Finite time blow-up is shown to occur for radially symmetric solutions to a critical quasilinear Smoluchowski-Poisson system provided that the mass of the initial condition exceeds an explicit threshold. In the supercritical case, blow-up is shown to take place for any positive mass. The proof relies on a novel identity of virial type.
In this paper we study entire radial solutions for the quasilinear $p$-Laplace equation $Δ_p u + k(x) f(u) = 0$ where $k$ is a radial positive weight and the nonlinearity behaves e.g. as $f(u)=u|u|^{q-2}-u|u|^{Q-2}$ with $q<Q$. In particular we focus our attention on solutions (positive and sign changing) which are infinitesimal at infinity, thus providing an extension of a previous result by Tang (2001).
Convergence to a single steady state is shown for non-negative and radially symmetric solutions to a diffusive Hamilton-Jacobi equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, the diffusion being the $p$-Laplacian operator, $p\ge 2$, and the source term a power of the norm of the gradient of $u$. As a first step, the radially symmetric and non-increasing stationary solutions are characterized.
We consider weak positive solutions to the critical $p$-Laplace equation with Hardy potential in $\mathbb R^N$ $$-Δ_p u -\fracγ{|x|^p} u^{p-1}=u^{p^*-1}$$ where $1<p<N$, $0\le γ<\left(\frac{N-p}{p}\right)^p$ and $p^*=\frac{Np}{N-p}$. The main result is to show that all the solutions in $\mathcal D^{1, p}(\mathbb R^N)$ are radial and radially decreasing about the origin.
In this paper, we prove that there exists at most one positive radial weak solution to the following quasilinear elliptic equation with singular critical growth \[ \begin{cases} -Δ_{p}u-{\displaystyle \fracμ{|x|^{p}}|u|^{p-2}u}{\displaystyle =\frac{|u|^{\frac{(N-s)p}{N-p}-2}u}{|x|^{s}}}+λ|u|^{p-2}u & \text{in }B,\\ u=0 & \text{on }\partial B, \end{cases} \] where $B$ is an open finite ball in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ centered at the origin, $1<p<N$, $-\infty<μ<((N-p)/p)^{p}$, $0\le s<p$ and $λ\in\mathbb{R}$. A related limiting problem is also considered.
We establish the multiplicity of positive solutions to a quasilinear Neumann problem in expanding balls and hemispheres with critical exponent in the boundary condition.
We establish existence and regularity of positive solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic systems with singular and superlinear terms. The approach is based on sub-supersolution methods for systems of quasilinear singular equations and the Schauder's fixed point Theorem.
In this paper we establish the existence of two positive solutions for a class of quasilinear singular elliptic systems. The main tools are sub and supersolution method and Leray-Schauder Topological degree.
We study positive radial solutions of quasilinear elliptic systems with a gradient term in the form $$ \left\{ \begin{aligned} Δ_{p} u&=v^{m}|\nabla u|^α&&\quad\mbox{ in }Ω,\\ Δ_{p} v&=v^β|\nabla u|^{q} &&\quad\mbox{ in }Ω, \end{aligned} \right. $$ where $Ω\subset\R^N$ $(N\geq 2)$ is either a ball or the whole space, $1<p<\infty$, $m, q>0$, $α\geq 0$, $0\leq β\leq m$ and $(p-1-α)(p-1-β)-qm\neq 0$. We first classify all the positive radial solutions in case $Ω$ is a ball, according to their behavior at the boundary. Then we obtain that the system has non-constant global solutions if and only if…
In this paper I prove the existence of a positive stationary solution for a generic quasilinear model of structured population. The existence is proved using Schauder's fixed point theorem. The theorem is applied to a hierarchically size-structured population model.
