Special Session 33: Variational, Topological and Set-Valued Methods for Nonlinear Differential Problems

Symmetry breaking for elliptic equations with exponential nonlinearities
Francesca Colasuonno
Universita degli Studi di Torino
Italy
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Abstract:
Radially symmetric semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problems with exponential nonlinearities are considered in possibly unbounded domains of $\mathbb R^N$. For this class of problems, we prove the existence of a positive symmetry-breaking solution by using techniques in the spirit of Szulkin`s nonsmooth critical point theory, applied within invariant convex cones.