The Moving Plane Method for Doubly Singular Elliptic Equations Involving a First-Order Term

In this paper we deal with positive singular solutions to semilinear elliptic problems involving a first-order term and a singular nonlinearity. Exploiting a fine adaptation of the well-known moving plane method of Alexandrov–Serrin and a careful choice of the cutoff functions, we deduce symmetry and monotonicity properties of the solutions.

Asymptotic behaviour of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic problems with increasing powers

We prove existence results of two solutions of the problem \[ \begin{cases} L(u)+u^{m-1}=\lambda u^{p-1} & \text{in}\ \Omega,\\ u>0 & \text{in}\ \Omega,\\ u=0 & \text{on}\ \partial \Omega, \end{cases} \] where $L(v)=-\textrm {div}(M(x)\nabla v)$ is a linear operator, $p\in (2,2^{*}]$ and $\lambda$ and $m$ sufficiently large. Then their asymptotical limit as $m\to +\infty$ is investigated showing different behaviours.

Half-space Gaussian symmetrization: applications to semilinear elliptic problems

We consider a class of semilinear equations with an absorption nonlinear zero order term of power type, where elliptic condition is given in terms of Gauss measure. In the case of the superlinear equation we introduce a suitable definition of solutions in order to prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution in ℝ N without growth restrictions at infinity. A comparison result in terms of the half-space Gaussian symmetrized problem is also proved. As an application, we give some estimates in measure of the growth of the solution near the boundary of its support for sublinear equations. Finally we generalize our results to problems with a nonlinear zero order term not necessary of power type.

A Flower-Shape Geometry and Nonlinear Problems on Strip-Like Domains

In the present paper, we show how to define suitable subgroups of the orthogonal group $${O}(d-m)$$ O ( d - m ) related to the unbounded part of a strip-like domain $$\omega \times {\mathbb {R}}^{d-m}$$ ω × R d - m with $$d\ge m+2$$ d ≥ m + 2 , in order to get “mutually disjoint” nontrivial subspaces of partially symmetric functions of $$H^1_0(\omega \times {\mathbb {R}}^{d-m})$$ H 0 1 ( ω × R d - m ) which are compactly embedded in the associated Lebesgue spaces. As an application of the introduced geometrical structure, we prove (existence and) multiplicity results for semilinear elliptic problems set in a strip-like domain, in the presence of a nonlinearity which either satisfies the classical Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition or has a sublinear growth at infinity. The main theorems of this paper may be seen as an extension of existence and multiplicity results, already appeared in the literature, for nonlinear problems set in the entire space $${\mathbb {R}}^d$$ R d , as for instance, the ones due to Bartsch and Willem. The techniques used here are new.