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We establish the existence of positive solutions for a nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet problem in dimension $N$ involving the $N$-Laplacian. The nonlinearity considered depends on the gradient of the unknown function and an exponential term.…
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…
Let $L$ be a second order elliptic operator $L$ with smooth coefficients defined on a domain $\Omega $ in $\mathbb{R}^d $, $d\geq3$, such that $L1\leq 0$. We study existence and properties of continuous solutions to the following problem…
The main purpose of this work is to study uniform regularity estimates for a family of elliptic operators $\{\mathcal{L}_\varepsilon, \varepsilon>0\}$, arising in the theory of homogenization, with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients.…
In the present paper, we study sharp C^{1;\alpha} regularity results with boundary Neumann condition for viscosity solutions for a class of degenerate fully non-linear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions.
We prove the unique solvability in weighted Sobolev spaces of non-divergence form elliptic and parabolic equations on a half space with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. All the leading coefficients are assumed to be only…
Let $\lambda^*>0$ denote the largest possible value of $\lambda$ such that \begin{align*} \left\{\begin{aligned} \Delta^2 u & = \la e^u && \text{in $B $} u &= \pd{u}{n} = 0 && \text{on $ \pa B $} \end{aligned} \right. \end{align*} has a…
We study the semilinear elliptic system \[ \Delta u = p(|x|)\,g(v), \qquad \Delta v = q(|x|)\,f(u), \qquad x \in \mathbb{R}^n,\; n \geq 3, \] under new Keller--Osserman-type integral conditions on the nonlinearities $f,g$ and decay…
In this paper we study the Neumann problem for a type of fully nonlinear second order elliptic partial differential equations on domains in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$ without any curvature assumptions on the domain.
We consider the heat equation in a smooth bounded convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with nonlinear Neumann boundary condition $\partial_\nu u = \lambda (u - u^3)$. Stable non-constant stationary solutions do not exist when…
Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, with $N\geq 5$, $a>0$, $\alpha\geq 0$ and $2^*=\frac{2N}{N-2}$. We show that the the exponent $q=\frac{2(N-1)}{N-2}$ plays a critical role regarding the existence of least energy…
We consider a semilinear elliptic equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a smooth, possibly unbounded, domain. Under suitable assumptions, we deduce a condition on the size of the domain that implies the existence of a positive…
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ be a bounded chord-arc domain, let $\mathcal L=-{\rm div} A\nabla$ be an elliptic operator in $\Omega$ associated with a matrix $A$ having Dini mean oscillation coefficients, and let $1<p\leq 2$. In…
We find an explicit form of weak solutions to a Riemann problem for a degenerate semilinear parabolic equation with piecewise constant diffusion coefficient. It is demonstrated that the phase transition lines (free boundaries) correspond to…
We prove that conservation of probability for the free heat semigroup on a Riemannian manifold $M$ (namely stochastic completeness), hence a linear property, is equivalent to uniqueness of positive, bounded solutions to nonlinear evolution…
We consider a function U satisfying a degenerate elliptic equation on (0,+\infty)\times R^N with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. The Neumann condition is prescribed on a bounded domain \Omega\subset R^N of class C^{1;1},…
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\geq 3$) be a bounded $C^2$ domain and $\Sigma\subset\partial\Omega$ be a compact $C^2$ submanifold of dimension $k$. Denote the distance from $\Sigma$ by $d_\Sigma$. In this paper, we study positive…
Established in the 30's, Schauder {\it a priori} estimates are among the most classical and powerful tools in the analysis of problems ruled by 2nd order elliptic PDEs. Since then, a central problem in regularity theory has been to…
We investigate the regularity of solutions to linear elliptic equations in both divergence and non-divergence forms, particularly when the principal coefficients have Dini mean oscillation. We show that if a solution $u$ to a…
We establish Liouville type theorems for elliptic systems with various classes of non-linearities on $\mathbb{R}^N$. We show among other things, that a system has no semi-stable solution in any dimension, whenever the infimum of the…