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We study the existence/nonexistence of positive solution to the problem of the type: \begin{equation}\tag{$P_{\lambda}$} \begin{cases} \Delta^2u-\mu a(x)u=f(u)+\lambda b(x)\quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}\\ u>0 \quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}\\…

We investigate the stability with respect to homogenization of classes of integrals arising in the control-theoretic interpretation of some Hamilton-Jacobi equations. The prototypical case is the homogenization of energies with a Lagrangian…

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…

We examine the equation given by \begin{equation} \label{eq_abstract} -\Delta u + a(x) \cdot \nabla u = u^p \qquad \mbox{in $ \IR^N$,} \end{equation} where $p>1$ and $ a(x)$ is a smooth vector field satisfying some decay conditions. We show…

In this paper, we consider semilinear elliptic problems in a bounded domain $\Omega$ contained in a given unbounded Lipschitz domain $\mathcal C \subset \mathbb R^N$. Our aim is to study how the energy of a solution behaves with respect to…

We obtain the inequality $$\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u(x)|^ph(u(x))dx\leq C(n,p)\int_{\Omega} \left( \sqrt{ |\Delta u(x)||{\cal T}_{h,C}(u(x))|}\right)^{p}h(u(x))dx,$$ where $\Omega\subset \mathbf{R}^n$ is a bounded Lipschitz domain, $u\in…

We review the indefinite sublinear elliptic equation $-\Delta u=a(x)u^{q}$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, with Dirichlet or Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions. Here $0<q<1$ and $a$ is continuous and changes…

Let $\Omega$ be a Lipschitz domain in $\mathbb R^d$, and let $\mathcal A^\varepsilon=-\operatorname{div}A(x,x/\varepsilon)\nabla$ be a strongly elliptic operator on $\Omega$. We suppose that $\varepsilon$ is small and the function $A$ is…

In this paper, we study positive solutions $u$ of the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the $p$-Laplace equation $-\Delta_p \,u=f(u)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, where $N\ge 2$, $1<p<+\infty$ and $f$ is a discontinuous…

We show optimal existence, nonexistence and regularity results for nonnegative solutions to Dirichlet problems as $$ \begin{cases} \displaystyle -\Delta_1 u = g(u)|D u|+h(u)f & \text{in}\;\Omega,\\ u=0 & \text{on}\;\partial\Omega,…

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 &…

We consider an homogenization problem for the second order elliptic equation $- \Delta u^{\varepsilon} + \dfrac{1}{\varepsilon} V(./\varepsilon) u^{\varepsilon} + \nu u^{\varepsilon} =f$ when the highly oscillatory potential $V$ belongs to…

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…

We are concerned with singular elliptic problems of the form $-\Delta u\pm p(d(x))g(u)=\la f(x,u)+\mu |\nabla u|^a$ in $\Omega,$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in $\RR^N$, $d(x)={\rm dist}(x,\partial\Omega),$ $\la>0,$…

Let $L=-\operatorname{div}_x(A(x)\nabla_x)$ be a uniformly elliptic operator in divergence form in a bounded domain $\Omega$. We consider the fractional nonlocal equations $$\begin{cases} L^su=f,&\hbox{in}~\Omega,\\…

We establish Liouville type theorems for elliptic systems with various classes of non-linearities on $\mathbb{R}^N$. We show among other things, that a system has no semi-stable solution in any dimension, whenever the infimum of the…

We consider the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem \[ -\Delta u=\left\vert u\right\vert ^{p-2}u\text{ in }\Omega,\text{\quad }u=0\text{ on }\partial\Omega, \] in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ for supercritical…

In this paper, we investigate the minimization problem : $$ \inf_{ \displaystyle{\begin{array}{lll} u \in H_0^1(\Omega), v \in H_0^1(\Omega),\\ \quad \| u \|_{L^{q}} =1, \quad \| v \|_{L^{q}} = 1 \end{array}}} \left[ \frac{1}{2}…

In this manuscript, we investigate regularity estimates for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations in the non-divergence form that may exhibit degenerate behavior at critical points of their gradient. The prototype equation under…