We derive estimates for various quantities which are of interest in the analysis of the Ginzburg-Landau equation, and which we bound in terms of the $GL$-energy $E_{\epsilon }$ and the parameter $\epsilon$. These estimates are local in nature, and in particular independent of any boundary condition. Most of them improve and extend earlier results on the subject.

We present two results on existence of infinitely many positive solutions to the Neumann problem ⎧ $-{\Delta }_{p}u+\lambda \left(x\right){\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u=\mu f(x,u)$ in Ω, ⎨ ⎩ ∂u/∂ν = 0 on ∂Ω, where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ is a bounded open set with sufficiently smooth boundary ∂Ω, ν is the outer unit normal vector to ∂Ω, p > 1, μ > 0, $\lambda \in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ with $essin{f}_{x\in \Omega }\lambda \left(x\right)>0$ and f: Ω × ℝ → ℝ is a Carathéodory function. Our results ensure the existence of a sequence of nonzero and nonnegative weak solutions to the above problem.

Si considera una classe di equazioni ellittiche semilineari su ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ della forma $-\mathrm{\Delta }u+u=a\left(x\right){\left|u\right|}^{p-1}u$ con $p>1$ sottocritico (o con nonlinearità più generali) e $a\left(x\right)$ funzione limitata. In questo articolo viene presentato un risultato di genericità sull'esistenza di infinite soluzioni, rispetto alla classe di coefficienti $a\left(x\right)$ limitati su ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ e non negativi all'infinito.

We introduce a method to treat a semilinear elliptic equation in ${ℝ}^N$ (see equation (1) below). This method is of a perturbative nature. It permits us to skip the problem of lack of compactness of ${ℝ}^N$ but requires an oscillatory behavior of the potential b.

Under no Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz-type growth condition, we study the existence of infinitely many solutions of the p(x)-Laplacian equations by applying the variant fountain theorems due to Zou [Manuscripta Math. 104 (2001), 343-358].

Under a suitable oscillatory behavior either at infinity or at zero of the nonlinear term, the existence of infinitely many weak solutions for a non-homogeneous Neumann problem, in an appropriate Orlicz--Sobolev setting, is proved. The technical approach is based on variational methods.

We prove that the higher integrability of the data $f,f_0$ improves on the integrability of minimizers $u$ of functionals $ℱ$, whose model is $${\int }_{\Omega }\left[{\left|Du\right|}^p+{(det\left(Du\right))}^2-\langle f,Du\rangle +\langle f_0,u\rangle \right]dx,$$ where $u:\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n\to {ℝ}^n$ and $p\ge 2$.

We establish an interpolation theorem for a class of nonlinear operators in the Lebesgue spaces ${ℒ}^s\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ arising naturally in the study of elliptic PDEs. The prototype of those PDEs is the second order p-harmonic equation ${div\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p-2\nabla }u=div$. In this example the p-harmonic transform is essentially inverse to $div\left(\right|\nabla {|}^{p-2}\nabla )$. To every vector field $\in {ℒ}^q(ℝⁿ,ℝⁿ)$ our operator ${\mathscr{H}}_p$ assigns the gradient of the solution, ${\mathscr{H}}_p=\nabla u\in {ℒ}^p(ℝⁿ,ℝⁿ)$. The core of the matter is that we go beyond the natural domain of definition of this operator. Because of nonlinearity our arguments...