Nonexistence of positive solutions of PDE's with \(p\)-Laplacian (Q5933720)

The authors study the problem of nonexistence of positive solutions of the equation \[ \text{div}\big(||\nabla u||^{p-2}\nabla u\big)+c(x)|u|^{p-2}u=0,\quad x\in \mathbb R^n,\; p>1, \tag{1} \] where \(C: \mathbb R^n\to \mathbb R\) is a Hölder continuous function. Denote by \(\Omega_r=\{x\in \mathbb R^n: ||x||\geq r\}\), \(S_r =\partial \Omega_r\), \(\omega_n\) is the area of the unit sphere in \(\mathbb R^n\), \(Q(r)=\omega_n^{-1} \int _{||x||<r}\;c(x)\,dx\). The authors prove that each of the following conditions is sufficient for nonexistence of a positive solution of (1) in \(\mathbb R^n\): (a) \(p\geq n, c(x)\not\equiv 0, \liminf_{r\to \infty}\int_{||x||<r}\;c(x)dx\geq 0\); (b) \(Q(t)\geq 0, \sup_{i,j\in N}\sup_{r>0} m_i(r)M_j^{p-1}(r)>1\), where \(\{m_i\}_{i=1}^{\infty},\{M_i\}_{i=1}^{\infty}\) are sequences of nonnegative functions, continuous on \((0,\infty)\), satisfying \(m_1\equiv M_1\equiv 0\), \(m_{i+1}(r)\leq (p-1)\int_0^r\;[Q(t)+m_i(t)]^qt^{(1-n)q/p}\,dt\), \(M_{i+1}(r)\leq \int_r^{\infty}\;[Q(t)M_i^{p-1}(t)+1]^qt^{(1-n)q/p}\,dt\), for every \(r\geq 0\); (c) \(p<n, Q\geq 0, \sup_{r>0}r^{p-n}\int_0^r\;Q^q(t)t^{(1-n)/(p-1)}> (n-p)^{p-1}(p-1)^{-p}\). The following conditions imply the nonexistence of a positive solutions of (1) in \(\Omega _{r_0}\) for every \(r_0\geq 0\): (a) \(p\geq n, \lim _{r\to\infty}Q(r)=\infty\); (b) \(p\geq n+1, \alpha\in(-n/p, p-n-1], \lim_{t\to\infty}t^{-\alpha-1} \int_0^t\;r^{\alpha}Q(r)\,dr=\infty\). At least each of the following conditions imply the nonexistence of a positive solutions of equation (1) in \(\Omega_r\) for \(r>0\) arbitrarily large: (a) the equation \((r^{n-1}\phi(z'))'+\omega_n ^{-1}C(r)\phi(z)=0\) is oscillatory, where \(C(r)=\int_{S_r}\;c(x)\,dS,\; '=d/dr\); (b) \(n\leq p, \int^{\infty}C(r)\,dr<\infty\) and \(\liminf_{r\to \infty} r^{p-n}\int_r^{\infty}C(t)\,dt> \omega_np^{-1}\big((p-n)/(p-1)\big)^{p-1}\); (c) \(n>p, \int^{\infty}\;C(r)r^{p(p-n)/(p-1)}dr<\infty\) and \[ \liminf_{r\to \infty}r^{(n-p)/(p-1)}\int_r^{\infty}C(t)t^{p(p-n)/(p-1)}\,dt> \omega_n(p-1)p^{-1}\big((n-p)/p\big)^{p-1}; \] (d) \(I=\int^{\infty}\;[C(r)-\omega_n|(p-n)/p|^pr^{n-p-1}]r^{p-n}\,dr=\infty\); (e) \(n<p, I<\infty\) and \[ \lim \log r \int_r^{\infty}\;[C(t)- \omega_n\big((p-n)/p\big)^pt^{n-p-1}]t^{p-n}\,dt> \omega_n(p-1)(2p)^{-1}\big((p-n)/p\big)^{p-2}. \]