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    Variational properties of the first curve of the Fučík spectrum for elliptic operators

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    In this paper we present a new variational characteriztion of the first nontrival curve of the Fucik spectrum for elliptic operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Moreover, we describe the asymptotic behaviour and some properties of this curve and of the corresponding eigenfunctions. In particular, this new characterization allows us to compare the first curve of the Fucik spectrum with the infinitely many curves we obtained in previous works; for example, we show that these curves are all asymptotic to the same lines as the first curve, but they are all distinct from such a curve

    Infinitely many solutions for elliptic equations with non-symmetric nonlinearities

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    We deal with the existence of infinitely many solutions for a class of elliptic problems with non-symmetric nonlinearities. Our result, which is motivated by a well known conjecture formulated by A. Bahri and P.L. Lions, suggests a new approach to tackle these problems. The proof is based on a method which does not require to use techniques of deformation from the symmetry and may be applied to more general non-symmetric problems

    Nonexistence of solutions for elliptic equations with supercritical nonlinearity in nearly nontrivial domains

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    We deal with nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet problems of the form div(Dup2Du)+f(u)=0quadmboxinOmega,qquadu=0mboxonpartialOmega div(|D u|^{p-2}D u )+f(u)=0quadmbox{ in }Omega,qquad u=0 mbox{ on }partialOmega where OmegaOmega is a bounded domain in RnR^n, nge2nge 2, p> 1 and ff has supercritical growth from the viewpoint of Sobolev embedding. o Our aim is to show that there exist bounded contractible non star-shaped domains OmegaOmega, arbitrarily close to domains with nontrivial topology, such that the problem does not have nontrivial solutions. For example, we prove that if n=2n=2, 1<2, f(u)=uq2uf(u)=|u|^{q-2}u with q>{2pover 2-p} and Omega={( hocos heta, hosin heta) : | heta|{2pover 2-p} there exists ar s>0 such that the problem has only the trivial solution uequiv0uequiv 0 for all alphain(0,pi)alphain (0,pi) and sin(0,ars)sin (0,ar s)

    Uniqueness of solutions for nonlinear dirichlet problems with supercritical growth

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    We are concerned with Dirichlet problems of the form div(|Du|p-2Du)+f (u)=0 in Ω, u=0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded domain of Rn, n≥2, 10 small enough, Ωε,s={(x1, x2) ∈ R2: Dist ((x1, x2), Γ) I2 and Ω is, for example, a domain of the type Ω=Ωε,s ={(x1,x2,y):(x1,x2)∈ΩΓε, y∈Rn-2, |y
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