Supercritical elliptic problems on nonradial domains via a nonsmooth variational approach

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2022.09.014MaRDI QIDQ2109358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 21 December 2022

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11286

supercritical elliptic equations variational and topological methods

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91)

Abstract: In this paper we are interested in positive classical solutions of �egin{equation} label{eqx} left{�egin{array}{ll} -Delta u = a(x) u^{p-1} & mbox{ in } Omega, \ u>0 & mbox{ in } Omega, \ u= 0 & mbox{ on } pOm, end {array} ight. end{equation} where

O m e g a

is a bounded annular domain (not necessarily an annulus) in

I R^{N}

(N g e 3)

and

a (x)

is a nonnegative continuous function. We show the existence of a classical positive solution for a range of supercritical values of

p

when the problem enjoys certain mild symmetry and monotonicity conditions. As a consequence of our results, we shall show that ( ef{eqx}) has

B i g l l f l o o r f r a c N 2 B i g r f l o o r

(the floor of

f r a c N 2

) positive nonradial solutions when

a (x) = 1

and

O m e g a

is an annulus with certain assumptions on the radii. We also obtain the existence of positive solutions in the case of toroidal domains. Our approach is based on a new variational principle that allows one to deal with supercritical problems variationally by limiting the corresponding functional on a proper convex subset instead of the whole space at the expense of a mild invariance property.

Review text

The authors are concerned with the problem of finding positive, classical solutions to a semilinear boundary value problem of the form \[ -\Delta u = a(x) u^{p-1} \quad\text{in \(\Omega\)}, \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain of annular type in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N \geq 3\), the function \(a\) is continuous and non-negative, and the exponent \(p\) is supercritical in the sense of Sobolev embeddings. The precise range in which \(p\) is allowed to vary depends on the geometry of \(\Omega\), which is assumed to enjoy some symmetry properties expressed in polar coordinates. The authors make use of a recent abstract result in non-smooth variational analysis to prove their existence results.

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