Existence of entire explosive positive radial solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic systems

We show the existence of entire explosive positive radial solutions for quasilinear elliptic systems div(|∇u|^m−2∇u)=p(|x|)g(v), div(|∇v|ⁿ⁻²∇v)=q(|x|)f(u) on , where f and g are positive and non-decreasing functions on (0,∞) satisfying the Keller-Osserman condition.     

A remark on the existence of entire positive solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic systems

Under the simple conditions on f and g, we show that entire positive radial solutions exist for the semilinear elliptic system Δu=p(|x|)f(v), Δv=q(|x|)g(u), x∈RN, N?3, where the functions are continuous.     

Large solutions to non-monotone semilinear elliptic systems

We present the existence of entire large positive radial solutions for the non-monotonic system Δu=p(|x|)g(v), Δv=q(|x|)f(u) on Rn where n?3. The functions f and g satisfy a Keller-Osserman type condition while nonnegative functions p and q are required to satisfy the decay conditions and . Further, p and q are such that min(p,q) does not have compact support.     

Uniqueness of positive solutions for a class of elliptic systems

In this article, we consider uniqueness of positive radial solutions to the elliptic system Δu+a(|x|)f(u,v)=0, Δv+b(|x|)g(u,v)=0, subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition on the open unit ball in RN (N?2). Our uniqueness results applies to, for instance, f(u,v)=uqvp, g(u,v)=upvq, p,q>0, p+q<1 or more general cases.     

Existence and Nonexistence of Entire Positive Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Systems

We show that entire positive solutions exist for the semilinear elliptic system Δu = p(x)v^α, Δv = q(x)u^β on R^N, N ≥ 3, for positive α and β, provided that the nonnegative functions p and q are continuous and satisfy appropriate decay conditions at infinity. We also show that entire solutions fail to exist if the functions p and q are of slow decay.     

Positive evanescent solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations

In this note we investigate the existence of positive solutions vanishing at +∞ to the elliptic equation Δu+f(x,u)+g(|x|)x⋅∇u=0, |x|>A>0, in Rn (n?3) under mild restrictions on the functions f, g.     

A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of large solutions to sublinear elliptic systems

We prove that the elliptic system Δu=p(|x|)vα, Δv=q(|x|)uβ on Rn (n?3) where 0<α?1, 0<β?1, and p and q are nonnegative continuous functions has a nonnegative entire radial solution satisfying lim|x|→∞u(x)=lim|x|→∞v(x)=∞ if and only if the functions p and q satisfy

     

Large solutions of coupled sublinear/superlinear elliptic equations

We show that large positive solutions exist for the semilinear elliptic equation Δu = p(x)u ^α + q(x)v ^β on bounded domains in R ⁿ , n ≥ 3, for the superlinear case 0 < α ≤ β, β > 1, but not the sublinear case 0 < α ≤ β ≤ 1. We also show that entire large positive solutions exist for both the superlinear and sublinear cases provided the nonnegative continuous functions p and q satisfy certain decay conditions at infinity. Existence and nonexistence of entire bounded solutions are established as well.     

Entire large solutions to semilinear elliptic systems

We consider the problem of existence of positive solutions to the elliptic system Δu=p(|x|)vα, Δv=q(|x|)uβ on Rn (n?3) which satisfies . The parameters α and β are positive, and the nonnegative functions p and q are continuous and min{p(r),q(r)} does not have compact support. We show that if αβ?1, then such a solution exists if and only if the functions p and q satisfy

     

Existence of positive bounded solutions for some nonlinear elliptic systems

We prove some existence results of positive bounded continuous solutions to the semilinear elliptic system Δu=λp(x)g(v), Δv=μq(x)f(u) in domains D with compact boundary subject to some Dirichlet conditions, where λ and μ are nonnegative parameters. The functions f,g are nonnegative continuous monotone on (0,∞) and the potentials p, q are nonnegative and satisfy some hypotheses related to the Kato class K(D).     

Keller-Osserman type conditions for differential inequalities with gradient terms on the Heisenberg group

We study the qualitative behavior of non-negative entire solutions of differential inequalities with gradient terms on the Heisenberg group. We focus on two classes of inequalities: Δφu?f(u)l(|∇u|) and Δφu?f(u)−h(u)g(|∇u|), where f, l, h, g are non-negative continuous functions satisfying certain monotonicity properties. The operator Δφ, called the φ-Laplacian, generalizes the p-Laplace operator considered by various authors in this setting. We prove some Liouville theorems introducing two new Keller-Osserman type conditions, both extending the classical one which appeared long ago in the study of the prototype differential inequality Δu?f(u) in Rm. We show sharpness of our conditions when we specialize to the p-Laplacian. While proving these results we obtain a strong maximum principle for Δφ which, to the best of our knowledge, seems to be new. Our results continue to hold, with the obvious minor modifications, also for Euclidean space.     

