Applications of monotone operators to a class of semilinear elliptic BVPs in unbounded domain (Q2016115)

Let \(K\) be a compact set in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (\(n\geq 3\)) such that the unbounded domain \(\Omega=\mathbb{R}^n\setminus K\) satisfies the conditions \(\inf\{|x|:x\in \Omega\}>0\), \(tx\in \Omega\) for all \(t>1\) and \(x\in \Omega\). In this paper, the existence of weak solutions for the elliptic problem \(Lu(x)-\mu g_1(x)+h(u)g_2(x)=f(x)\) in \(\Omega\), \(u=0\) on \(\partial \Omega\), in a weighted Sobolev space is studied. Here, \(L\) is an elliptic operator with essentially bounded coefficients, \(h,g_1:\Omega\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) and \(g_2:\Omega\rightarrow [0,+\infty[\) are functions satisfying certain summability conditions, \(h:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is a monotone Lipschitz continuous function such that \(h(0)=0\), and \(\mu\) is a parameter. The author proves that the problem admits at least a weak solution in the space \(W_0^{1,2}(\Omega,\omega)\), where \(\omega(x)=|x|^{-2}\), provided that one of the following conditions holds: 1) \(\mu\) is positive and sufficiently small, 2) \(\mu\) is positive and \(g_1\) is nonpositive in \(\Omega\), 3) \(\mu\) is negative and \(g_1\) is nonnegative in \(\Omega\). The proofs are based on the classical Browder-Minty Theorem and on a Hardy-type inequality.