Existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for singular semilinear elliptic boundary value problems (Q1570968): Difference between revisions

The paper deals with the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions to the boundary value problem of the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ Lu+ f(x,u,Du)= 0,\quad u> 0\quad\text{in }\Omega,\quad u= \varphi\quad\text{on }\partial\Omega \] in the bounded domain \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\). The operator \(L\) is a linear second-order strongly elliptic operator. The function \(\varphi\) is nonnegative. The function \(f(x,u,\xi)\) is locally Hölder continuous in \(\Omega\times (0,\infty)\times \mathbb{R}^n\), has singularities on the boundary and is continuously differentiable with respect to \(u\) and \(\xi\). For any \(\Omega_1\subset\Omega\) and any \(a< b\) there exists a constant \(C(\Omega_1, a,b)> 0\) such that \[ |f(x,u,\xi)|\leq C(1+ |\xi|^2),\quad \forall x\in\Omega,\quad u\in [a,b],\quad \xi\in \mathbb{R}^n. \] Further additional conditions are found under which the boundary problem has a classical positive solution: 1) as \(\varphi\in 0\), 2) as \(\varphi\in C^{1+\alpha}(\partial\Omega)\) is any nonnegative function, and 3) as the problem does not have a classical solution for any nonnegative \(\varphi\in C(\partial\Omega)\). As an example, the author considers the model boundary value problem \[ \Delta u+ a(x) u^p(1+|Du|^{2{q\over 2}})= 0\quad\text{in }\Omega,\quad u= 0\quad\text{on }\partial\Omega. \]