We consider a Dirichlet elliptic problem driven by the Laplacian with singular and superlinear nonlinearities. The singular term appears on the left-hand side while the superlinear perturbation is parametric with parameter $λ>0$ and it need not satisfy the AR-condition. Having as our starting point the work of Diaz-Morel-Oswald (1987), we show that there is a critical parameter value $λ_*$ such that for all $λ>λ_*$ the problem has two positive solutions, while for $λ<λ_*$ there are no positive solutions. What happens in the critical case $λ= λ_*$ is an interesting open problem.
We investigate the homogeneous Dirichlet problem in uniformly convex domains for a large class of degenerate elliptic equations with singular zero order term. In particular we establish sharp existence and uniqueness results of positive viscosity solutions.
In the framework of Hilbert spaces we shall give necessary and sufficient conditions to define a Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator via Dirichlet principle. For singular Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators we will establish Laurent expansion near singularities as well as Mittag--Leffler expansion for the related quadratic form. The established results will be exploited to solve definitively the problem of positivity of the related semigroup in the $L^2$ setting. The obtained results are supported by some examples on Lipschitz domains. Among other results, we shall demonstrate that regularity of the boun…
A mixed Dirichlet-Neumann problem is regularized with a family of singularly perturbed Neumann-Robin boundary problems, parametrized by $\varepsilon > 0$. Using an asymptotic development by Gamma-convergence, the asymptotic behavior of the solutions to the perturbed problems is studied as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$, recovering classical results in the literature.
Recently found all the fundamental solutions of a multidimensional singular elliptic equation are expressed in terms of the well-known Lauricella hypergeometric function in many variables. In this paper, we find a unique solution of the Dirichlet problem for an elliptic equation with several singular coefficients in explicit form. When finding a solution, we use decomposition formulas and some adjacent relations for the Lauricella hypergeometric function in many variables.
We study existence and uniqueness of solutions to a class of nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations, in bounded domains. We show that there exists a unique solution which satisfies possibly inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. To this purpose some barrier functions are properly introduced and used.
In this paper we prove existence of (viscosity) solutions of Dirichlet problems concerning fully nonlinear elliptic operator, which are either degenerate or singular when the gradient of the solution is zero. For this class of operators it is possible to extend the concept of eigenvalue, this paper concerns the cases when the inf of the principal eigenvalues is positive i.e. when both the maximum and the minimum principle holds.
We consider a nonlinear Dirichlet problem driven by the $(p,q)$-Laplacian and with a reaction having the combined effects of a singular term and of a parametric $(p-1)$-superlinear perturbation. We prove a bifurcation-type result describing the changes in the set of positive solutions as the parameter $λ>0$ varies. Moreover, we prove the existence of a minimal positive solution $u^*_λ$ and study the monotonicity and continuity properties of the map $λ\to u^*_λ$.
The present work devoted to the finding explicit solution of a boundary problem with the Dirichlet-Neumann condition for elliptic equation with singular coefficients in a quarter of ball. For this aim the method of Green's function have been used. Since, found Green's function contains a hypergeometric function of Appell, we had to deal with decomposition formulas, formulas of differentiation and some adjacent relations for this hypergeometric function in order to get explicit solution of the formulated problem.
We consider a nonlinear parametric Dirichlet problem driven by the $p$-Laplace differential operator and a reaction which has the competing effects of a parametric singular term and of a Carathéodory perturbation which is ($p-1$)-linear near $+\infty$. The problem is uniformly nonresonant with respect to the principal eigenvalue of $(-Δ_p,W^{1,p}_0(Ω))$. We look for positive solutions and prove a bifurcation-type theorem describing in an exact way the dependence of the set of positive solutions on the parameter $λ>0$.
We study the existence of positive radially symmetric solution for the singular $p$-Laplacian Dirichlet problem, $-\bigtriangleup_p u =λ|u|^{p-2} u-γu^{-α}$ where $λ>0,γ>0$ and, $0<α<1$, are parameters and $Ω$, the domain of the equation, is a ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$. By using some variational methods we show that, if $λ$ is contained in some interval, then the problem has a radially symmetric positive solution on the ball. Moreover, we obtain a nonexistence result, whenever $λ\leq 0, γ<0$ and $Ω$ is a bounded domain, with smooth boundary.
We consider the elliptic estimates for Dirichlet-Neumann operator related to the water-wave problem on a two-dimensional corner domain in this paper. Due to the singularity of the boundary, there will be singular parts in the solution of the elliptic problem for D-N operator. To begin with, we study elliptic problems with mixed boundary condition to derive singularity decompositions and estimates. Based on the analysis, we present the estimates for both D-N operator and its shape derivative with the existence of singular parts.
