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# On problems with weighted elliptic operator and general growth nonlinearities

The author is partially supported by the Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians 524335
• This article establishes existence, non-existence and Liouville-type theorems for nonlinear equations of the form

$\begin{equation*} -div (|x|^{a} D u ) = f(x,u), \; u > 0,\, \mbox{ in } \Omega, \end{equation*}$

where $N \geq 3$, $\Omega$ is an open domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$ containing the origin, $N-2+a > 0$ and $f$ satisfies structural conditions, including certain growth properties. The first main result is a non-existence theorem for boundary-value problems in bounded domains star-shaped with respect to the origin, provided $f$ exhibits supercritical growth. A consequence of this is the existence of positive entire solutions to the equation for $f$ exhibiting the same growth. A Liouville-type theorem is then established, which asserts no positive solution of the equation in $\Omega = \mathbb{R}^N$ exists provided the growth of $f$ is subcritical. The results are then extended to systems of the form

$\begin{equation*} -div (|x|^{a} D u_1) \! = \! f_{1}(x,u_1,u_2), -div (|x|^{a} D u_2) \! = \! f_{2}(x,u_1,u_2), u_1, u_2 \!>\! 0,\, \mbox{ in } \Omega, \end{equation*}$

but after overcoming additional obstacles not present in the single equation. Specific cases of our results recover classical ones for a renowned problem connected with finding best constants in Hardy-Sobolev and Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities as well as existence results for well-known elliptic systems.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B0935B33, 35B53, 35J15, 35J47; Secondary: 35B38.

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