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We study the existence and nonexistence of positive (super-)solutions to a singular semilinear elliptic equation $$-\nabla\cdot(|x|^A\nabla u)-B|x|^{A-2}u=C|x|^{A-\sigma}u^p$$ in cone--like domains of $\R^N$ ($N\ge 2$), for the full range…

We study positive supersolutions to an elliptic equation $(*)$: $-\Delta u=c|x|^{-s}u^p$, $p,s\in\bf R$ in cone-like domains in $\bf R^N$ ($N\ge 2$). We prove that in the sublinear case $p<1$ there exists a critical exponent $p_*<1$ such…

The paper concerns with positive solutions of problems of the type $-\Delta u+a(x)\, u=u^{p-1}+\varepsilon u^{2^*-1}$ in $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\ge 3$, $2^*={2N\over N-2}$, $2<p<2^*$. Here $\Omega$ can be an exterior domain, i.e.…

We study the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions in the whole Euclidean space of coercive quasi-linear elliptic equations such as \[ \Delta_p u = f(u)\pm g(\left|\nabla u\right|) \] where $f\in C([0,\infty))$ and $g\in…

We prove that if the elliptic problem $-\Delta u+b(x)|\nabla u|=c(x)u$ with $c\ge0$ has a positive supersolution in a domain $\Omega$ of $ \IR^{N\ge 3}$, then $c,b$ must satisfy the inequality \[\sqrt{ \int_\Omega c\phi^2}\le \sqrt{…

In this work we analyze the existence of solutions to the nonlinear elliptic system: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u & = & v^q+\a g & \text{in }\Omega , \\ -\Delta v& = &|\nabla u|^{p}+\l f &\text{in }\Omega , \\…

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}…

In this paper we consider nonlinear elliptic PDEs of the type $$-\Delta_p u+a(x)|u|^{p-2}u=|u|^{p^*-2}u \qquad \mbox{ in }\Omega,$$ where $1<p<N$ and $p^*=Np/(N-p)$ is the critical Sobolev exponent, and allowing the asymptotic behavior of…

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ and let $m$ be a possibly discontinuous and unbounded function that changes sign in $\Omega$. Let $f:\left[ 0,\infty\right) \rightarrow\left[ 0,\infty\right) $ be a continuous…

In this paper we consider positive supersolutions of the nonlinear elliptic equation \[- \Delta u = \rho(x) f(u)|\nabla u|^p, \qquad \hfill \mbox{ in } \Omega,\] where $0\le p<1$, $ \Omega$ is an arbitrary domain (bounded or unbounded) in $…

This paper is devoted to the existence of positive solutions for a problem related to a fourth-order differential equation involving a nonlinear term depending on a second order differential operator, $$(-\Delta)^2 u=\lambda u+…

We study the existence of global positive solutions of the differential inequalities $$ - \operatorname{div} A (x, u, \nabla u) \ge f (u) \quad \mbox{in } {\mathbb R}^n, $$ where $n \ge 2$ and $A$ is a Carath\'eodory function such that $$…

In this paper we address the following Kirchhoff type problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta(g(|\nabla u|_2^2) u + u^r) = a u + b u^p& \mbox{in}~\Omega, u>0& \mbox{in}~\Omega, u= 0& \mbox{on}~\partial\Omega, \end{array}…

We study positive solutions of equation (E) $-\Delta u + u^p|\nabla u|^q= 0$ ($0<p$, $0\leq q\leq 2$, $p+q>1$) and other related equations in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^N$. We show that if $N(p+q-1)<p+1$ then, for…

This paper concerns the existence of critical points for solutions to second order elliptic equations of the form $\nabla\cdot \sigma(x)\nabla u=0$ posed on a bounded domain $X$ with prescribed boundary conditions. In spatial dimension…

This paper is concerned with the study of multiple positive solutions to the following elliptic problem involving a nonhomogeneous operator with nonstandard growth of $p$-$q$ type and singular nonlinearities \begin{equation*} \left\{…

We investigate the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for the quasilinear elliptic inequality $L_\mathcal{A} u= -{\rm div}[\mathcal{A}(x, u, \nabla u)]\geq (I_\alpha\ast u^p)u^q$ in $\Omega$, where $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N,…

This work deals with the existence of at least two positive solutions for the class of quasilinear elliptic equations with cylindrical singularities and multiple critical nonlinearities that can be written in the form \begin{align*}…

This paper is devoted to the study of the existence of positive solutions for a problem related to a higher order fractional differential equation involving a nonlinear term depending on a fractional differential operator,…

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…