Some sufficient conditions on the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the damped vibration problems with impulsive effects ⎧ u”(t) + g(t)u’(t) + f(t,u(t)) = 0, a.e. t ∈ [0,T ⎨ u(0) = u(T) = 0 ⎩ $\Delta u^{\text{'}}\left(t_j\right)=u^{\text{'}}(t{⁺}_j-u^{\text{'}}\left(t{¯}_j\right)=I_j\left(u\left(t_j\right)\right)$, j = 1,...,p, are established, where $t₀=0<t₁<\cdots <t_p<t_{p+1}=T$, g ∈ L¹(0,T;ℝ), f: [0,T] × ℝ → ℝ is continuous, and $I_j:ℝ\to ℝ$, j = 1,...,p, are continuous. The solutions are sought by means of the Lax-Milgram theorem and some critical point theorems. Finally, two examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness...

In this paper we consider a nonlinear elliptic equation with critical growth for the operator ${\mathrm{\Delta }}^2$ in a bounded domain $\mathrm{\Omega }\subset {ℝ}^n$. We state some existence results when $n\ge 8$. Moreover, we consider $5\le n\le 7$, expecially when $\mathrm{\Omega }$ is a ball in ${ℝ}^n$.

In this paper, we study a model for the magnetization in thin ferromagnetic films. It comes as a variational problem for $S^1$-valued maps $m^{\text{'}}$ (the magnetization) of two variables $x^{\text{'}}$: $E_{\epsilon }\left(m^{\text{'}}\right)=\epsilon \int {|{\nabla }^{\text{'}}·m^{\text{'}}|}^{2}d{x}^{\text{'}}+\frac{1}{2}\int {\left||{\nabla }^{\text{'}}{|}^{-1/2}{\nabla }^{\text{'}}·m^{\text{'}}\right|}^{2}d{x}^{\text{'}}$. We are interested in the behavior of minimizers as $\epsilon \to 0$. They are expected to be $S^1$-valued maps $m^{\text{'}}$ of vanishing distributional divergence ${\nabla }^{\text{'}}·m^{\text{'}}=0$, so that appropriate boundary conditions enforce line discontinuities. For finite $\epsilon >0$, these line discontinuities are approximated by smooth transition layers, the so-called Néel...

Let $p_1,p_2,\cdots$ be the sequence of all primes in ascending order. Using explicit estimates from the prime number theory, we show that if $k\ge 5$, then $$(p_{k+1}-1)!\mid \left(\frac{1}{2}(p_{k+1}-1)\right)!p_k!,$$ which improves a previous result of the second author.

In this paper we consider a nonlinear elliptic equation with critical growth for the operator ${\mathrm{\Delta }}^2$ in a bounded domain $\mathrm{\Omega }\subset {ℝ}^n$. We state some existence results when $n\ge 8$. Moreover, we consider $5\le n\le 7$, expecially when $\mathrm{\Omega }$ is a ball in ${ℝ}^n$.

Via critical point theory we establish the existence and regularity of solutions for the quasilinear elliptic problem ⎧ $div(x,\nabla u)+{a\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u={g\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u+h\left(x\right){\left|u\right|}^{s-1}u$ in ${ℝ}^N$ ⎨ ⎩ u > 0, $li{m}_{\left|x\right|\to \infty }u\left(x\right)=0$, where 1 < p < N; a(x) is assumed to satisfy a coercivity condition; h(x) and g(x) are not necessarily bounded but satisfy some integrability restrictions.

We consider elementary operators $x\mapsto {\sum }_{j=1}^n{a}_{j}x{b}_j$, acting on a unital Banach algebra, where $a_j$ and $b_j$ are separately commuting families of generalized scalar elements. We give an ascent estimate and a lower bound estimate for such an operator. Additionally, we give a weak variant of the Fuglede-Putnam theorem for an elementary operator with strongly commuting families $a_j$ and $b_j$, i.e. $a_j=a_j^{\text{'}}+i{a}_j^{\text{'}\text{'}}$ ($b_j=b_j^{\text{'}}+i{b}_j^{\text{'}\text{'}}$), where all $a_j^{\text{'}}$ and $a_j^{\text{'}\text{'}}$ ($b_j^{\text{'}}$ and $b_j^{\text{'}\text{'}}$) commute. The main tool is an L¹ estimate of the Fourier transform of a certain class...

We determine the duals of the homogeneous matrix-weighted Besov spaces ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ and ${ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ which were previously defined in [5]. If W is a matrix $A_p$ weight, then the dual of ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ can be identified with ${Ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(W^{-p^{\text{'}}/p}\right)$ and, similarly, $\left[{ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)\right]*\approx {ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(W^{-p^{\text{'}}/p}\right)$. Moreover, for certain W which may not be in the $A_p$ class, the duals of ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ and ${ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ are determined and expressed in terms of the Besov spaces ${Ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(A_Q^{-1}\right)$ and ${ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(A_Q^{-1}\right)$, which we define in terms of reducing operators ${A_Q}_Q$ associated with W. We also develop the basic theory of these reducing operator Besov spaces....

