Comparison principles, uniqueness and symmetry results of solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations and inequalities (Q2435175)

The authors prove the following theorems. { Theorem 1.} Let \(1<p<2, q \geq 1, h \in L^1_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}^N)\), then the problem \[ \Delta _p u + | u | ^{q-1} u =h \quad \mathrm{ on }\,\, {\mathbb R}^N \] has at most one distributional solution \(u \in W^{1,p}_{\mathrm{loc} }({\mathbb R}^N)\cap L^q_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}^N)\), and satisfies \[ \inf _{{\mathbb R}^N}h \leq | u | ^{q-1} u \leq \sup _{{\mathbb R}^N}h. \] { Theorem 2.} Let \( q\geq 1, h \in L^1_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}^N)\), then the problem \[ -\mathrm{div}\, \left( \frac{\nabla u}{\sqrt{1+ | \nabla u | ^2}} \right) + | u | ^{q-1} u =h \quad \mathrm{ on }\,\, {\mathbb R}^N \] has at most one distributional solution \(u \in W^{1,1}_{\mathrm{loc} }({\mathbb R}^N)\cap L^q_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}^N)\), and satisfies \[ \inf _{{\mathbb R}^N}h \leq | u | ^{q-1} u \leq \sup _{{\mathbb R}^N}h. \] The above results are based on the next comparison principle which is a special case of a more general comparison principle proved by the authors. { Theorem 3.1.} Let \(1<p<2, q\geq 1, u,v \in W^{1,p}_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}^N) \cap L^q_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}^N )\) such that \[ \Delta _p v - | v | ^{q-1} v \geq \Delta _p u - | u | ^{q-1} u \quad \mathrm{ in }\,\, {\mathcal D}'({\mathbb R}^N). \] Then \(v\leq u\) a.e. on \({\mathbb R}^N\). 2. Let \(q \geq 1\). Let \(u,v \in W^{1,1}_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}^N) \cap L^q_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}^N )\) such that \[ \mathrm{div}\, \left( \frac{\nabla v }{\sqrt{1+ | \nabla v | ^2}}\right) -| v | ^{q-1} v \geq \mathrm{div}\, \left( \frac{\nabla u }{\sqrt{1+ | \nabla u | ^2}}\right) -| u | ^{q-1} u \quad \mathrm{ in }\,\, {\mathcal D}'({\mathbb R}^N). \] Then \(v\leq u \) a.e. in \({\mathbb R}^N\).