In the paper we consider elliptic equations of the form $-Au=u^{-γ}\cdotμ$, where $A$ is the operator associated with a regular symmetric Dirichlet form, $μ$ is a positive nontrivial measure and $γ>0$. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions of such equations as well as some regularity results. We also study stability of solutions with respect to the convergence of measures on the right-hand side of the equation. For this purpose, we introduce some type of functional convergence of smooth measures, which in fact is equivalent to the quasi-uniform convergence of associated potentials…
We consider the Dirichlet problem for a class of elliptic and parabolic equations in the upper-half space $\mathbb{R}^d_+$, where the coefficients are the product of $x_d^α, α\in (-\infty, 1),$ and a bounded uniformly elliptic matrix of coefficients. Thus, the coefficients are singular or degenerate near the boundary $\{x_d =0\}$ and they may not locally integrable. The novelty of the work is that we find proper weights under which the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of solutions in Sobolev spaces are established. These results appear to be the first of their kind and are new even if the…
We consider the following singularly perturbed elliptic problem \[ - {\varepsilon ^2}Δu + u = f(u){\text{ in }}Ω,{\text{ }}u > 0{\text{ in }}Ω,{\text{ }}u = 0{\text{ on }}\partial Ω, \] where $Ω$ is a domain in ${\mathbb{R}^N}(N \ge 3)$, not necessarily bounded, with boundary $\partial Ω\in {C^2}$ and the nonlinearity $f$ is of critical growth. In this paper, we construct a family of multi-peak solutions to the equation given above which concentrate around any prescribed finite sets of local maxima of the distance function from the boundary $\partial Ω$.
In this article, we study the following fractional $p$-Laplacian equation with critical growth singular nonlinearity \begin{equation*} \quad (-\De_{p})^s u = \la u^{-q} + u^α, u>0 \; \text{in}\; \Om,\quad u = 0 \; \mbox{in}\; \mb R^n \setminus\Om. \end{equation*} where $\Om$ is a bounded domain in $\mb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary $\partial \Om$, $n > sp, s \in (0,1), \la >0, 0 < q \leq 1 $ and $α\le p^*_s-1$. We use variational methods to show the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions of above problem with respect to parameter $\la$.
We study a class of non-divergence form elliptic and parabolic equations with singular first-order coefficients in an upper half space with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. In the simplest setting, the operators in the equations under consideration appear in the study of fractional heat and fractional Laplace equations. Intrinsic weighted Sobolev spaces are found in which the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions are proved under certain smallness conditions on the weighted mean oscillations of the coefficients in small parabolic cylinders. Our results are new even when the…
We study the Dirichlet problem for an elliptic equation involving the $1$-Laplace operator and a reaction term, namely: $$ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \displaystyle -Δ_1 u =h(u)f(x)&\hbox{in }Ω\,,\\ u=0&\hbox{on }\partialΩ\,, \end{array}\right. $$ where $ Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ is an open bounded set having Lipschitz boundary, $f\in L^1(Ω)$ is nonnegative, and $h$ is a continuous real function that may possibly blow up at zero. We investigate optimal ranges for the data in order to obtain existence, nonexistence and (whenever expected) uniqueness of nonnegative solutions.
We consider the Dirichlet and Neumann problems for second-order linear elliptic equations: \[ -\triangle u +\mathrm{div}(u\mathbf{b}) =f \quad\text{ and }\quad -\triangle v -\mathbf{b} \cdot \nabla v =g \] in a bounded Lipschitz domain $Ω$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ $(n\geq 3)$, where $\mathbf{b}:Ω\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$ is a given vector field. Under the assumption that $\mathbf{b} \in L^{n}(Ω)^n$, we first establish existence and uniqueness of solutions in $L_α^{p}(Ω)$ for the Dirichlet and Neumann problems. Here $L_α^{p}(Ω)$ denotes the Sobolev space (or Bessel potential space) with the pair $(α,p…
Let $Ω$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq1$, let $K$, $M$ be two nonnegative functions and let $α,γ>0$. We study existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for singular problems of the form $-Δu=K\left( x\right) u^{-α}-λM\left( x\right) u^{-γ}$ in $Ω$, $u=0$ on $\partialΩ$, where $λ>0$ is a real parameter. We mention that as a particular case our results apply to problems of the form $-Δu=m\left( x\right) u^{-γ}$ in $Ω$, $u=0$ on $\partialΩ$, where $m$ is allowed to change sign in $Ω$.
