An elliptic problem with two singularities

Abstract: We study a Dirichlet problem for an elliptic equation defined by a degenerate coercive operator and a singular right-hand side. We will show that the right-hand side has some regularizing effects on the solutions, even if it is singular.

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The author considers the existence of solutions to the following problem NEWLINENEWLINE\[NEWLINE \begin{cases} -\mathrm{div}\, \left( \frac{a(x) \nabla u }{(1+| u | )^p}\right )&= \frac{f}{| u | ^{\gamma }} \text{ in }\quad \Omega ,\\ NEWLINE\qquad \qquad \qquad u&=0 \text{ on }\quad \partial \Omega , \end{cases} \tag{1} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\Omega \) is an open bounded set of \({\mathbb R}^N, N\geq 3\), \(p\) and \(\gamma \) are positive reals, \(f\in L^m(\Omega )\) is a non-negative function and \(a:\Omega \to {\mathbb R}\) is a measurable function such that \(0<\alpha \leq a(x) \leq \beta \) for two positive constants \(\alpha \) and \(\beta \). The author considers the existence of distribution solutions in the sense that for every \(\omega \Subset \Omega \) there exists \(c_{\omega }>0\) such that \(u\geq c_{\omega }>0 \) in \(\omega \) and NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \int _{\Omega } a(x) \frac{ \nabla u \cdot \nabla \phi }{(1+u )^p}dx = \int _{\Omega } \frac{f}{u^{\gamma }}\phi dx \quad \forall \phi \in C^{\infty }_{0} (\Omega ). \tag{2}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The author gets the following theorem.NEWLINENEWLINETheorem. Let \(\gamma \geq p-1\). (1) Let \(\gamma < p+1\). (a) If \(f\in L^m (\Omega )\), with \(m\geq \frac{2^*}{2^* -p-1+\gamma }\), there exists a solution \(u \in H^1_0(\Omega )\) to (1) in the sense of (2). If \( \frac{2^*}{2^* -p-1+\gamma } \leq m < \frac{N}{2}\), then \(u \in L^{m^{**} (\gamma +1-p)}(\Omega )\). (b) If \(f \in L^m (\Omega )\), with \(\max \{1,\frac{1^*}{2\cdot 1^* -p-1+\gamma }\} < m< \frac{2^*}{2^* -p-1+\gamma }\), there exists a solution \(u \in W^{1,\sigma }_0(\Omega )\), \(\sigma = Nm(\gamma +1-p)/(N-m(p+1-\gamma ))\) to (1) in the sense of (2).NEWLINENEWLINE(2) Let \(\gamma =p+1\) and assume that \(f\in L^1(\Omega )\). Then there exists a solution \(u\in H^1_0(\Omega ) \) to (1) in the sense of (2).NEWLINENEWLINE(3) Let \(\gamma >p+1\) and assume that \(f\in L^1(\Omega )\). Then there exists a solution \(u\in H^1_{\mathrm{loc}}(\Omega ) \) to (1) in the sense of (2), such that \(u^{(\gamma +1-p)/2}\in H_0^1(\Omega )\).NEWLINENEWLINE(4) Let \(f\in L^m (\Omega )\), with \(m>N/2\). Then the solution found above is bounded.

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