Singular quasilinear elliptic problems with changing sign datum: existence and homogenization (Q2303540)

The authors study singular quasilinear elliptic problems with changing sign datum. First the authors consider, under suitable assumptions, the boundary value problem \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\mathrm{div}(M(x)\nabla u)=\lambda u+g(x,u)|\nabla u|^q+f(x)& \mathrm{in}\ \Omega\, ,\\ u=0& \mathrm{on}\ \partial \Omega\, , \end{array} \right. \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\). In the problem above, in particular, the function \(f\) belongs to \(L^p(\Omega)\) with \(p>N/2\) and no assumption on its sign is imposed. The first result concerns the existence of a solution for the quasilinear problem under investigation. Then the authors consider the homogenization problem \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\mathrm{div}(M(x)\nabla u^\epsilon)=\lambda u^\epsilon+g(x,u^\epsilon)|\nabla u^\epsilon|^q+f(x)& \mathrm{in}\ \Omega^\epsilon\, ,\\ u^\epsilon=0& \mathrm{on}\ \partial \Omega^\epsilon\, , \end{array} \right. \] where \(\Omega^\epsilon\) is a domain obtained by removing many small holes from \(\Omega\). As second result of the paper, the authors investigate the properties of the strange term which appears in the limit problem as \(\epsilon \to 0\).