Let Ωo and Ωi be open bounded subsets of Rn of
class C1,α such that the closure of Ωi is contained in
Ωo. Let fo be a function in C1,α(∂Ωo) and let
F and G be continuous functions from ∂Ωi×R to
R. By exploiting an argument based on potential theory and on the
Leray-Schauder principle we show that under suitable and completely explicit
conditions on F and G there exists at least one pair of continuous
functions (uo,ui) such that ⎩⎨⎧Δuo=0Δui=0uo(x)=fo(x)uo(x)=F(x,ui(x))νΩi⋅∇uo(x)−νΩi⋅∇ui(x)=G(x,ui(x))in Ωo∖clΩi,in Ωi,for all x∈∂Ωo,for all x∈∂Ωi,for all x∈∂Ωi, where the last equality is attained in certain weak sense. In a simple
example we show that such a pair of functions (uo,ui) is in general
neither unique nor local unique. If instead the fourth condition of the problem
is obtained by a small nonlinear perturbation of a homogeneous linear
condition, then we can prove the existence of at least one classical solution
which is in addition locally unique