We discuss the solvability of a nonhomogeneous boundary value problem for the semilinear equation of the vibrating string $x_{tt}(t,y)-\Delta x(t,y)+f(t,y,x(t,y))=0$ in a bounded domain and with a certain type of superlinear nonlinearity. To this end we derive a new dual variational method.

The paper surveys recent results obtained for the existence and multiplicity of radial solutions of Dirichlet problems of the type $$\nabla ·\left(\frac{\nabla v}{\sqrt{1-{\left|\nabla v\right|}^2}}\right)=f\left(\right|x|,v)\text{in}{B}_R,u=0\text{on}\partial B_R,$$ where $B_R$ is the open ball of center $0$ and radius $R$ in ${ℝ}^n$, and $f$ is continuous. Comparison is made with similar results for the Laplacian. Topological and variational methods are used and the case of positive solutions is emphasized. The paper ends with the case of a general domain.

We study the lifespan of solutions to fully nonlinear second-order Cauchy problems with small real- or complex-analytic data. The nonlinear term is an analytic function in u, ū and their derivatives. We give an outline of the proof based on the method of majorants and the fixed point technique.

We investigate some nonlinear elliptic problems of the form $${\Delta }^{2}v+\sigma \left(x\right)v=h(x,v)\text{in}\Omega ,v=\Delta v=0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,\left(\mathrm{P}\right)$$ where $\Omega$ is a regular bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N$, $N\ge 2$, $\sigma \left(x\right)$ a positive function in $L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$, and the nonlinearity $h(x,t)$ is indefinite. We prove the existence of solutions to the problem (P) when the function $h(x,t)$ is asymptotically linear at infinity by using variational method but without the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition. Also, we consider the case when the nonlinearities are superlinear and subcritical.

The nonlinear dissipative wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+{\left|u_t\right|}^{h-1}{u}_t=0$ in dimension $d\>1$ has strong solutions with the following structure. In $0\le t\<1$ the solutions have a focusing wave of singularity on the incoming light cone $\left|x\right|=1-t$. In $\{t\ge 1\}$ that is after the focusing time, they are smoother than they were in $\{0\le t\<1\}$. The examples are radial and piecewise smooth in $\{0\le t\<1\}$

Let G be a real connected Lie group with polynomial volume growth endowed with its Haar measuredx. Given a C² positive bounded integrable function M on G, we give a sufficient condition for an L² Poincaré inequality with respect to the measure M(x)dx to hold on G. We then establish a nonlocal Poincaré inequality on G with respect to M(x)dx. We also give analogous Poincaré inequalities on Riemannian manifolds and deal with the case of Hardy inequalities.

In this paper we study the existence of minimizer for certain constrained variational problems given by functionals with nonlocal terms. This type of functionals are first integrals of evolution equations describing long wave propagation and the existence of minimizer gives the existence and the stability of traveling waves for these equations. Due to loss of compactness, the major problem is to prevent dichotomy of minimizing sequences. Our approach is an alternative to the concentration-compactness...

Using a version of the Local Linking Theorem and the Fountain Theorem, we obtain some existence and multiplicity results for a class of superquadratic elliptic equations.