Variational analysis for a nonlinear elliptic problem on the Sierpiński gasket

Bonanno, Gabriele; Molica Bisci, Giovanni; Rădulescu, Vicenţiu

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 18 (2012) no. 4, pp. 941-953.

Under an appropriate oscillating behaviour either at zero or at infinity of the nonlinear term, the existence of a sequence of weak solutions for an eigenvalue Dirichlet problem on the Sierpiński gasket is proved. Our approach is based on variational methods and on some analytic and geometrical properties of the Sierpiński fractal. The abstract results are illustrated by explicit examples.

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