We construct an upper bound for the following family of functionals ${\left\{E_{\epsilon }\right\}}_{\epsilon \>0}$, which arises in the study of micromagnetics:$$E_{\epsilon }\left(u\right)={\int }_{\Omega }{\epsilon \left|\nabla u\right|}^2+\frac{1}{\epsilon }{\int }_{{ℝ}^2}{\left|H_u\right|}^2.$$Here $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^2$, $u\in H^1(\Omega ,S^1)$ (corresponding to the magnetization) and $H_u$, the demagnetizing field created by $u$, is given by$$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}\mathrm{div}(\tilde{u}+H_u)=0\hfill & \text{in}{ℝ}^2,\hfill \\ \mathrm{curl}{H}_u=0\hfill & \text{in}{ℝ}^2,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$where $\tilde{u}$ is the extension of $u$ by $0$ in ${ℝ}^2\setminus \Omega$. Our upper bound coincides with the lower bound obtained by Rivière and Serfaty.

We prove the existence of positive and of nodal solutions for $-\Delta u={\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u+\mu {\left|u\right|}^{q-2}u$, $u\in {\mathrm{H}}_0^1\left(\Omega \right)$, where $\mu \>0$ and $2\<q\<p=2N(N-2)$, for a class of open subsets $\Omega$ of ${ℝ}^N$ lying between two infinite cylinders.

We prove the existence of positive and of nodal solutions for -Δu = |u|p-2u + µ|u|q-2u, $u\in {\mathrm{H}}_0^1\left(\Omega \right)$, where µ > 0 and 2 < q < p = 2N(N - 2) , for a class of open subsets Ω of ${ℝ}^N$ lying between two infinite cylinders.

In this paper we show some results of multiplicity and existence of sign-changing solutions using a mountain pass theorem in ordered intervals, for a class of quasi-linear elliptic Dirichlet problems. As a by product we construct a special pseudo-gradient vector field and a negative pseudo-gradient flow for the nondifferentiable functional associated to our class of problems.

Nella prima parte di questa Nota si dimostrano dei risultati di simmetria unidimensionale e radiale per le soluzioni di $\mathrm{\Delta }u+f\left(u\right)=0$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$. Questi risultati sono legati a due congetture (De Giorgi, 1978 e Gibbons, 1994) riguardanti la classificazione delle soluzioni dell’equazione $\mathrm{\Delta }u+u\left(1-u^2\right)=0$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$. Si dimostra, in particolare, la seguente generalizzazione della congettura di Gibbons: se $N>1$ e se l’insieme degli zeri di $u$ è limitato nella direzione $\nu$, allora $u\left(x\right)=u_0\left(\nu \cdot x\right)$, ovvero, $u$ è unidimensionale. Nella seconda parte si considerano...