We study a two-dimensional model for micromagnetics, which consists in an energy functional over $S^2$-valued vector fields. Bounded-energy configurations tend to be planar, except in small regions which can be described as vortices (Bloch lines in physics). As the characteristic “exchange-length” tends to 0, they converge to planar divergence-free unit norm vector fields which jump along line singularities. We derive lower bounds for the energy, which are explicit functions of the jumps of the limit....


We study a two-dimensional model for micromagnetics, which consists in an energy functional over S2-valued vector fields. Bounded-energy configurations tend to be planar, except in small regions which can be described as vortices (Bloch lines in physics). As the characteristic “exchange-length” tends to 0, they converge to planar divergence-free unit norm vector fields which jump along line singularities. We derive lower bounds for the energy, which are explicit functions of the jumps of the limit....

We study a nonlinear Neumann boundary value problem associated to a nonhomogeneous differential operator. Taking into account the competition between the nonlinearity and the bifurcation parameter, we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of nontrivial solutions in a related Orlicz–Sobolev space.

We consider a generic scalar model for the Oseen equations in an exterior three-dimensional domain. We assume the case of a non-constant coefficient function. Using a variational approach we prove new regularity properties of a weak solution whose existence and uniqueness in anisotropically weighted Sobolev spaces were proved in [10]. Because we use some facts and technical tools proved in the above mentioned paper, we give also a brief review of its results and methods.

We obtain a non-existence result for a class of quasi-linear eigenvalue problems when a parameter is small. By using Pohozaev identity and some comparison arguments, non-existence theorems are established for quasi-linear eigenvalue problems under supercritical growth condition.

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.

In this paper we study nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems with monotone and nonmonotone multivalued nonlinearities. First we consider the case of monotone nonlinearities. In the first result we assume that the multivalued nonlinearity is defined on all $ℝ$. Assuming the existence of an upper and of a lower solution, we prove the existence of a solution between them. Also for a special version of the problem, we prove the existence of extremal solutions in the order interval formed by the upper...

The non-local Gel’fand problem, $\Delta v+\lambda e^v/{\int }_{\Omega }{e}^{v}dx=0$ with Dirichlet boundary condition, is studied on an n-dimensional bounded domain Ω. If it is star-shaped, then we have an upper bound of λ for the existence of the solution. We also have infinitely many bendings in λ of the connected component of the solution set in λ,v if Ω is a ball and 3 ≤ n ≤ 9.

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...

In this article, we study the existence of nontrivial weak solutions for the following boundary value problem: $$-{\Delta }_{\gamma }u=f(x,u)\text{in}\Omega ,u=0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary in ${ℝ}^N$, $\Omega \cap \{x_j=0\}\ne \varnothing$ for some $j$, ${\Delta }_{\gamma }$ is a subelliptic linear operator of the type $${\Delta }_{\gamma }:=\sum _{j=1}^N{\partial }_{x_j}\left({\gamma }_j^2{\partial }_{x_j}\right),{\partial }_{x_j}:=\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j},N\ge 2,$$ where $\gamma \left(x\right)=({\gamma }_1\left(x\right),{\gamma }_2\left(x\right),\cdots ,{\gamma }_N\left(x\right))$ satisfies certain homogeneity conditions and degenerates at the coordinate hyperplanes and the nonlinearity $f(x,\xi )$ is of subcritical growth and does not satisfy the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz (AR) condition.