Some nonlinear equations of the nonstable filtration type and embedding theorems (Q852562)

The authors consider the nonexistence principle for boundary value problems of the form \[ Lu+ F'(u)= 0\quad\text{in }\Omega,\qquad u= 0\quad\text{on }\Sigma\subseteq\partial\Omega \] with \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) a bounded open set with piecewise \(C^1\) boundary, \(F'(0)= 0\), and \(L\) a mixed type operator of Gellerstedt type \[ L= K(y)\Delta_x+ \partial^2_y, \] where \(K(y)= y|y|^{m-1}\), \(m> 0\) is a pure power type change function having the sign of \(y\) and \(x\in\mathbb{R}^N\) with \(N\geq 1\). Some integral identities of Pokhozhaev type are suitably calibrated to an invariance with respect to anisotropic dilations in the linear part of the equation. For the Dirichlet problem, in which the boundary condition is placed on the entire boundary, the technique is completely analogous to the classical elliptic case as first developed by \textit{S. I. Pokhozhaev} [Sov. Math., Dokl. 6, 1408--1411 (1965); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 165, 36--39 (1965; Zbl 0141.30202)] in the supercritical case. At critical growth, the nonexistence principle is established by combining the dilation identity with another energy identity. For ``open'' boundary value problems, in which the boundary condition is placed on a proper subset of the boundary, sharp Hardy-Sobolev inequalities are used to control terms in the integral identity corresponding to the lack of a boundary condition as was first done in [\textit{D. Lupo} and \textit{K. R. Payne}, Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 56, No. 3, 403--424 (2003; Zbl 1236.35011)] for certain two-dimensional problems.