Pointwise estimates of solutions to semilinear elliptic equations and inequalities

Abstract: We obtain sharp pointwise estimates for positive solutions to the equation $-Lu+Vu^q=f$, where $L$ is an elliptic operator in divergence form, $q\in\mathbb{R}\setminus {0}$, $f\geq 0$ and $V$ is a function that may change sign, in a domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, or in a weighted Riemannian manifold.