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We propose and analyze a mathematical model of the mechanics of gels, consisting of the laws of balance of mass and linear momentum. We consider a gel to be an immiscible and incompressible mixture of a nonlinearly elastic polymer and a…
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We prove the existence of ground state solution to the following problem. \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^{s}u+u&=\lambda|u|^{-\gamma-1}u+P(x)|u|^{p-1}u,~\text{in}~\mathbb{R}^N\setminus\Omega\\ N_su(x)&=0,~\text{in}~\Omega \end{align*} where…
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In this paper, we study a new class of fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations with a so-called harmonic map-like structure, whose model case is given by \begin{equation*} \mathcal{M}^{\pm}_{\lambda,\Lambda}(D^2u) \pm b(x) |Du| \pm…
Given a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$, we study the following anisotropic elliptic problem $$ \begin{cases} -\nabla\big(a(x)\nabla \upsilon\big)= a(x)\big[e^{\upsilon}-s\phi_1-4\pi\alpha\delta_q-h(x)\big]\,\,\,\,…
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