On the uniqueness of nonnegative solutions of differential inequalities with gradient terms on Riemannian manifolds

Yuhua  Sun

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.1743

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On the uniqueness of nonnegative solutions of differential inequalities with gradient terms on Riemannian manifolds

Yuhua Sun^1,

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School of Mathematical Sciences and LPMC, Nankai University, 300071, Tianjin

Received: May 31, 2014

Revised: March 31, 2015

Published: August 2015

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We investigate the uniqueness of nonnegative solutions to the following differential inequality \begin{eqnarray} div(A(x)|\nabla u|^{m-2}\nabla u)+V(x)u^{\sigma_1}|\nabla u|^{\sigma_2}\leq0, \tag{1} \end{eqnarray} on a noncompact complete Riemannian manifold, where $A, V$ are positive measurable functions, $m>1$, and $\sigma_1$, $\sigma_2\geq0$ are parameters such that $\sigma_1+\sigma_2>m-1$.
Our purpose is to establish the uniqueness of nonnegative solution to (1) via very natural geometric assumption on volume growth.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35J70, 58J05.

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