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Pointwise Bounds and Blow-up for Nonlinear Polyharmonic Inequalities

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

We obtain results for the following question where m1m\ge 1 and n2n\ge 2 are integers. Question. For which continuous functions f ⁣:[0,)[0,)f\colon [0,\infty)\to [0,\infty) does there exist a continuous function φ ⁣:(0,1)(0,)\varphi\colon (0,1)\to (0,\infty) such that every C2mC^{2m} nonnegative solution u(x)u(x) of 0Δmuf(u) 0 \le -\Delta^m u\le f(u)\quad in B2(0){0}RnB_2(0)\setminus\{0\}\subset {\bf R}^n satisfies u(x)=O(φ(x))as x0u(x) = O(\varphi(|x|))\quad \text{as } x\to 0 and what is the optimal such φ\varphi when one exists?

Cite

@article{arxiv.1505.00254,
  title  = {Pointwise Bounds and Blow-up for Nonlinear Polyharmonic Inequalities},
  author = {Steven D. Taliaferro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00254},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages. This is a much-improved version of "Isolated Singularities of Nonlinear Polyharmonic Inequalities" arXiv:1107.4586

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