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The purpose of this paper is to study weak solutions of a nonlinear Neumann problem considered on a ball. Assuming that the potential is invariant, we consider an orbit of critical points, i.e. we do not assume that critical points are…
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We study the global structure of the set of radial solutions of a nonlinear Dirichlet problem involving the p-Laplacian with p>2, in the unit ball of $R^N$, $N \ges 1$. We show that all non-trivial radial solutions lie on smooth curves of…
This paper presents local and global bifurcation results for radially symmetric solutions of the cubic Helmholtz system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u - \mu u = \left( u^2 + b \: v^2 \right) u &\text{ on } \mathbb{R}^3, \\…
We study a nonlinear and nonlocal elliptic equation posed on the flat torus. While constant solutions always exist, we show that uniqueness fails in general. Using spectral analysis and the Crandall--Rabinowitz bifurcation theorem, we prove…
We consider the Gelfand problem with general supercritical nonlinearities in the two-dimensional unit ball. In this paper, we prove the non-existence of an unstable solution for any positive small parameter $\lambda$. The result implies…
We study the critical Neumann problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = |u|^{2^*-2}u &\text{in }\Sigma_\omega,\\ \quad\frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu}=0 &\text{on }\partial\Sigma_\omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} in the unbounded…
We study a semilinear elliptic problem with a singular nonlinear term of the type $g(u)=-u^{-1}$, using a variational approach. Note that the minus sign is important since the corresponding term in the Euler-Lagrange functional is concave.…
We study stationary hollow vortices with surface tension in two dimensions. Such objects solve an overdetermined elliptic free boundary problem in an exterior domain, with an additional boundary condition involving mean curvature and the…
We use a bifurcation theory due to Crandall and Rabinowitz to show the existence of a symmetry breaking bifurcation of a specific one parameter family of axially symmetric disc type solutions of a membrane equation with fixed boundary. In…
We study the problem $-\Delta u=\lambda u-u^{-1}$ with a Neumann boundary condition; the peculiarity being the presence of the singular term $-u^{-1}$. We point out that the minus sign in front of the negative power of $u$ is particularly…
We study the existence of sign-changing solutions with multiple bubbles to the slightly subcritical problem $$-\Delta u=|u|^{2^*-2-\e}u \hbox{in}\Omega, \quad u=0 \hbox{on}\partial \Omega,$$ where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in…
We study isoperimetric problems modeled on the liquid drop model, with nonlocal interactions under a volume constraint. While balls are natural critical points, we show that, for an unbounded sequence of radii, non-spherical solutions…
We prove the existence of nonradial solutions for the H\'enon equation in the ball with any given number of nodal zones, for arbitrary values of the exponent $\alpha$. For sign-changing solutions, the case $\alpha=0$ -- Lane-Emden equation…
We consider the system -\Delta u_j + a(x)u_j = \mu_j u_j^3 + \be\sum_{k\ne j}u_k^2u_j, u_j>0, \qquad j=1,...,n, on a possibly unbounded domain $\Om\subset\R^N$, $N\le3$, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The system appears in nonlinear…
We investigate the emergence of finite-amplitude non-zonal flows on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ arising from stationary solutions to the 2D Euler equations. By restricting the Laplace-Beltrami eigenspace to the invariant subspace of the…
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We study the nonlocal Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation on the one-dimensional torus, \[ u_t+u u_x=\Lambda^{r}u-\varepsilon \Lambda^{s}u,\qquad x\in\mathbb T, \] where $\varepsilon>0$, $s>1$, $r\in[-1,s)$. We first prove local and global…
Assuming $B_{R}$ is a ball in $\mathbb R^{N}$, we analyze the positive solutions of the problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u+u= |u|^{p-2}u, &\text{ in } B_{R},\newline \partial_{\nu}u=0,&\text{ on } \partial B_{R}, \end{cases} \] that branch…