Elliptic equations of higher-order in weighted Sobolev spaces (Q471579)

The authors deal with the nonlinear Dirichlet boundary value problem \[ Au+g(x,u)=f\;\text{in}\;\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N,\;N\geq 2,\;u=0\;\text{on}\;\partial\Omega \] with the quasilinear operator \(A\) of the form \(Au=\sum_{|\alpha|\leq m}(-1)^{|\alpha|}D^\alpha A_\alpha(x,u,...,\nabla^mu),\) where the coefficients \(A_\alpha\) satisfy the weighted coercivity conditions \[ \sum_{|\alpha|\leq m}A_\alpha(x,\xi)\xi_\alpha \geq c\sum_{|\alpha|\leq m}w_\alpha(x)|\xi_\alpha|^p,\;c>0,\;p>1,\;\text{a.e.}\;x\in \Omega. \] They analyze the weighted Sobolev space \(W^{m,p}(\Omega,w)\) and its dual \(W^{-m,p'}(\Omega,w^*)\) and verify a weighted approximation theorem and the existence of a weak solution \(u\in W_0^{m.p}(\Omega,w)\).