Harnack inequality for non-divergence structure semi-linear elliptic equations (Q1661690)

From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Harnack inequality for non-divergence structure semi-linear elliptic equations
scientific article

    Statements

    Harnack inequality for non-divergence structure semi-linear elliptic equations (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    16 August 2018
    0 references
    In this paper, the authors prove a Harnack inequality for non-negative solutions of \(Lu = f(u)\), where \(L\) is a non-divergence structure uniformly elliptic operator and \(f\) is a non-decreasing function that satisfies an appropriate growth conditions at infinity. In [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 363, No. 10, 5131--5178 (2011; Zbl 1225.35076)], \textit{M. Dindoš} proved a Harnack inequality for the solutions of the equation \(\Delta u = f(u)\), where \(f: \mathbb{R}^+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+ \) is non-decreasing and continuous such that \(f(t) > 0\) for \(t > 0\), and there is \(\theta > 1\) such that \(\underset{t\rightarrow \infty }\liminf \frac{f(\theta t)}{\theta f(t)} >1.\) In this paper, the authors extend Dindoš' Harnack inequality results to more general operators and provide an example to show that Dindoš' condition cannot be too much relaxed for the stated Harnack inequality to hold.
    0 references
    non-divergence structure elliptic operator
    0 references
    large solution
    0 references
    Alexandroff-Bakelman-Pucci maximum principle
    0 references

    Identifiers

    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references