Positivity for fourth-order semilinear problems related to the Kirchhoff-love functional

DOI10.2140/APDE.2017.10.943MaRDI QIDQ526894zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giulio Romani

Publication date 15 May 2017

Published in Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02504

zbMATH Keywords

Kirchhoff-Love functionalpositive ground statessemilinear problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive solutions to PDEs (35B09) Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61)

Abstract: We study the ground states of the following generalization of the Kirchhoff-Love functional, ${\displaystyle }$J_sigma(u)=int_Omegadfrac{(Delta u)^2}{2} - (1-sigma)int_Omega det( abla^2u)-int_Omega F(x,u),${\displaystyle }$ where $Omega$ is a bounded convex domain in $mathbb{R}^2$ with $C^{1,1}$ boundary and the nonlinearities involved are of sublinear type or superlinear with power growth. These critical points correspond to least-energy weak solutions to a fourth-order semilinear boundary value problem with Steklov boundary conditions depending on $sigma$. Positivity of ground states is proved with different techniques according to the range of the parameter $sigmainmathbbR$ and we also provide a convergence analysis for the ground states with respect to $sigma$. Further results concerning positive radial solutions are established when the domain is a ball.

Review text

Let \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^2\) be a bounded convex domain with \(C^{1,1}\)-boundary. The author consideres the following generalization of the Kirchhoff-Love functional \[ J_\sigma (u)={1\over 2} \int_\Omega|\Delta u|^2 dx -(1-\sigma) \int_\Omega\det(\nabla^2u)dx - \int_\Omega F(x,u)dx, \quad u\in H^2(\Omega)\cap H^1 _0(\Omega), \] where \(\sigma \in \mathbb R\) is a parameter, \(F(x, u)= \int_0^ u f (x,t ) dt\) and \[ f(x,s) = g(x)| s|^{p-1}s \text{ with } p\in(0,1)\cup (1,+\infty),\quad g(x) \in L^1(\Omega)\text{ and }g(x)>0 \text{ a.e. in }\Omega. \] The existence and positivity of the critical points of \(J_\sigma\) with the least energy (i.e., the ground states) are investigated in this paper. By using variational methods combining some techniques such as the superharmonic method, some convergence arguments and the dual cones decomposition, the author proves that there exist \(\sigma^\ast \leq 1\) and \(\sigma_1>1\) such that the above functional \(J_\sigma\) has at least one positive ground state if \(\sigma \in (\sigma^\ast, \sigma_1)\), and \(J_\sigma\) has no positive critical points if \(\sigma \leq \sigma^\ast\). A convergence analysis of the ground states with respect to \(\sigma\) is provided. When \(\Omega\) is a ball, the existence of radial ground states and their decay behavior, and global bounds are discussed.

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