Entire solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations (Q5901528)

The author studies the entire solutions of non-homogeneous quasilinear elliptic equations for which the following two may serve as typical examples: \[ \begin{aligned} \Delta_pu\equiv \text{div}(|Du|^{p-2}Du) &=f(u), \quad p>1,\;x\in\mathbb R^n, \tag{1}\\ \text{div}\left(\frac{Du}{\sqrt{1+|Du|^2}}\right) &=f(u), \quad x\in\mathbb R^n. \tag{2} \end{aligned} \] As one of the main result, with a comparison lemma introduced in the paper, it is proved that given a \(C^1\) entire distribution solution \(u\) of the equation \(\Delta_pu=a(x) |u|^{q-1}u\), where \(x\in\mathbb R^n\), \(p>1\), \(0<q<p-1\) and with \(a\) satisfying some condition, if \(u(x)=o(|x|^{p/(p-q-1)})\) as \(|x|\rightarrow \infty\), then \(u\equiv 0\). If \(q=p-1\) then \(u\equiv 0\) for all solutions with at most algebraic growth at infinity. The nonexistence of entire solution to problem of type (1) is also considered. Another main result concerns the entire solutions to problems of type (2).