Growth of subsolutions to fully nonlinear equations in halfspaces

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2022.02.048MaRDI QIDQ2118884zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Niklas L. P. Lundström

Publication date 23 March 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09726

zbMATH Keywords

non-standard growthsublinear growthvariable exponent \(p\)-Laplace operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Liouville theorems and Phragmén-Lindelöf theorems in context of PDEs (35B53) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Quasilinear elliptic equations with (p)-Laplacian (35J92)

Abstract: We characterize lower growth estimates for subsolutions in halfspaces of fully nonlinear partial differential equations on the form ${\displaystyle }$ F(x,u,Du,D^2u) = 0 ${\displaystyle }$ in terms of solutions to ordinary differential equations built solely upon a growth assumption on $F$. Using this characterization we derive several sharp Phragmen-Lindel"of-type theorems for certain classes of well known PDEs. The equation need not be uniformly elliptic nor homogeneous and we obtain results both in case the subsolution is bounded or unbounded. Among our results we retrieve classical estimates in the halfspace for $p$-subharmonic functions and extend those to more general equations; we prove sharp growth estimates, in terms of $k$ and the asymptotic behaviour of $in{t}_0^{R}C(s)ds$, for subsolutions of equations allowing for sublinear growth in the gradient of the form $C(|x|)|Du{|}^k$ with $kgeq1$; we establish a Phragmen-Lindel"of theorem for weak subsolutions of the variable exponent $p$-Laplace equation in halfspaces, $1<p(x)<infty$, $p(x)in{C}^1$, of which we conclude sharpness by finding the "slowest growing" $p(x)$-harmonic function together with its corresponding family of $p(x)$-exponents. The paper ends with a discussion of our results from the point of view of a spatially dependent diffusion problem.

Review text

The author characterizes lower growth estimates for subsolutions in halfspaces of fully nonlinear partial differential equations on the form \[F(x,u,Du,D^2u)=0\] in terms of solutions to ordinary differential equations built upon assumptions on \(F\). Under some suitable conditions on \(F\), he characterizes the growth of viscosity subsolutions of this equation in halfspaces in terms of solutions to ordinary differential equations which are conveniently built. Using this characterization, the author is able to derive sharp growth estimates of Phragmen-Lindelöf-type once the solutions of the ODE's are sufficiently understood. More specifically, the obtained results apply to nonhomogeneous PDE's including the variable exponent \(p\)-Laplace equation \[ \nabla\cdot\left( \vert Du\vert^{p(x)-2} D(u)\right) =0 \] and he proves a sharp Phragmen-Lindelöf theorem for weak subsolutions of this equation whenever \(1<p(x)<\infty\) is \(C^1\). It turns out that the growth estimate heavily depends on whether the subsolution ever exceeds the distance to boundary or not. The author concludes sharpness by finding the ``slowest growing \(p(x)\)-harmonic function in the halfspace, for a given ellipticity bound, together with its corresponding family of \(p(x)\) exponents. The author ends the paper by discussing the problem under investigation from the point of view of a diffusion problem. Indeed, in the last section he briefly discusses, through the application of spatially dependent diffusion, why parts of the presented results should hold.

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