Existence and nonexistence results for a class of nonlinear, singular Sturm-Liouville equations

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Authors Paolo Caldiroli, Roberta Musina

Publication date 4 February 2002

Published in Advances in Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

bounded solutionexistence and nonexistence of solutionssingular nonlinear second-order differential equationsupersolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10) Growth and boundedness of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C11)

Review text

The authors study the differential equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE -(\omega(x)u')'=f(u), \tag{1} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\omega\) is continuous and nonnegative on \(\mathbb{R}\) and \(f\) is continuous on \(\mathbb{R}\), satisfies suitable growth conditions and has a superlinear behaviour at infinity. The weight \(\omega\) may vanish at some isolated points and \(1/\omega\) is not integrable at the zeros of \(\omega\). They denote \(Z=\omega^{-1}(0)\) and assume that \(Z=\{z_i\}\) is a discrete set of points and \(\omega(x) \sim |x-z_i|^{\alpha_i}\) as \(x\rightarrow z_i\), with \(\alpha_i>1\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn Section 1, the authors exhibit some nonexistence results for equation (1) in a neighborhood \(I\) of a degeneracy point \(z\in Z\). More precisely, they prove that (1) admits no positive classical supersolution on \(I\). Here, a classical supersolution on \(I\) is understood as a function \(u\in C^2(I)\) satisfying \( -(\omega(x)u')'\geq f(u).\) The second nonexistence result which is proved in the paper concerns a weaker notion of supersolution - a distributional supersolution. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn Section 2, using variational methods, they investigate the boundedness and, possibly, the continuity of solutions to (1) in a neighborhood of a degeneracy point \(z\in Z\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn Section 3, they study the existence of variational solutions to (1) on an unbounded component of \(\mathbb{R}\setminus Z\). The existence is proved via the mountain-pass lemma. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn Section 4, the authors prove the existence of a nontrivial variational solution on a bounded component of \(\mathbb{R}\setminus Z\). In this case, the solution is forced to change sign, and it is found by using a standard linking theorem. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn Section 5, a theorem concerning the existence of a global solution to (1) is stated.

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