The classical heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions is studied in a plane angle in spaces of Hölder-continuous functions, even of negative order. We consider also the problem in spaces of continuous functions.

In this paper we consider the problem $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u + \mu u= u^{2^* -1 -{\varepsilon}} \quad \hbox{in } \Omega \\ u>0 \quad \hbox{in } \Omega \ \quad \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} =0 \quad \hbox{on } \partial \Omega \end{cases} $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded, smooth domain in ${\mathbb R}^N (N\geq 3),\ 2^* = \frac{2N}{N-2}, \ \mu>0, \ {\varepsilon} \in [0, \frac{4}{N-2})$, $\nu$ is the unit outward normal vector to $\partial \Omega$. We show the topological effect of superlevel and/or sublevel sets of the function of mean curvature of $\partial \Omega$ on the number of one- or multipeak positive solutions as ${\varepsilon} \to 0$ for fixed $\mu$ and $\mu \to +\infty$ for ${\varepsilon} =0$. The solutions obtained concentrate at some boundary points with negative mean curvature (for ${\varepsilon}>0 $ small) or positive mean curvature (for ${\varepsilon}=0, \ \mu$ large).

Existence of nontrivial, nonnegative radial solutions of \newline quasilinear equations $-{\hbox{div}}(A(|{\nabla} u|) {\nabla} u)=f(u)$ in $ {\mathbb R}^n$ is proved under general assumptions on the nonlinearity $f$ and the function $A$, without requiring homogeneity.

We analyze the multiplicity of the eigenvalues for the Stokes operator in a bounded domain of $\mathbb R^2$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that, generically with respect to the domain, all the eigenvalues are simple. In other words, given a bounded domain of $\mathbb R^2,$ we prove the existence of arbitrarily small deformations of its boundary such that the spectrum of the Stokes operator in the deformed domain is simple. We prove that this can be achieved by means of deformations which leave invariant an arbitrarily large subset of the boundary. The proof combines Baire's lemma and shape differentiation. However, in contrast with the situation one encounters when dealing with scalar elliptic eigenvalue problems, the problem is reduced to a unique continuation question that may not be solved by means of Holmgrem's uniqueness theorem. We show however that this unique continuation property holds generically with respect to the domain and that this fact suffices to prove the generic simplicity of the spectrum.