We study a semilinear elliptic equation of the form $$ - \Delta u + u = f(x,u), u \in H_0^1 (\Omega ),$$ where$f$is continuous, odd in$u$and satisfies some (subcritical) growth conditions. The domain Ω⊂R^{N}is supposed to be an unbounded domain ($N$≥3). We introduce a class of domains, called strongly asymptotically contractive, and show that for such domains Ω, the equation has infinitely many solutions.

The continuity of weak solutions of elliptic partial differential equations $$div \mathcal{A}(x,\nabla u) = 0$$ is considered under minimal structure assumptions. The main result guarantees the continuity at the point$x$_{0}for weakly monotone weak solutions if the structure of$A$is controlled in a sequence of annuli $$B(x_0 ,R_j )\backslash \bar B(x_0 ,r_j )$$ with uniformly bounded ratio$R$_{$j$}$/r$_{$j$}such that lim_{$j→∞$}$R$_{$j$}=0. As a consequence, we obtain a sufficient condition for the continuity of mappings of finite distortion.

We present a homogeneous real analytic hypersurface in C^{3}, two-nondegenerate, uniformly Levi degenerate of rank one, with a seven-dimensional CR automorphism group such that the isotropy group of each point is two-dimensional and commutative. The classical tube Γ_{C}over the two-dimensional real cone in R^{3}is also homogeneous and has a seven-dimensional CR automorphism group. However, our example is$not$biholomorphic to the tube over the real cone, because the two-dimensional isotropy groups of Γ_{C}are, in contrast, noncommutative.

This paper gives a partial answer to a problem raised by Griffiths in [4], which is a kind of converse of Abel’s theorem.

It is shown that if a function$u$satisfies a backward parabolic inequality in an open set Ω∉$R$^{$n$+1}and vanishes to infinite order at a point ($x$_{0}·$t$_{0}) in Ω, then$u(x, t$_{0})=0 for all$x$in the connected component of$x$_{0}in Ω⌢($R$^{$n$}×{$t$_{0}}).