Quasilinear equations with natural growth in the gradients in spaces of Sobolev multipliers

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Quasilinear elliptic equations (35J62) Quasilinear elliptic equations with (p)-Laplacian (35J92)

Abstract: We study the existence problem for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations whose prototype is of the form

- D e l t a_{p} u = | a b l a u |^{p} + s i g m a

in a bounded domain

O m e g a s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{n}

. Here

D e l t a_{p}

,

p > 1

, is the standard

p

-Laplacian operator defined by

D e l t a_{p} u = m d i v, (| a b l a u |^{p - 2} a b l a u)

, and the datum

s i g m a

is a signed distribution in

O m e g a

. The class of solutions that we are interested in consists of functions

u i n W_{0}^{1, p} (O m e g a)

such that

| a b l a u | i n M (W^{1, p} (O m e g a) i g h t a r r o w L^{p} (O m e g a))

, a space pointwise Sobolev multipliers consisting of functions

f i n L^{p} (O m e g a)

such that �egin{equation*} int_{Omega} |f|^{p} |varphi|^p dx leq C int_{Omega} (| abla varphi|^p + |varphi|^p) dx quad forall varphiin C^infty(Omega), end{equation*} for some

C > 0

. This is a natural class of solutions at least when the distribution

s i g m a

is nonnegative and compactly supported in

O m e g a

. We show essentially that, with only a gap in the smallness constants, the above equation has a solution in this class if and only if one can write

s i g m a = m d i v, F

for a vector field

F

such that

| F |^{f r a c 1 p - 1} i n M (W^{1, p} (O m e g a) i g h t a r r o w L^{p} (O m e g a))

. As an important application, via the exponential transformation

u m a p s t o v = e^{f r a c u p - 1}

, we obtain an existence result for the quasilinear equation of Schr"odinger type

- D e l t a_{p} v = s i g m a, v^{p - 1}

,

v g e q 0

in

O m e g a

, and

v = 1

on

p a r t i a l O m e g a

, which is interesting in its own right.

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