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...

We consider the equation $$-r\left(x\right)y^{\text{'}}\left(x\right)+q\left(x\right)y\left(x\right)=f\left(x\right),x\in ℝ$$ where $f\in L_p\left(ℝ\right)$, $p\in [1,\infty ]$ ($L_{\infty }\left(ℝ\right):=C\left(ℝ\right)$) and $$0<r\in C^{}\left(ℝ\right),0\le q\in L_1^{}\left(ℝ\right).$$ We obtain minimal requirements to the functions $r$ and $q$, in addition to (), under which equation () is correctly solvable in $L_p\left(ℝ\right)$, $p\in [1,\infty ]$.

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.

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...

This paper discusses the existence and multiplicity of solutions for a class of $p\left(x\right)$-Kirchhoff type problems with Dirichlet boundary data of the following form $$\left\}\begin{array}{cc}-\left(a+b{\int }_{\Omega }\frac{1}{p\left(x\right)}{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p\left(x\right)}dx\right){\mathrm{div}\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p\left(x\right)-2}\nabla u)=f(x,u),\hfill & in\Omega \hfill \\ u=0\hfill & on\partial \Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth open subset of ${ℝ}^N$ and $p\in C\left(\overline{\Omega }\right)$ with $N<p^{-}={inf}_{x\in \Omega }p\left(x\right)\le p^{+}={sup}_{x\in \Omega }p\left(x\right)<+\infty$, $a$, $b$ are positive constants and $f:\overline{\Omega }\times ℝ\to ℝ$ is a continuous function. The proof is based on critical point theory and variable exponent Sobolev space theory.

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 will consider the following problem $$-\Delta u-\lambda \frac{u}{{\left|x\right|}^2}={\left|\nabla u\right|}^p+cf,u\&gt;0\text{in}\Omega ,$$ where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ is a domain such that $0\in \Omega$, $N\ge 3$, $c\&gt;0$ and $\lambda \&gt;0$. The main objective of this note is to study the precise threshold $p_{+}=p_{+}\left(\lambda \right)$ for which there is novery weak supersolutionif $p\ge p_{+}\left(\lambda \right)$. The optimality of $p_{+}\left(\lambda \right)$ is also proved by showing the solvability of the Dirichlet problem when $1\le p\&lt;p_{+}\left(\lambda \right)$, for $c\&gt;0$ small enough and $f\ge 0$ under some hypotheses that we will prescribe.

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...

Let $P_m$ and $E_m$ be the $m$-th Padovan and Perrin numbers respectively. Let $r,s$ be non-zero integers with $r\ge 1$ and $s\in \{-1,1\}$, let ${\left\{U_n\right\}}_{n\ge 0}$ be the generalized Lucas sequence given by $U_{n+2}=r{U}_{n+1}+s{U}_n$, with $U_0=0$ and $U_1=1.$ In this paper, we give effective bounds for the solutions of the following Diophantine equations $$P_m=U_n{U}_k\text{and}{E}_m=U_n{U}_k,$$ where $m$, $n$ and $k$ are non-negative integers. Then, we explicitly solve the above Diophantine equations for the Fibonacci, Pell and balancing sequences.