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By a combination of variational and topological techniques in the presence of invariant cones, we detect a new type of positive axially symmetric solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the elliptic equation $$ -\Delta u + u = a(x)|u|^{p-2}u…
We study the existence and nonexistence of positive (super-)solutions to a singular semilinear elliptic equation $$-\nabla\cdot(|x|^A\nabla u)-B|x|^{A-2}u=C|x|^{A-\sigma}u^p$$ in cone--like domains of $\R^N$ ($N\ge 2$), for the full range…
In this paper we consider nonlinear elliptic PDEs of the type $$-\Delta_p u+a(x)|u|^{p-2}u=|u|^{p^*-2}u \qquad \mbox{ in }\Omega,$$ where $1<p<N$ and $p^*=Np/(N-p)$ is the critical Sobolev exponent, and allowing the asymptotic behavior of…
We study quasilinear degenerate singular elliptic equation of type -Delta_p u = \frac{u^{p^*(s)-1}}{|y|^t}$ in a smooth bounded domain \Omega in R^n=R^k \times R^{N-k}$, x=(y,z) in R^k \times R^{N-k}, 2 \leq k<N and N \geq 3, 1<p<2, 0\leq…
In this paper the existence of solutions, $(\lambda,u)$, of the problem $$-\Delta u=\lambda u -a(x)|u|^{p-1}u \quad \hbox{in }\Omega, \qquad u=0 \quad \hbox{on}\;\;\partial\Omega,$$ is explored for $0 < p < 1$. When $p>1$, it is known that…
In 2012, Y.Y. Li and C.-S. Lin (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 203(3): 943-968) posed an open problem concerning the existence of positive solutions to the elliptic equation $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u = -\lambda |x|^{-s_1}|u|^{p-2}u +…
We shall prove a multiplicity result for semilinear elliptic problems with a super-critical nonlinearity of the form, \begin{equation}\label{con-c} \left \{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u =|u|^{p-2} u+\mu |u|^{q-2}u, & x \in \Omega\\ u=0, & x…
We consider the supercritical problem {equation*} -\Delta u=|u| ^{p-2}u\text{\in}\Omega,\quad u=0\text{\on}\partial\Omega, {equation*} where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ and $p$ smaller than the critical exponent…
This paper studies the existence of positive normalized solutions to the singular elliptic equation \[ -\Delta u + \lambda u = u^{-r} + u^{p-1} \quad \text{in } \Omega, \] with the Dirichlet boundary condition $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$ and…
We study the following quasilinear elliptic equation $$ -\Delta_p u + (\beta\Phi(x)-a(x)) u^{p-1} + b(x)g(u)=0 \quad \text{in } \mathbb{R}^N \quad \quad \quad (P_\beta) $$ where $p>1$, $\Phi \in L^\infty_{loc}(\mathbb{R}^N)$, $a,b \in…
The aim of this paper is to prove the existence of weak solutions to the equation $\Delta u + u^p = 0$ which are positive in a domain $\Omega \subset {\Bbb R}^N$, vanish at the boundary, and have prescribed isolated singularities. The…
We study a semilinear elliptic equation with a pure power nonlinearity with exponent $p>1$, and provide sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions. These conditions involve expected exit times from the domain, $D$, where…
We derive a priori bounds for positive supersolutions of $ - \Delta_{p} u = \rho(x) f(u) $, where $p>1$ and $\Delta_{p}$ is the $p$-Laplace operator, in a smooth bounded domain of $R^{N}$ with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. We apply…
We consider the supercritical problem \[ -\Delta v=|v|^{p-2}v in \Theta_{\epsilon}, v=0 on \partial\Theta_{\epsilon}, \] where $\Theta$ is a bounded smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq3$, $p>2^{\ast}:=2N/(N-2)$, and…
We verify the existence of radial positive solutions for the semi-linear equation $$ -\,\Delta u=u^{p}\,-\,V(y)\,u^{q},\,\quad\quad u>0,\quad\quad\mbox{ in }\mathbb{R}^N$$ where $N\geq 3$, $p$ is close to $p^*:=(N+2)/(N-2)$, and $V$ is a…
We deal with the following semilinear equation in exterior domains \[-\Delta u + u = a(x)|u|^{p-2}u,\qquad u\in H^1_0({A_R}), \] where ${A_R} := \{x\in\mathbb{R}^N:\, |x|>{R}\}$, $N\ge 3$, $R>0$. Assuming that the weight $a$ is positive and…
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 are concerned with the critical Hardy-Sobolev equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta_{p}u = \frac{u^{p^{*}_s-1}}{|x|^{s}}, \ \ x\in \mathbb{R}^n \end{equation*} where $p^{*}_s = \frac{(n-s)p}{n-p}$ denotes the critical…
Semilinear elliptic equations of the form $-\Delta u =\lambda|u|^{p-2}u- |u|^{q-2}u$ in bounded and unbounded domains are considered. In the plane of exponents $p\times q$, the so-called critical exponents curve is introduced which…