In this paper, we deal with the following quasilinear elliptic system involving gradient terms in the form: \begin{center} $\begin{cases} Δ_p u= v^m| \nabla u |^α& \text{in}\quad Ω\\ Δ_p v= v^β| \nabla u |^q & \text{in}\quad Ω, \end{cases}$ \end{center} where $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^N(N\geq 2)$ is either equal to $ \mathbb{R}^N $ or equal to a ball $B_R$ centered at the origin and having radius $R>0$, $1<p<\infty$, $m,q>0$, $α\geq 0$, $0\leq β\leq m$ and $δ:=(p-1-α)(p-1-β)-qm \neq 0$. Our aim is to establish the asymptotics of the blowing-up radial solutions to the above system. Precisely, we prov…
In this article we are interested in addressing the question of existence and uniqueness of positive solution to a quasilinear elliptic equation involving p-laplacian in Heisenberg Group. The idea is to prove the uniqueness by using Diaz-Saa Inequality in Heisenberg Group which we obtain via a generalized version of Picone's Identity.
We study the quasilinear equation \[(P)\qquad - {\rm div} (A(x,u) |\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u) + \frac1p\ A_t(x,u) |\nabla u|^p + |u|^{p-2}u\ =\ g(x,u) \qquad \hbox{in ${\mathbb R}^N$,} \] with $N\ge 3$, $p > 1$, where $A(x,t)$, $A_t(x,t) = \frac{\partial A}{\partial t}(x,t)$ and $g(x,t)$ are Carathéodory functions on ${\mathbb R}^N \times {\mathbb R}$. Suitable assumptions on $A(x,t)$ and $g(x,t)$ set off the variational structure of $(P)$ and its related functional ${\cal J}$ is $C^1$ on the Banach space $X = W^{1,p}({\mathbb R}^N) \cap L^\infty({\mathbb R}^N)$. In order to overcome the lack o…
This paper studies the existence, nonexistence and uniqueness of positive solutions for a class of quasilinear equations. We also analyze the behavior of this solutions with respect to two parameters $κ$ and $λ$ that appears in the equation. The proof of our main results relies on bifurcation techniques, the sub and supersolution method and a construction of an appropriate large solutions.
A system of quasilinear elliptic equations on an unbounded domain is considered. The existence of a sequence of radially symmetric weak solutions is proved via variational methods.
This paper is concerned with a quaslinear parabolic equation including a nonlinear nonlocal initial condition. The problem arises as equilibrium equation in population dynamics with nonlinear diffusion. We make use of global bifurcation theory to prove existence of an unbounded continuum of positive solutions.
In this paper we prove that the equation $ -( r^αϕ(|u'(r)|)u'(r))' = λr^γf(u(r)), ~0<r<R$, where $α, γ, {\bf{R}}$ are given real numbers, $ϕ: (0, \infty) \to (0, \infty)$ is a suitable twice differentiable function, $λ> 0$ is a real parameter and $f:{\bf{R}}\to{\bf{R}}$ is continuous, admits an infinite sequence of sign-changing solutions satisfying $u'(0) =u(R) =0$. The function $f$ is required to satisfy $tf(t)>0$ for $ t\neq 0$. Our technique explores fixed point arguments applied to suitable integral equations and shooting arguments. Our main result extends earlier ones in the case $ϕ$ is …
This paper is concerned with the quasilinear Schrödinger equation \begin{equation*} -Δu+V(x)u- Δ(u^2)u =h(u), \ \ \mbox{in} \ \mathbb{R}^N, \end{equation*} where $N\geq 3$. Under appropriate assumptions on $V$ and $h$, we establish the existence of positive solutions. The main novelty is that, unlike most other papers on this problem, we do not assume $h$ is 4-superlinear at infinity.
In this note we complete a previous study, where we got existence results for the quasilinear elliptic equation \begin{equation*} -Δw+ V\left( \left| x\right| \right) w - w \left( Δw^2 \right)= K(|x|) g(w) \quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{equation*} with singular or vanishing continuous radial potentials $V(r)$, $K(r)$. In our previuos study we assumed, for technical reasons, that $K(r)$ was vanishing as $r \rightarrow 0$, while in the present paper we remove this obstruction. To face the problem we apply a suitable change of variables $w=f(u)$ and we find existence of non negative solutio…
This paper is devoted to the existence and non-existence of positive solutions for a $(p, q)$-Laplacian system with indefinite nonlinearity depending on two parameters $(λ,μ)$. By using the sub-supersolution method together with adaptations of ideas found in \cite{AAS,CRMZ}, we extend some previous result.
