We establish two existence results for elliptic boundary-value problems with discontinuous nonlinearities. One of them concerns implicit elliptic equations of the form ψ(-Δu) = f(x,u). We emphasize that our assumptions permit the nonlinear term f to be discontinuous with respect to the second variable at each point.

Boundary value problems for second order linear elliptic equations with coefficients having discontinuities of the first kind on an infinite number of smooth surfaces are studied. Existence, uniqueness and regularity results are furnished for the diffraction problem in such a bounded domain, and for the corresponding transmission problem in all of ${ℝ}^N$. The transmission problem corresponding to the scattering of acoustic plane waves by an infinitely stratified scatterer, consisting of layers with physically...

In this review article we present an overview on some a priori estimates in $L^p$, $p>1$, recently obtained in the framework of the study of a certain kind of Dirichlet problem in unbounded domains. More precisely, we consider a linear uniformly elliptic second order differential operator in divergence form with bounded leading coeffcients and with lower order terms coefficients belonging to certain Morrey type spaces. Under suitable assumptions on the data, we first show two $L^p$-bounds, $p>2$, for the solution...

We prove the analog of the Cwikel-Lieb-Rozenblum estimate for a wide class of second-order elliptic operators by two different tools: Lieb-Thirring inequalities for Schrödinger operators with matrix-valued potentials and Sobolev inequalities for warped product spaces.

We prove the existence of entropy solutions to unilateral problems associated to equations of the type $Au-div\left(\varphi \left(u\right)\right)=\mu \in L¹\left(\Omega \right)+W^{-1,p^{\text{'}}\left(·\right)}\left(\Omega \right)$, where A is a Leray-Lions operator acting from $W{₀}^{1,p\left(·\right)}\left(\Omega \right)$ into its dual $W^{-1,p\left(·\right)}\left(\Omega \right)$ and $\varphi \in C⁰(ℝ,{ℝ}^N)$.

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N,N\>1$ and let $n\in {\mathbb{N}}^{*}$. We prove here the existence of nonnegative solutions $u_n$ in $BV\left(\Omega \right)$, to the problem$$\left(P_n\right)\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-div\sigma +2n\left({\int }_{\Omega }u-1\right){sign}^{+}\left(u\right)=0\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \\ \sigma ·\nabla u=\left|\nabla u\right|\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \\ u\text{is}\text{not}\text{identically}\text{zero},-\sigma ·\overrightarrow{n}u=u\hfill & \text{on}\partial \Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$where $\overrightarrow{n}$ denotes the unit outer normal to $\partial \Omega$, and ${\mathrm{sign}}^{+}\left(u\right)$ denotes some $L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ function defined as:$${\mathrm{sign}}^{+}\left(u\right).u=u^{+},0\le {\mathrm{sign}}^{+}\left(u\right)\le 1.$$Moreover, we prove the tight convergence of $u_n$ towards one of the first eingenfunctions for the first $1-$Laplacian Operator $-{\Delta }_1$ on $\Omega$ when $n$ goes to $+\infty$.

Let Ω be a smooth bounded domain in ${𝐑}^n$, n > 1, let a and f be continuous functions on $\overline{\Omega }$, $1^{☆}=\frac{n}{n-1}$. We are concerned here with the existence of solution in $BV\left(\Omega \right)$, positive or not, to the problem:
$$\left\{\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill -\mathrm{div}\sigma +a\left(x\right)signu& amp;={f\left|u\right|}^{1^{☆}-2}u\sigma .\nabla u\hfill & amp;=\left|\nabla u\right|\mathrm{in}\Omega u\mathrm{is}\mathrm{not}\mathrm{identically}\mathrm{zero},& amp;-\sigma .n\left(u\right)=\left|u\right|\mathrm{on}\partial \Omega .\end{array}\right.$$ This problem is closely related to the extremal functions for the problem of the best constant of $W^{1,1}\left(\Omega \right)$ into $L^{\frac{N}{N-1}}\left(\Omega \right)$.

Two models of reaction-diffusion are presented: a non-Fickian diffusion model described by a system of a parabolic PDE and a first order ODE, further, porosity-mineralogy changes in porous medium which is modelled by a system consisting of an ODE, a parabolic and an elliptic equation. Existence of weak solutions is shown by the Schauder fixed point theorem combined with the theory of monotone type operators.