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Elliptic problems in ℝN with discontinuous nonlinearities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Gabriele Bonanno
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Matematica, Elettronica e Trasporti, Università di Reggio Calabria, Feo di Vito, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy ([email protected])
Salvatore A. Marano
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Patrimonio Architettonico e Urbanistico, Università di Reggio Calabria, Salita Melissari—Feo di Vito, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy ([email protected])
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For a class of elliptic equations in the entire space and with nonlinear terms having a possibly uncountable (but of Lebesgue measure zero) set of discontinuities, the existence of strong solutions is established. Two simple applications are then developed. The approach taken is strictly based on set-valued analysis and fixed-points arguments.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2000

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