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We study concavity properties of positive solutions to the Logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation $-\Delta u=u\, \log u^2$ in a general convex domain with Dirichlet conditions. To this aim, we analyse the auxiliary Lane-Emden problems $-\Delta…

In this paper we study convexity properties for quasilinear Lane-Emden-Fowler equations of the type $$\begin{cases} -\Delta_p u = a(x) u^q & \quad \hbox{ in $\Omega$},\\ u >0 & \quad \hbox{ in $\Omega$}, \\ u =0 & \quad \hbox{ on $\partial…

In this article we consider a special type of degenerate elliptic partial differential equations of second order in convex domains that satisfy the interior sphere condition. We show that any positive viscosity solution $u$ of $-|\nabla…

This paper is concerned with power concavity properties of the solution to the parabolic boundary value problem \begin{equation} \tag{$P$} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \partial_t u=\Delta u +f(x,t,u,\nabla u) &…

We study the Dirichlet problem for the weighted Schr\"odinger operator \[-\Delta u +Vu = \lambda \rho u,\] where $\rho$ is a positive weighting function and $V$ is a potential. Such equations appear naturally in conformal geometry and in…

We consider the Dirichlet problem for positive solutions of the equation $-\Delta_p (u) = f(u)$ in a convex, bounded, smooth domain $\Omega \subset\R^N$, with $f$ locally Lipschitz continuous. \par We provide sufficient conditions…

In this paper we prove existence of nonnegative solutions to parabolic Cauchy-Dirichlet problems with superlinear gradient terms which are possibly singular. The model equation is \[ u_t - \Delta_pu=g(u)|\nabla u|^q+h(u)f(t,x)\qquad…

We study the solvability in the whole Euclidean space of coercive quasi-linear and fully nonlinear elliptic equations modeled on $\Delta u\pm g(|\nabla u|)= f(u)$, $u\ge0$, where $f$ and $g$ are increasing continuous functions. We give…

Let $(N, g)$ be a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded from below. In this paper, we study the gradient estimates of positive solutions to a class of nonlinear elliptic equations $$\Delta u(x)+a(x)u(x)\log…

Let $(M^N, g, e^{-f}dv)$ be a complete smooth metric measure space with $\infty$-Bakry-\'Emery Ricci tensor bounded from below. We derive elliptic gradient estimates for positive solutions of a weighted nonlinear parabolic equation…

We study positive solutions of the Dirichlet problem $-\Delta u = u^p$ in a uniformly convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb S^2$, $u= 0$ on $\partial\Omega.$ For $p=1$, we assume that the right-hand side is replaced by $\lambda_1 u$, where…

In this paper we study Liouville-type properties for a class of degenerate elliptic equations driven by the fractional infinity Laplacian with nonlinear lower-order terms, \[ \Delta_\infty^{\beta}u - c\,H(u,\nabla u) - \lambda\, f(|x|,u)=0…

The aim of this paper is to study the critical elliptic equations with Stein-Weiss type convolution parts $$ \displaystyle-\Delta u =\frac{1}{|x|^{\alpha}}\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{|u(y)|^{2_{\alpha,…

In this paper we study quasiconcavity properties of solutions of Dirichlet problems related to modified nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations of the type $$-{\rm div}\big(a(u) \nabla u\big) + \frac{a'(u)}{2} |\nabla u|^2 = f(u) \quad \hbox{in…

We study Dirichlet problems for fractional Laplace equations of the form $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}} u = f(x,u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for $0<\alpha<n$ where the nonlinearity $f(x,u) = \sum_{i=1}^{M} \sigma_{i} u^{q_i} + \omega$ involves…

This paper investigates the mathematical properties and numerical approximation of a class of nonlocal elliptic partial differential equations of the form \begin{equation*} -\Delta u + \lambda \, G(u) = f, \end{equation*} where $\Delta$…

In this article, we consider parabolic equations of the type $$\partial_t u(x,t)=\Delta u(x,t) - Bu(x,t) + F(u(x,t))$$ where $u$ is valued in a transverse Hilbert space $Y$ and $B$ is a positive self-adjoint operator on $Y$, allowing a…

In this article, we study a quantitative form of the Landis conjecture on exponential decay for real-valued solutions to second order elliptic equations with variable coefficients in the plane. In particular, we prove the following…

In the study of concavity properties of positive solutions to nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations the diffusion and the nonlinearity are typically independent of the space variable. In this paper we obtain new results aiming…

In this paper, we study the existence of a solution for a class of Dirichlet problems with a singularity and a convection term. Precisely, we consider the existence of a positive solution to the Dirichlet problem $$-\Delta_p u =…