Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

The effect of the domain topology on the number of positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic problems.

Federico Stra (Politecnico di Torino, DISMA)

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18 nov 2015 -- 15:30   [open in google calendar]

sala seminari, dipartimento di matematica di Pisa

Abstract.

In this seminar I present an article by Benci and Cerami (1991) in which they show that the Dirichlet problem of the Laplacian with a power source term admits at least as many positive solutions as the Lusternik-Schnirelman category of the domain.