Nonlinear elliptic equations with natural growth in general domains

We prove the existence of solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations with first-order terms having “natural growth” with respect to the gradient. The assumptions on the source terms lead to the existence of possibly unbounded solutions (though with exponential integrability). The domain Ω is allowed to have infinite Lebesgue measure. Received: April 13, 2001; in final form: September 29, 2001?Published online: July 9, 2002     

Large solution to nonlinear elliptic equation with nonlinear gradient terms

The aim of this paper is to study the qualitative behavior of large solutions to the following problem

     

Boundary behavior of large solutions to semilinear elliptic equations with nonlinear gradient terms

In this paper, we study the boundary behavior of solutions to boundary blow-up elliptic problems , where Ω is a bounded domain with smooth boundary in R^N, q>0, , which is positive in Ω and may be vanishing on the boundary and rapidly varying near the boundary, and f is rapidly varying or normalized regularly varying at infinity.     

Regularity of the extremal solution for some elliptic problems with singular nonlinearity and advection

In this note, we investigate the regularity of the extremal solution u^? for the semilinear elliptic equation −△u+c(x)⋅∇u=λf(u) on a bounded smooth domain of Rn with Dirichlet boundary condition. Here f is a positive nondecreasing convex function, exploding at a finite value a∈(0,∞). We show that the extremal solution is regular in the low-dimensional case. In particular, we prove that for the radial case, all extremal solutions are regular in dimension two.     

Alexandroff-Bakelman-Pucci estimate and Harnack inequality for degenerate/singular fully non-linear elliptic equations

In this paper, we study fully non-linear elliptic equations in non-divergence form which can be degenerate or singular when “the gradient is small”. Typical examples are either equations involving the m-Laplace operator or Bellman-Isaacs equations from stochastic control problems. We establish an Alexandroff-Bakelman-Pucci estimate and we prove a Harnack inequality for viscosity solutions of such non-linear elliptic equations.     

On semilinear elliptic equations with indefinite nonlinearities

This paper concerns semilinear elliptic equations whose nonlinear term has the formW(x)f(u) whereW changes sign. We study the existence of positive solutions and their multiplicity. The important role played by the negative part ofW is contained in a condition which is shown to be necessary for homogeneousf. More general existence questions are also discussed.Supported in part by NSF grant DMS9003149.     

Nonlinear eigenvalues for anisotropic quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations

We consider the Dirichlet problem for a class of anisotropic degenerate elliptic equations.     

Exponential decay of solutions to nonlinear elliptic equations with potentials

Exponential decay estimates are obtained for complex-valued solutions to nonlinear elliptic equations in where the linear term is given by Schr?dinger operators H = − Δ + V with nonnegative potentials V and the nonlinear term is given by a single power with subcritical Sobolev exponent in the attractive case. We describe specific rates of decay in terms of V, some of which are shown to be optimal. Moreover, our estimates provide a unified understanding of two distinct cases in the available literature, namely, the vanishing potential case V = 0 and the harmonic potential case V(x) = |x|². Dedicated to Professor Jun Uchiyama on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday Received: May 4, 2004     

Nonlinear elliptic equations with subhomogeneous potentials

We prove the existence of nonnegative symmetric solutions to the semilinear elliptic equation

     

Boundary behaviour for solutions of elliptic singular equations with a gradient term

We investigate the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problem for a class of second-order nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations with a gradient term and singular data. Under general conditions on the data, we study the behaviour of the solution near the boundary of the domain. Under suitable additional conditions we also investigate the second-order term in the asymptotic expansion of the solution in terms of the distance from the boundary.     

Multiple solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic equations with general potentials

In this paper, we study the existence of infinitely many nontrivial solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic equations −△u+a(x)u=g(x,u)$-△u+a\left(x\right)u=g(x,u)$ in a bounded smooth domain of R^N(N≥3)${\mathbb{R}}^N(N\ge 3)$ with the Dirichlet boundary value, where the primitive of the nonlinearity g$g$ is of superquadratic growth near infinity in u$u$ and the potential a$a$ is allowed to be sign-changing. Recent results in the literature are generalized and significantly improved.     

Multiplicity of solutions to uniformly elliptic fully nonlinear equations with concave-convex right-hand side

We deal with existence, non-existence and multiplicity of solutions to the model problem

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Nonlinear elliptic equations with measure data

In this paper we prove the existence of solutions of nonlinear equations of the type-div(a(x, u, Du)+H(x, u, Du)=f, wherea andH are Caratheodory functions andf is a bounded Radon measure. We remark that the operator can be not coercive. We give also some regularity results.     

The problem of Dirichlet for anisotropic quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations

We consider the Dirichlet problem for a class of anisotropic degenerate elliptic equations. New a priori estimates for solutions and for the gradient of solutions are established. Based on these estimates sufficient conditions guaranteeing the solvability of the problem are formulated. The results are new even in the semilinear case when the principal part is the Laplace operator.     

Existence and asymptotic behavior for elliptic equations with singular anisotropic potentials

We study the equation Δu+u|u|^p−1+V(x)u+f(x)=0 in Rn, where n?3 and p>n/(n−2). The forcing term f and the potential V can be singular at zero, change sign and decay polynomially at infinity. We can consider anisotropic potentials of form h(x)|x|⁻² where h is not purely angular. We obtain solutions u which blow up at the origin and do not belong to any Lebesgue space Lr. Also, u is positive and radial, in case f and V are. Asymptotic stability properties of solutions, their behavior near the singularity, and decay are addressed.     

Liouville-type theorems and decay estimates for solutions to higher order elliptic equations

Liouville-type theorems are powerful tools in partial differential equations. Boundedness assumptions of solutions are often imposed in deriving such Liouville-type theorems. In this paper, we establish some Liouville-type theorems without the boundedness assumption of nonnegative solutions to certain classes of elliptic equations and systems. Using a rescaling technique and doubling lemma developed recently in Polá?ik et al. (2007) [20], we improve several Liouville-type theorems in higher order elliptic equations, some semilinear equations and elliptic systems. More specifically, we remove the boundedness assumption of the solutions which is required in the proofs of the corresponding Liouville-type theorems in the recent literature. Moreover, we also investigate the singularity and decay estimates of higher order elliptic equations.     

Fine regularity for elliptic systems with discontinuous ingredients

We propose results on interior Morrey, BMO and H?lder regularity for the strong solutions to linear elliptic systems of order 2b with discontinuous coefficients and right-hand sides belonging to the Morrey space L^p,λ. Received: 20 October 2004