When are solutions to nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems convex?

DOI10.1080/03605308508820404zbMath0587.35026OpenAlexW2050331702MaRDI QIDQ3712809

Bernhard Kawohl

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03605308508820404

zbMATH Keywords

obstacle problemsnonlinear elliptic problemconcavity maximum principleconvex coincidence setconvex dead core

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60)

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