Let $K_{s,t}$ be the complete bipartite graph with partite sets $\{x_1,...,x_s\}$ and $\{y_1,...,y_t\}$. A split bipartite-graph on $(s+s^{\text{'}})+(t+t^{\text{'}})$ vertices, denoted by ${\mathrm{SB}}_{s+s^{\text{'}},t+t^{\text{'}}}$, is the graph obtained from $K_{s,t}$ by adding $s^{\text{'}}+t^{\text{'}}$ new vertices $x_{s+1},...,x_{s+s^{\text{'}}}$, $y_{t+1},...,y_{t+t^{\text{'}}}$ such that each of $x_{s+1},...,x_{s+s^{\text{'}}}$ is adjacent to each of $y_1,...,y_t$ and each of $y_{t+1},...,y_{t+t^{\text{'}}}$ is adjacent to each of $x_1,...,x_s$. Let $A$ and $B$ be nonincreasing lists of nonnegative integers, having lengths $m$ and $n$, respectively. The pair $(A;B)$ is potentially ${\mathrm{SB}}_{s+s^{\text{'}},t+t^{\text{'}}}$-bigraphic if there is a simple bipartite graph containing ${\mathrm{SB}}_{s+s^{\text{'}},t+t^{\text{'}}}$ (with $s+s^{\text{'}}$ vertices $x_1,...,x_{s+s^{\text{'}}}$ in the part of size $m$...

For a double complex $(A,d^{\text{'}},d^{\text{'}\text{'}})$, we show that if it satisfies the $d^{\text{'}}{d}^{\text{'}\text{'}}$-lemma and the spectral sequence $\left\{E_r^{p,q}\right\}$ induced by $A$ does not degenerate at $E_0$, then it degenerates at $E_1$. We apply this result to prove the degeneration at $E_1$ of a Hodge-de Rham spectral sequence on compact bi-generalized Hermitian manifolds that satisfy a version of $d^{\text{'}}{d}^{\text{'}\text{'}}$-lemma.

Let d be a positive integer and μ a generalized Cantor measure satisfying $\mu ={\sum }_{j=1}^m{a}_j\mu \circ S_j^{-1}$, where $0<a_j<1$, ${\sum }_{j=1}^m{a}_j=1$, $S_j=\rho R+b_j$ with 0 < ρ < 1 and R an orthogonal transformation of ${ℝ}^d$. Then ⎧1 < p ≤ 2 ⇒ ⎨$su{p}_{r>0}{r}^{d(1/{\alpha }^{\text{'}}-1/p^{\text{'}})}({\int }_{J_x^r}{\left|\mu ̂\left(y\right)\right|}^{p^{\text{'}}}{dy)}^{1/p^{\text{'}}}\le D₁{\rho }^{-d/{\alpha }^{\text{'}}}$, $x\in {ℝ}^d$, ⎩ p = 2 ⇒ infr≥1 rd(1/α’-1/2) (∫J₀r|μ̂(y)|² dy)1/2 ≥ D₂ρd/α’$,$where $J_x^r={\prod }_{i=1}^d(x_i-r/2,x_i+r/2)$, α’ is defined by ${\rho }^{d/{\alpha }^{\text{'}}}={\left({\sum }_{j=1}^m{a}_j^p\right)}^{1/p}$ and the constants D₁ and D₂ depend only on d and p.

Si studiano esistenza, unicità e regolarità delle soluzioni strette, classiche e forti dell’equazione di evoluzione non autonoma $u^{\prime }(t)\mathrm{—}A(t)u(t)=f(t)$, con il dato iniziale $u(0)=x$, in spazi di Banach. I dominii degli operatori $A(t)$ variano in $t$ e non sono necessariamente densi in $E$. Si danno condizioni necessarie e sufficienti per l'esistenza e la regolarità holderiana della soluzione e della sua derivata.

We consider certain class of second order nonlinear nonautonomous delay differential equations of the form $$a\left(t\right)x^{\text{'}\text{'}}+b\left(t\right)g(x,x^{\text{'}})+c\left(t\right)h\left(x(t-r)\right)m\left(x^{\text{'}}\right)=p(t,x,x^{\text{'}})$$ and $${\left(a\left(t\right)x^{\text{'}}\right)}^{\text{'}}+b\left(t\right)g(x,x^{\text{'}})+c\left(t\right)h\left(x(t-r)\right)m\left(x^{\text{'}}\right)=p(t,x,x^{\text{'}}),$$ where $a$, $b$, $c$, $g$, $h$, $m$ and $p$ are real valued functions which depend at most on the arguments displayed explicitly and $r$ is a positive constant. Different forms of the integral inequality method were used to investigate the boundedness of all solutions and their derivatives. Here, we do not require construction of the Lyapunov-Krasovski functional to establish our results....

