Objectives
- Rigorous definition of polyharmonic operators with variable exponent and use of combined methods (minimization, variational principles) for the study of spectral properties.
- Study of mountain pass geometry properties of the energy functional, PokhozaevPucciSerrin identities, nonexistence results.
- Lack of compactness for anisotropic problems with variable exponent and formulation of related concentrationcompactness principles.
- Development of the abstract framework, gap phenomena, role of anisotropic exponents in the appearance of new properties.
- Qualitative properties of solutions, case of general nonlocal operators, application of combined methods in the mathematical analysis of solutions.
- Application of variational and topological methods in the analysis of nonlocal problems; differences with respect to the local setting.
- Study of noncompact bifurcation problems in the nonlocal framework: combined methods and new phenomena.
- Abstract setting and additional technical difficulties with respect to the isotropic case; application of the critical point theory and topological methods.
- Variational and topological methods in the study of singular solutions, Karamata theory for the study of their asymptotic behaviour.
- Properties of the new operator on fractals, variational methods in the study of singular phenomena and new properties.