A priori estimates and bifurcation of solutions for an elliptic equation with semidefinite critical growth in the gradient

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Abstract: We study nonnegative solutions of the boundary value problem -Delta u = lambda c(x)u + mu(x)| abla u|^2 + h(x),quad uin H^1_0(Omega)cap L^infty(Omega), leqno(P_lambda) where Omega is a smooth bounded domain, mu,cinLinfty(Omega), hinLr(Omega) for some r>n/2 and mu,c,h>hskip3.5mmatopeq0. Our main motivation is to study the "noncoercive" case. Namely, unlike in previous work on the subject, we do not assume mu to be positive everywhere in Omega. In space dimensions up to n=5, we establish uniform a priori estimates for weak solutions of (Plambda) when lambda>0 is bounded away from 0. This is proved under the assumption that the supports of mu and c intersect, a condition that we show to be actually necessary, and in some cases we further assume that mu is uniformly positive on the support of c and/or some other conditions. As a consequence of our a priori estimates, assuming that (P0) has a solution, we deduce the existence of a continuum calC of solutions, such that the projection of calC onto the lambda-axis is an interval of the form [0,a] for some a>0 and that the continuum calC bifurcates from infinity to the right of the axis lambda=0. In particular, for each lambda>0 small enough, problem (Plambda) has at least two distinct solutions.



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