This paper deals with the analysis of the internal control with constraint of positive kind of a parabolic PDE with nonlinear diffusion when the time horizon is large enough. The minimal controllability time will be strictly positive. We prove a global steady state constrained controllability result for a quasilinear parabolic with nonlinearity in the diffusion term. Then, under suitable dissipative assumption in the system and local controllability results, we conclude the result to any initial datum and any target trajectory.
In this paper, we study existence, multiplicity and concentration of positive solutions for the following class of quasilinear problems \[ - Δ_Φu + V(εx)ϕ(\vert u\vert)u = f(u)\quad \mbox{in} \quad \mathbb{R}^{N} \,\,\, ( N\geq 2 ), \] where $Φ(t) = \int_{0}^{\vert t\vert}ϕ(s)sds$ is a N-function, $ Δ_Φ$ is the $Φ$-Laplacian operator, $ε$ is a positive parameter, $V : \mathbb{R}^{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} $ is a continuous function and $f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} $ is a $C^{1}$-function.
In this paper we prove the existence of positive solutions of the following singular quasilinear Schrödinger equations at critical growth \begin{eqnarray*} -Δu-λc(x)u-κα(Δ(|u|^{2α}))|u|^{2α-2}u = |u|^{q-2}u+|u|^{2^*-2}u,\quad u\in{D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}}^N), \end{eqnarray*} via variational methods, where $λ\geq0$, $0<α<1/2$, $2<q<2^*$. It is interesting that we do not need to add a weight function to control $|u|^{q-2}u$.
In the present paper we deal with a quasilinear problem involving a singular term and a parametric superlinear perturbation. We are interested in the existence, nonexistence and multiplicity of positive solutions as the parameter $λ>0$ varies. In our first result, the superlinear perturbation has an arbitrary growth and we obtain the existence of a solution for the problem by using the sub-supersolution method. For the second result, the superlinear perturbation has subcritical growth and we employ the Mountain Pass Theorem to show the existence of a second solution.
We investigate the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for the quasilinear elliptic inequality $L_\mathcal{A} u= -{\rm div}[\mathcal{A}(x, u, \nabla u)]\geq (I_α\ast u^p)u^q$ in $Ω$, where $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N, N\geq 1,$ is an open set. Here $I_α$ stands for the Riesz potential of order $α\in (0, N)$, $p>0$ and $q\in \mathbb{R}$. For a large class of operators $L_\mathcal{A}$ (which includes the $m$-Laplace and the $m$-mean curvature operator) we obtain optimal ranges of exponents $p,q$ and $α$ for which positive solutions exist. Our methods are then extended to quasilinear elli…
In this paper we prove an existence result of multiple positive solutions for the following quasilinear problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}[c]{ll} -Δu - Δ(u^2)u = |u|^{p-2}u & \mbox{ in } Ωu= 0 &\mbox{ on } \partialΩ, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $Ω$ is a smooth and bounded domain in $\mathbb R^{N},N\geq3$. More specifically we prove that, for $p$ near the critical exponent $22^{*}=4N/(N-2)$, the number of positive solutions is estimated below by topological invariants of the domain $Ω$: the Ljusternick-Schnirelmann category and the Poincaré polynomial.
In this paper, we prove the global existence for some 4-D quasilinear wave equations with small, radial data in $H^{3}\times H^{2}$. The main idea is to exploit local energy estimates with variable coefficients, together with the trace estimates.
In this paper we prove the existence of a nontrivial non-negative radial solution for a quasilinear elliptic problem. Our aim is to approach the problem variationally by using the tools of critical points theory in an Orlicz-Sobolev space. A multiplicity result is also given.
In this paper we prove the monotonicity of positive solutions to $ -Δ_p u = f(u) $ in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, for $(2N+2)/(N+2) < p < 2$ and for a general class of regular changing-sign nonlinearities $f$. The techniques used in the proof of the main result are based on a fine use of comparison and maximum principles and on an adaptation of the celebrated moving plane method to quasilinear elliptic equations in unbounded domains.
