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Semilinear elliptic equations in unbounded domains of Rn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Patrizia Donato
Affiliation:
Istituto di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Salerno
Lucia Migliaccio
Affiliation:
Istituto di Matematica, Universita di Napoli, Italy
Rosanna Schianchi
Affiliation:
Istituto di Matematica, Universita di Napoli, Italy

Synopsis

We study, in unbounded domains Ω⊂Rn, an elliptic semilinear problem with homogeneous boundary conditions. We assume that the nonlinear term f(x, u, Du) satisfies some condition of quadratic growth with respect to Du. We prove, in the framework of weighted Sobolev spaces, that, if and are respectively a subsolution and a supersolution of our problem, then there exists a least solution ū and a greatest solution û in the ordered interval and we obtain some multiplicity results.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1981

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