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We study the long time behaviour of solutions of semi-linear parabolic equation of the following type $\partial_t u-\Delta u+a_0(x)u^q=0$ where $a_0(x) \geq d_0 \exp(\frac{\omega(|x|)}{|x|^2})$, $d_0>0$, $1>q>0$ and $\omega$ a positive…

We construct a theory of existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions for the fractional heat equation $\partial_t u +(-\Delta)^s u=0$, $0<s<1$, posed in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$ with data in a class of locally bounded Radon…

We prove a theorem of unique continuation in measure for nonlocal equations of the type $(\partial_t - \Delta)^s u= V(x,t) u$, for $0<s <1$. Our main result, Theorem 1.1, establishes a delicate nonlocal counterpart of the unique…

Consider the equation u_t=\Delta u-Vu +au^p \text{in} R^n\times (0,T); u(x,0)=\phi(x)\gneq0, \text{in} R^n, where $p>1$, $n\ge2$, $T\in(0,\infty]$, $V(x)\sim\frac\omega{|x|^2}$ as $|x|\to\infty$, for some $\omega\neq0$, and $a(x)$ is on the…

We study a porous medium equation with fractional potential pressure: $$ \partial_t u= \nabla \cdot (u^{m-1} \nabla p), \quad p=(-\Delta)^{-s}u, $$ for $m>1$, $0<s<1$ and $u(x,t)\ge 0$. To be specific, the problem is posed for $x\in…

We investigate pointwise upper bounds for nonnegative solutions $u(x,t)$ of the nonlinear initial value problem \begin{equation}\label{0.1} 0\leq(\partial_t-\Delta)^\alpha u\leq u^\lambda \quad\text{ in }\mathbb{R}^n…

Let $u$ be a solution of $\Delta u=Vu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $V$ be continuous, nonnegative and bounded. We prove that the condition $$\int_{r_j\leq|x|\leq r_j+1}|u(x)|^2dx\to 0,$$ along any sequence $(r_j)$, $r_j\nearrow+\infty$,…

We study the existence of sign-changing solutions to the nonlinear heat equation $\partial _t u = \Delta u + |u|^\alpha u$ on ${\mathbb R}^N $, $N\ge 3$, with $\frac {2} {N-2} < \alpha <\alpha _0$, where $\alpha _0=\frac {4} {N-4+2\sqrt{…

We prove the growth rate of global solutions of the equation $u_t=\Delta u-u^{-\nu}$ in $\R^n\times (0,\infty)$, $u(x,0)=u_0>0$ in $\R^n$, where $\nu>0$ is a constant. More precisely for any $0<u_0\in C(\R^n)$ satisfying…

We investigate the behaviour of the solutions $u_m(x,t)$ of the fractional porous medium equation $$ u_t+(-\Delta)^s (u^m)=0, \quad x\in {\mathbb{R}}^N, \ t>0. $$ with initial data $u(x,0)\ge 0$, $x\in {\mathbb{R}}^N$, in the limit as…

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Consider the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta_xu+V(t,x)u=0$, where $x\in\R^n$ with $n\geq3$ and $V(t,x)$ is $T$-periodic in time and decays exponentially in space. Let $ U(t,0)$ be the associated propagator and let…

In this paper we study a class of fractional elliptic problems of the form $$ \Ds u= f(x,u) \quad \textrm{in} \O u=0\quad \textrm{in} \R^N \setminus \O,$$ where $s\in(0,1)$. We prove nonexistence of positive solutions when $\O$ is…

We provide a classification result for positive solutions to $\Delta u = u^{-\gamma}$ in the half space, under zero Dirichlet boundary condition.

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We prove global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the logarithmic porous medium type equation with fractional diffusion $$ \partial_tu+(-\Delta)^{1/2}\log(1+u)=0, $$ posed for $x\in \mathbb{R}$, with nonnegative initial data…

A fractional Stefan problem with a boundary convective condition is solved, where the fractional derivative of order $ \alpha \in (0,1) $ is taken in the Caputo sense. Then an equivalence with other two fractional Stefan problems (the first…

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We study existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to (F) $\partial\_t u+ (-\Delta)^\alphau+h(t, u)=0 $ in $(0,\infty)\times\R^N$,with initial condition $u(0,\cdot)=\nu$ in $\R^N$, where $N\ge2$, the operator $(-\Delta)^\alpha$is the…

We study the following equation \begin{equation*} \frac{\partial u(t,\,x)}{\partial t}= \Delta u(t,\,x)+b(u(t,\,x))+\sigma \dot{W}(t,\,x),\quad t>0, \end{equation*} where $\sigma$ is a positive constant and $\dot{W}$ is a space-time white…