Solutions of elliptic problems with nonlinearities of linear growth

In this paper, we study existence of nontrivial solutions to the elliptic equation

Brake orbits type solutions to some class of semilinear elliptic equations

We consider a class of semilinear elliptic equations of the form

Ground state alternative for <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian with potential term

Let Ω be a domain in , d ≥ 2, and 1 < p < ∞. Fix . Consider the functional Q and its Gateaux derivative Q′ given by If Q ≥ 0 on, then either there is a positive continuous function W such that for all, or there is a sequence and a function v > 0 satisfying Q′ (v) = 0, such that Q(u _k ) → 0, and in . In the latter case, v is (up to a multiplicative constant) the unique positive supersolution of the equation Q′ (u) = 0 in Ω, and one has for Q an inequality of Poincaré type: there exists a positive continuous function W such that for every satisfying there exists a constant C > 0 such that . As a consequence, we prove positivity properties for the quasilinear operator Q′ that are known to hold for general subcritical resp. critical second-order linear elliptic operators.     

On a singular perturbation problem related to optimal lifting in BV-space

We prove a Γ-convergence result for the family of functionals defined on H ¹(Ω) by for a given and a parameter . We show that in either of the two cases, p = 2 or , any limit of the minimizers is an optimal lifting.     

Fine Properties of the Integrated Density of States and a Quantitative Separation Property of the Dirichlet Eigenvalues

We consider one-dimensional difference Schr?dinger equations with real analytic function V(x). Suppose V(x) is a small perturbation of a trigonometric polynomial V ₀(x) of degree k ₀, and assume positive Lyapunov exponents and Diophantine ω. We prove that the integrated density of states is H?lder continuous for any k > 0. Moreover, we show that is absolutely continuous for a.e. ω. Our approach is via finite volume bounds. I.e., we study the eigenvalues of the problem on a finite interval [1, N] with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Then the averaged number of these Dirichlet eigenvalues which fall into an interval , does not exceed , k > 0. Moreover, for , this averaged number does not exceed exp , for any . For the integrated density of states of the problem this implies that for any . To investigate the distribution of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of on a finite interval [1, N] we study the distribution of the zeros of the characteristic determinants with complexified phase x, and frozen ω, E. We prove equidistribution of these zeros in some annulus and show also that no more than 2k ₀ of them fall into any disk of radius exp. In addition, we obtain the lower bound (with δ > 0 arbitrary) for the separation of the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet eigenvalues over the interval [0, N]. This necessarily requires the removal of a small set of energies. Received: February 2006, Accepted: December 2007     

Complete surfaces of constant curvature in H<Superscript>2</Superscript> × R and S<Superscript>2</Superscript> × R

We study isometric immersions of surfaces of constant curvature into the homogeneous spaces and . In particular, we prove that there exists a unique isometric immersion from the standard 2-sphere of constant curvature c > 0 into and a unique one into when c > 1, up to isometries of the ambient space. Moreover, we show that the hyperbolic plane of constant curvature c < −1 cannot be isometrically immersed into or . J.A. Aledo was partially supported by Ministerio de Education y Ciencia Grant No. MTM2004-02746 and Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, grant no. PAI-05-034. J.M. Espinar and J.A. Gálvez were partially supported by Ministerio de Education y Ciencia grant no. MTM2004-02746 and Junta de Andalucía Grant No. FQM325.     

Weak convergence of diffusion processes on Wiener space

Let γ be a Gaussian measure on a Suslin space X, H be the corresponding Cameron–Martin space and {e _i } ⊂ H be an orthonormal basis of H. Suppose that μ _n = ρ _n · γ is a sequence of probability measures which converges weakly to a probability measure μ = ρ · γ Consider a sequence of Dirichlet forms , where and . We prove some sufficient conditions for Mosco convergence where . In particular, if X is a Hilbert space, and can be uniformly approximated by finite dimensional conditional expectations for every fixed e _i , then under broad assumptions Mosco and the distributions of the associated stochastic processes converge weakly.     

