This paper deals with the propagation of waves around a circular obstacle. The medium is heterogeneous: the velocity is smaller in the inner region and greater in the outer region. The interface separating the two regions is also circular, and the obstacle is located eccentrically inside it. The different front portraits are classified.

Excitation wave propagation in a heterogeneous medium around a circular obstacle is investigated, when the obstacle is located very eccentrically with respect to the interfacial circle separating the slow inner and the fast outer region. Qualitative properties of the permanent wave fronts are described, and the calculated wave forms are presented.

We consider a class of fourth order elliptic systems which include the Euler-Lagrange equations of biharmonic mappings in dimension 4 and we prove that a weak limit of weak solutions to such systems is again a weak solution to a limit system.

In this paper we establish a variant and generalized weak linking theorem, which contains more delicate result and insures the existence of bounded Palais–Smale sequences of a strongly indefinite functional. The abstract result will be used to study the semilinear Schrödinger equation $-\Delta u+V\left(x\right)u={K\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{2^{*}-2}u+g(x,u),u\in W^{1,2}\left({𝐑}^N\right)$, where $N\ge 4;V,K,g$ are periodic in $x_j$ for $1\le j\le N$ and 0 is in a gap of the spectrum of $-\Delta +V$; $K\>0$. If $0\<g(x,u)u\le {c\left|u\right|}^{2^{*}}$ for an appropriate constant $c$, we show that this equation has a nontrivial solution.

In this paper we establish a variant and generalized weak linking theorem, which contains more delicate result and insures the existence of bounded Palais–Smale sequences of a strongly indefinite functional. The abstract result will be used to study the semilinear Schrödinger equation $-\Delta u+V\left(x\right)u={K\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{2^{*}-2}u+g(x,u),u\in W^{1,2}\left({𝐑}^N\right)$, where N ≥ 4; V,K,g are periodic in xj for 1 ≤ j ≤ N and 0 is in a gap of the spectrum of -Δ + V; K>0. If $0<g(x,u)u\le {c\left|u\right|}^{2^{*}}$ for an appropriate constant c, we show that this equation has a nontrivial solution.

Some sufficient conditions are provided that guarantee that the difference of a compact mapping and a proper mapping defined between any two Banach spaces over $𝕂$ has at least one zero. When conditions are strengthened, this difference has at most a finite number of zeros throughout the entire space. The proof of the result is constructive and is based upon a continuation method.

The main result of this paper is the following: if the Weierstrass division theorem is valid in a quasianalytic differentiable system, then this system is contained in the system of analytic germs. This result has already been known for particular examples, such as the quasianalytic Denjoy-Carleman classes.