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Luigi Muglia

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Monotonicity of non-negative solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations in a cylindrical domain

We consider weak solutions to $p$-Laplace equations in cylindrical domains under mixed homogeneous Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. We assume that the right-hand side is positive and locally Lipschitz continuous and we prove that any positive solution is monotone increasing in the $x_N$ direction for any $p>1$. As an application we prove that solutions to Allen-Cahn type equations are one-dimensional as well as a Liouville type result for Lane-Emden type equations.

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Regularity and symmetry results for the vectorial p-Laplacian

We obtain some regularity results for solutions to vectorial $p$-Laplace equations $$ -{\boldsymbol Δ}_p{\boldsymbol u}=-\operatorname{\bf div}(|D{\boldsymbol u}|^{p-2}D{\boldsymbol u}) = {\boldsymbol f}(x,{\boldsymbol u})\,\, \mbox{ in $Ω$}\,.$$ More precisely we address the issue of second order estimates for the stress field. As a consequence of our regularity results we deduce a weighted Sobolev inequality that leads to weak comparison principles. As a corollary we run over the moving plane technique to deduce symmetry and monotonicity results for the solutions, under suitable assumptions.

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Optimal second order boundary regularity for solutions to $p$-Laplace equations

Solutions to $p$-Laplace equations are not, in general, of class $C^2$. The study of Sobolev regularity of the second derivatives is, therefore, a crucial issue. An important contribution by Cianchi and Maz'ya shows that, if the source term is in $L^2$, then the field $|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u$ is in $W^{1,2}$. The $L^2$-regularity of the source term is also a necessary condition. Here, under suitable assumptions, we obtain sharp second order estimates, thus proving the optimal regularity of the vector field $|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u$, up to the boundary.

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Solutions to nonlocal evolution equations governed by non-autonomous forms and demicontinuous nonlinearities

We deal with the existence of solutions having L2 regularity for a class of non autonomous evolution equations. Associated with the equation, a general non local condition is studied. The technique we used combines a finite dimensional reduction together with the Leray-Schauder continuation principle. This approach permits to consider a wide class of nonlinear terms by allowing demicontinuity assumptions on the nonlinearity.

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