We point out the following fact: if Ω ⊂ ${ℝ}^n$ is a bounded open set, δ>0, and p>1, then $li{m}_{\to 0^{+}}in{f}_{\in V}{\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla \left(x\right)\right|}^{p}dx=\infty$, where $V_{=}\in W_0^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right):meas\left(x\in \Omega :\left|\right(x\left)\right|>\delta \right)>.$

We consider the problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-\Delta u=u^{\frac{N+2}{N-2}+\lambda }\hfill & \text{in}\Omega \setminus \epsilon \omega ,\hfill \\ u\>0\hfill & \text{in}\Omega \setminus \epsilon \omega ,\hfill \\ u=0\hfill & \text{on}\partial \left(\Omega \setminus \epsilon \omega \right),\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\Omega$ and $\omega$ are smooth bounded domains in ${ℝ}^N$, $N\ge 3$, $\epsilon \>0$ and $\lambda \in ℝ.$ We prove that if the size of the hole $\epsilon$ goes to zero and if, simultaneously, the parameter $\lambda$ goes to zero at the appropriate rate, then the problem has a solution which blows up at the origin.

Let $\mathrm{\Omega }$ be a bounded open convex set of class $C^2$. Let $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ be a non linear operator satisfying the condition (A) (elliptic) with constants $\alpha$, $\gamma$, $\delta$. We prove that a number $\lambda \ge 0$ is an eigenvalue for the operator $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ if and only if the number $\alpha \lambda$ is an eigen-value for the operator $\mathrm{\Delta }u$. If $\lambda \ge 0$ , the two systems $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)=\lambda u$ and $\mathrm{\Delta }u=\alpha \lambda u$ have the same solutions. In particular, also the eventual eigen-values of the operator $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ should all be negative. Finally, we obtain a sufficient condition for the existence of solutions $u\in H^2\cap H_0^1\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$...

The paper deals with very weak solutions $u\in \theta +W_0^{1,r}\left(\Omega \right)$, $max\{1,p-1\}<r<p<n$, to boundary value problems of the $p$-harmonic equation $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-\text{div}\left(\right|\nabla u\left(x\right){|}^{p-2}\nabla u\left(x\right))=0,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,\hfill \\ u\left(x\right)=\theta \left(x\right),\hfill & x\in \partial \Omega .\hfill \end{array}\right.(*)$$ We show that, under the assumption $\theta \in W^{1,q}\left(\Omega \right)$, $q>r$, any very weak solution $u$ to the boundary value problem ($*$) is integrable with $$u\in \left\{\begin{array}{cc}\theta +L_{\mathrm{weak}}^{q^{*}}\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q<n,\hfill \\ \theta +L_{\mathrm{weak}}^{\tau }\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q=n\text{and}\text{any}\tau <\infty ,\hfill \\ \theta +L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q>n,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ provided that $r$ is sufficiently close to $p$.

Questo articolo considera una successione di equazioni differenziali a derivate parziali non lineari in forma di divergenza del tipo $$-\text{div}\left(Q^{ϵ}G\left(x,N^{ϵ}\nabla u\right)\right)=f^{ϵ},$$ in un dominio limitato $\mathrm{\Omega }$ dello spazio $n$-dimensionale; $Q^{ϵ}=Q^{ϵ}\left(x\right)$ e $N^{ϵ}=N^{ϵ}\left(x\right)$ sono matrici con coefficenti limitati, $N^{ϵ}$ e è invertibile e la sua matrice inversa $R^{ϵ}$ ha anche coefficenti limitati. La non linearità è dovuta alla funzione $G=G\left(x,\xi \right)$; la condizione di crescita, la monotonicità e le ipotesi di coercitività sono modellate sul $p$-Laplaciano, $1<p<\mathrm{\infty }$, ed assicurano l'esistenza di...

We investigate the following quasilinear and singular problem, $$\text{t}o2.7cm\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-{\Delta }_{p}u=\frac{\lambda }{u^{\delta }}+u^q\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ;\hfill \\ {u|}_{\partial \Omega }=0,u\&gt;0\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.\text{t}o2.7cm\text{(P)}$$ where $\Omega$ is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary, $1\&lt;p\&lt;\infty$, $p-1\&lt;q\le p^{*}-1$, $\lambda \&gt;0$, and $0\&lt;\delta \&lt;1$. As usual, $p^{*}=\frac{Np}{N-p}$ if $1\&lt;p\&lt;N$, $p^{*}\in (p,\infty )$ is arbitrarily large if $p=N$, and $p^{*}=\infty$ if $p\&gt;N$. We employ variational methods in order to show the existence of at least two distinct (positive) solutions of problem (P) in $W_0^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)$. While following an approach due to Ambrosetti-Brezis-Cerami, we need to prove two new results of separate interest: a strong comparison principle...

$\mathrm{\Omega }$ is a bounded open set of ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, of class $C^2$ and $T>0$. In the cylinder $Q=\mathrm{\Omega }\times \left(0,T\right)$ we consider non variational basic operator $a\left(H\left(u\right)\right)-\partial u/\partial t$ where $a\left(\xi \right)$ is a vector in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$, $N\ge 1$, which is continuous in $\xi$ and satisfies the condition (A). It is shown that $\mathrm{\forall }f\in L^2\left(Q\right)$ the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem $u\in W_0^{2,1}\left(Q\right)$, $a\left(H\left(u\right)\right)-\partial u/\partial t=f$ in $Q$, has a unique solution. It is further shown that if $u\in W_0^{2,1}\left(Q\right)$ is a solution of the basic system $a\left(H\left(u\right)\right)-\partial u/\partial t=0$ in $Q$, then $H\left(u\right)$ and $\partial u/\partial t$ belong to $H_{loc}^1\left(Q\right)$. From this the Hölder continuity in $Q$ of the vectors $u$ and $Du$ are deduced respectively when $n\le 4$ and...