The Keldysh-Fichera boundary value problems for degenerate quasilinear elliptic equations of second order (Q807846)

The authors consider the following equation \[ D_ i[a_{ij}(x,u)D_ ju+b_ i(x)u]-c(x,u)=f(x),\quad x\in \Omega \subset R^ m, \] where \(\beta^{-1}a_{ij}(x,0)\xi_ i\xi_ j\leq a_{ij}(x,z)\xi_ i\xi_ j\leq \beta a_{ij}(x,0)\xi_ i\xi_ j\), \(\beta =const>0\), \(\lambda (x)| \xi |^ 2\leq a_{ij}(x,0)\xi_ i\xi_ j\), \(\lambda\) (x)\(\geq 0\) on \({\bar \Omega}\), with boundary conditions \(u(x)=0\), \(x\in \Sigma_ 2\cup \Sigma_ 3\), where \(\Sigma_ 3=\{x\in \partial \Omega |\) \(a_{ij}(x,0)n_ in_ j>0\), \(\vec n=(n_ 1,...,n_ m)\) is the unit outward normal vector at \(x\in \partial \Omega \},\) \(\Sigma\) \({}_ 2=\{x\in \partial \Omega \setminus \Sigma_ 3| b_ i(x)n_ i>0\}\), \(\Sigma_ 1=\partial \Omega \setminus (\Sigma_ 2\cup \Sigma_ 3).\) Under some assumptions, the authors prove that the above problem has a weak solution (in some integral sense) which is also unique under additional restrictions. In this connection they establish an acute angle principle for weakly continuous mappings, discuss maximum and comparison principles and a maximum modulus estimate.