Estimates of solutions of elliptic equations with a source reaction term involving the product of the function and its gradient (Q2002635)

The aim of the present work is to study local and global properties of positive solutions of equations of the type \(-\Delta u={{u}^{p}}|\nabla u{{|}^{q}}\) in \(\Omega \backslash \{0\}\), where \(\Omega \subset {{\mathbb{R}}^{N}}\) is an open domain containing \(0\) and \(p,q\in \mathbb{R}\). In general the authors assume superlinearity of the right-hand side, i.e., \(p+q>1\), \(q\in [0,2]\). Highly nontrivial algebraic manipulations with an intensive use of Young's inequality, allow the authors to prove that the norm of the gradient of a power of the solutions satisfies an elliptic inequality with a superlinear absorption term, which gives the possibility to use the Keller-Osserman comparison method. The authors' main result in this framework is the following: under additional assumptions on \(N,p\) and \(q\), it is proved that any positive solution of the considered equations in \({{\mathbb{R}}^{N}}\) is constant.