This paper deals with existence and regularity of positive solutions of singular elliptic problems on a smooth bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions involving the $Φ$-Laplacian operator. The proof of existence is based on a variant of the generalized Galerkin method that we developed inspired on ideas by Browder and a comparison principle. By using a kind of Moser iteration scheme we show $L^{\infty}(Ω)$-regularity for positive solutions
In this paper, we study the existence and multiplicity results of nontrivial positive solutions to the following quasilinear elliptic equation on $\RN$, when $N\geq2$, \begin{equation} \Lp u=λ\hspace{0.2mm}K(x)u^{r-1}-V(x)u^{q-1}.\nonumber \end{equation} Here, $K(x),V(x)>0$ are suitable potentials, $1<p<r<q<\infty$, and $λ>0$ is a parameter. To study this problem, some compact embedding results regarding $\MVR\hookrightarrow\LKR$ are proved that unify and extend some recent results of the author \cite{Ha1,Ha2,Ha3}.
We discuss the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of the quasilinear elliptic problem $-Δ_p u=a u^{p-1}-b(x) u^q$, $u|_{\partial Ω}=0$ as $q \to p-1+0$ and as $q \to \infty$ via a scale argument. Here $Δ_p$ is the $p$-Laplacian with $1<p<\infty$ and $q>p-1$. If $p=2$, such problems arise in population dynamics. Our main results generalize the results for $p=2$, but some technical difficulties arising from the nonlinear degenerate operator $-Δ_p$ are successfully overcome. As a by-product, we can solve a free boundary problem for a nonlinear $p$-Laplacian equation.
This paper deals with the existence of positive solution for the singular quasilinear Schrödinger equation $-Δu -Δ(u^{2})u=h(x) u^{-γ} + f(x,u)~\mbox{in} ~ Ω,$ where $γ> 1$, $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^{N}, (N\geq 3)$ is a bounded smooth domain, $0<h\in L^{1}(Ω)$, $f$ is a measurable function that can change signal and can be sublinear or has critical growth. Inspired by Sun \cite{Y} we derive a compatible condition on the couple $(h(x),γ)$, which is optimal for the existence of $H_{0}^{1}$-solution for this problem.
In this paper, we study a class of quasilinear elliptic equations which appears in nonlinear optics. By using the mountain pass theorem together with a technique of adding one dimension of space, we prove the existence of a non-trivial weak solution for general nonlinear terms of Berestycki-Lions' type. The existence of a radial ground state solution and a ground state solution is also established under stronger assumptions on the quasilinear term.
Using Harnack's inequality and a scaling argument we study Liouville-type theorems and the asymptotic behaviour of positive solutions near an isolated singular point $ζ\in \partialΩ\cup\{\infty\}$ for the quasilinear elliptic equation $$-\text{div}(|\nabla u|_A^{p-2}A\nabla u)+V|u|^{p-2}u =0\quad\text{ in } Ω,$$ where $Ω$ is a domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 2$, $1<p<d$, and $A=(a_{ij})\in L_{\rm loc}^{\infty}(Ω; \mathbb{R}^{d\times d})$ is a symmetric and locally uniformly positive definite matrix. It is assumed that the potential $V$ belongs to a certain Wolff class and has a generalized Fu…
We establish the existence of positive solutions for a nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet problem in dimension $N$ involving the $N$-Laplacian. The nonlinearity considered depends on the gradient of the unknown function and an exponential term. In such case, variational methods cannot be applied. Our approach is based on approximation scheme, where we consider a new class of normed spaces of finite dimension. As a particular case, we extended the result achieved by De Araujo and Montenegro [2016] for any $N>2$.
In this paper, we are concerned with the quasilinear PDE with weight $$ -div A(x,\nabla u)=|x|^a u^q(x), \quad u>0 \quad \textrm{in} \quad R^n, $$ where $n \geq 3$, $q>p-1$ with $p \in (1,2]$ and $a \in (-n,0]$. The positive weak solution $u$ of the quasilinear PDE is $\mathcal{A}$-superharmonic and satisfies $\inf_{R^n}u=0$. We can introduce an integral equation involving the wolff potential $$ u(x)=R(x) W_{β,p}(|y|^au^q(y))(x), \quad u>0 \quad \textrm{in} \quad R^n, $$ which the positive solution $u$ of the quasilinear PDE satisfies. Here $p \in (1,2]$, $q>p-1$, $β>0$ and $0 \leq -a<pβ<n$. W…
We study positive solutions of equation (E) $-Δu + u^p|\nabla u|^q= 0$ ($0<p$, $0\leq q\leq 2$, $p+q>1$) and other related equations in a smooth bounded domain $Ω\subset {\mathbb R}^N$. We show that if $N(p+q-1)<p+1$ then, for every positive, finite Borel measure $μ$ on $\partial Ω$, there exists a solution of (E) such that $u=μ$ on $\partial Ω$. Furthermore, if $N(p+q-1)\geq p+1$ then an isolated point singularity on $\partial Ω$ is removable. In particular there is no solution with boundary data $δ_y$ (=Dirac measure at a point $y\in \partial Ω$). Finally we obtain a classification of positi…
In this paper we establish existence of smooth positive solutions for a singular quasilinear elliptic system involving gradient terms. The approach combines sub-supersolutions method and Schauder's fixed point theorem.
