Existence of solutions for degenerate quasilinear elliptic equations

This paper deals with a class of degenerate quasilinear elliptic equations of the form −div(a(x,u,∇u)=g−div(f), where a(x,u,∇u) is allowed to be degenerate with the unknown u. We prove existence of bounded solutions under some hypothesis on f and g. Moreover we prove that there exists a renormalized solution in the case where g∈L¹(Ω) and f∈(L^p′(Ω))^N.     

Existence and multiplicity results for quasilinear elliptic differential systems

We use a nonsmooth critical point theory to prove existence results for a variational system of quasilinear elliptic equations in both the sublinear and superlinear cases. We extend a technique of Bartsch to obtain multiplicity results when the system is invariant under the action of a compact Lie group. The problem is rather different from its scalar version, because a suitable condition on the coefficients of the system seems to be necessary in order to prove the convergence of the Palais-Smale sequences. Such condition is in some sense a restriction to the "distance" between the quasilinear operator and a semilinear one.     

Existence results for a singular quasilinear elliptic equation

Let \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N\) be a bounded domain with smooth boundary. Existence of a positive solution to the quasilinear equation

$$\begin{aligned} -\text {div}\left[ \left( a(x)+|u|^\theta \right) \nabla u\right] +\frac{\theta }{2}|u|^{\theta -2}u|\nabla u|^2=|u|^{p-2}u \quad \text {in}\ \Omega \end{aligned}$$

with zero Dirichlet boundary condition is proved. Here \(\theta >0\) and a(x) is a measurable function satisfying \(0<\alpha \le a(x)\le \beta \). The equation involves singularity when \(0<\theta \le 1\). As a main novelty with respect to corresponding results in the literature, we only assume \(\theta +2<p<\frac{2^*}{2}(\theta +2)\). The proof relies on a perturbation method and a critical point theory for E-differentiable functionals.

     

Bifurcation problems for a class of degenerate quasilinear elliptic equations

In this paper we consider the bifurcation problem -div A（x, u）=λa（x）｜u｜^p-2u＋f（x,u,λ） in Ω with p 〉 1.Under some proper assumptions on A（x,ξ）,a（x） and f（x,u,λ）,we show that the existence of an unbounded branch of positive solutions bifurcating Irom the principal eigenvalue of the problem --div A（x, u）=λa（x）｜u｜^p-2u.     

A class of quasilinear degenerate elliptic problems

We establish the existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations. The equations in this class satisfy a structure condition which provides ellipticity in the interior of the domain, and degeneracy only on the boundary. Equations of transonic gas dynamics, for example, satisfy this property in the region of subsonic flow and are degenerate across the sonic surface. We prove that the solution is smooth in the interior of the domain but may exhibit singular behavior at the degenerate boundary. The maximal rate of blow-up at the degenerate boundary is bounded by the “degree of degeneracy” in the principal coefficients of the quasilinear elliptic operator. Our methods and results apply to the problems recently studied by several authors which include the unsteady transonic small disturbance equation, the pressure-gradient equations of the compressible Euler equations, and the singular quasilinear anisotropic elliptic problems, and extend to the class of equations which satisfy the structure condition, such as the shallow water equation, compressible isentropic two-dimensional Euler equations, and general two-dimensional nonlinear wave equations. Our study provides a general framework to analyze degenerate elliptic problems arising in the self-similar reduction of a broad class of two-dimensional Cauchy problems.     

On positive solution for a class of degenerate quasilinear elliptic positone/semipositone systems

This paper deals with the existence and nonexistence of positive weak solutions of degenerate quasilinear elliptic systems with subcritical and critical exponents. The nonlinearities involved have semipositone and positone structures and the existence results are obtained by applying the lower and upper-solution method and variational techniques.     

Some existence results for a class of degenerate semilinear elliptic systems

Using a variational approach, we investigate a class of degenerate semilinear elliptic systems with measurable, unbounded nonnegative weights, where the domain is bounded or unbounded. Some existence results are obtained.     

Existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic systems with Hardy potential

In this paper, by using the Morse theory, we obtain the existence of nontrivial weak solutions of quasilinear elliptic systems with Hardy potential.     

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.     

