On a nonlinear Dirichlet problem with a singularity along the boundary

Publication date 2 December 2002

Published in Differential and Integral Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

comparison principle existence nonlinear Dirichlet problem strong solutions uniqueness

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60)

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The authors of this paper prove the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions \(u\in W^{2,p}_{\text{loc}}(\Omega) \cap C(\overline\Omega)\) for the nonlinear Dirichlet problem \[ -\Delta u+\lambda u=Ku^{-\alpha}+f\text{ in }\Omega,\quad u=0\text{ on }\partial\Omega, \] where \(\Omega\) is a \(C^{1,1}\) and bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), with \(n\geq 2\), \(\lambda\) and \(\alpha\) are nonnegative real numbers, \(K\geq 0\), \(f\geq 0\) and \(K\), \(f\in L^p(\Omega)\) for some \(p>n/2\). A similar result is stated in the particular case \(\lambda=0\), \(f=0\), \(\alpha>0\), under the hypothesis \(p>\frac{(\alpha^2+1)n}{2\alpha^2+n}\). In this case it is introduced the set \(M_\alpha=\{u\in W^{2,p}_{\text{loc}}(\Omega):0\leq u\leq w^{\frac 1{\alpha+1}}\) for some nonnegative \(w\in W^{2,p}(\Omega)\cap W_0^{1,p}(\Omega)\}\). The set \(M_\alpha\) contains the functions which vanish in some sense on the boundary. It is proved that there exists \(u\in W^{2,p}_{\text{loc}}(\Omega)\cap M_\alpha\) satisfying \[ -\Delta u=K u^{-\alpha}\text{ on }\Omega. \]

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