The absence of global positive solutions of quasilinear elliptic inequalities (Q1593973)

The authors consider three different quasilinear elliptic inequalities and prove the absence of global positive solutions. They do not assume that the solutions under consideration are radial. Their approach is indirect: One assumes that a nontrivial global positive solution exists and one obtains a corresponding estimate for this solution in a suitable norm. An example: Let \(n\in{\mathcal C}^2_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) be a solution to the problem \[ -\text{div}(Du/\sqrt{1+|Du|^2})\geq u^q,\quad u\geq 0\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^n, \] where \(q\geq 0\) and \(n\geq 1\). If \(0< q\leq n/n-2\), \(n\geq 3\), then \(u\equiv 0\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). If \(n\leq 2\), then there are no conditions on \(q>0\). If \(q= 0\), there is no solution.