A note on positive evanescent solutions for a certain class of elliptic problems

This paper is devoted to the existence and properties of solutions of the following class of nonlinear elliptic differential equations Δu(x)+f(x,u(x))+g(‖x‖)x⋅∇u(x)=0, x∈Rn, ‖x‖>R. We prove existence of positive solutions vanishing at positive infinity. Our approach is based on the subsolution and supersolution method. The nonlinearity f covers both sublinear and superlinear cases and does not necessarily satisfy f(x,0)≡0. The asymptotic behavior of solutions is also described.     

Keller-Osserman conditions for diffusion-type operators on Riemannian manifolds

In this paper we obtain essentially sharp generalized Keller-Osserman conditions for wide classes of differential inequalities of the form Lu?b(x)f(u)?(|∇u|) and Lu?b(x)f(u)?(|∇u|)−g(u)h(|∇u|) on weighted Riemannian manifolds, where L is a non-linear diffusion-type operator. Prototypical examples of these operators are the p-Laplacian and the mean curvature operator. The geometry of the underlying manifold is reflected, via bounds for the modified Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature, by growth conditions for the functions b and ?. A weak maximum principle which extends and improves previous results valid for the φ-Laplacian is also obtained. Geometric comparison results, valid even in the case of integral bounds for the modified Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor, are presented.     

Entire solutions blowing up at infinity for semilinear elliptic systems

We consider the system Δu=p(x)g(v), Δv=q(x)f(u) in $\text{R}{}^{\mathrm{N}}$, where f,g are positive and non-decreasing functions on (0,∞) satisfying the Keller–Osserman condition and we establish the existence of positive solutions that blow-up at infinity.     

Ground state solutions for the singular Lane-Emden-Fowler equation with sublinear convection term

We are concerned with singular elliptic equations of the form −Δu=p(x)(g(u)+f(u)+a|∇u|) in RN (N?3), where p is a positive weight and 0<a<1. Under the hypothesis that f is a nondecreasing function with sublinear growth and g is decreasing and unbounded around the origin, we establish the existence of a ground state solution vanishing at infinity. Our arguments rely essentially on the maximum principle.     

On the multiplicity of radial solutions to superlinear Dirichlet problems in bounded domains

In this paper we are concerned with the existence and multiplicity of nodal solutions to the Dirichlet problem associated to the elliptic equation Δu+q(|x|)g(u)=0 in a ball or in an annulus in .The nonlinearity g has a superlinear and subcritical growth at infinity, while the weight function q is nonnegative in [0,1] and strictly positive in some interval [r₁,r₂]⊂[0,1].By means of a shooting approach, together with a phase-plane analysis, we are able to prove the existence of infinitely many solutions with prescribed nodal properties.     

Entire solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations

We study entire solutions of non-homogeneous quasilinear elliptic equations, with Eqs. (1) and (2) below being typical. A particular special case of interest is the following: Let u be an entire distribution solution of the equation Δpu=|u|^q−1u, where p>1. If q>p−1 then u≡0. On the other hand, if 0<q<p−1 and u(x)=o(|x|^{p/(p−q−1)}) as |x|→∞, then again u≡0. If q=p−1 then u≡0 for all solutions with at most algebraic growth at infinity.     

Periodic solutions for wave equations with variable coefficients with nonlinear localized damping

We discuss the existence of periodic solutions to the wave equation with variable coefficients utt−div(A(x)∇u)+ρ(x,ut)=f(x,t) with Dirichlet boundary condition. Here ρ(x,v) is a function like ρ(x,v)=a(x)g(v) with g^′(v)?0 where a(x) is nonnegative, being positive only in a neighborhood of a part of the domain.     

Boundary blow-up elliptic problems with nonlinear gradient terms

By Karamata regular variation theory and perturbation method, we show the exact asymptotical behaviour of solutions near the boundary to nonlinear elliptic problems Δu±q|∇u|=b(x)g(u), u>0 in Ω, u_|∂Ω=+∞, where Ω is a bounded domain with smooth boundary in RN, q?0, g∈C¹[0,∞),g(0)=0, g^′ is regularly varying at infinity with index ρ with ρ>0 and b is nonnegative nontrivial in Ω, which may be vanishing on the boundary.     

On a class of sublinear singular elliptic problems with convection term

We establish several results related to existence, nonexistence or bifurcation of positive solutions for the boundary value problem −Δu+K(x)g(u)+a|∇u|=λf(x,u) in Ω, u=0 on ∂Ω, where Ω⊂RN(N?2) is a smooth bounded domain, 0<a?2, λ is a positive parameter, and f is smooth and has a sublinear growth. The main feature of this paper consists in the presence of the singular nonlinearity g combined with the convection term a|∇u|. Our approach takes into account both the sign of the potential K and the decay rate around the origin of the singular nonlinearity g. The proofs are based on various techniques related to the maximum principle for elliptic equations.