Fading absorption in non-linear elliptic equations
  We study the equation $-\Delta u+h(x)|u|^{q-1}u=0$, $q>1$, in $R^N_+=R^{N-1}\ti R_+$ where $h\in C(\bar{R^N_+})$, $h\geq 0$. Let $(x_1,..., x_N)$ be a coordinate system such that $R^N_+=[x_N>0]$ and denote a point $x\in \RN$ by $(x',x_N)$. Assume that $h(x', x_N)>0$ when $x'\neq 0$ but $h(x',x_N)\to 0$ as $|x'|\to 0$. For this class of equations we obtain sharp necessary and sufficient conditions in order that singularities on the boundary do not propagate in the interior. 
Moshe Marcus and Andrey Shishkov
math.AP