We consider the weak closure $WZ$ of the set $Z$ of all feasible pairs (solution, flow) of the family of potential elliptic systems $$$$ where $\Omega \subset {𝐑}^n$ is a bounded Lipschitz domain, $F_s$ are strictly convex smooth functions with quadratic growth and $S=\{\sigma measurable\mid {\sigma }_s\left(x\right)=0\text{or}1,s=1,\cdots ,s_0,{\sigma }_1\left(x\right)+\cdots +{\sigma }_{s_0}\left(x\right)=1\}$. We show that $WZ$ is the zero level set for an integral functional with the integrand $Qℱ$ being the $𝐀$-quasiconvex envelope for a certain function $ℱ$ and the operator $𝐀={\left(\text{curl,div}\right)}^m$. If the functions $F_s$ are isotropic, then on the characteristic cone...

As a measure of deformation we can take the difference $D\overrightarrow{\phi }-R$, where $D\overrightarrow{\phi }$ is the deformation gradient of the mapping $\overrightarrow{\phi }$ and $R$ is the deformation gradient of the mapping $\overrightarrow{\gamma }$, which represents some proper rigid motion. In this article, the norm $\parallel D\overrightarrow{\phi }{-R\parallel }_{L^p\left(\Omega \right)}$ is estimated by means of the scalar measure $e\left(\overrightarrow{\phi }\right)$ of nonlinear strain. First, the estimates are given for a deformation $\overrightarrow{\phi }\in W^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)$ satisfying the condition $\overrightarrow{\phi }{|}_{\partial \Omega }=\overrightarrow{\mathrm{id}}$. Then we deduce the estimate in the case that $\overrightarrow{\phi }\left(x\right)$ is a bi-Lipschitzian deformation and $\overrightarrow{\phi }{|}_{\partial \Omega }\ne \overrightarrow{\mathrm{id}}$.

We study the existence of positive solutions for the $p$-Laplace Emden-Fowler equation. Let $H$ and $G$ be closed subgroups of the orthogonal group $O\left(N\right)$ such that $HG\subset O\left(N\right)$. We denote the orbit of $G$ through $x\in {ℝ}^N$ by $G\left(x\right)$, i.e., $G\left(x\right):=\{gx:g\in G\}$. We prove that if $H\left(x\right)G\left(x\right)$ for all $x\in \overline{\Omega }$ and the first eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian is large enough, then no $H$ invariant least energy solution is $G$ invariant. Here an $H$ invariant least energy solution means a solution which achieves the minimum of the Rayleigh quotient among all $H$ invariant...

We study the boundary value problem $-{\mathrm{d}iv\left(\right(\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p_1\left(x\right)-2}+{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p_2\left(x\right)-2}\left)\nabla u\right)=f(x,u)$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N$. Our attention is focused on two cases when $f(x,u)=\pm (-\lambda |u{|}^{m\left(x\right)-2}u+\left|u{|}^{q\left(x\right)-2}u\right)$, where $m\left(x\right)=max\{p_1\left(x\right),p_2\left(x\right)\}$ for any $x\in \overline{\Omega }$ or $m\left(x\right)<q\left(x\right)<\frac{N·m\left(x\right)}{(N-m(x\left)\right)}$ for any $x\in \overline{\Omega }$. In the former case we show the existence of infinitely many weak solutions for any $\lambda >0$. In the latter we prove that if $\lambda$ is large enough then there exists a nontrivial weak solution. Our approach relies on the variable exponent theory of generalized Lebesgue-Sobolev spaces, combined with a ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$-symmetric version for even...