We investigate the existence of solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the differential inclusion for a.e. y ∈ Ω, which is a generalized Euler-Lagrange equation for the functional . We develop a duality theory and formulate the variational principle for this problem. As a consequence of duality, we derive the variational principle for minimizing sequences of J. We consider the case when G is subquadratic at infinity.
We study naturality of the Euler and Helmholtz operators arising in the variational calculus in fibered manifolds with oriented bases.
We investigate the gradient flow associated to the prescribed scalar curvature problem on compact riemannian surfaces. We prove the global existence and the convergence at infinity of this flow under sufficient conditions on the prescribed function, which we suppose just continuous. In particular, this gives a uniform approach to solve the prescribed scalar curvature problem for general compact surfaces.
In this paper, we are concerned with the asymptotically linear elliptic problem -Δu + λ0u = f(u), u ∈ H01(Ω) in an exterior domain Ω = RnO (N ≥ 3) with O a smooth bounded and star-shaped open set, and limt→+∞ f(t)/t = l, 0 < l < +∞. Using a precise deformation lemma and algebraic topology argument, we prove under our assumptions that the problem possesses at least one positive solution.