This article is concerned with the existence of positive weak solutions for the following quasilinear Schrödinger Choquard equation: \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{cc} \displaystyle -div(g^2(u)\nabla u) + g(u)g'(u)\nabla u + a(x) u = k(x, u) \;\text{in} \; \mathbb{R}^N, \end{array} \end{equation*} where $N \geq 3$, $\displaystyle k(x,u) := h(x,u) + (I_{\vartheta}*|u|^{α\cdot2^*_μ})|u|^{α\cdot2^*_μ-2}u$, $g : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}^+$ is a differentiable even function with $g(0) = 1$ and $g'(t) \geq 0$ for all $t \geq 0$; $h\in C( \mathbb{R}^N \times\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{R})$ and the potentia…
In this paper, we prove existence and regularity of positive solutions for singular quasilinear elliptic systems involving gradient terms. Our approach is based on comparison properties, a priori estimates and Schauder's fixed point theorem.
We study the boundary behaviour of the solutions of (E) $-Δ_p u+|\nabla u|^q=0$ in a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$, when $N\geq p > q >p-1$. We show the existence of a critical exponent $q_* < p$ such that if $p-1 < q < q_*$ there exist positive solutions of (E) with an isolated singularity on $\partialΩ$ and that these solutions belong to two different classes of singular solutions. If $q_*\leq q < p$ no such solution exists and actually any boundary isolated singularity of a positive solution of (E) is removable. We prove that all the singular positive solutions are classified according the…
The existence of positive weak solutions to a singular quasilinear elliptic system in the whole space is established via suitable a priori estimates and Schauder's fixed point theorem.
Existence of positive solution for a class of quasilinear Schrödinger equations with potential vanishing at infinity on nonreflexive Orlicz-Sobolev spaces
In this paper we establish existence, nonexitence and regularity of positive solutions for a class of singular quasilinear elliptic systems subject to (super-) homogeneous condition. The approach is based on sub-supersolution methods for systems of quasilinear singular equations combined with perturbation arguments involving singular terms.
A $p$-Laplacian elliptic problem in the presence of both strongly singular and $(p-1)$-superlinear nonlinearities is considered. We employ bifurcation theory, approximation techniques and sub-supersolution method to establish the existence of an unbounded branch of positive solutions, which is bounded in positive $λ-$direction and bifurcates from infinity at $λ=0$. As consequence of the bifurcation result, we determine intervals of existence, nonexistence and, in particular cases, global multiplicity.
In this paper we consider positive solutions to quasilinear elliptic problem with singular nonlinearities. We provide a Höpf type boundary lemma via a suitable scaling argument that allows to deal with the lack of regularity of the solutions up to the boundary.
We study properties of positive functions satisfying (E) --$Δ$u+m|$\nabla$u| q -- u p = 0 is a domain $Ω$ or in R N + when p > 1 and 1 < q < 2. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to (E) with a nonnegative measure $μ$ as boundary data, and these conditions are expressed in terms of Bessel capacities on the boundary. We also study removable boundary singularities and solutions with an isolated singularity on $\partial$$Ω$. The different results depends on two critical exponents for p = p c := N +1 N --1 and for q = q c := N +1 N and on the position of q with respect to…
Uniqueness of the strong positive solution for a general quasilinear elliptic problem with variable exponents and homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions using a generalization of the $p(x)$-Díaz-Saa inequality