Existence and multiplicity results for elliptic problems with critical growth and discontinuous nonlinearities

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 639-677

  Badiale, Marino ^a   Tarantello, Gabriella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical Sobolev exponent; Discontinuous nonlinearities; Generalized gradients; Semilinear elliptic equations; Sub and super solutions; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING; TOPOLOGY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CRITICAL SOBOLEV EXPONENT; DISCONTINUOUS NONLINEARITIES; GENERALIZED GRADIENTS; HEAVISIDE FUNCTION; SEMILINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031237824     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(96)00071-5     Document Type: Article

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