We investigate the following quasilinear and singular problem, $$\text{t}o2.7cm\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-{\Delta }_{p}u=\frac{\lambda }{u^{\delta }}+u^q\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ;\hfill \\ {u|}_{\partial \Omega }=0,u\>0\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.\text{t}o2.7cm\text{(P)}$$ where $\Omega$ is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary, $1\<p\<\infty$, $p-1\<q\le p^{*}-1$, $\lambda \>0$, and $0\<\delta \<1$. As usual, $p^{*}=\frac{Np}{N-p}$ if $1\<p\<N$, $p^{*}\in (p,\infty )$ is arbitrarily large if $p=N$, and $p^{*}=\infty$ if $p\>N$. We employ variational methods in order to show the existence of at least two distinct (positive) solutions of problem (P) in $W_0^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)$. While following an approach due to Ambrosetti-Brezis-Cerami, we need to prove two new results of separate interest: a strong comparison principle...

In this paper, we consider solutions to the following chemotaxis system with general sensitivity $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}\tau u_t=\Delta u-\nabla ·\left(u\nabla \chi \left(v\right)\right)\text{in}\Omega \times (0,\infty ),\hfill \\ \eta v_t=\Delta v-v+u\text{in}\Omega \times (0,\infty ),\hfill \\ {\displaystyle \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu }=\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu }=0\text{on}\partial \Omega \times (0,\infty ).}\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ Here, $\tau$ and $\eta$ are positive constants, $\chi$ is a smooth function on $(0,\infty )$ satisfying ${\chi }^{\text{'}}(·)>0$ and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of ${𝐑}^n$ ($n\ge 2$). It is well known that the chemotaxis system with direct sensitivity ($\chi \left(v\right)={\chi }_{0}v$, ${\chi }_0>0$) has blowup solutions in the case where $n\ge 2$. On the other hand, in the case where $\chi \left(v\right)={\chi }_{0}logv$ with $0<{\chi }_0\ll 1$, any solution to the system exists globally in time and is bounded. We present a sufficient condition for the boundedness...

The author proved in 2018 that if $G$ is an open subset of a Hilbert space, $f_1,f_2:G\to ℝ$ continuous functions and $\omega$ a nontrivial modulus such that $f_1\le f_2$, $f_1$ is locally semiconvex with modulus $\omega$ and $f_2$ is locally semiconcave with modulus $\omega$, then there exists $f\in C_{\text{loc}}^{1,\omega }\left(G\right)$ such that $f_1\le f\le f_2$. This is a generalization of Ilmanen’s lemma (which deals with linear modulus and functions on an open subset of ${ℝ}^n$). Here we extend the mentioned result from Hilbert spaces to some superreflexive spaces, in particular to $L^p$ spaces, $p\in [2,\infty )$. We...

Let $\mathbb{N}$ be the set of positive integers and let $s\in \mathbb{N}$. We denote by $d^s$ the arithmetic function given by $d^s\left(n\right)={\left(d\left(n\right)\right)}^s$, where $d\left(n\right)$ is the number of positive divisors of $n$. Moreover, for every $\ell ,m\in \mathbb{N}$ we denote by ${\delta }^{s,\ell ,m}\left(n\right)$ the sequence $$\underset{m\text{-times}}{\underbrace{d^s(d^s(...d^s(d^s\left(n\right)+\ell )+\ell ...)+\ell )}}=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}{d}^s\left(n\right)\hfill & \text{for}m=1,\hfill \\ d^s(d^s\left(n\right)+\ell )\hfill & \text{for}m=2,\hfill \\ d^s(d^s(d^s\left(n\right)+\ell )+\ell )\hfill & \text{for}m=3,\hfill \\ ⋮\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ We present classical and nonclassical notes on the sequence ${\left({\delta }^{s,\ell ,m}\left(n\right)\right)}_{m\ge 1}$, where $\ell$, $n$, $s$ are understood as parameters.

We study the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions of the nonlinear equation $$-{\Delta }_{p\left(x\right)}u=\lambda k\left(x\right)u^q\pm h\left(x\right)u^r\text{in}\Omega ,u=0\text{on}\partial \Omega$$ where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$, $N\ge 2$, is a regular bounded open domain in ${ℝ}^N$ and the $p\left(x\right)$-Laplacian $${\Delta }_{p\left(x\right)}u:={\text{div}\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p\left(x\right)-2}\nabla u)$$ is introduced for a continuous function $p\left(x\right)>1$ defined on $\Omega$. The positive parameter $\lambda$ induces the bifurcation phenomena. The study of the equation (Q) needs generalized Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces. In this paper, under suitable assumptions, we show that some variational methods still work. We use them to prove the existence of positive...

Let $\mathrm{T}$ be the family of all typically real functions, i.e. functions that are analytic in the unit disk $\Delta :=\{z\in ℂ:|z|<1\}$, normalized by $f\left(0\right)=f^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)-1=0$ and such that Im $z$ Im $f\left(z\right)$ $\ge 0$ for $z\in \Delta$. Moreover, let us denote: ${\mathrm{T}}^{\left(2\right)}:=\{f\in \mathrm{T}:f\left(z\right)=-f(-z)\text{for}z\in \Delta \}$ and ${\mathrm{T}}^{M,g}:=\{f\in \mathrm{T}:f\prec Mg\text{in}\Delta \}$, where $M>1$, $g\in \mathrm{T}\cap \mathrm{S}$ and $\mathrm{S}$ consists of all analytic functions, normalized and univalent in $\Delta$.We investigate  classes in which the subordination is replaced with the majorization and the function $g$ is typically real but does not necessarily univalent, i.e. classes $\{f\in \mathrm{T}:f\ll Mg\text{in}\Delta \}$, where $M>1$, $g\in \mathrm{T}$, which we denote...

