Maximal and Minimal Solutions of Elliptic Differential Equations with Discontinuous Non-Linearities.
We show various estimates for Schrödinger operators on and their square roots. We assume reverse Hölder estimates on the potential, and improve some results of Shen. Our main tools are improved Fefferman-Phong inequalities and reverse Hölder estimates for weak solutions of and their gradients.
The aim of this paper is to characterize the u.s.c. (resp. l.s.c.) viscosity sub (resp. super) solutions of the Laplacian which do not take the value (resp. ) as precisely the sub (resp. super) harmonic functions.
We deal with maximum principles for a class of linear, degenerate elliptic differential operators of the second order. In particular the Weak and Strong Maximum Principles are shown to hold for this class of operators in bounded domains, as well as a Hopf type lemma, under suitable hypothesis on the degeneracy set of the operator. We derive, as consequences of these principles, some generalized maximum principles and an a priori estimate on the solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the linear equation....
In this paper we consider the Neumann problem involving a critical Sobolev exponent. We investigate a combined effect of the coefficient of the critical Sobolev nonlinearity and the mean curvature on the existence and nonexistence of solutions.
This paper deals with phase transitions corresponding to an energy which is the sum of a kinetic part of -Laplacian type and a double well potential with suitable growth conditions. We prove that level sets of solutions of possessing a certain decay property satisfy a mean curvature equation in a suitable weak viscosity sense. From this, we show that, if the above level sets approach uniformly a hypersurface, the latter has zero mean curvature.