Viscosity solution theory of a class of nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations I. Uniqueness and existence of viscosity solutions

In this part we construct a unique bounded Hölder continuous viscosity solution for the nonlinear PDEs with the evolutionp-Laplacian equation and its anisotropic version as typical examples. The existence and properties of free boundaries will be discussed in part II.This research is supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China.     

Lipschitz continuity of solutions of a free boundary problem involving the p-Laplacian

We prove local interior and boundary Lipschitz continuity of solutions of a free boundary problem involving the p-Laplacian.     

The smoothing property for a class of doubly nonlinear parabolic equations

We consider a class of doubly nonlinear parabolic equations used in modeling free boundaries with a finite speed of propagation. We prove that nonnegative weak solutions satisfy a smoothing property; this is a well-known feature in some particular cases such as the porous medium equation or the parabolic -Laplace equation. The result is obtained via regularization and a comparison theorem.

     

Viscosity solutions of a class of degenerate quasilinear parabolic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition

This paper is concerned with viscosity solutions for a class of degenerate quasilinear parabolic equations in a bounded domain with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. The equation under consideration arises from a number of practical model problems including reaction–diffusion processes in a porous medium. The degeneracy of the problem appears on the boundary and possibly in the interior of the domain. The goal of this paper is to establish some comparison properties between viscosity upper and lower solutions and to show the existence of a continuous viscosity solution between them. An application of the above results is given to a porous-medium type of reaction–diffusion model which demonstrates some distinctive properties of the solution when compared with the corresponding semilinear problem.     

Remarks on Hölder continuity for solutions of the p-Laplace evolution equations

We study the interior Hölder regularity problem for the gradient of solutions of the p-Laplace evolution equations with the external forces. Misawa gave some conditions for the Hölder continuity of the gradient of solutions. We show Hölder estimates of the solutions with weaker condition as for Misawa.     

The existence of countably many positive solutions for a system of nonlinear singular boundary value problems with the p-Laplacian operator

In this paper, we study the existence of countable many positive solutions for a class of nonlinear singular boundary value systems with p-Laplacian operator:

     

Existence of symmetric positive solutions for a class of Sturm-Liouville-like boundary value problems

This paper deals with the existence of symmetric positive solutions for a class of singular Sturm-Liouville-like boundary value problems with a one-dimensional p-Laplacian operator. By using the fixed theorem of cone expansion and compression of norm type in a cone, the existence of positive solutions is established though nonlinear term contains the first derivative of unknown function.     

Existence and iteration of positive solutions for a singular two-point boundary value problem with a <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian operator

In the paper, we obtain the existence of symmetric or monotone positive solutions and establish a corresponding iterative scheme for the equation (ϕ _p (u′))′+q(t)f(u) = 0, 0 < t < 1, where ϕ _p (s):= |s| ^p−2 s, p > 1, subject to nonlinear boundary condition. The main tool is the monotone iterative technique. Here, the coefficient q(t) may be singular at t = 0; 1.     

Existence and subharmonicity of solutions for nonlinear non-smooth periodic systems with a -Laplacian

In the present paper, we consider the nonlinear periodic systems driven by a vectorial p-Laplacian with a locally Lipschitz nonlinearity. Some existence, multiplicity and subharmonic results are obtained by using non-smooth critical point theory.