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and a suitable nonlinearity f. The function a vanishes on smooth 1-codimensional submanifolds of Ω where it is not allowed to be . By using weighted Sobolev spaces we are still able to find existence of solutions which vanish, in the trace sense, on the set where a vanishes.
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