A concave-convex problem with a variable operator

Abstract: We study the following elliptic problem

- A (u) = l a m b d a u^{q}

with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where

A (u) (x) = D e l t a u (x) c h i_{D_{1}} (x) + D e l t a_{p} u (x) c h i_{D_{2}} (x)

is the Laplacian in one part of the domain,

D_{1}

, and the

p -

Laplacian (with

p > 2

) in the rest of the domain,

D_{2}

. We show that this problem exhibits a concave-convex nature for

1 < q < p - 1

. In fact, we prove that there exists a positive value

l a m b d a^{*}

such that the problem has no positive solution for

l a m b d a > l a m b d a^{*}

and a minimal positive solution for

0 < l a m b d a < l a m b d a^{*}

. If in addition we assume that

p

is subcritical, that is,

p < 2 N / (N - 2)

then there are at least two positive solutions for almost every

0 < l a m b d a < l a m b d a^{*}

, the first one (that exists for all

0 < l a m b d a < l a m b d a^{*}

) is obtained minimizing a suitable functional and the second one (that is proven to exist for almost every

0 < l a m b d a < l a m b d a^{*}

) comes from an appropriate (and delicate) mountain pass argument.

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