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    Functional Inequalities: New Perspectives and New Applications

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    This book is not meant to be another compendium of select inequalities, nor does it claim to contain the latest or the slickest ways of proving them. This project is rather an attempt at describing how most functional inequalities are not merely the byproduct of ingenious guess work by a few wizards among us, but are often manifestations of certain natural mathematical structures and physical phenomena. Our main goal here is to show how this point of view leads to "systematic" approaches for not just proving the most basic functional inequalities, but also for understanding and improving them, and for devising new ones - sometimes at will, and often on demand.Comment: 17 pages; contact Nassif Ghoussoub (nassif @ math.ubc.ca) for a pre-publication pdf cop

    Large solutions of elliptic systems of second order and applications to the biharmonic equation

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    In this work we study the nonnegative solutions of the elliptic system \Delta u=|x|^{a}v^{\delta}, \Delta v=|x|^{b}u^{\mu} in the superlinear case \mu \delta>1, which blow up near the boundary of a domain of R^{N}, or at one isolated point. In the radial case we give the precise behavior of the large solutions near the boundary in any dimension N. We also show the existence of infinitely many solutions blowing up at 0. Furthermore, we show that there exists a global positive solution in R^{N}\{0}, large at 0, and we describe its behavior. We apply the results to the sign changing solutions of the biharmonic equation \Delta^2 u=|x|^{b}|u|^{\mu}. Our results are based on a new dynamical approach of the radial system by means of a quadratic system of order 4, combined with nonradial upper estimates

    On a diffusion model with absorption and production

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    We discuss the structure of radial solutions of some superlinear elliptic equations which model diffusion phenomena when both absorption and production are present. We focus our attention on solutions defined in R (regular) or in R \ {0} (singular) which are infinitesimal at infinity, discussing also their asymptotic behavior. The phenomena we find are present only if absorption and production coexist, i.e., if the reaction term changes sign. Our results are then generalized to include the case where Hardy potentials are considered

    Multiple positive solutions to elliptic boundary blow-up problems

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    We prove the existence of multiple positive radial solutions to the sign-indefinite elliptic boundary blow-up problem {Δu+(a+(x)μa(x))g(u)=0,  x<1,u(x),  x1, \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \Delta u + \bigl(a^+(\vert x \vert) - \mu a^-(\vert x \vert)\bigr) g(u) = 0, & \; \vert x \vert < 1, \\ u(x) \to \infty, & \; \vert x \vert \to 1, \end{array} \right. where gg is a function superlinear at zero and at infinity, a+a^+ and aa^- are the positive/negative part, respectively, of a sign-changing function aa and μ>0\mu > 0 is a large parameter. In particular, we show how the number of solutions is affected by the nodal behavior of the weight function aa. The proof is based on a careful shooting-type argument for the equivalent singular ODE problem. As a further application of this technique, the existence of multiple positive radial homoclinic solutions to Δu+(a+(x)μa(x))g(u)=0,xRN, \Delta u + \bigl(a^+(\vert x \vert) - \mu a^-(\vert x \vert)\bigr) g(u) = 0, \qquad x \in \mathbb{R}^N, is also considered
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