Behavior of solutions for some Dirichlet problems near reentrant corners (Q4399323)

In two previous papers of the second author [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 106, 757-762 (1989; Zbl 0686.35046) and Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 40, 189-214 (1991; Zbl 0771.35022)] certain problems of the following kind have been considered. Let \(\Omega \) be a bounded domain in \({\mathbb R}^{2}\) which is locally convex at each point of its boundary except one, say \(P\); let \(Q\) be a quasilinear elliptic operator of minimal surface or mean curvature type, and \(f\in C^{2}(\Omega)\setminus C(\overline{\Omega }\setminus \{P\})\) be an ``approximate solution'' satisfying \(Qf=0\) in \(\Omega \) and \(f=\varphi \) on \(\partial \Omega \setminus\{P\}\), where \(\varphi \in C^{1}(\partial \Omega)\). What can we say about the behaviour of the solution \(f\) near the boundary point \(P\), that is to say, about the existence of radial limits of \(f\) at \(P\)? In the present paper two new classes of quasilinear elliptic operators \(Q\) are considered. Firstly, a class of ``strongly singularly elliptic operators'' which extends the concept of singularly elliptic operators introduced by \textit{J. Serrin} [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 264, 413-496 (1969; Zbl 0181.38003)], and secondly, a class of ``asymptotically minimal surface operators'', as a more special class. The existence of radial limits of solutions from directions into convex core, in the first case, and from all directions, in the second case, is proved.