Uniqueness and sign properties of minimizers in a quasilinear indefinite problem

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2021078MaRDI QIDQ2247223zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Humberto Ramos Quoirin, K. Umezu, U. Kaufmann

Publication date 17 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11318

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-Laplacianuniquenessminimizer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Quasilinear elliptic equations with (p)-Laplacian (35J92)

Abstract: Let $1<q<p$ and $ainC(overlineOmega)$ be sign-changing, where $Omega$ is a bounded and smooth domain of $mathbb{R}^N$. We show that the functional [ I_{q}(u):=int_{Omega}left( frac{1}{p}| abla u|^{p}-frac{1}{q}a(x)|u|^{q} ight) , ] has exactly one nonnegative minimizer $U_q$ (in $W_0^{1,p}(Omega)$ or $W^{1,p}(Omega)$). In addition, we prove that $U_q$ is the only possible extit{positive} solution of the associated Euler-Lagrange equation, which shows that this equation has at most one positive solution. Furthermore, we show that if $q$ is close enough to $p$ then $U_q$ is positive, which also guarantees that minimizers of $I_q$ do not change sign. Several of these results are new even for $p=2$.

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