Related papers: Existence problems for the $p$-Laplacian

We obtain necessary and sufficient existence conditions for solutions of the boundary value problem $$ \Delta_p u = f \quad \mbox{on } M, \quad \left. \left| \nabla u \right|^{p - 2} \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} \right|_{ \partial M } =…

We derive a priori bounds for positive supersolutions of $ - \Delta_{p} u = \rho(x) f(u) $, where $p>1$ and $\Delta_{p}$ is the $p$-Laplace operator, in a smooth bounded domain of $R^{N}$ with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. We apply…

In this paper, we prove the existence of a weak solution for the Dirichlet boundary value problem related to the $p(x)-$Laplacian $$ -\mbox{div}(|\nabla u|^{p(x)-2}\nabla u)+u\in -[\underline{g}(x,u),\overline{g}(x,u)], $$ by using the…

We consider a number of linear and non-linear boundary value problems involving generalized Schr\"odinger equations. The model case is $-\Delta u=Vu$ for $u\in W_0^{1,2}(D)$ with $D$ a bounded domain in ${\bf R^n}$. We use the Sobolev…

In this paper we study the nonlinear Neumann boundary value problem of the following equations -\text{div}(|\nabla u|^{p_{1}(x)-2}\nabla u)-\text{div}(|\nabla u|^{p_{2}(x)-2}\nabla u)+|u|^{p_{1}(x)-2}u+|u|^{p_{2}(x)-2}u=\lambda f(x,u) in a…

In this paper, we establish gradient estimates for positive solutions to the following equation with respect to the $p$-Laplacian $$\Delta_{p}u=-\lambda |u|^{p-2}u$$ with $p>1$ on a given complete Riemannian manifold. Consequently, we…

We consider the boundary value problem $-\Delta_p u = \lambda c(x) |u|^{p-2}u + \mu(x) |\grad u|^p + h(x)$, $u \in W^{1,p}_0(\Omega) \cap L^{\infty}(\Omega)$, where $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N$, $N \geq 2$, is a bounded domain with smooth…

We study the following boundary value problem with a concave-convex nonlinearity: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{r c l l} -\Delta_p u & = & \Lambda\,u^{q-1}+ u^{r-1} & \textrm{in }\Omega, \\ u & = & 0 & \textrm{on }\partial\Omega.…

Let $M$ be a closed hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $\Omega$ be a bounded domain such that $M= \partial\Omega$. In this article, we obtain an upper bound for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the following problems. \begin{itemize}…

We study the boundary value problem $-{\rm div}((|\nabla u|^{p\_1(x) -2}+|\nabla u|^{p\_2(x)-2})\nabla u)=f(x,u)$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in $\RR^N$. We focus on the cases when…

We deal with the first eigenvalue for a system of two $p-$Laplacians with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. If $\Delta_{p}w=\mbox{div}(|\nabla w|^{p-2}w)$ stands for the $p-$Laplacian and $\frac{\alpha}{p}+\frac{\beta}{q}=1,$ we…

The purpose of this paper is to study nonlinear singular parabolic equations with $p(x)$- Laplacian. Precisely, we consider the following problem and discuss the existence of a non-negative weak solution. \begin{align*} \frac{\partial…

We study the boundary value problem $-{\rm div}(\log(1+ |\nabla u|^q)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=f(u)$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\RR^N$ with smooth boundary. We distinguish the cases where…

This paper studies Laplace's equation $-\Delta\,u=0$ in an exterior region $U\varsubsetneq{\mathbb R}^N$, when $N\geq3$, subject to the nonlinear boundary condition $\frac{\partial…

We look for nonconstant, positive, radially nondecreasing solutions of the quasilinear equation $-\Delta_p u+u^{p-1}=f(u)$ with $p>2$, in the unit ball $B$ of $\mathbb R^N$, subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. The…

Let $1<p<N$, $p^{*}=Np/(N-p)$, $0<s<p$, $p^{*}(s)=(N-s)p/(N-p)$, and $\Om\in C^{1}$ be a bounded domain in $\R^{N}$ with $0\in\bar{\Om}.$ In this paper, we study the following problem \[ \begin{cases}…

We investigate the following fractional $p$-Laplacian equation \[ \begin{cases} \begin{aligned} (-\Delta)_p^s u&=\lambda |u|^{q-2}u+|u|^{p_s^*-2}u &&\text{in}~\Omega,\\ u &=0 &&\text{in}~ \mathbb{R}^n\setminus\Omega, \end{aligned}…

This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of free boundaries in overdetermined value-problems (ODVP) for the Laplacian, and sufficient conditions for the bi-Laplacian, when the overdetermined boundary…

We establish an explicit maximum principle for the Dirichlet problem associated with the $p$-Laplacian ($p>1$), where the constant depends on both $p$ and the geometry of the domain. From this result we derive two main applications. First,…

We study the nonlinear one-dimensional $p$-Laplacian equation $$ -(y'^{(p-1)})'+(p-1)q(x)y^{(p-1)}=(p-1)w(x)f(y) on (0,1),$$ with linear separated boundary conditions. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions with…