An elliptic equation with no monotonicity condition on the nonlinearity

Gregory S. Spradlin

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (2006)

  • Volume: 12, Issue: 4, page 786-794
  • ISSN: 1292-8119

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An elliptic PDE is studied which is a perturbation of an autonomous equation. The existence of a nontrivial solution is proven via variational methods. The domain of the equation is unbounded, which imposes a lack of compactness on the variational problem. In addition, a popular monotonicity condition on the nonlinearity is not assumed. In an earlier paper with this assumption, a solution was obtained using a simple application of topological (Brouwer) degree. Here, a more subtle degree theory argument must be used.

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Spradlin, Gregory S.. "An elliptic equation with no monotonicity condition on the nonlinearity." ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations 12.4 (2006): 786-794. <http://eudml.org/doc/249614>.

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