For any positive integer $k\ge 2$, let ${\left(P_n^{\left(k\right)}\right)}_{n\ge 2-k}$ be the $k$-generalized Pell sequence which starts with $0,\cdots ,0,1$ ($k$ terms) with the linear recurrence $$P_n^{\left(k\right)}=2P_{n-1}^{\left(k\right)}+P_{n-2}^{\left(k\right)}+\cdots +P_{n-k}^{\left(k\right)}\text{for}n\ge 2.$$ Let ${\left(N_n\right)}_{n\ge 0}$ be Narayana’s sequence given by $$N_0=N_1=N_2=1\text{and}{N}_{n+3}=N_{n+2}+N_n.$$ The purpose of this paper is to determine all $k$-Pell numbers which are sums of two Narayana’s numbers. More precisely, we study the Diophantine equation $$P_p^{\left(k\right)}=N_n+N_m$$ in nonnegative integers $k$, $p$, $n$ and $m$.

We investigate some nonlinear elliptic problems of the form $${\Delta }^{2}v+\sigma \left(x\right)v=h(x,v)\text{in}\Omega ,v=\Delta v=0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,\left(\mathrm{P}\right)$$ where $\Omega$ is a regular bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N$, $N\ge 2$, $\sigma \left(x\right)$ a positive function in $L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$, and the nonlinearity $h(x,t)$ is indefinite. We prove the existence of solutions to the problem (P) when the function $h(x,t)$ is asymptotically linear at infinity by using variational method but without the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition. Also, we consider the case when the nonlinearities are superlinear and subcritical.

Let $X$ be a proper, smooth, geometrically connected curve over a $p$-adic field $k$. Lichtenbaum proved that there exists a perfect duality: $$\text{Br}\left(X\right)\times \text{Pic}\left(X\right)\to \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$$ between the Brauer and the Picard group of $X$, from which he deduced the existence of an injection of $\text{Br}\left(X\right)$ in ${\displaystyle \prod _{P\in X}\text{Br}\left(k_P\right)}$ where $P\in X$ and $k_P$ denotes the residual field of the point $P$. The aim of this paper is to prove that if $G=\tilde{G}$ is an $X_{et}$- scheme of semi-simple simply connected groups (s.s.s.c groups), then we can deduce from Lichtenbaum’s results...

A graph $G$ is called $\{H_1,H_2,\cdots ,H_k\}$-free if $G$ contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to any graph $H_i$, $1\le i\le k$. We define $${\sigma }_k=min\left\{\sum _{i=1}^{k}d\left(v_i\right):\{v_1,\cdots ,v_k\}\text{is}\text{an}\text{independent}\text{set}\text{of}\text{vertices}\text{in}G\right\}.$$ In this paper, we prove that (1) if $G$ is a connected $\{K_{1,4},K_{1,4}+e\}$-free graph of order $n$ and ${\sigma }_3\left(G\right)\ge n-1$, then $G$ is traceable, (2) if $G$ is a 2-connected $\{K_{1,4},K_{1,4}+e\}$-free graph of order $n$ and $|N\left(x_1\right)\cup N\left(x_2\right)|+|N\left(y_1\right)\cup N\left(y_2\right)|\ge n-1$ for any two distinct pairs of non-adjacent vertices $\{x_1,x_2\}$, $\{y_1,y_2\}$ of $G$, then $G$ is traceable, i.e., $G$ has a Hamilton path, where $K_{1,4}+e$ is a graph obtained by joining a pair of non-adjacent vertices in a $K_{1,4}$.

We give existence theorems for weak and strong solutions with trichotomy of the nonlinear differential equation $$\dot{x}\left(t\right)=ℒ\left(t\right)x\left(t\right)+f(t,x\left(t\right)),t\in ℝ\left(\mathrm{P}\right)$$ where $\left\{ℒ\right(t):t\in ℝ\}$ is a family of linear operators from a Banach space $E$ into itself and $f:ℝ\times E\to E$. By $L\left(E\right)$ we denote the space of linear operators from $E$ into itself. Furthermore, for $a<b$ and $d>0$, we let $C\left(\right[-d,0],E)$ be the Banach space of continuous functions from $[-d,0]$ into $E$ and $f^d:[a,b]\times C([-d,0],E)\to E$. Let $\widehat{ℒ}:[a,b]\to L\left(E\right)$ be a strongly measurable and Bochner integrable operator on $[a,b]$ and for $t\in [a,b]$ define ${\tau }_{t}x\left(s\right)=x(t+s)$ for each $s\in [-d,0]$. We prove that, under certain...

The paper deals with the existence of a Kneser solution of the $n$-th order nonlinear differential inclusion $$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill x^{\left(n\right)}\left(t\right)\in -A_1(t,x\left(t\right),...,x^{(n-1)}\left(t\right))x^{(n-1)}\left(t\right)-...-A_n(t,x\left(t\right),...,& x^{(n-1)}\left(t\right))x\left(t\right)\\ & \text{for}\text{a.a.}t\in [a,\infty ),\end{array}$$ where $a\in (0,\infty )$, and $A_i:[a,\infty )\times {ℝ}^n\to ℝ$, $i=1,...,n,$ are upper-Carathéodory mappings. The derived result is finally illustrated by the third order Kneser problem.