Generalized solutions to semilinear elliptic PDE with applications to the Lichnerowicz equation

DOI10.1007/S10440-013-9842-3zbMATH Open1305.35051arXiv1112.0351OpenAlexW1999246114MaRDI QIDQ461353FDOQ461353

Authors: Michael Holst, Caleb Meier 

Publication date: 10 October 2014

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we investigate the existence of a solution to a semilinear, elliptic, partial differential equation with distributional coefficients and data. The problem we consider is a generalization of the Lichnerowicz equation that one encounters in studying the constraint equations in general relativity. Our method for solving this problem consists of solving a net of regularized, semilinear problems with data obtained by smoothing the original, distributional coefficients. In order to solve these regularized problems, we develop a priori pointwise bounds and sub- and super-solutions and then apply a fixed-point argument for order-preserving maps. We then show that the net of solutions obtained through this process satisfies certain decay estimates by determining estimates for the sub- and super-solutions and by utilizing classical, a priori elliptic estimates. The estimates for this net of solutions allow us to regard this collection of functions as a solution in a Colombeau-type algebra. We motivate this Colombeau algebra framework by first solving an ill-posed critical exponent problem. To solve this ill-posed problem, we use a collection of smooth, "approximating" problems and then use the resulting sequence of solutions and a compactness argument to obtain a solution to the original problem. This approach is modeled after the more general Colombeau framework that we develop, and it conveys the potential that solutions in these abstract spaces have for obtaining classical solutions to ill-posed nonlinear problems with irregular data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0351

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zbMATH Keywords

a priori estimatesbarriersfixed point theoremsnonlinear elliptic equationsEinstein constraint equationsgeneralized functionsColombeau algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Higher-order elliptic systems (35J48) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Einstein equations (35Q76)

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