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We consider viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations on bounded domains. We prove comparison principles and a priori supremum bounds for the solutions. We also address the eigenvalue problem and, in many…
For a class of fully nonlinear equations having second order operators which may be singular or degenerate when the gradient of the solutions vanishes, and having first order terms with power growth, we prove the existence and uniqueness of…
In the present paper, a class of fully non-linear elliptic equations are considered, which are degenerate as the gradient becomes small. H\"older estimates obtained by the first author (2011) are combined with new Lipschitz estimates…
We establish new, optimal gradient continuity estimates for solutions to a class of 2nd order partial differential equations, $\mathscr{L}(X, \nabla u, D^2 u) = f$, whose diffusion properties (ellipticity) degenerate along the \textit{a…
In this paper, we prove a theorem concerning the existence of three solutions for the following boundary value problem: \begin{equation*} -\mathcal{M}_{\lambda,\Lambda}^+(D^2u)-\Gamma|Du|^2=f(u)~~~\text{in}\ \Omega, u=0~~~\text{on}\…
We discuss the existence and regularity of solutions to the following Dirichlet problem: $$\begin{equation} \begin{cases} -\textrm{div}\left(\frac{Du}{(1+|u|)^{\theta}}\right)= -\textrm{div}\left(u^{\gamma}E(x)\right)+f(x) \qquad & \mbox{in…
In this paper, we establish the boundary regularity results for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear degenerate/singular parabolic equations of the form $$u_t - x_n^{\gamma} F(D^2 u,x,t) = f,$$ where $\gamma<1$. These equations are…
Given a smooth and bounded domain $\Omega(\subset\mathbf{R}^N)$, we prove the existence of two non-trivial, non-negative solutions for the semilinear degenerate elliptic equation \begin{align} \left. \begin{array}{l} -\Delta_\lambda u=\mu…
We investigate the homogeneous Dirichlet problem in uniformly convex domains for a large class of degenerate elliptic equations with singular zero order term. In particular we establish sharp existence and uniqueness results of positive…
In this work we analyze the existence of solutions to the nonlinear elliptic system: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u & = & v^q+\a g & \text{in }\Omega , \\ -\Delta v& = &|\nabla u|^{p}+\l f &\text{in }\Omega , \\…
In this paper, we study regularity estimates for a class of degenerate, fully nonlinear elliptic equations with arbitrary nonhomogeneous degeneracy laws. We establish that viscosity solutions are locally continuously differentiable under…
We study both existence and nonexistence of nonnegative solutions for nonlinear elliptic problems with singular lower order terms that have natural growth with respect to the gradient, whose model is $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u +…
In this paper we report the asymptotic behaviors of viscosity solutions of the following degenerate elliptic equations \begin{equation*}\label{main-Eq} Lu=x_n^{2\alpha}\sum_{i,j=1}^{n-1}a_{ij}(x)D_{ij}u(x)…
: We establish existence of an infinite family of exponentially-decaying non-radial $C^2$ solutions to the equation $\Delta u + f(u) = 0$ on $R^2$ for a large class of nonlinearities $f$. These solutions have the form $u(r,\theta )=e^{i…
We study a degenerate elliptic equation, proving existence results of distributional solutions in some borderline cases.
In this paper, we study the regularity of weak solutions to the following strongly degenerate parabolic equation \begin{equation*} u_t-\div\left(\left(\left|Du\right|-1\right)_+^{p-1}\frac{Du}{\left|Du\right|}\right)=f\qquad\mbox{ in…
We establish an optimal C^{1,\alpha}-regularity for viscosity solutions of degenerate/singular fully nonlinear elliptic equations by finding minimal regularity requirements on the associated operator.
In this paper we are mainly concerned with nontrivial positive solutions to the Dirichlet problem for the degenerate elliptic equation \begin{gather} -\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2} -\left|x\right|^{2k}\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial…
In this paper, first we study carefully the positive solutions to $\Delta u+\lambda_{1}u\ln u +\lambda_{2}u^{b+1}=0$ defined on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ with $Ric(g)\geq -Kg$, which can be regarded as…
We consider equation $-\Delta u+f(x,u)=0$ in smooth bounded domain $\Omega\in\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geqslant2$, with $f(x,r)>0$ in $\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^1_+$ and $f(x,r)=0$ on $\partial\Omega$. We find the condition on the order of degeneracy…