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May 2019, 39(5): 2731-2742. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019114

Explicit estimates on positive supersolutions of nonlinear elliptic equations and applications

Asadollah Aghajani ^1, and Craig Cowan ^2,

1.	School of Mathematics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran
2.	Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada

Received May 2018 Revised September 2018 Published January 2019

Fund Project: The research of the second author was supported in part by NSERC.

In this paper we consider positive supersolutions of the nonlinear elliptic equation

$ - \Delta u = \rho(x) f(u)|\nabla u|^p, ~~~~ {\rm{ in }}~~~~ \Omega, $

where

$ 0\le p<1 $

,

$ \Omega $

is an arbitrary domain (bounded or unbounded) in

$ {\mathbb{R}}^N $

(

$ N\ge 2 $

),

$ f: [0, a_{f}) \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}_{+} $

$ (0 < a_{f} \leq +\infty) $

is a non-decreasing continuous function and

$ \rho: \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R} $

is a positive function. Using the maximum principle we give explicit estimates on positive supersolutions

$ u $

at each point

$ x\in\Omega $

where

$ \nabla u\not\equiv0 $

in a neighborhood of

$ x $

. As applications, we discuss the dead core set of supersolutions on bounded domains, and also obtain Liouville type results in unbounded domains

$ \Omega $

with the property that

$ \sup_{x\in\Omega}dist (x, \partial\Omega) = \infty $

. In particular when

$ \rho(x) = |x|^\beta $

(

$ \beta\in {\mathbb{R}} $

) and

$ f(u) = u^q $

with

$ q+p>1 $

then every positive supersolution in an exterior domain is eventually constant if

$ (N-2)q+p(N-1)< N+\beta. $

Keywords: Nonlinear elliptic problems, Liouville type theorems, dead core, supersolutions, gradient term.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J60; Secondary: 35B53.

Citation: Asadollah Aghajani, Craig Cowan. Explicit estimates on positive supersolutions of nonlinear elliptic equations and applications. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2019, 39 (5) : 2731-2742. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019114

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References:

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[2]	S. Alarcon, J. Garcia-Melian and A. Quaas, Nonexistence of positive supersolutions to some nonlinear elliptic problems, J. Math. Pures Appl., 99 (2013), 618-634. doi: 10.1016/j.matpur.2012.10.001.
[3]	S. Alarcon, J. Garcia-Melian and A. Quaas, Existence and non-existence of solutions to elliptic equations with a general convection term, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A, 144 (2014), 225-239. doi: 10.1017/S030821051200100X.
[4]	S. Alarcon, J. Garcia-Melian and A. Quaas, Keller-Osserman type conditions for some elliptic problems with gradient terms, J. Differential Equations, 252 (2012), 886-914. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2011.09.033.
[5]	D. Arcoya, C. De Coster, L. Jeanjean and K. Tanaka, Continuum of solutions for an elliptic problem with critical growth in the gradient, J. Funct. Anal., 268 (2015), 2298-2335. doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2015.01.014.
[6]	S. N. Armstrong and B. Sirakov, Nonexistence of positive supersolutions of elliptic equations via the maximum principle, Comm. Part. Diff. Eqns., 36 (2011), 2011-2047. doi: 10.1080/03605302.2010.534523.
[7]	S. N. Armstrong and B. Sirakov, Liouville results for fully nonlinear elliptic equations with power growth nonlinearities, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5), 10 (2011), 711–728, arXiv: 1001.4489. [math.AP].
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[9]	H. Berestycki, F. Hamel and L. Rossi, Liouville type results for semilinear elliptic equations in unbounded domains, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., (4) 186 (2007), 469–507. doi: 10.1007/s10231-006-0015-0.
[10]	M. F. Bidaut-Veron, M. Garcia-Huidobro and L. Veron, Estimates of solutions of elliptic equations with a source reaction term involving the product of the function and its gradient, available at https://arXiv.org/pdf/1711.11489.pdf
[11]	M. F. Bidaut-Veron, Local and global behavior of solutions of quasilinear equations of EmdenFowler type, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 107 (1989), 293-324. doi: 10.1007/BF00251552.
[12]	M. F. Bidaut-Veron, M. Garcia-Huidobro and L. Veron, Local and global behavior of solutions of quasilinear equations of Emden-Fowler type, Calc. Var. Part. Diff. Equ., 54 (2015), 3471-3515. doi: 10.1007/s00526-015-0911-5.
[13]	I. Birindelli and F. Demengel, Comparison principle and Liouville type results for singular fully nonlinear operators, Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse, 13 (2004), 261-287. doi: 10.5802/afst.1070.
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