Ground state alternative for p-Laplacian with potential term

DOI10.1007/S00526-006-0040-2MaRDI QIDQ6476244arXivFDO

Authors Yehuda Pinchover, Cyril Tintarev

Publication date 2 November 2005

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Positive solutions to PDEs (35B09) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Green's functions for elliptic equations (35J08)

Abstract: Let $Omega$ be a domain in $mathbb{R}^d$, $dgeq2$, and $1<p<infty$. Fix $Vin{L}_{mathrmloc}^{i}nfty(Omega)$. Consider the functional $Q$ and its G^{a}teaux derivative $Q^{p}rime$ given by ${\displaystyle }$Q(u):=int_Omega (|

abla u|^p+V|u|^p)dx, frac{1}{p}Q^prime (u):=- ablacdot(| abla u|^{p-2}

abla u)+V|u|^{p-2}u.${\displaystyle }$ If $Qge0$ on $C_0^{infty}(Omega)$, then either there is a positive continuous function $W$ such that $intW|u{|}^{p}mathrmdxleqQ(u)$ for all $uin{C}_0^{infty}(Omega)$, or there is a sequence $u_{k}in{C}_0^{infty}(Omega)$ and a function $v>0$ satisfying $Q^{p}rime(v)=0$, such that $Q(u_k)o0$, and $u_{k}ov$ in $L_m^{p}athrmloc(Omega$). In the latter case, $v$ is (up to a multiplicative constant) the unique positive supersolution of the equation $Q^{p}rime(u)=0$ in $Omega$, and one has for $Q$ an inequality of Poincar'e type: there exists a positive continuous function $W$ such that for every $psiin{C}_0^{i}nfty(Omega)$ satisfying $intpsivmathrmdxeq0$ there exists a constant $C>0$ such that $C^{-1}intW|u{|}^{p}mathrmdxleQ(u)+C|intupsimathrmdx{|}^p$ for all $uin{C}_0^{i}nfty(Omega)$. As a consequence, we prove positivity properties for the quasilinear operator $Q^{p}rime$ that are known to hold for general subcritical resp. critical second-order linear elliptic operators.

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