Power- and log-concavity of viscosity solutions to some elliptic Dirichlet problems

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2018131zbMATH Open1397.49032arXiv1709.09488OpenAlexW2963336906WikidataQ129685397 ScholiaQ129685397MaRDI QIDQ1660085FDOQ1660085

Authors: Y. Aharonov 

Publication date: 23 August 2018

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we consider a special type of degenerate elliptic partial differential equations of second order in convex domains that satisfy the interior sphere condition. We show that any positive viscosity solution $u$ of $-|ablau{|}^{a}lphaDelt{a}_p^{N}u=1$ has the property that $u^{f}racalpha+1alpha+2$ is a concave function. Secondly we consider positive solutions of the eigenvalue problem $-|ablau{|}^{a}lphaDelt{a}_p^{N}u=lambda|u{|}^{alpha}u$, in which case $logu$ turns out to be concave. The methods provided include a weak comparison principle and a Hopf-type Lemma.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09488

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zbMATH Keywords

weak comparison principlepower concavityinterior sphere conditionlog concavitydegenerate elliptic partial differential equations of second orderHopf-lemmapositive viscosity solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and nonlinear spectral theory for PDEs (35P30) Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20)

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