Critical exponent and discontinuous nonlinearities (Q1308524)
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Critical exponent and discontinuous nonlinearities (English)
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3 October 1995
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We prove existence of a positive solution to the problem \[ -\Delta u=| u|^{2^*- 2} u+bh (u-a), \quad u(x)>0 \;\;\text{in }\Omega, \quad u(x)=0\;\;\text{on } \partial\Omega, \tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded regular open set \(\subset \mathbb{R}^ N\), \(2^*= {{2N} \over {n-2}}\) is the critical Sobolev exponent, \(h\) is the Heaviside function and \(a\), \(b\) are strictly positive parameters. The nonlinearity in (1) has critical power-like behavior and a discontinuity jump of length \(b\) in the point \(u=a\). So in problem (1) there are two difficulties to be overcome: the presence of a discontinuity and the lack of compactness due to the critical exponent.
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discontinuous nonlinearities
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critical Sobolev exponent
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