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We study the following Brezis-Nirenberg problem of Kirchhoff type $$ \left\{\aligned &-(a+b\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^2dx)\Delta u = \lambda|u|^{q-2}u + \delta |u|^{2}u, &\quad \text{in}\ \Omega, \\ &u=0,& \text{on}\ \partial\Omega,…

In this paper we prove an existence result of multiple positive solutions for the following quasilinear problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}[c]{ll} -\Delta u - \Delta (u^2)u = |u|^{p-2}u & \mbox{ in } \Omega u= 0 &\mbox{ on }…

For $p \in (1, \infty),$ for an integer $N \geq 2$ and for a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$, we consider the following nonlinear Steklov bifurcation problem \begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} -\Delta_p \phi & = 0 \; \text{in} \ \Omega, \\…

In this paper we consider a superlinear one-dimensional elliptic boundary value problem that generalizes the one studied by Moore and Nehari in [43]. Specifically, we deal with piecewise-constant weight functions in front of the…

We investigate the problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta_p u = g(u)|\nabla u|^p + f(x,u) \ & \mbox{in} \ \ \Omega, \ \ \\ u>0 \ &\mbox{in} \ \ \Omega, \ \ u = 0 \ &\mbox{on} \ \ \partial\Omega, \end{array} \right. \leqno{(P)} $$ in a…

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ be a bounded regular domain, $0<s<1$ and $N>2s$. We consider $$ (P)\left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} (-\Delta)^s u &= & \frac{u^{q}}{d^{2s}} & \text{ in }\Omega , \\ u &> & 0 & \text{in }\Omega , \\ u & = & 0 &…

In this paper, the theory of Gelfand problems is adapted to the 1--Laplacian setting. Concretely, we deal with the following problem \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{cc} -\Delta_1u=\lambda f(u) &\hbox{in }\Omega\,;\\[2mm] u=0…

Equation $(-\Delta+k^2)u+f(u)=0$ in $D$, $u\mid_{\partial D}=0$, where $k=\const>0$ and $D\subset\R^3$ is a bounded domain, has a solution if $f:\R\to\R$ is a continuous function in the region $|u|\geq a$, piecewise-continuous in the region…

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We study the existence/nonexistence of positive solution to the problem of the type: \begin{equation}\tag{$P_{\lambda}$} \begin{cases} \Delta^2u-\mu a(x)u=f(u)+\lambda b(x)\quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}\\ u>0 \quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}\\…

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.…

In this paper we are going to show the existence of a nontrivial solution to the following model problem, \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{lll} -\Delta (u) = 2uln(1+u^2)+\frac{|u|^2}{1+u^2}2u+u(sin(u)-cos(u)) \mbox{a.e. on } \Omega…

We go further in the investigation of the Robin problem $(P_{\alpha})$: $-\Delta u=a(x)u^{q}$ in $\Omega$, $u\geq0$ in $\Omega$, $\partial_{\nu}u=\alpha u$ on $\partial \Omega$; on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, with $a$…

We consider the existence of solutions of the following $p(x)$-Laplacian Dirichlet problem without the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition: $-\mbox{div}(|\nabla u|^{p(x)-2}\nabla u)=f(x,u) \text{ in }\Omega,$ and $u=0,\text{ on }\partial…

We study the bifurcation of solutions of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems of the form \begin{align*} \begin{aligned} -\Delta u &= f_\lambda(|x|,u,|\nabla u|) &&\text{in }\Omega, u &= 0 &&\text{on }\partial\Omega, \end{aligned}…

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 study the following nonlinear Kirchhoff problem involving critical growth: $$ \left\{% \begin{array}{ll} -(a+b\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^2dx)\Delta u=|u|^4u+\lambda|u|^{q-2}u, u=0\ \ \text{on}\ \ \partial\Omega, \end{array}%…

Let $u$ be a bounded positive solution to the problem $-\Delta_p u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$ and $f$ is a locally Lipschitz continuous function. Among other things, we show that if…

We study positive solutions of the following semilinear equation $$\varepsilon^2\Delta_{\bar g} u - V(z) u+ u^{p} =0\,\hbox{ on }\,M, $$ where $(M, \bar g )$ is a compact smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold without boundary or the…

We establish the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions to the problems involving the fractional Laplacian: \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{lll} &(-\Delta)^{s}u=\lambda u^{p}+f(u),\,\,u>0 \quad &\mbox{in}\,\,\Omega,\\…