The local boundedness of weak solutions to variational inequalities (obstacle problem) with the linear growth condition is obtained. Consequently, an analogue of a theorem by Reshetnyak about a.eḋifferentiability of weak solutions to elliptic divergence type differential equations is proved for variational inequalities.

In this paper we derive upper and lower bounds on the homogenized energy density functional corresponding to degenerated $p$-Poisson equations. Moreover, we give some non-trivial examples where the bounds are tight and thus can be used as good approximations of the homogenized properties. We even present some cases where the bounds coincide and also compare them with some numerical results.

We study connections between Sobolev space solutions of the Dirichlet problem for semilinear second order elliptic equations in divergence form and solutions of backward stochastic differential equations with random terminal time.

The role of the second critical exponent $p=(n+1)/(n-3)$, the Sobolev critical exponent in one dimension less, is investigated for the classical Lane–Emden–Fowler problem $\Delta u+u^p=0$, $u>0$ under zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, in a domain $\Omega$ in ${ℝ}^n$ with bounded, smooth boundary. Given $\Gamma$, a geodesic of the boundary with negative inner normal curvature we find that for $p=(n+1)/(n-3-\epsilon )$, there exists a solution $u_{\epsilon }$ such that $|\nabla u_{\epsilon }{|}^2$ converges weakly to a Dirac measure on $\Gamma$ as $\epsilon \to 0^{+}$, provided that $\Gamma$ is nondegenerate in the sense of second variations of...