The paper deals with the three-dimensional Dirichlet boundary value problem (BVP) for a second order strongly elliptic self-adjoint system of partial differential equations in the divergence form with variable coefficients and develops the integral potential method based on a localized parametrix. Using Green's representation formula and properties of the localized layer and volume potentials, we reduce the Dirichlet BVP to a system of localized boundary-domain integral equations (LBDIEs). The equivalence between the Dirichlet BVP and the corresponding LBDIE system is studied. We establish tha…
In this paper we prove the~existence of two non-trivial weak solutions of Dirichlet boundary value problem for p-Laplacian problem with a~singular part and two disturbances satisfying the~proper assumptions. The~abstract existence result we use is the~famous Ricceri theorem.
This paper studies a nonlinear Dirichlet problem for the $p$-Laplacian operator with nonlinearity consisting of power components. The problem under consideration can be though of as a perturbation of the Ambrosetti-Brezis-Cerami problem with concave-convex nonlinearity. The combined effect of power components in the perturbed nonlinearity allows to establish a higher order multiplicity of positive solutions. We study properties of the perturbed energy functional and prove the existence of three positive solutions to the problem at hand.
Given two elliptic operators L and M in nondivergence form, with coefficients A_L(x), A_M(x) and drift terms b_L(x), b_M(x), respectively, satisfying a Carleson measure disagreement condition in a Lipschitz domain Omega in R^{n+1}, then their harmonic measures are mutually absolutely continuous. As an application of this, a new approximation argument and known results we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a single operator L (in divergence or nondivergence form) to have regular harmonic measure with respect to Lebesgue measure. The results are sharp in all cases.
We solve the Dirichlet Problem of Monge-Ampère equation near an isolate Klt singularity, which generalizes the result of Eyssidieux-Guedj-Zeriahi \cite{EGZ}, where the Monge-Ampère equation is solved on singular varieties without boundary. As a corollary, we construct solutions to Monge-Ampère equation with isolated singularity on strongly pseudoconvex domain $Ω$ contained in $\mathbb{C}^n$.
Potentials play an important role in solving boundary value problems for elliptic equations. In the middle of the last century, a potential theory was constructed for a two-dimensional elliptic equation with one singular coefficient. In the study of potentials, the properties of the fundamental solutions of the given equation are essentially and fruitfully used. At the present time, fundamental solutions of a multidimensional elliptic equation with several singular coefficients are already known. In this paper, we investigate the double- and simple-layer potentials for this kind of elliptic eq…
We consider a Dirichlet problem for the Poisson equation in a periodically perforated domain. The geometry of the domain is controlled by two parameters: a real number $ε>0$ proportional to the radius of the holes and a map $ϕ$, which models the shape of the holes. So, if $g$ denotes the Dirichlet boundary datum and $f$ the Poisson datum, we have a solution for each quadruple $(ε,ϕ,g,f)$. Our aim is to study how the solution depends on $(ε,ϕ,g,f)$, especially when $ε$ is very small and the holes narrow to points. In contrast with previous works, we don't introduce the assumption that $f$ has z…
In this paper, under very general assumptions, we prove existence and regularity of distributional solutions to homogeneous Dirichlet problems of the form $$\begin{cases} \displaystyle - Δ_{1} u = h(u)f & \text{in}\, Ω,\newline u\geq 0& \text{in}\ Ω, \newline u=0 & \text{on}\ \partial Ω, \end{cases} $$ where, $Δ_{1} $ is the $1$-laplace operator, $Ω$ is a bounded open subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$ with Lipschitz boundary, $h(s)$ is a continuous function which may become singular at $s=0^{+}$, and $f$ is a nonnegative datum in $L^{N,\infty}(Ω)$ with suitable small norm. Uniqueness of solutions is al…
We present explicit formulas for solutions to nonhomogeneous boundary value problems involving any positive power of the Laplacian in the half-space. For non-integer powers the operator becomes nonlocal and this requires a suitable extension of Dirichlet-type boundary conditions. A key ingredient in our proofs is a point inversion transformation which preserves harmonicity and allows us to use known results for the ball. We include uniqueness statements, regularity estimates, and describe the growth or decay of solutions at infinity and at the boundary.