Bubbling solutions for an anisotropic Emden–Fowler equation

We consider the following anisotropic Emden–Fowler equation where is a bounded smooth domain and a(x) is a positive smooth function. We investigate the effect of anisotropic coefficient a(x) on the existence of bubbling solutions. We show that at given local maximum points of a(x), there exists arbitrarily many bubbles. As a consequence, the quantity can approach to as . These results show a striking difference with the isotropic case [ Constant].     

Solutions with multiple spike patterns for an elliptic system

We consider a system of the form , in an open domain of , with Dirichlet conditions at the boundary (if any). We suppose that f and g are power-type non-linearities, having superlinear and subcritical growth at infinity. We prove the existence of positive solutions and which concentrate, as , at a prescribed finite number of local minimum points of V(x), possibly degenerate.     

Sharp asymptotics and compactness for local low energy solutions of critical elliptic systems in potential form

Let (M, g) be a smooth compact Riemannian n-manifold, n ≥ 3. Let also p ≥ 1 be an integer, and be the vector space of symmetrical p × p real matrix. We consider critical elliptic systems of equations which we write in condensed form as

Asymptotic behaviour of renormalized solutions to elliptic equations with measure data and G-converging operators

We study the limit as n goes to +∞ of the renormalized solutions u ⁿ to the nonlinear elliptic problems

Existence and non-existence of solutions to elliptic equations related to the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities

We investigate elliptic equations related to the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities: and such that . For various parameters α, β and various domains Ω, we establish some existence and non-existence results of solutions in rather general, possibly degenerate or singular settings.     

Velocity Averaging Lemmas in Hyperbolic Sobolev Spaces for the Kinetic Transport Equation with Velocity Field on the Sphere

We show how the methods of [6–8] can be used to prove velocity averaging lemmas in hyperbolic Sobolev spaces for the kinetic transport equation . Here v is allowed to vary in the whole space and the velocity field lies on the unit sphere. We work in dimensions and, in contrast with [6, 8], we allow right-hand sides with velocity derivatives in any direction and not necessarily tangential to the sphere.      

Infinitely many solutions of some nonlinear variational equations

The aim of this paper is investigating the existence of one or more critical points of a family of functionals which generalizes the model problem

On formulas for the index of the circular distributions

A circular distribution is a Galois equivariant map ψ from the roots of unity μ _∞ to an algebraic closure of such that ψ satisfies product conditions, for ϵ ∈ μ _∞ and , and congruence conditions for each prime number l and with (l, s) = 1, modulo primes over l for all , where μ _l and μ _s denote respectively the sets of lth and sth roots of unity. For such ψ, let be the group generated over by and let be , where U _s denotes the global units of . We give formulas for the indices and of and inside the circular numbers P _s and units C _s of Sinnott over . This work was supported by the SRC Program of Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MOST) (No. R11-2007-035-01001-0). This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD, Basic Research Promotion Fund) (KRF-2006-312-C00455).     

Reiterated homogenization of monotone parabolic problems

Reiterated homogenization is studied for divergence structure parabolic problems of the form . It is shown that under standard assumptions on the function a(y ₁,y ₂,t,ξ) the sequence of solutions converges weakly in to the solution u of the homogenized problem .      

Relaxation of an area-like functional for the function $$\frac{x}{|x|}$$

We compute the relaxation

Fourth order approximation of harmonic maps from surfaces

Let be a compact Riemannian surface and let be a compact Riemannian manifold, both without boundary, and assume that N is isometrically embedded into some ℝ ^l . We consider a sequence of critical points of the functional with uniformly bounded energy. We show that this sequence converges weakly in and strongly away from finitely many points to a smooth harmonic map. One can perform a blow-up to show that there separate at most finitely many non-trivial harmonic two-spheres at these finitely many points. Finally we prove the so called energy identity for this approximation in the case that ↪ ℝ ^l . Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 58E20, 35J60, 53C43     

Solutions to nonlinear Neumann problems with an inverse square potential

Let Ω be an open bounded domain in with smooth boundary . We are concerned with the critical Neumann problem

Noncoercive convection–diffusion elliptic problems with Neumann boundary conditions

We study the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the convective–diffusive elliptic equation