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In this paper we are concerned with the number of critical points of solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations. We will deal with the case of non-convex, contractile and non-contractile planar domains. We will prove results on the estimate…

In this paper we show that the number of radial positive solutions of the following critical problem $$ \Delta_p u(x) + \lambda K(|x|) \,u(x) \, |u(x)|^{q-2} =0\,,$$ $$ u(x)>0 \quad |x|<1,$$ $$ u(x)=0 \quad |x|=1,$$ where $q=…

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…

We study the correspondence between unicritical laminations and maximally critical laminations with rotational and identity return polygons. Laminations are a combinatorial and topological way to study Julia sets. Laminations give…

In this paper we study solutions to elliptic linear equations $L(u)=\partial_i(a^{ij}(x)\partial_j u) + b^i(x) \partial_i u + c(x) u=0$, either on $R^n$ or a Riemannian manifold, under the assumption of Lipschitz control on the coefficients…

We establish the existence of solutions to the following semilinear Neumann problem for fractional Laplacian and critical exponent: \begin{align*}\left\{\begin{array}{l l} { (-\Delta)^{s}u+ \lambda u= \abs{u}^{p-1}u } & \text{in $ \Omega,$…

Consider the eigenfunctions $u$ for a ree rectangular membrane wo that $-\Delta u=\lambda u$ on $\mathcal R(c,d)=(0,d)\times(0,d)$. In this note we show that if if $u>0$ on $\partial \mathcal R(c,d)) then $u\equiv C$ for some positive…

We consider the following elliptic system with Neumann boundary: \begin{equation} \begin{cases} -\Delta u + \mu u=v^p, &\hbox{in } \Omega, \\-\Delta v + \mu v=u^q, &\hbox{in } \Omega, \\\frac{\partial u}{\partial n} = \frac{\partial…

In this paper we study the following problem \begin{equation} \begin{cases} -\Delta u=f(u)~&\mbox{in}\ \Omega_\varepsilon,\\ u>0~&\mbox{in}\ \Omega_\varepsilon,\\ u=0~&\mbox{on}\ \partial\Omega_\varepsilon, \end{cases} \end{equation} where…

In this paper we continue the study of critical sets of solutions $u_\e$ of second-order elliptic equations in divergence form with rapidly oscillating and periodic coefficients. In \cite{Lin-Shen-3d}, by controling the "turning" of…

Let $u$ be either a second eigenfunction of the fractional $p$-Laplacian or a least energy nodal solution of the equation $(-\Delta)^s_p \, u = f(u)$ with superhomogeneous and subcritical nonlinearity $f$, in a bounded open set $\Omega$ and…

In this paper, we mainly study the critical points and critical zero points of solutions $u$ to a kind of linear elliptic equations with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in a multiply connected domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$.…

We prove that the nodal set (zero set) of a solution of a generalized Dirac equation on a Riemannian manifold has codimension 2 at least. If the underlying manifold is a surface, then the nodal set is discrete. We obtain a quick proof of…

The hot spots conjecture asserts that for any convex bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb R^d$, the first non-trivial Neumann eigenfunction of the Laplace operator in $\Omega$ attains its maximum at the boundary. We construct counterexamples…

Let $f$ be an entire transcendental function of finite order and $\Delta$ be a forward invariant bounded Siegel disk for $f$ with rotation number in Herman's class $\mathcal{H}$. We show that if $f$ has two singular values with bounded…

Given any n-tuple of complex numbers, one can canonically define a polynomial of degree n+1 that has the entries of this n-tuple as its critical points. In 2002, Beardon, Carne, and Ng studied a map $\theta\colon \mathbb{C}^n\to…

Let $N \geq 3$ and $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ be $C^2$ bounded domain. We study the existence of positive solution $u \in H^1(\Omega)$ of \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} -\Delta u + \lambda u = \frac{|u|^{2^*(s)-2}u}{|x-x_1|^s} +…

We show an abstract critical point theorem about existence of infinitely many critical orbits to strongly indefinite functionals with sign-changing nonlinear part defined on a dislocation space with a discrete group action. We apply the…

In this paper we study the Neumann problem\begin{equation*}\begin{cases}-\Delta u+u=u^p \& \text{ in }B\_1 \\u \textgreater{} 0, \& \text{ in }B\_1 \\\partial\_\nu u=0 \& \text{ on } \partial B\_1,\end{cases}\end{equation*}and we show the…

We establish the existence of multiple sign-changing solutions to the quasilinear critical problem $$-\Delta_{p} u=|u|^{p^*-2}u, \qquad u\in D^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^{N}),$$ for $N\geq4$, where $\Delta_{p}u:=\mathrm{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla…