We establish multiplicity results for the following class of quasilinear problems $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} -Δ_Φu=f(x,u) \quad \mbox{in} \quad Ω, \\ u=0 \quad \mbox{on} \quad \partial Ω, \end{array} \right. \leqno{(P)} $$ where $Δ_Φu=\text{div}(φ(x,|\nabla u|)\nabla u)$ for a generalized N-function $Φ(x,t)=\int_{0}^{|t|}φ(x,s)s\,ds$. We consider $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ to be a smooth bounded domain that contains two disjoint open regions $Ω_N$ and $Ω_p$ such that $\overline{Ω_N}\cap\overline{Ω_p}=\emptyset$. The main feature of the problem $(P)$ is that the operator $-Δ_Φ$ behaves like $-Δ_N$ on $Ω_N$ and $-Δ_p$ on $Ω_p$. We assume the nonlinearity $f:Ω\times\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ of two different types, but both behaves like $e^{α|t|^\frac{N}{N-1}}$ on $Ω_N$ and $|t|^{p^*-2}t$ on $Ω_p$ as $|t|$ is large enough, for some $α>0$ and $p^*=\frac{Np}{N-p}$ being the critical Sobolev exponent for $1<p<N$. In this context, for one type of nonlinearity $f$, we provide multiplicity of solutions in a general smooth bounded domain and for another type of nonlinearity $f$, in an annular domain $Ω$, we establish existence of multiple solutions for the problem $(P)$ that are nonradial and rotationally nonequivalent.
We obtain local boundedness of weak solutions of double phase quasilinear parabolic equations of the form \[u_t-\text{div} \left(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u+a(x,t)|\nabla u|^{q-2}\nabla u\right)=0,\] where, we have imposed the restrictions $\frac{2N}{N+2}<p<\infty$, $0\leq a(x,t)\leq M$ is measurable and $q < p\frac{N+1}{N-1}$.
We construct an efficient approach to deal with the global regularity estimates for a class of elliptic double-obstacle problems in Lorentz and Orlicz spaces. The motivation of this paper comes from the study on an abstract result in the viewpoint of the fractional maximal distributions and this work also extends some regularity results proved in \cite{PN_dist} by using the weighted fractional maximal distributions (WFMDs). We further investigate a pointwise estimates of the gradient of weak solutions via fractional maximal operators and Riesz potential of data. Moreover, in the setting of the…
We study the existence of bound and ground states for a class of nonlinear elliptic systems in $\mathbb{R}^N$. These equations involve critical power nonlinearities and Hardy-type singular potentials, coupled by a term containing up to critical powers. More precisely, we find ground states either the positive coupling parameter $ν$ is large or $ν$ is small under suitable assumptions on the other parameters of the problem. Furthermore, bound states are found as Mountain-Pass-type critical points of the underlying functional constrained on the Nehari manifold. Our variational approach improves s…
In this paper we consider quasilinear elliptic equations with double phase phenomena and a reaction term depending on the gradient. Under quite general assumptions on the convection term we prove the existence of a weak solution by applying the theory of pseudomonotone operators. Imposing some linear conditions on the gradient variable the uniqueness of the solution is obtained.
We prove the continuity of bounded solutions for a wide class of parabolic equations with $(p,q)$-growth $$ u_{t}-{\rm div}\left(g(x,t,|\nabla u|)\,\frac{\nabla u}{|\nabla u|}\right)=0, $$ under the generalized non-logarithmic Zhikov's condition $$ g(x,t,{\rm v}/r)\leqslant c(K)\,g(y,τ,{\rm v}/r), \quad (x,t), (y,τ)\in Q_{r,r}(x_{0},t_{0}), \quad 0<{\rm v}\leqslant Kλ(r), $$ $$ \quad \lim\limits_{r\rightarrow0}λ(r)=0, \quad \lim\limits_{r\rightarrow0} \frac{λ(r)}{r}=+\infty, \quad \int_{0} λ(r)\,\frac{dr}{r}=+\infty. $$ In particular, our results cover new cases of double-phase parabolic equat…
In this note we consider the action functional \[ \int_{\mathbb{R} \times ω} \left( 1 - \sqrt{ 1 - |\nabla u|^2 } + W(u) \right) \, \mathrm{d}t, \] where $W$ is a double well potential and $ω$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N-1}$. We prove existence, one-dimensionality and uniqueness (up to translation) of a smooth minimizing phase transition between the two stable states $u=1$ and $u=-1$. The question of existence of at least one minimal heteroclinic connection for the non autonomous model \[ \int_{\mathbb{R}} \left( 1 - \sqrt{1-|u'|^2} + a(t) W(u) \right) \, \mathrm{d}t \] is also addre…
We study quasilinear elliptic double obstacle problems with a variable exponent growth when the right-hand side is a measure. A global Calderón-Zygmund estimate for the gradient of an approximable solution is obtained in terms of the associated double obstacles and a given measure, identifying minimal requirements for the regularity estimate.
In this paper we study quasilinear elliptic systems driven by so-called double phase operators and nonlinear right-hand sides depending on the gradients of the solutions. Based on the surjectivity result for pseudomonotone operators we prove the existence of at least one weak solution of such systems. Furthermore, under some additional conditions on the data, the uniqueness of weak solutions is shown.
In this paper we study quasilinear elliptic equations driven by the double phase operator and a right-hand side which has the combined effect of a singular and of a parametric term. Based on the fibering method by using the Nehari manifold we are going to prove the existence of at least two weak solutions for such problems when the parameter is sufficiently small.
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…
In this paper we study quasilinear elliptic equations driven by the double phase operator along with a reaction that has a singular and a parametric superlinear term and with a nonlinear Neumann boundary condition of critical growth. Based on a new equivalent norm for Musielak-Orlicz Sobolev spaces and the Nehari manifold along with the fibering method we prove the existence of at least two weak solutions provided the parameter is sufficiently small.
We analyze fine properties of solutions to quasilinear elliptic equations with double phase structure and characterize, in the terms of intrinsic Hausdorff measures, the removable sets for Hölder continuous solutions.
In this paper we study quasilinear elliptic equations driven by the so-called double phase operator and with a nonlinear boundary condition. Due to the lack of regularity, we prove the existence of multiple solutions by applying the Nehari manifold method along with truncation and comparison techniques and critical point theory. In addition, we can also determine the sign of the solutions (one positive, one negative, one nodal). Moreover, as a result of independent interest, we prove for a general class of such problems the boundedness of weak solutions.
In this paper we study quasilinear elliptic systems driven by variable exponent double phase operators involving fully coupled right-hand sides and nonlinear boundary conditions. The aim of our work is to establish an enclosure and existence result for such systems by means of trapping regions formed by pairs of sup- and supersolutions. Under very general assumptions on the data we then apply our result to get infinitely many solutions. Moreover, we also discuss the case when we have homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and present some existence results for this kind of problem.
Given $N\geq 3$, $1<p<N$, two measurable functions $V\left(r \right)\geq 0$, $K\left(r\right)> 0$ and a continuous function $A(r) >0$ ($r>0$), we study the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -\mathrm{div}\left(A(|x| )|\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u\right) u+V\left( \left| x\right| \right) |u|^{p-2}u= K(|x|) f(u) \quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{N}. \] We find existence of nonegative solutions by the application of variational methods, for which we have to study the compactness of the embedding of a suitable function space $X$ into the sum of Lebesgue spaces $L_{K}^{q_{1}}+L_{K}^{q_{2}}$, and thus into $L_{…
In this paper we introduce a new class of quasilinear elliptic equations driven by the so-called double phase operator with variable exponents. We prove certain properties of the corresponding Musielak-Orlicz Sobolev spaces (an equivalent norm, uniform convexity, Radon-Riesz property with respect to the modular) and the properties of the new double phase operator (continuity, strict monotonicity, (S$_+$)-property). In contrast to the known constant exponent case we are able to weaken the assumptions on the data. Finally we show the existence and uniqueness of corresponding elliptic equations w…
We are concerned with the study of the Lane-Emden equation with variable exponent and Dirichlet boundary condition. The feature of this paper is that the analysis that we develop does not assume any subcritical hypotheses and the reaction can fulfill a mixed regime (subcritical, critical and supercritical). We consider the radial and the nonradial cases, as well as a singular setting. The proofs combine variational and analytic methods with a version of the Palais principle of symmetric criticality.
In this paper we continue the work that we began in arXiv:1912.07537. Given $1<p<N$, two measurable functions $V\left(r \right)\geq 0$ and $K\left(r\right)> 0$, and a continuous function $A(r) >0\ (r>0)$, we consider the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -\mathrm{div}\left(A(|x| )|\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u\right) +V\left( \left| x\right| \right) |u|^{p-2}u= K(|x|) f(u) \quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{N}, \] where all the potentials $A,V,K$ may be singular or vanishing, at the origin or at infinity. We find existence of nonnegative solutions by the application of variational methods, for which we nee…
This paper deals with the existence of multiple solutions for the quasilinear equation $-\mathrm{div}\,\mathbf{A}(x,\nabla u)| u| ^{α(x)-2}u=f(x,u)$ in $ \mathbb{R} ^{N}$, which involves a general variable exponent elliptic operator $\mathbf{ A}$ in divergence form. The problem corresponds to double phase anisotropic phenomena, in the sense that the differential operator has behaviors like $ | ξ| ^{q(x)-2}ξ$ for small $| ξ| $ and like $| ξ| ^{p(x)-2}ξ$ for large $ | ξ| $, where $1<α(\cdot )\leq p(\cdot )<q(\cdot )<N$. Our aim is to approach variationally the problem by using the tools of criti…
In this paper we study quasilinear elliptic equations driven by the double phase operator involving a Choquard term of the form \begin{align*} -\mathcal{L}_{p,q}^{a}(u) + |u|^{p-2}u+ a(x) |u|^{q-2}u = \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^N} \frac{F(y, u)}{|x-y|^μ}\,\mathrm{d} y\right)f(x,u) \quad\text{in } \mathbb{R}^N, \end{align*} where $\mathcal{L}_{p,q}^{a}$ is the double phase operator given by \begin{align*} \mathcal{L}_{p,q}^{a}(u):= \operatorname{div}\big(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u + a(x) |\nabla u|^{q-2}\nabla u \big), \quad u\in W^{1,\mathcal{H}}(\mathbb{R}^N), \end{align*} $0<μ<N$, $1<p<N$, $p<q<p…
Given two continuous functions $V\left(r \right)\geq 0$ and $K\left(r\right)> 0$ ($r>0$), which may be singular or vanishing at zero as well as at infinity, we study the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -Δw+ V\left( \left| x\right| \right) w - w \left( Δw^2 \right)= K(|x|) g(w) \quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{N}, \] where $N\geq3$. To study this problem we apply a change of variables $w=f(u)$, already used by several authors, and find existence results for nonnegative solutions by the application of variational methods. The main features of our results are that they do not require any compatibilit…
The aim of this paper is to establish an abstract theory based on the so-called fractional-maximal distribution functions (FMDs). From the rough ideas introduced in~\cite{AM2007}, we develop and prove some abstract results related to the level-set inequalities and norm-comparisons by using the language of such FMDs. Particularly interesting is the applicability of our approach that has been shown in regularity and Calderón-Zygmund type estimates. In this paper, due to our research experience, we will establish global regularity estimates for two types of general quasilinear problems (problems …
