Partial Differential Equations
A strongly degenerate elliptic equation arising from the semilinear Maxwell equations
[Une équation elliptique fortement dégénérée provenant des équations de Maxwell semilinéaires.]
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 339 (2004) no. 12, pp. 839-842.

On étudie une équation nonlinéaire provenant d'une perturbation semilinéaire des équations de Maxwell. La présence du rotationnel rend l'équation fortement dégénérée. On propose une nouvelle approche liée à la décomposition de Hodge du potentiel vecteur A.

We study a nonlinear equation arising from a semilinear perturbation of the Maxwell equations. The presence of the curl operator makes this equation strongly degenerate. A new variational approach, related to the Hodge decomposition of the vector potential A, is developed.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crma.2004.07.029
Benci, Vieri 1 ; Fortunato, Donato 2

1 Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata ‘U. Dini’, Università degli Studi di Pisa Università di Pisa, via Bonanno, 25/b, 56126 Pisa, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
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Benci, Vieri; Fortunato, Donato. A strongly degenerate elliptic equation arising from the semilinear Maxwell equations. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 339 (2004) no. 12, pp. 839-842. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2004.07.029. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2004.07.029/

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