A half-linear differential equation and variational problem

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(99)00338-7MaRDI QIDQ5940153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert Mařík

Publication date 18 August 2002

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0362-546x(99)00338-7

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-degree functionalcoupled pointshalf-linear differential equationPicone identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Special ordinary differential equations (Mathieu, Hill, Bessel, etc.) (34B30) Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10)

Review text

The author investigates the variational problem with general boundary conditions whose corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation is the half-linear differential equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE (r(t)\Phi(y'))'+q(t)\Phi(y)=0, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with \(\Phi(u)=|u|^{p-2}u\), \(p>1\) a constant, \(r,q\) real-valued continuous functions defined on a compact interval \(I=[a,b]\), and \(r(t)>0\) on \(I\). The main results of the paper give necessary and sufficient conditions for the nonnegativity of the scalar \(p\)-degree functional NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \mathcal{J}(\eta;a,b)=\alpha|\eta(a)|^p+ \gamma |\eta(b)|^p +\int_{a}^b [r(t)|\eta'(t)|]^p-q(t)|\eta(t)|^p dt, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\eta\in W^{1,p}\) is the addmissible function satisfying the boundary condition \(D\binom{\eta(a)}{\eta(b)}=\binom{0}{0}\) where \(D\) is a diagonal \(2\times 2\)-matrix. Conditions for the nonnegativity of the functional \(\mathcal{J}\) are given in terms of coupled points which generalize classical conjugate and focal points, and in terms of solutions to a Riccati-type equation.

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