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In the present paper, we study the effect of an elliptic operator in divergence form L defined in a bounded open set on the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions of the associated nonlocal Brezis-Nirenberg problem involving…
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The existence of an unbounded sequence of solutions to a conformally invariant elliptic equation having nonlocal critical-power nonlinearity is established. The primary obstacle to establishing existence of solutions is the failure of…
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In this paper, we investigate the existence of positive weak solutions to a nonlocal singular elliptic problem under Dirichlet boundary condition. Problem is settled in fractional Musielak-Sobolev spaces with variable order. The main tool…
We study Brezis-Nirenberg type problems, governed by the double phase operator $- \mathrm{div}\left(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\, \nabla u + a(x)\, |\nabla u|^{q-2}\, \nabla u\right)$, that involve a critical nonlinearity of the form $|u|^{p^\ast -…
We consider two classes of nonlinear eigenvalue problems with double-phase energy and lack of compactness. We establish existence and non-existence results and related properties of solutions. Our analysis combines variational methods with…
A bivariate spline method is developed to numerically solve second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDE) in non-divergence form. The existence, uniqueness, stability as well as approximation properties of the discretized…
Selfdual variational calculus is further refined and used to address questions of existence of local and global solutions for various parabolic semi-linear equations, Hamiltonian systems of PDEs, as well as certain nonlinear Schrodinger…
We consider the following nonlinear singular elliptic equation $$-{div} (|x|^{-2a}\nabla u)=K(x)|x|^{-bp}|u|^{p-2}u+\la g(x) \quad{in} \RR^N,$$ where $g$ belongs to an appropriate weighted Sobolev space, and $p$ denotes the…
This paper is devoted to establishing some results on the density and multiplicity of solutions to the fractional Nirenberg problem which is equivalent to studying the conformally invariant equation $P_\sigma(v)=K…
This paper revisits a well-studied anti-plane shear deformation problem formulated by Knowles in 1976 and analytical solutions in general nonlinear elasticity proposed by Gao since 1998. Based on minimum potential principle, a…
This paper considers a pair of coupled nonlinear Helmholtz equations \begin{align*} -\Delta u - \mu u = a(x) \left( |u|^\frac{p}{2} + b(x) |v|^\frac{p}{2} \right)|u|^{\frac{p}{2} - 2}u, \end{align*} \begin{align*} -\Delta v - \nu v = a(x)…
Starting from a Pfaffian equation in dimension $N$ and focusing on compact solutions for it, we place in perspective the variational method used in [29] to solve Hilbert's 16th problem. In addition to exploring how this viewpoint can help…
We consider the problem of approximating the solution of variational problems subject to the constraint that the admissible functions must be convex. This problem is at the interface between convex analysis, convex optimization, variational…