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On some Bernoulli free boundary type problems for general elliptic operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

J. I. Díaz
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza de Ciencias 3, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain (ildefonso.diaz@mat.ucm.es)
J. F. Padial
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, ETSA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avenida Juan de Herrera 4, 28040 Madrid, Spain
J. M. Rakotoson
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques, SP2MI, Université de Poitiers, Boulevard Marie et Pierre Curie, Téléport 2, BP30179, 86962 Futuroscope Chasseneuil Cedex, France

Abstract

We consider some Bernoulli free boundary type problems for a general class of quasilinear elliptic (pseudomonotone) operators involving measures depending on unknown solutions. We treat those problems by applying the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz minimax theorem to a sequence of approximate nonsingular problems and passing to the limit by some a priori estimates. We show, by means of some capacity results, that sometimes the measures are regular. Finally, we give some qualitative properties of the solutions and, for a special case, we construct a continuum of solutions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2007 Royal Society of Edinburgh

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