Nonlinear elliptic problems with superlinear reaction and parametric concave boundary condition (Q2630137)
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Nonlinear elliptic problems with superlinear reaction and parametric concave boundary condition (English)
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25 July 2016
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The paper under review deals with the existence and characterization of solutions of the following nonlinear elliptic system with Neumann boundary condition \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta_p u(z)=f(z,u(z)) &\text{ in }\Omega,\\ |\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\cdot n=\lambda\beta(z)u(z)^{q-1} & \text{ on }\partial\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\Delta_p u:=\operatorname{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)\) denotes the \(p-\)Laplacian operator, \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N\) is a bounded domain with \(C^2-\)boundary with outward normal denoted by \(n\), \(1<q<p<+\infty,\) \(\lambda>0,\) \(\beta\in L^\infty(\Omega),\beta\neq 0, \beta(z)\geq 0\) for all \(z\in\Omega\) and \(f\) is a Carathéodory function with \((p-1)-\)superlinearity near \(+\infty.\) The above problem can be seen as an alternative version of the ``concave-convex'' problem, here the competition is between \(f\) and the boundary term. Under standard assumptions on the data, the authors show the existence of a positive real number \(\lambda^*\) such that the above problem has at least one positive \(C^1(\overline\Omega)\) (weak) solution \(u\) for all values \(\lambda\in(0,\lambda^*],\) and beyond this range there are no positive solutions. There exists also a smallest positive solution \(u_\lambda\) and the correspondence \((0,\lambda^*]\ni\lambda\mapsto u_\lambda\in C^1(\overline\Omega)\) is increasing and left-continuous. \(p=2\) will be a special case, in which the authors can ensure the existence of two different positive solutions for a similar range of \(\lambda\). Finally changing the assumptions on the data, they construct sign changing solutions as well.
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nonlinear elliptic problem
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Neumann boundary condition
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positive solutions
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sign changing solutions
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multiplicity of the solutions
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