A note on a critical problem with natural growth in the gradient (Q2502545)

Summary: The paper analyzes the influence on the meaning of ``natural growth in the gradient'', of a perturbation by a Hardy potential in some elliptic equations. We obtain a linear differential operator that, in a natural way, is the corresponding gradient for the perturbed elliptic problem. Indeed, in the case of the Laplacian the natural problem becomes \[ -\Delta u-\Lambda_N\frac u{| x|^2}=| \nabla u+\frac{N-2}2 \frac u{| x|^2}|^2 | x|^{(N-2)/2}+\lambda f(x)\text{ in }\Omega,\quad u=0\text{ on }\partial\Omega, \] \(\Lambda_N=((N-2)/2)^2\). The main results are: i) Optimal summability of the data to have weak solutions; ii) Optimal linear operator associated, and, iii) Multiplicity and characterization of all solutions in terms of some measures. The results also are new for the Laplace operator perturbed for an inverse-square potential.