Abstract

This paper is concerned with the existence of nontrivial solutions to a class of transmission problems with critical growth in a bounded domain on RN\mathbb{R}^N. Our approach is based on variational methods.

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Giovany M. Figueiredo

Universidade Federal do Pará, Faculdade de Matemática, CEP 66075-110 Belém PA, Brasil

giovany@ufpa.br

Marcelo Montenegro

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IMECC, Departamento de Matemática, Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda 651, CEP 13083-859 Campinas SP, Brasil

msm@ime.unicamp.br

Keywords

  • Semilinear elliptic equation
  • nonlinear transmission condition
  • critical growth

Mathematics Subject Classification

45M20, 35J65, 35J20, 35Q60, 78A50

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Suggested citation

G. M. Figueiredo, M. Montenegro. “On a Nonlinear Elliptic Transmission Problem with Critical Growth.” Journal of Convex Analysis 20 (2013), No. 4, 947–954. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca20051

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