The existence of two continuous solutions for a nonlinear singular elliptic equation with natural growth in the gradient is proved for the Dirichlet problem in the unit ball centered at the origin. The first continuous solution is positive and maximal; it is obtained via the regularization method. The second continuous solution is zero at the origin, and follows by considering the corresponding radial ODE and by sub-sup solutions method.

Our main purpose is to establish the existence of weak solutions of second order quasilinear elliptic systems ⎧ $-{\Delta }_{p}u+{\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u=f_{1\lambda ₁}{\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{q-2}u+2\alpha /(\alpha +\beta )g_{\mu }{\left|u\right|}^{\alpha -2}u{\left|v\right|}^{\beta }$, x ∈ Ω, ⎨ $-{\Delta }_{p}v+{\left|v\right|}^{p-2}v=f_{2\lambda ₂}{\left(x\right)\left|v\right|}^{q-2}v+2\beta /(\alpha +\beta )g_{\mu }{\left|u\right|}^{\alpha }{\left|v\right|}^{\beta -2}v$, x ∈ Ω, ⎩ u = v = 0, x∈ ∂Ω, where 1 < q < p < N and $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ is an open bounded smooth domain. Here λ₁, λ₂, μ ≥ 0 and $f_{i{\lambda }_i}\left(x\right)={\lambda }_i{f}_{i+}\left(x\right)+f_{i-}\left(x\right)$ (i = 1,2) are sign-changing functions, where $f_{i\pm }\left(x\right)=max\pm f_i\left(x\right),0$, $g_{\mu }\left(x\right)=a\left(x\right)+\mu b\left(x\right)$, and ${\Delta }_{p}u={div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)$ denotes the p-Laplace operator. We use variational methods.

In this paper, we study the nonexistence of entire positive solution for a conformal $k$-Hessian inequality in ${ℝ}^n$ via the method of proof by contradiction.

The paper surveys recent results obtained for the existence and multiplicity of radial solutions of Dirichlet problems of the type $$\nabla ·\left(\frac{\nabla v}{\sqrt{1-{\left|\nabla v\right|}^2}}\right)=f\left(\right|x|,v)\text{in}{B}_R,u=0\text{on}\partial B_R,$$ where $B_R$ is the open ball of center $0$ and radius $R$ in ${ℝ}^n$, and $f$ is continuous. Comparison is made with similar results for the Laplacian. Topological and variational methods are used and the case of positive solutions is emphasized. The paper ends with the case of a general domain.

We prove existence/nonexistence and uniqueness of positive entire solutions for some semilinear elliptic equations on the Hyperbolic space.

In this paper, we are interested in multiple positive solutions for the Kirchhoff type problem ⎧$-(a+b{\int }_{\Omega }\left|\nabla u\right|²dx)\Delta u=u⁵+\lambda u^{q-1}/{\left|x\right|}^{\beta }$ in Ω ⎨ ⎩ u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω ⊂ ℝ³ is a smooth bounded domain, 0∈Ω, 1 < q < 2, λ is a positive parameter and β satisfies some inequalities. We obtain the existence of a positive ground state solution and multiple positive solutions via the Nehari manifold method.

In this paper we study a nonlinear Dirichlet elliptic differential equation driven by the p-Laplacian and with a nonsmooth potential. The hypotheses on the nonsmooth potential allow resonance with respect to the principal eigenvalue λ₁ > 0 of $(-\Delta ₚ,W{₀}^{1,p}\left(Z\right))$. We prove the existence of five nontrivial smooth solutions, two positive, two negative and the fifth nodal.

We investigate the existence of solutions for the Dirichlet problem including the generalized balance of a membrane equation. We present a duality theory and variational principle for this problem. As one of the consequences of the duality we obtain some numerical results which give a measure of a duality gap between the primal and dual functional for approximate solutions.

We establish the existence of solutions for the Neumann problem for a system of two equations involving a homogeneous nonlinearity of a critical degree. The existence of a solution is obtained by a constrained minimization with the aid of P.-L. Lions' concentration-compactness principle.

In the paper we present an identity of the Picone type for a class of nonlinear differential operators of the second order involving an arbitrary norm $H$ in ${ℝ}^n$ which is continuously differentiable for $x\ne 0$ and such that $H^p$ is strictly convex for some $p>1$. Two important special cases are the $p$-Laplacian and the so-called pseudo $p$-Laplacian. The identity is then used to establish a variety of comparison results concerning nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations which involve such operators. We also get criteria...