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POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR A NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC PROBLEM WITH STRONG LACK OF COMPACTNESS
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata Via della Ricerca Scientifica n. 1, 00133 Roma, Italy molle{at}mat.uniroma2.it
Received 28 April 2005.
This paper deals with the lack of compactness in the nonlinear elliptic problem
u + u = |u|p2u in
, u > 0 in
, u = 0 on 
, when
is un unbounded domain in
n and 2 < p < 2n/(n2).
In particular, a domain
is provided where non-converging PalaisSmale sequences exist at every energy level. Nevertheless, it is proved that the problem has infinitely many solutions on
.