Spectral bounds for Tricomi problems and application to semilinear existence and existence with uniqueness results (Q701072)

The present paper is devoted to the problems of existence and uniqueness of generalized solutions for the semilinear Tricomi problem \[ \begin{gathered} Tu= f(x,y,u)\;\text{in}\;\Omega,\\ u= 0\;\text{on}\;AC\cup\sigma,\end{gathered} \] where \(T\equiv -y\partial^2_x- \partial y^2_y\) is the Tricomi operator, \(f\) is a nonlinearity to the specified and \(\Omega\) is a Tricomi domain; that is, a simply connected region in the plane whose boundary consists of a simple curve \(\sigma\) in the elliptic region where \(y> 0\) which meets \(x\)-axis in points \(A\) and \(B\) and the two characteristics \(AC\) and \(BC\) that issue from \(A\) and \(B\).