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The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed description of the spaces that can be specified as $L^2$ domains for the operators of a first order elliptic complex on a compact manifold with conical singularities. This entails an…

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We investigate strong maximum (and minimum) principles for fully nonlinear second order equations on Riemannian manifolds that are non-totally degenerate and satisfy appropriate scaling conditions. Our results apply to a large class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Alessandro Goffi , Francesco Pediconi

We introduce a novel technique for proving global strong discrete maximum principles for finite element discretizations of linear and semilinear elliptic equations for cases when the common, matrix-based sufficient conditions are not…

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We establish a global boundedness result for Lane-Emden systems involving general second-order elliptic operators in divergence form and arbitrary positive exponents whose product equals one. Furthermore, we observe that, for this class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Leandro G. Fernandes , Edir J. F. Leite

We obtain estimates on the supremum, infimum and oscillation of solutions for a wide class of inhomogeneous fully nonlinear elliptic equations on Euclidean domains where the differential operator is an I-central Garding-Dirichlet operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-19 F. Reese Harvey , Kevin R. Payne

Green's formulas for elliptic cone differential operators are established. This is done by an accurate description of the maximal domain of an elliptic cone differential operator and its formal adjoint, thereby utilizing the concept of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Ingo Witt

Based on works by Hopf, Weinberger, Hamilton and Evans, we state and prove the strong elliptic maximum principle for smooth sections in vector bundles over Riemannian manifolds and give some applications in Differential Geometry. Moreover,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk

This paper studies global a priori gradient estimates for divergence-type equations patterned over the $p$-Laplacian with first-order terms having polynomial growth with respect to the gradient, under suitable integrability assumptions on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Marco Cirant , Alessandro Goffi , Tommaso Leonori

We consider one-dimensional inhomogeneous parabolic equations with higher-order elliptic differential operators subject to periodic boundary conditions. In our main result we show that the property of continuous maximal regularity is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Jeremy LeCrone

We study estimates of the Green's function in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \ge 2$, for the linear second order elliptic equation in divergence form with variable uniformly elliptic coefficients. In the case $d \ge 3$, we obtain estimates on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Peter Bella , Arianna Giunti

We give full boundary extensions to two fundamental estimates in the theory of elliptic PDE, the weak Harnack inequality and the quantitative strong maximum principle, for uniformly elliptic equations in non-divergence form.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Boyan Sirakov

This paper deals with generalized differentiability and second-order necessary optimality conditions for a box-constrained optimal control problem governed by an exponential semilinear elliptic equation with discrete measures as sources,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Vu Huu Nhu , Nguyen Hai Son , Phan Quang Sang , Tran Duy

This paper is concerned with existence and qualitative properties of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in bounded domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We show the existence of positive solutions in the vicinity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 François Hamel , Nikolai Nadirashvili

In this paper, we prove $L^p$ estimates for the fractional derivatives of solutions to elliptic fractional partial differential equations whose coefficients are $VMO$. In particular, our work extends the optimal regularity known in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Armin Schikorra , Tien-Tsan Shieh , Daniel Spector

We study the local H\"older regularity of strong solutions $u$ of second-order uniformly elliptic equations having a gradient term with superquadratic growth $\gamma > 2$, and right-hand side in a Lebesgue space $L^q$. When $q >…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Marco Cirant , Gianmaria Verzini

Aleksandrov-Bakelman-Pucci maximum principles are studied for a class of fully nonlinear integro-differential equations of order $\sigma\in [2-\varepsilon_0,2)$, where $\varepsilon_0$ is a small constant depending only on given parameters.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Shuhei Kitano

The paper is concerned with the principal eigenvalue of some linear elliptic operators with drift in two dimensional space. We provide a refined description of the asymptotic behavior for the principal eigenvalue as the drift rate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Shuang Liu , Yuan Lou , Maolin Zhou

We obtain $L^p(L^q)$ maximal regularity estimates for time dependent second order elliptic operators in divergence form with rough dependencies in the spatial variables.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Stephan Fackler

In this note, we aim to extend the previous work on an N-barrier maximum principle (\cite{hung2015n,hung2015maximum}) to a more general class of systems of two equations. Moreover, an N-barrier maximum principle for systems of three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Li-Chang Hung