We consider a sufficiently regular bounded open connected subset $Ω$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $0 \in Ω$ and such that $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \clΩ$ is connected. Then we choose a point $w \in ]0,1[^n$. If $ε$ is a small positive real number, then we define the periodically perforated domain $T(ε) \equiv \mathbb{R}^n\setminus \cup_{z \in \mathbb{Z}^n}\cl(w+εΩ+z)$. For each small positive $ε$, we introduce a particular Dirichlet problem for the Laplace operator in the set $T(ε)$. More precisely, we consider a Dirichlet condition on the boundary of the set $w+εΩ$, and we denote the unique peri…
We consider a singularly perturbed problem with mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain $Ω\subset\R^{n}$ whose boundary has an $(n-2)$-dimensional singularity. Assuming $1<p<\frac{n+2}{n-2}$, we prove that, under suitable geometric conditions on the boundary of the domain, there exist solutions which approach the intersection of the Neumann and the Dirichlet parts as the singular perturbation parameter tends to zero.
Let $Ω$ be a sufficiently regular bounded open connected subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $0 \in Ω$ and that $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \mathrm{cl}Ω$ is connected. Then we take $q_{11},..., q_{nn}\in ]0,+\infty[$ and $p \in Q\equiv \prod_{j=1}^{n}]0,q_{jj}[$. If $ε$ is a small positive number, then we define the periodically perforated domain $\mathbb{S}[Ω_ε]^{-} \equiv \mathbb{R}^n\setminus \cup_{z \in \mathbb{Z}^n}\mathrm{cl}\bigl(p+εΩ+\sum_{j=1}^n (q_{jj}z_j)e_j\bigr)$, where $\{e_1,...,e_n\}$ is the canonical basis of $\mathbb{R}^n$. For $ε$ small and positive, we introduce a particular Dir…
We present a necessary and sufficient condition on nonnegative Radon measures $μ$ and $ν$ for the existence of a positive continuous solution of the Dirichlet problem for the sublinear elliptic equation $-Δu=μu^q+ν$ with prescribed nonnegative continuous boundary data in a general domain. Moreover, two-sided pointwise estimates of Brezis-Kamin type for positive bounded solutions and the uniqueness of a positive continuous $L^q$-solution are investigated.
We prove new results on the existence of positive radial solutions of the elliptic equation $-Δu= λh(|x|,u)$ in an annular domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}, N\geq 2$. Existence of positive radial solutions are determined under the conditions that the nonlinearity function $h(t,u)$ is either superlinear or sublinear growth in $u$ or satisfies some upper and lower inequalities on $h$. Our discussion is based on a fixed point theorem due to a revised version of a fixed point theorem of Gustafson and Schmitt.
We describe singular diffusion in bounded subsets $Ω$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ by form methods and characterize the associated operator. We also prove positivity and contractivity of the corresponding semigroup. This results in a description of a stochastic process moving according to classical diffusion in one part of $Ω$, where jumps are allowed through the rest of $Ω$.
We consider a family of quasilinear second order elliptic differential operators which are not coercive and are defined by functions in Marcinkiewicz spaces. We prove the existence of a solution to the corresponding Dirichlet problem. The associated obstacle problem is also solved. Finally, we show higher integrability of a solution to the Dirichlet problem when the datum is more regular.
We prove continuity for bounded weak solutions of a nonlinear nonlocal parabolic type equation associated to a Dirichlet form with a rough kernel. The equation is allowed to be singular at the level zero, and solutions may change sign. If the nonlinearity in the equation does not oscillate too much at the origin, the solution is proved to be moreover Hölder continuous. The results are new even when the Dirichlet form is the one corresponding to the fractional Laplacian.
