Some nonlinear elliptic problems in unbounded domains (Q879759)

The author describes the main ideas and summarizes the results concerning the existence of solutions for nonlinear elliptic problems of the form \(-\Delta u+a(x)u=|u|^{p-2}u\), \(u\in H_0^1(\Omega)\), in an unbounded domain \(\Omega\subseteq \mathbb R^N\) (\(N\geq 3\)). Different techniques in obtaining the existence of solutions for such problem are presented and compared. In the paper we find: symmetric and nonsymmetric problem solvable by minimization, other problems not solvable by minimization methods, the existence of infinitely many solutions.