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This paper is focused on the local interior $W^{1,\infty}$-regularity for weak solutions of degenerate elliptic equations of the form $\text{div}[\mathbf{a}(x,u, \nabla u)] +b(x, u, \nabla u) =0$, which include those of $p$-Laplacian type.…

We use the method of layer potentials to study the $R_2$ Regularity problem and the $D_2$ Dirichlet problem for second order elliptic equations of the form $\mathcal{L}u=0$, with lower order coefficients, in bounded Lipschitz domains. For…

Our goal in this article is to study the global Lorentz estimates for gradient of weak solutions to $p$-Laplace double obstacle problems involving the Schr\"odinger term: $-\Delta_p u + \mathbb{V}|u|^{p-2}u$ with bound constraints $\psi_1…

We prove a weak comparison principle in narrow unbounded domains for solutions to $-\Delta_p u=f(u)$ in the case $2<p< 3$ and $f(\cdot)$ is a power-type nonlinearity, or in the case $p>2$ and $f(\cdot)$ is super-linear. We exploit it to…

We consider an elliptic equation with unbounded drift in an exterior domain, and obtain quantitative uniqueness estimates at infinity, i.e. the non-trivial solution of $-\triangle u+W\cdot\nabla u=0$ decays in the form of…

We are concerned with singular elliptic equations of the form $-\Delta u= p(x)(g(u)+ f(u)+|\nabla u|^a)$ in $\RR^N$ ($N\geq 3$), where $p$ is a positive weight and $0< a <1$. Under the hypothesis that $f$ is a nondecreasing function with…

In this paper we describe some recent works on quantitative unique continuation for elliptic, parabolic and dispersive equations. The elliptic results are joint work with J.Bourgain, while the remainder of the works discussed are joint…

We study a degenerate elliptic system with variable exponents. Using the variational approach and some recent theory on weighted Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces with variable exponents, we prove the existence of at least two distinct nontrivial…

The aim of this paper is investigating the existence of one or more weak solutions of the coupled quasilinear elliptic system of gradient type \[ (P)\qquad \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} - {\rm div} (A(x, u)\vert\nabla u\vert^{p_1 -2} \nabla u)…

Given two continuous functions $V\left(r \right)\geq 0$ and $K\left(r\right)> 0$ ($r>0$), which may be singular or vanishing at zero as well as at infinity, we study the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -\Delta w+ V\left( \left| x\right|…

We prove a Carleman estimate for elliptic second order partial differential operators with Lipschitz continuous coefficients. The Carleman estimate is valid for any complex-valued function $u\in W^{2,2}$ with support in a punctured ball of…

We obtain a vanishing result for solutions of the inequality $|\Delta u|\le q_1|u|+q_2|\nabla u|$ that decay to zero along a very general warped cylindrical end of a Riemannian manifold. The appropriate decay condition at infinity on $u$ is…

We study the existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for the following quasilinear elliptic system: \[ \begin{cases} -\mathrm{div}(A_1(x,u_1)\nabla u_1) + \displaystyle\frac{1}{2} D_{u_1}A_1(x,u_1)\nabla u_1 \cdot \nabla u_1 =…

We study the existence/nonexistence and qualitative properties of the positive solutions to the problem \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^s u -\theta\frac{u}{|x|^{2s}}&=u^p - u^q \quad\text{in }\,\, \mathbb{R}^N,\quad u > 0 \quad\text{in }\,\,…

We obtain a decay estimate for solutions to the linear dispersive equation $iu_t-(-\Delta)^{1/4}u=0$ for $(t,x)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}$. This corresponds to a factorization of the linearized water wave equation…

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of weak solutions to the model equation $$-\Delta_p u=\sigma \, u^q \quad \text{on} \, \, \, \R^n,$$ in the case $0<q<p-1$, where $\sigma\ge 0$ is an arbitrary locally integrable…

In two dimensions every weak solution to a nonlinear elliptic system $\rm{div} a(x,u,Du)=0$ has H\"older continuous first derivatives provided that standard continuity, ellipticity and growth assumptions hold with a growth exponent $p \geq…

In 1971 Fedi\u{i} proved the remarkable theorem that the linear second order partial differential operator in the plane with coefficients 1 and f^2 is hypoelliptic provided that f is smooth, vanishes at the origin and is positive otherwise.…

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…

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…