Uniqueness and sign properties of minimizers in a quasilinear indefinite problem

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2021078zbMATH Open1480.35272arXiv2001.11318OpenAlexW3163838157MaRDI QIDQ2247223FDOQ2247223

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)

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 $p=2$.

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

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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)

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