Superharmonicity of nonlinear ground states (Q1573711)

The authors consider the \(p\)-Laplacian operator \(\Delta _p u= \text{div}(\|\nabla u \|^{p-2} \nabla u)\) for \(2 \leq p \leq \infty \) in a convex domain \(\Omega \). The authors say that \(\Delta _p u \leq 0\) in \(\Omega \) in the viscosity sense, if \(\Delta _p \phi \leq 0\), \(\phi (x)=u(x)\), and \(\phi (y) < u(y)\), when \(y \neq x\). Let \(u>0\) and \(\log u\) be concave, \(\Delta _p u \leq 0\) in the viscosity sense. Then \(u\) is superharmonic in \(\Omega \).