Dirichlet Problems of a Quasi-Linear Elliptic System

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAH052MaRDI QIDQ3377836zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Li Ma, Gongbao Li

Publication date 29 March 2006

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311343

zbMATH Keywords

direct methodDirichlet problemquasilinear elliptic system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic systems (35J57) Quasilinear elliptic equations (35J62)

Abstract: We discuss the Dirichlet problem of the quasi-linear elliptic system �egin{eqnarray*} -e^{-f(U)}div(e^{f(U)}�igtriangledown U)+&{1/2}f'(U)|�igtriangledown U|^2&=0, {in $Omega$}, & U|_{partialOmega}&=phi. end{eqnarray*} Here $Omega$ a smooth bounded domain in $R^n$, $f:R^{N}oR$ is a smooth function, $U:Omegao{R}^N$ is the unknown vector-valued function, $$ is a given vector-valued $C^2$ function, $f^{\prime }$ is the gradient of the function $f$ with respect to the variable $U$. Such problems arise in population dynamics and Differential Geometry. The difficulty of studying this problem is that this nonlinear elliptic system does not fit the usual growth condition in M.Giaquinta's book [G] and the natural working space $H^{1}cap{L}^{infty}(Omega)$ for the corresponding Euler-Lagrange functional does not fit the usual minimization or variational argument. We use the direct method on a convex subset of $H^{1}cap{L}^{infty}(Omega)$ to overcome these difficulties. Under a suitable assumption on the function $f$, we prove that there is at least one solution to this problem. We also give application of our result to the Dirichlet problem of harmonic maps into the standard sphere

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