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TOPOLOGICAL METHODS IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (MS-13)

applied in the definition of the variational functional and minimizers are shown to satisfy De
Giorgi type conditions.

Multiplicity of finite energy solutions for singular elliptic equations

Aleksandra Orpel, aleksandra.orpel@wmii.uni.lodz.pl
University of Łódz´, Poland

Our main goal is to investigate the following class of nonlinear elliptic equations with sub-
quadratic growth with respect to the gradient

div(a(||x||)∇u(x)) + h(x, u(x), ∇u(x)) = 0 in ΩR

where ΩR = {x ∈ Rn, ||x|| > R}, n > 2 and h(x, u, z) = f (x, u) − b(x, u)||z||β + g(x)x · z
with β ∈ (0, 2 . We consider the case when b may be singular at zero and describe conditions
guaranteeing the existence of a large number of positive solutions such that for a certain A > 0,
u(x) ≤ A||x||2−n in ΩR1, where R1 is sufficiently large. The rate of decay of ∇u is also
discussed. We present the approach based on the subsolution and supersolution method for
bounded subdomains and a certain convergence procedure. These results cover both sublinear
and superlinear f .
References

[1] S.Cui, Existence and nonexitence of positive solutions of singular semilinear elliptic bound-
ary value problems, Nonlinear Analysis,41 (2000), 149-176.

[2] A. Orpel, Positive evanescent solutions of singular elliptic problems in exterior domains,
Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations No. 36 (2016), 1-12, doi:
10.14232/ejqtde.2016.1.36.

[3] A. Orpel, "Multiplicity of positive solutions for singular elliptic problems" , Mathematische
Nachrichten, accepted

Periodic solutions to a forced Kepler problem in the plane

Duccio Papini, duccio.papini@uniud.it
Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Coauthors: Alberto Boscaggin, Walter Dambrosio

We investigate the following forced Kepler problem in the plane:

x¨ = −x + ∇xU (t, x), x ∈ R2 \ {(0, 0)},
|x|3

where U (t, x) is T -periodic in the first variable and satisfies U (t, x) = O(|x|α) for some α ∈
(0, 2) as |x| → ∞. We look for a T -periodic solution which minimimizes the corresponding
action functional on a space of loops which are not null-homotopic in the punctured plane.

On one hand, we do not impose further symmetry conditions on the perturbation’s potential
U . On the other, the solution we find is generalised, according to the definition given in the

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