Bounded solutions for a quasilinear singular problem with nonlinear Robin boundary conditions. (Q2249875)

The authors prove the existence of a bounded positive weak solution \(u\) of the elliptic problem \[ \begin{cases} -\text{div} \left ( B(x,u)\nabla u \right ) + \lambda u =d(x,u,\nabla u) +f(x) & \text{ in } \mathcal {O},\\ u = 0 & \text{ on} \;\Gamma_0,\\ (B(x,u)\nabla u) \nu +\rho h(u)=g & \text{ on} \;\Gamma_1, \end{cases} \] defined in a perforated open bounded set \({\mathcal O}\) of \(\mathbb {R}^N\) (with \(N\geq 2\)) obtained by removing from a connected bounded open set \({\mathcal O}_0\) a bounded closed set \(\overline {\mathcal {O}}_1\) of one or more holes, so that \({\mathcal O}={\mathcal O}_0\setminus \overline {\mathcal O}_1\), and \(\Gamma_0\) and \(\Gamma_1\) are the boundaries of \({\mathcal O}_0\) and \({\mathcal O}_1\), respectively. \(\nu \) stands for the unit external normal vector to \({\mathcal O}\). The authors assume that \(\lambda \geq 0\), \(f\), \(g\) and \(\rho \) are nonnegative functions such that \(f\in L^m(\mathcal {O})\) (with \(m>\frac {N}{2}\) and \(f>0\)), \(g\in L^s(\Gamma_1)\) (with \(s>N-1\)), and \(\rho \in L^{\infty }(\Gamma_1)\). The real \(N\times N\) matrix field \(B\) is a Carathéodory function and \(B(\cdot ,t)\) is uniformly elliptic and bounded. The function \(d\) is a Carathéodory function on \({\mathcal O}\times {\mathbb R}\setminus \{0\}\times {\mathbb {R}^N}\) with quadratic growth with respect to the third variable and with a singularity at zero in the second variable. The function \(h\) is an increasing and continuously differentiable function whose derivative satisfies a growth condition of order \(q-1\) (with \(1\leq q\leq \infty \) if \(N=2\) and \(1\leq q\leq \frac {N}{N-2}\) if \(N>2\)). The proof is based on approximative arguments. Namely, the authors consider a sequence of approximate problems, which have no singularity, and prove that the sequence of their solutions converges to a function which is proved to be a solution of the original problem.