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In this paper we prove the existence of an optimal domain $\Omega_{opt}$ for the shape optimization problem $$\max\Big\{\lambda_q(\Omega)\ :\ \Omega\subset D,\ \lambda_p(\Omega)=1\Big\},$$ where $q<p$ and $D$ is a prescribed bounded subset…

In this paper, we consider the $k$-Hessian equation $S_{k}(D^{2}u)=b(x)f(u)\mbox{ in }\Omega,\,u=+\infty \mbox{ on }\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a smooth, bounded, strictly convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ with $N\geq2$, $b\in \rm…

If $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^N$ and $f$ a continuous increasing function satisfying a super linear growth condition at infinity, we study the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the problem (P): $\partial_tu-\Delta…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$ ($N\geq1$) be a bounded and smooth domain and $a:\Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ be a sign-changing weight satisfying $\int_{\Omega}a<0$. We prove the existence of a positive solution $u_{q}$ for the problem…

In this paper, we study a parabolic free boundary problem in an exterior domain $$\begin{cases} F(D^2u)-\partial_tu=u^a\chi_{\{u>0\}}&\text{in }(\mathbb R^n\setminus K)\times(0,\infty),\\ u=u_0&\text{on }\{t=0\},\\ |\nabla u|=u=0&\text{on…

We solve variationally certain equations of stellar dynamics of the form $-\sum_i\partial_{ii} u(x) =\frac{|u|^{p-2}u(x)}{{\rm dist} (x,{\mathcal A} )^s}$ in a domain $\Omega$ of $\rn$, where ${\mathcal A} $ is a proper linear subspace of…

In this note, we establish the existence of a positive solution and its stability to the following problem $$\Delta_{\mathbb{H}^n}^2u=a(\xi)u-f(\xi,u)\text{ in }\Omega, \,\,\, u|_{\partial\Omega} = 0 =\left.\Delta_{\mathbb{H}^n}…

We study the equation $-\Delta u+u^q=0$, $q>1$, in a bounded $C^2$ domain $\Omega\subset R^N$. A positive solution of the equation is moderate if it is dominated by a harmonic function and $\sigma$-moderate if it is the limit of an…

For $\Omega$ varying among open bounded sets in ${\mathbb R} ^n$, we consider shape functionals $J (\Omega)$ defined as the infimum over a Sobolev space of an integral energy of the kind $\int _\Omega[ f (\nabla u) + g (u) ]$, under…

We consider the inverse boundary value problem for operators of the form $-\triangle+q$ in an infinite domain $\Omega=\mathbb{R}\times\omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{1+n}$, $n\geq3$, with a periodic potential $q$. For Dirichlet-to-Neumann data…

We study the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for a family of fractional Kirchhoff equations with critical nonlinearity of the form \begin{equation*}…

The aim of this paper is to treat the following problem $$ (P) \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} (-\Delta)^s_{p, \beta} u &= & f(x,u) &\mbox{ in }\Omega, u & = & 0 &\mbox{ in } \mathds{R}^N\setminus\Omega, \end{array} \right. $$ where $$…

We study some qualitative properties (including removable singularities and superharmonicity) of non-negative solutions to $$ (-\Delta)^\gamma u=fu^p\quad\text{in }\mathbb R^n\setminus\Sigma $$ which are singular at $\Sigma$. Here $\gamma…

We study positive solutions to the steady state reaction diffusion systems of the form: \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u = \lambda f(v)+\mu h(u), & \Omega,\\ -\Delta v = \lambda g(u)+\mu q(v),& \Omega,\\ \frac{\partial…

We establish the existence of positive solutions to a general class of overdetermined semilinear elliptic boundary problems on suitable bounded open sets $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$. Specifically, for $n\leq 4$ and under mild technical…

In this article, we study the existence of non-trivial weak solutions for the following boundary-value problem \begin{gather*} -\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2} -\left|x\right|^{2k}\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial y^2}=f(x,y,u) \quad\text{ in…

The paper addresses the doubly elliptic eigenvalue problem $$\begin{cases} -\Delta u=\lambda u \qquad &\text{in $\Omega$,}\\ u=0 &\text{on $\Gamma_0$,}\\ -\Delta_\Gamma u +\partial_\nu u =\lambda u\qquad &\text{on $\Gamma_1$,} \end{cases}…

In this paper, we study the existence and the summability of solutions to a Robin boundary value problem whose prototype is the following: $$ \begin{cases} -\text{div}(b(|u|)\nabla u)=f &\text{in }\Omega,\\[.2cm] \displaystyle\frac{\partial…

In this article we consider the existence of positive singular solutions on bounded domains and also classical solutions on exterior domains. First we consider positive singular solutions of the following problems: \begin{equation}…

We consider an elliptic differential inequality: $\vert \Delta u(x) \vert \le C_0(\YYYY^{-\gamma}\vert u(x)\vert + \YYYY^{-\theta}\vert \nabla u(x)\vert)$ in an exterior domain $\R^n \setminus \ooo{U}$, where $U$ is a simply connected…