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In this paper, we study the nonexistence of solutions to semilinear elliptic equations with a positive potential on metric graphs. In particular, the Laplacian under consideration is of a special type, related to both the vertices and edges…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Yang Liu , Yong Lin , Haohang Zhang

We establish a positivity property for a class of semilinear elliptic problems involving indefinite sublinear nonlinearities. Namely, we show that any nontrivial nonnegative solution is positive for a class of problems the strong maximum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Uriel Kaufmann , Humberto Ramos Quoirin , Kenichiro Umezu

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Alberto Enciso , Pablo Hidalgo-Palencia , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the stability of radial solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation $\Delta u +f(u)=0$ in ${\bf R^N}$, where $N \geq 3$ and $f$ is a general superciritical nonlinearity. We give a classification of the solution structures with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yasuhito Miyamoto , Yūki Naito

In this paper we are interested in positive classical solutions of \begin{equation} \label{eqx} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u = a(x) u^{p-1} & \mbox{ in } \Omega, \\ u>0 & \mbox{ in } \Omega, \\ u= 0 & \mbox{ on } \pOm, \end…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Craig Cowan , Abbas Moameni

We study the existence and multiplicity of nonnegative solutions, as well as the behaviour of corresponding parameter-dependent branches, to the equation $-\Delta u = (1-u) u^m - \lambda u^n$ in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Vladimir Bobkov , Pavel Drabek , Jesus Hernandez

We discuss the occurrence of positive solutions which decay to 0 as $| x|\to+\infty$ to the differential equation $\Delta u+f(x,u)+g(| x|)x\cdot\nabla u=0$, $| x|>R>0$, $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$, where $n\geq 3$, $g$ is nonnegative valued and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-07 Fahd Jarad , Octavian G. Mustafa , Donal O'Regan

We prove a result of existence of positive solutions of the Dirichlet problem for $-\Delta_p u=\mathrm{w}(x)f(u,\nabla u)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, where $\Delta_p$ is the $p$-Laplacian and $\mathrm{w}$ is a weight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-26 Hamilton Bueno , Grey Ercole , Wenderson Ferreira , Antônio Zumpano

We establish that the elliptic equation $\Delta u+f(x,u)+g(| x|)x\cdot \nabla u=0$, where $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\geq3$, and $| x|>R>0$, has a positive solution which decays to 0 as $| x|\to +\infty$ under mild restrictions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-10 Octavian G. Mustafa , Yong Zhou

We examine the equation given by \begin{equation} \label{eq_abstract} -\Delta u + a(x) \cdot \nabla u = u^p \qquad \mbox{in $ \IR^N$,} \end{equation} where $p>1$ and $ a(x)$ is a smooth vector field satisfying some decay conditions. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Craig Cowan

In this paper we prove the following long-standing conjecture: stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations are bounded (and thus smooth) in dimension $n \leq 9$. This result, that was only known to be true for $n\leq4$, is optimal:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-01 Xavier Cabre , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

We study the existence and nonexistence of positive (super) solutions to the nonlinear $p$-Laplace equation $$-\Delta_p u-\frac{\mu}{|x|^p}u^{p-1}=\frac{C}{|x|^{\sigma}}u^q$$ in exterior domains of ${\R}^N$ ($N\ge 2$). Here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Vitali Liskevich , Sofya Lyakhova , Vitaly Moroz

In the present work, we establish the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for the singular elliptic equations with a double weighted nonlocal interaction term defined in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$. The nonlocal term and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Márcia S. B. A. Cardoso , Edcarlos D. Silva , Marcos. L. M. Carvalho , Minbo Yang

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a positive solution with zero boundary values to the elliptic equation \[ \mathcal{L}u = \sigma u^{q} + \mu \quad \text{in} \;\; \Omega, \] in the sublinear case $0<q<1$, with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Adisak Seesanea , Igor E. Verbitsky

In this paper we establish uniqueness criteria for positive radially symmetric finite energy solutions of semilinear elliptic systems of the form \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} - \Delta u &= f(|x|,u,v)\quad\text{in}\R^n, - \Delta v &=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-28 R. Mandel

We consider non-negative distributional solutions $u\in C^1 (\bar{B_R } )$ to the equation $-\mbox{div} [g(|\nabla u|)|\nabla u|^{-1} \nabla u ] = f(|x|,u)$ in a ball $B_R$, with $u=0$ on $\partial B_R $, where $f$ is continuous and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Friedemann Brock , Peter Takac

Positive solutions of homogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problems or initial-value problems for certain elliptic or parabolic equations must be radially symmetric and monotone in the radial direction if just one of their level surfaces is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Giulio Ciraolo , Rolando Magnanini , Shigeru Sakaguchi

We study the following semilinear biharmonic equation $$ \left\{\begin{array}{lllllll} \Delta^{2}u=\frac{\lambda}{1-u}, &\quad \mbox{in}\quad \B, u=\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=0, &\quad \mbox{on}\quad \partial\B, \end{array} \right.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-21 Baishun Lai

This work deals with the semi linear equation $-\Delta u+u-u^p=0$ in $\R^N$, $2\leq p<{N+2\over N-2}$. We consider the positive solutions which are ${2\pi\over\ep}$-periodic in $x_1$ and decreasing to 0 in the other variables, uniformly in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-14 Geneviève Allain , Anne Beaulieu

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