zero Neumann boundary conditions. Here $\lambda$ is a positive number. We…