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    Estimates for solutions to nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations with lower order terms

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    We consider a class of Dirichlet boundary problems for nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations with lower order terms. We prove, using symmetrization techniques, pointwise estimates for the rearrangement of the gradient of a solution u and integral estimates. As consequence, we get apriori estimates which show how the summability of the gradient of a solution increases when the summability of the datum increases, also taking into account the presence of a zero order term which can have a regularizing effect

    Isoperimetric estimates for the first eigenfunction of a class of linear elliptic problem

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    We find some optimal estimates for the first eigenfunction of a class of elliptic equations whose prototype is - (gamma u(xi)) (xi) = lambda gamma u in Omega subset of R-n with Dirichlet boundary condition, where gamma is the normalized Gaussian function in R-n. To this aim we make use of the Gaussian symmetrization which transforms a domain into an half-space with the same Gaussian measure. The main tools we use are the properties of the weighted rearrangements and in particular the isoperimetric inequality with respect to Gaussian measure
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