Let $𝔻$ denote the unit disk $\{z:|z|<1\}$ in the complex plane $ℂ$. In this paper, we study a family of polynomials $P$ with only one zero lying outside $\overline{𝔻}$.  We establish  criteria for $P$ to satisfy implying that each of $P$ and $P^{\text{'}}$  has exactly one critical point outside $\overline{𝔻}$.

We study the existence of solutions of the system $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}{\left({\phi }_1\left(u_1^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)\right)\right)}^{\text{'}}=f_1(t,u_1\left(t\right),u_2\left(t\right),u_1^{\text{'}}\left(t\right),u_2^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)),\text{a.e.}t\in [0,T],{\left({\phi }_2\left(u_2^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)\right)\right)}^{\text{'}}=f_2(t,u_1\left(t\right),u_2\left(t\right),u_1^{\text{'}}\left(t\right),u_2^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)),\text{a.e.}t\in [0,T],\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ submitted to nonlinear coupled boundary conditions on $[0,T]$ where ${\phi }_1,{\phi }_2:(-a,a)\to ℝ$, with $0<a<+\infty$, are two increasing homeomorphisms such that ${\phi }_1\left(0\right)={\phi }_2\left(0\right)=0$, and $f_i:[0,T]\times {ℝ}^4\to ℝ$, $i\in \{1,2\}$ are two $L^1$-Carathéodory functions. Using some new conditions and Schauder fixed point Theorem, we obtain solvability result.

We study the leading order behaviour of positive solutions of the equation $-\Delta u+ϵu-{\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u+{\left|u\right|}^{q-2}u=0,x\in {ℝ}^N$, where $N\ge 3$, $q>p>2$ and when $ϵ>0$ is a small parameter. We give a complete characterization of all possible asymptotic regimes as a function of $p$, $q$ and $N$. The behavior of solutions depends sensitively on whether $p$ is less, equal or bigger than the critical Sobolev exponent $2^{*}=\frac{2N}{N-2}$. For $p<2^{*}$ the solution asymptotically coincides with the solution of the equation in which the last term is absent. For $p>2^{*}$ the solution asymptotically...

We study the existence of positive solutions of the quasilinear problem ⎧ $-{\Delta }_{N}u+{V\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{N-2}u={f(u,|\nabla u|}^{N-2}\nabla u)$, $x\in {ℝ}^N$, ⎨ ⎩ u(x) > 0, $x\in {ℝ}^N$, where ${\Delta }_{N}u={div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{N-2}\nabla u)$ is the N-Laplacian operator, $V:{ℝ}^N\to ℝ$ is a continuous potential, $f:ℝ\times {ℝ}^N\to ℝ$ is a continuous function. The main result follows from an iterative method based on Mountain Pass techniques.

In this work, we study the existence of nonnegative and nontrivial solutions for the quasilinear Schrödinger equation $$-{\Delta }_{N}u+b{\left|u\right|}^{N-2}u-{\Delta }_N\left(u^2\right)u=h\left(u\right),x\in {ℝ}^N,$$ where ${\Delta }_N$ is the $N$-Laplacian operator, $h\left(u\right)$ is continuous and behaves as $exp\left(\alpha \right|u{|}^{N/(N-1)})$ when $\left|u\right|\to \infty$. Using the Nehari manifold method and the Schwarz symmetrization with some special techniques, the existence of a nonnegative and nontrivial solution $u\left(x\right)\in W^{1,N}\left({ℝ}^N\right)$ with $u\left(x\right)\to 0$ as $\left|x\right|\to \infty$ is established.

Criteria for oscillatory behavior of solutions of fourth order half-linear differential equations of the form $$\left(\right|y^{\text{'}\text{'}}{|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}{y}^{\text{'}\text{'}}{)}^{\text{'}\text{'}}+q\left(t\right){\left|y\right|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}y=0,t\ge a>0,A$$ where $\alpha >0$ is a constant and $q\left(t\right)$ is positive continuous function on $[a,\infty )$, are given in terms of an increasing continuously differentiable function $\omega \left(t\right)$ from $[a,\infty )$ to $(0,\infty )$ which satisfies ${\int }_a^{\infty }1/\left(t\omega \left(t\right)\right)dt<\infty$.

Characterizations of equicontinuity and convergent sequences are given for the space ${}_C^{\text{'}}\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ of rapidly decreasing distributions and the space ${}_M\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ of slowly increasing infinitely differentiable functions.

Let $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$ be a bounded starshaped domain and consider the $(p,q)$-Laplacian problem $$\begin{array}{c}\hfill -{\Delta }_{p}u-{\Delta }_{q}u=\lambda \left(𝐱\right){\left|u\right|}^{p^{☆}-2}u+\mu {\left|u\right|}^{r-2}u\end{array}$$ where $\mu$ is a positive parameter, $1<q\le p<n$, $r\ge p^{☆}$ and $p^{☆}:=\frac{np}{n-p}$ is the critical Sobolev exponent. In this short note we address the question of non-existence for non-trivial solutions to the $(p,q)$-Laplacian problem. In particular we show the non-existence of non-trivial solutions to the problem by using a method based on Pohozaev identity.