Existence and uniqueness of local solutions to a class of quasilinear degenerate parabolic systems

In this paper, the authors study an initial and boundary value problem to a system of evolution p-Laplacian equations coupled with general nonlinear terms. The authors use the method of regularization to construct a sequence of approximation solutions with the help of monotone iteration technique and hence obtain the existence of solutions to a regularized system of equations. Then the existence of solutions to the system of evolution p-Laplacian equations is obtained with the use of a standard limiting process. The uniqueness of the solution is also proven.     

Existence of entire solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations

The paper deals with the existence of entire solutions for a quasilinear equation ${(\mathcal E)_\lambda}$ in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ , depending on a real parameter λ, which involves a general elliptic operator in divergence form A and two main nonlinearities. The competing nonlinear terms combine each other, being the first subcritical and the latter supercritical. We prove the existence of a critical value λ* > 0 with the property that ${(\mathcal E)_\lambda}$ admits nontrivial non-negative entire solutions if and only if λ ≥ λ*. Furthermore, when ${\lambda > \overline{\lambda} \ge \lambda^*}$ , the existence of a second independent nontrivial non-negative entire solution of ${(\mathcal{E})_\lambda}$ is proved under a further natural assumption on A.     

一类拟线性椭圆方程组非平凡解的存在性

首先证明了一个抽象的紧性定理,然后借此定理证明了对应于一类拟线性椭圆方程组的泛函在比Boccardo和De．Figueiredo(2002)的条件更弱的条件(文中记为弱类(AR)条件)下满足(C)条件,并利用山路引理证明了这类拟线性椭圆方程组非平凡解的存在性,最后举出两个例子验证了文中所给条件(即弱类(AR)条件)的确比Boccardo和De．Figueiredo(2002)的条件弱．     

Regularity results for degenerate elliptic systems

We prove regularity results for certain degenerate quasilinear elliptic systems with coefficients which depend on two different weights. By using Sobolev- and Poincaré inequalities due to Chanillo and Wheeden [S. Chanillo, R.L. Wheeden, Weighted Poincaré and Sobolev inequalities and estimates for weighted Peano maximal functions, Amer. J. Math. 107 (1985) 1191–1226; S. Chanillo, R.L. Wheeden, Harnack's inequality and mean-value inequalities for solutions of degenerate elliptic equations, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 11 (1986) 1111–1134] we derive a new weak Harnack inequality and adapt an idea due to L. Caffarelli [L.A. Caffarelli, Regularity theorems for weak solutions of some nonlinear systems, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 35 (1982) 833–838] to prove a priori estimates for bounded weak solutions. For example we show that every bounded weak solution of the system −Dα(aαβ(x,u,∇u)Dβui)=0$-D_{\alpha }(a^{\alpha \beta }(x,u,\mathrm{\nabla }u)D_{\beta }{u}^i)=0$ with |x|²|ξ|²?aαβξαξβ?τ|x||ξ|²${|x|}^2{|\xi |}^2?a^{\alpha \beta }{\xi }_{\alpha }{\xi }_{\beta }?{|x|}^{\tau }{|\xi |}^2$, |x|<1$|x|<1$, τ∈(1,2)$\tau \in (1,2)$ is Hölder continuous. Furthermore we derive a Liouville theorem for entire solutions of the above systems.     

Solvability of the dirichlet problem for a class of degenerate quasilinear elliptic equations

In a bounded domain of an n-dimensional space one considers the first boundary-value problem for second-order quasilinear elliptic equations having a divergent structure and admitting an implicit degeneracy of a definite type: viz., at the points where the solution vanishes the strong ellipticity of the equation is violated. The dependence of the principal part of the equation on the gradient of the solution is not assumed to be linear. One gives the definition of a generalized solution of the Dirichlet problem for such equations and one shows its existence under the condition of coerciveness (in a definite sense) and of pseudomonotonicity of the differential operator.     

Existence and uniqueness of solutions for quasilinear elliptic systems

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions for a class of sublinear Dirichlet quasilinear elliptic systems.

     

On the principal eigenvalue of degenerate quasilinear elliptic systems

We study the properties of the positive principal eigenvalue of a degenerate quasilinear elliptic system. We prove that this eigenvalue is simple, unique up to positive eigenfunctions and isolated. Under certain restrictions on the given data, the regularity of the corresponding eigenfunctions is established. The extension of the main result in the case of an unbounded domain is also discussed. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)