Let $Ω$ be a sufficiently regular bounded open connected subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $0 \in Ω$ and that $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \mathrm{cl}Ω$ is connected. Then we take $(q_{11},\dots, q_{nn})\in ]0,+\infty[^n$ and $p \in Q\equiv \prod_{j=1}^{n}]0,q_{jj}[$. If $ε$ is a small positive number, then we define the periodically perforated domain $\mathbb{S}[Ω_{p,ε}]^{-} \equiv \mathbb{R}^n\setminus \cup_{z \in \mathbb{Z}^n}\mathrm{cl}\bigl(p+εΩ+\sum_{j=1}^n (q_{jj}z_j)e_j\bigr)$, where $\{e_1,\dots,e_n\}$ is the canonical basis of $\mathbb{R}^n$. For $ε$ small and positive, we introduce a pa…
We investigate the existence of a curve $q\mapsto u_{q}$, with $q\in(0,1)$, of positive solutions for the problem $(P_{a,q})$: $-Δu=a(x)u^{q}$ in $Ω$, $u=0$ on $\partialΩ$, where $Ω$ is a bounded and smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ and $a:Ω\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ is a sign-changing function (in which case the strong maximum principle does not hold). In addition, we analyze the asymptotic behavior of $u_{q}$ as $q\rightarrow0^{+}$ and $q\rightarrow1^{-}$. We also show that in some cases $u_{q}$ is the ground state solution of $(P_{a,q})$. As a byproduct, we obtain existence results for a singu…
This paper presents a theoretical discussion as well as novel solution algorithms for problems of scattering on smooth two-dimensional domains under Zaremba boundary conditions for which Dirichlet and Neumann conditions are specified on various portions of the domain boundary. The theoretical basis of the proposed numerical methods, which is provided for the first time in the present contribution, concerns detailed information about the singularity structure of solutions of the Helmholtz operator under boundary conditions of Zaremba type. The new numerical method is based on use of Green funct…
We study the homogeneous Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem (CDP) for a nonlinear and nonlocal diffusion equation of singular type of the form $\partial_t u =-\mathcal{L} u^m$ posed on a bounded Euclidean domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with smooth boundary and $N\ge 1$. The linear diffusion operator $\mathcal{L}$ is a sub-Markovian operator, allowed to be of nonlocal type, while the nonlinearity is of singular type, namely $u^m=|u|^{m-1}u$ with $0<m<1$. The prototype equation is the Fractional Fast Diffusion Equation (FFDE), when $\mathcal{L}$ is one of the three possible Dirichlet Fractional Laplacians …
In this article, we prove the existence of at least three positive solutions for the following nonlocal singular problem \begin{equation*} (P_\la)\left\{ \begin{split} (-\De)^su &= \la\frac{f(u)}{u^q}, \; \; u>0 \;\; \text{in}\;\; \Om,\\ u &= 0\;\; \text{in}\;\; \mb R^n \setminus \Om \end{split} \right. \end{equation*} where $(-\De)^s$ denotes the fractional Laplace operator for $s\in (0,1)$, $n>2s$, $q \in (0,1)$, $\la>0$ and $\Om$ is smooth bounded domain in $\mb R^n$. Here $f :[0,\infty) \to [0,\infty)$ is a continuous nondecreasing map satisfying $\lim\limits_{u\to \infty}\frac{f(u)}{u^{q+…
In the early 1980's Almgren developed a theory of Dirichlet energy minimizing multi-valued functions, proving that the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set (including branch points) of such a function is at most $(n-2),$ where $n$ is the dimension of its domain. Almgren used this result in an essential way to show that the same upper bound holds for the dimension of the singular set of an area minimizing $n$-dimensional rectifiable current of arbitrary codimension. In either case, the dimension bound is sharp. We develop estimates to study the asymptotic behaviour of a multi-valued Dirichle…
We study the geometry of domains in complete metric measure spaces equipped with a doubling measure supporting a $1$-Poincaré inequality. We propose a notion of \emph{domain with boundary of positive mean curvature} and prove that, for such domains, there is always a solution to the Dirichlet problem for least gradients with continuous boundary data. Here \emph{least gradient} is defined as minimizing total variation (in the sense of BV functions) and boundary conditions are satisfied in the sense that the \emph{boundary trace} of the solution exists and agrees with the given boundary data. Th…
We give a new estimate on the lower bound for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for a compact manifold with positive Ricci curvature in terms of the in-diameter and the lower bound of the Ricci curvature. The result improves the previous estimates.
We consider uniqueness in an inverse Schrödinger problem in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ given the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on part of the boundary. On the remaining boundary we impose a new type of singular boundary condition with unknown parameter. Owing to recent results on this class of boundary conditions, we discuss the necessity of an extra point condition to well-define the data for the inverse problem. Our results are two-fold. At a single frequency the inverse problem displays non-uniqueness, since an unknown boundary condition can spoil `seeing' the Schrödinger potential via t…
We study the interior regularity of solutions to the Dirichlet problem $Lu=g$ in $Ω$, $u=0$ in $\R^n\setminusΩ$, for anisotropic operators of fractional type $$ Lu(x)= \int_{0}^{+\infty}\,dρ\int_{S^{n-1}}\,da(ω)\, \frac{ 2u(x)-u(x+ρω)-u(x-ρω)}{ρ^{1+2s}}.$$ Here, $a$ is any measure on~$S^{n-1}$ (a prototype example for~$L$ is given by the sum of one-dimensional fractional Laplacians in fixed, given directions). When $a\in C^\infty(S^{n-1})$ and $g$ is $C^\infty(Ω)$, solutions are known to be $C^\infty$ inside~$Ω$ (but not up to the boundary). However, when $a$ is a general measure, or even when…
