Non-existence of dead cores in fully nonlinear elliptic models

Abstract: We investigate non-existence of nonnegative dead-core solutions for the problem

|Du|^gamma F(x, D^2u)+a(x)u^q = 0 quad mbox{in} quad Omega, quad u=0 quad mbox{ on } quad partialOmega.

Here

O m e g a s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{N}

is a bounded smooth domain,

F

is a fully nonlinear elliptic operator,

a : O m e g a o m a t h b b R

is a sign-changing weight,

g a m m a g e q 0

, and

0 < q < g a m m a + 1

. We show that this problem has no non-trivial dead core solutions if either

q

is close enough to

g a m m a + 1

or the negative part of

a

is sufficiently small. In addition, we obtain the existence and uniqueness of a positive solution under these conditions on

q

and

a

. Our results extend previous ones established in the semilinear case, and are new even for the simple model

| D u (x) |^{g a m m a} m a t h r m T r (m a t h r m A (x) D^{2} u (x)) + a (x) u^{q} (x) = 0

, where

m a t h r m A i n C^{0} (O m e g a; S y m (N))

is a uniformly elliptic and non-negative matrix.

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