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Recently, Giorgio Fusco and the author studied the system {\Delta}u - W_u (u) = 0 for a class of potentials that possess several global minima and are invariant under a general finite reflection group, and established existence of…

We consider the system {\Delta}u - W_u (u) = 0, for u: R^2 -> R^2, W: R^2 -> R, where W_u (u) is a smooth potential, symmetric with respect to the u_1, u_2 axes, possessing two global minima a^\pm := (\pma,0) and two connections e^\pm(x_1)…

We consider a class of semilinear elliptic system of the form $-\Delta u(x,y)+\nabla W(u(x,y))=0,\quad (x,y)\in\R^{2}$ where $W:\R^{2}\to\R$ is a double well non negative symmetric potential. We show, via variational methods, that if the…

We study entire bounded solutions to the equation $\Delta u - u + u^3 = 0$ in $\mathbb R^2$. Our approach is purely variational and is based on concentration arguments and symmetry considerations. This method allows us to construct in a…

We prove the existence of an infinite sequence of distinct non-radial nodal $G-$invariant solutions for the following critical nonlinear elliptic problem: $({\mathrm{P}})\quad {*{20}c} {-\Delta u = |u|^{4/(n-2)}u},\quad u\in…

We study the existence of fully nontrivial solutions to the system $$-\Delta u_i+ \lambda_iu_i = \sum\limits_{j=1}^\ell \beta_{ij}|u_j|^p|u_i|^{p-2}u_i\ \hbox{in}\ \Omega, \qquad i=1,\ldots,\ell,$$ in a bounded or unbounded domain $\Omega$…

We study the existence of solutions $u:\R^{3}\to\R^{2}$ for the semilinear elliptic systems \begin{equation}\label{eq:abs} -\Delta u(x,y,z)+\nabla W(u(x,y,z))=0, \end{equation} where $W:\R^{2}\to\R$ is a double well symmetric potential. We…

: We establish existence of an infinite family of exponentially-decaying non-radial $C^2$ solutions to the equation $\Delta u + f(u) = 0$ on $R^2$ for a large class of nonlinearities $f$. These solutions have the form $u(r,\theta )=e^{i…

In this paper, we consider the elliptic system \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u=g(x,v)\,\, \textnormal{in}\Omega, & \hbox{} -\Delta v=f(x,u)\,\,\textnormal{in}\Omega, & \hbox{} u=v=0\textnormal{on}\partial\Omega, &…

We present a systematic study of entire symmetric solutions $u:R^n\rightarrow R^m$ of the vector Allen-Cahn equation $\Delta u-W_u(u)=0, x \in R^n$, where $W:R^m\rightarrow R$ is smooth, symmetric, nonnegative with a finite number of zeros…

A theorem on the solutions of the problem $U'(w)=\gamma F(U(w),w),\ U(w_1)=u_2,\ U(w_2)=u_2$ is applied for finding the functional solutions of the system of partial differential equations \begin{equation} \nabla\cdot(a(u,w)\nabla u)=0,\…

The aim of this paper is to show that, for a class of non-cooperative elliptic systems on compact symmetric spaces, any continuum of nontrivial solutions bifurcating from the set of trivial solutions is unbounded. The main tool is the…

We study existence, multiplicity and qualitative properties of entire solutions for a noncompact problem related to p-biharmonic type equations with weights. More precisely, we deal with the following family of equations $$ \Delta_{p}^2 u =…

We study a weakly coupled supercritical elliptic system of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = |x_2|^\gamma \left(\mu_{1}|u|^{p-2}u+\lambda\alpha |u|^{\alpha-2}|v|^{\beta}u \right) & \text{in }\Omega,\\ -\Delta v =…

We prove the existence of entire solutions with exponential growth for the semilinear elliptic system [\begin{cases} -\Delta u = -u v^2 & \text{in $\R^N$} -\Delta v= -u^2 v & \text{in $\R^N$} u,v>0, \end{cases}] for every $N \ge 2$. Our…

We consider a potential $W:R^m\rightarrow R$ with two different global minima $a_-, a_+$ and, under a symmetry assumption, we use a variational approach to show that the Hamiltonian system \begin{equation} \ddot{u}=W_u(u), \hskip 2cm (1)…

We will present some rigidity results for solutions to semilinear elliptic equations of the form $\Deltau = W'(u)$, where W is a quite general potential with a local minimum and a local maximum. We are particularly interested in…

We prove a theorem for the growth of the energy of bounded, globally minimizing solutions to a class of semilinear elliptic systems of the form $\Delta u=\nabla W(u)$, $x\in \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, with $W:\mathbb{R}^m\to \mathbb{R}$,…

We investigate the Allen-Cahn system \begin{equation*} \Delta u-W_u(u)=0,\quad u:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^2, \end{equation*} where $W\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^2,[0,+\infty))$ is a potential with three global minima. We establish the…

We consider the second order semilinear elliptic system $\Delta u= p\left( x\right) v^\alpha,$ $\Delta v= q\left(x\right) u^\beta,$ where $x \in \mathbf{R}^N,$ $N \geq 3,$ $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are positive constants, $p$ and $q$ are…