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Existence of radial solutions to biharmonic $k-$Hessian equations

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2015-07-21 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

This work presents the construction of the existence theory of radial solutions to the elliptic equation \begin{equation}\nonumber \Delta^2 u = (-1)^k S_k[u] + \lambda f(x), \qquad x \in B_1(0) \subset \mathbb{R}^N, \end{equation} provided either with Dirichlet boundary conditions \begin{eqnarray}\nonumber u = \partial_n u = 0, \qquad x \in \partial B_1(0), \end{eqnarray} or Navier boundary conditions \begin{equation}\nonumber u = \Delta u = 0, \qquad x \in \partial B_1(0), \end{equation} where the kk-Hessian Sk[u]S_k[u] is the kthk^{\mathrm{th}} elementary symmetric polynomial of eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix and the datum fL1(B1(0))f \in L^1(B_1(0)) while λR\lambda \in \mathbb{R}. We prove the existence of a Carath\'eodory solution to these boundary value problems that is unique in a certain neighborhood of the origin provided λ|\lambda| is small enough. Moreover, we prove that the solvability set of λ\lambda is finite, giving an explicity bound of the extreme value.

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@article{arxiv.1503.06700,
  title  = {Existence of radial solutions to biharmonic $k-$Hessian equations},
  author = {Carlos Escudero and Pedro J. Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06700},
  year   = {2015}
}