Continuous approximations of discontinuous nonlinearities of semilinear elliptic-type equations

Abstract

We obtain new variational principles of the existence of strong and semiregular solutions of principal boundary-value problems for elliptic-type second-order equations with discontinuous nonlinearity. We study a problem of proximity between the sets of solutions of an approximating problem with nonlinearity continuous in phase variable and solutions of the initial boundary-value problem with discontinuous nonlinearity.