Quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations with absorption term (Q1969182)

The author studies the Dirichlet problem for \(p\)-harmonic operators \[ L_pu=-\text{div} (A(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u) \] with absorption term \[ L_pu+B(x)Q(u)= f(x)\quad \text{in } \Omega,\qquad u=0\quad \text{on } \partial\Omega. \] Here \(B(x)\) is a nonnegative function on \(\Omega\) and \(Q(t)\) is a continuous and strictly monotone increasing function on \({\mathbb R},\) \(\Omega\) is a bounded and open set of \({\mathbb R}^N,\) \(N\geq 1.\) Under suitable assumptions on the data of the problem above, the author proves existence of unique distributional solutions \(u\in L^{\infty}(\Omega)\cap H_{\text{loc}}^{1,p}(\overline{\Omega}\setminus F),\) where \(F\) is a given smooth and compact subset of \(\Omega.\)