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We investigate strong maximum (and minimum) principles for fully nonlinear second order equations on Riemannian manifolds that are non-totally degenerate and satisfy appropriate scaling conditions. Our results apply to a large class of…

In this paper we present an elementary theory about the existence of eigenvalues for fully nonlinear radially symmetric 1-homogeneous operators. A general theory for first eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of 1-homogeneous fully nonlinear…

Given a Schr\"odinger differential expression on an exterior Lipschitz domain we prove strict inequalities between the eigenvalues of the corresponding selfadjoint operators subject to Dirichlet and Neumann or Dirichlet and mixed boundary…

This is one of a series of papers exploring the stability speed of one-dimensional stochastic processes. The present paper emphasizes on the principal eigenvalues of elliptic operators. The eigenvalue is just the best constant in the…

In this note we derive large-scale regularity properties of solutions to second-order linear elliptic equations with random coefficients on the half- space with homogeneous Neumann boundary data; it is a companion to arXiv:1604.02717 in…

This paper is concerned with the P1 finite element approximation of the eigenvalue problem of second-order elliptic operators subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition. The focus is on the preservation of basic properties of the principal…

We consider the torsional rigidity and the principal eigenvalue related to the Laplace operator with Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions. The goal is to find upper and lower bounds to products of suitable powers of the quantities above…

On a bounded Lipschitz domain we consider two selfadjoint operator realizations of the same second order elliptic differential expression subject to Robin boundary conditions, where the coefficients in the boundary conditions are functions.…

For fully nonlinear $k$-Hessian operators on bounded strictly $(k-1)$-convex domains $\Omega$ in ${\mathbb R}^N$, a characterization of the principal eigenvalue associated to a $k$-convex and negative principal eigenfunction will be given…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded, smooth domain of $\mathbb R^N$, $N\ge 2$. In this paper, we prove some inequalities involving the first Robin eigenvalue of the $p$-laplacian operator. In particular, we prove an upper bound for the first Robin…

We prove weak and strong maximum principles, including a Hopf lemma, for smooth subsolutions to equations defined by linear, second-order, partial differential operators whose principal symbols vanish along a portion of the domain boundary.…

In this paper we study optimal lower and upper bounds for functionals involving the first Dirichlet eigenvalue $\lambda_{F}(p,\Omega)$ of the anisotropic $p$-Laplacian, $1<p<+\infty$. Our aim is to enhance how, by means of the $\mathcal…

The motivation of this paper is to study a second order elliptic operator which appears naturally in Riemannian geometry, for instance in the study of hypersurfaces with constant $r$-mean curvature. We prove a generalized Bochner-type…

We first prove De Giorgi type level estimates for functions in $W^{1,t}(\Omega)$, $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, with $t>N\geq 2$. This augmented integrability enables us to establish a new Harnack type inequality for functions which do not…

The primary purpose of the present paper is to investigate when relations of the types $|AB|=|A||B|$, $|A\pm B|\leq |A|+|B|$, $||A|-|B||\leq |A\pm B|$ and $|\overline{\text{Re} A}|\leq |A|$ (among others) hold in an unbounded operator…

Let $\mathcal{O}\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded domain of class $C^{1,1}$. In $ L_2(\mathcal{O};\mathbb{C}^n)$, we consider a matrix elliptic second order differential operator $A_{D,\varepsilon}$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition.…

The focus of this work is on the homogeneous and non-homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the Laplacian in bounded Lipschitz domains (BLD). Although it has been extensively studied by many authors, we would like to return to a number of…

In this article we prove that solutions of singular fully nonlinear partial differential equations are $C^{1,\beta}$. We also prove the simplicity of the principal eigenvalues for the Dirichlet Problem associated to these operators using…

We provide the classical Boundary Harnack principle in Lipschitz domains for solutions to two different linear uniformly elliptic equations with the same principal part.