Existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations

This paper is devoted to the study of existence,uniqueness and non-degeneracy of positive solutions of semi-linear elliptic equations.A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of positive solutions to problems is given.We prove that if the uniqueness and non-degeneracy results are valid for positive solutions of a class of semi-linear elliptic equations,then they are still valid when one perturbs the differential operator a little bit.As consequences,some uniqueness results of positive solutions under the domain perturbation are also obtained.     

Asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in ℝ n , II

In this paper, we will analyze further to obtain a finer asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in R^n by employing the Li＇s method of energy function.     

On the positive radial solutions of some semilinear elliptic equations on ℝ n

We study the existence and behavior of positive radial solutions of the equationu + f(u) = 0 in ⁿ . This equation arises in various problems in applied mathematics, e.g. in the study of phase transitions, nuclear cores and more recently in population genetics and solitary waves. The important model casef(u) = – u + u ^p, p>1, describes for instance the pressure distribution in a van der Waals fluid. In this case, we obtain fairly complete knowledge of all positive radial solutions.Supported in part by an NSF grant and a research grant from the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.     

Quasi-periodic solutions of a semilinear Liénard equation at resonance

We are concerned with the existence of quasi-periodic solutions for the following equation

Quasi-periodic solutions of a semilinear Li(?)nard equation at resonance

We are concerned with the existence of quasi-periodic solutions for the follow- ing equation x″ F_x(x,t)x′ ω~2x φ(x,t)=0, where F and φare smooth functions and 2π-periodic in t,ω>0 is a constant.Under some assumptions on the parities of F and φ,we show that the Dancer's function,which is used to study the existence of periodic solutions,also plays a role for the existence of quasi-periodic solutions and the Lagrangian stability (i.e.all solutions are bounded).     

Existence of solutions of certain quasilinear elliptic equations in ℝN without conditions at infinity

This paper deals with conditions for the existence of solutions of the equations

Coexistence of unbounded solutions and periodic solutions of Liénard equations with asymmetric nonlinearities at resonance

In this paper, we deal with the existence of unbounded orbits of the mapping {θ1 = θ 2nπ 1/ρμ(θ) o(ρ-1),ρ1=ρ c-μ′(θ) o(1), ρ→∞,where n is a positive integer, c is a constant and μ(θ) is a 2π-periodic function. We prove that if c ＞ 0 and μ(θ) ≠ 0, θ∈ [0, 2π], then every orbit of the given mapping goes to infinity in the future for ρ large enough; if c ＜ 0 and μ(θ) ≠ 0, θ∈ [0, 2π], then every orbit of the given mapping goes to infinity in the past for ρ large enough. By using this result, we prove that the equation x″ f(x)x′ ax -bx- φ(x) =p(t) has unbounded solutions provided that a, b satisfy 1/√a 1/√b = 2/n and F(x)(= ∫x0 f(s)ds),and φ(x) satisfies some limit conditions. At the same time, we obtain the existence of 2π-periodic solutions of this equation.     

Existence and regularity of positive solutions of elliptic equations of Schr?dinger type

We prove the existence of positive solutions with optimal local regularity of the homogeneous equation of Schr?dinger type $$ - {\rm{div}}(A\nabla u) - \sigma u = 0{\rm{ in }}\Omega $$ for an arbitrary open ?? ? ? ⁿ under only a form-boundedness assumption on ?? ?? D??(??) and ellipticity assumption on A ?? L ^??(??) ^n×n . We demonstrate that there is a two-way correspondence between form boundedness and existence of positive solutions of this equation as well as weak solutions of the equation with quadratic nonlinearity in the gradient $$ - {\rm{div}}(A\nabla u) = (A\nabla v) \cdot \nabla v + \sigma {\rm{ in }}\Omega $$ As a consequence, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for both formboundedness (with a sharp upper form bound) and positivity of the quadratic form of the Schr?dinger type operator H = ?div(A?·)-?? with arbitrary distributional potential ?? ?? D??(??), and give examples clarifying the relationship between these two properties.     

Hölder continuity of solutions to quasilinear elliptic equations involving measures

We show that the solutionu of the equation

On the Höpf boundary lemma for singular semilinear elliptic equations

In this paper we consider positive solutions to semilinear elliptic problems with singular nonlinearity. We provide a Höpf type boundary lemma via a suitable scaling argument that allows to deal with the lack of regularity of the solutions up to the boundary.