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We study a nonlinear equation with an elliptic operator having degenerate coercivity. We prove the existence of a W^{1,1}_0 solution which is distributional or entropic, according to the growth assumptions on a lower order term in divergence form.
We describe and analyze preconditioned steepest descent (PSD) solvers for fourth and sixth-order nonlinear elliptic equations that include p-Laplacian terms on periodic domains in 2 and 3 dimensions. The highest and lowest order terms of the equations are constant-coefficient, positive linear operators, which suggests a natural preconditioning strategy. Such nonlinear elliptic equations often arise from time discretization of parabolic equations that model various biological and physical phenomena, in particular, liquid crystals, thin film epitaxial growth and phase transformations. The analyses of the schemes involve the characterization of the strictly convex energies associated with the equations. We first give a general framework for PSD in generic Hilbert spaces. Based on certain reasonable assumptions of the linear pre-conditioner, a geometric convergence rate is shown for the nonlinear PSD iteration. We then apply the general the theory to the fourth and sixth-order problems of interest, making use of Sobolev embedding and regularity results to confirm the appropriateness of our pre-conditioners for the regularized p-Lapacian problems. Our results include a sharper theoretical convergence result for p-Laplacian systems compared to what may be found in existing works. We demonstrate rigorously how to apply the theory in the finite dimensional setting using finite difference discretization methods. Numerical simulations for some important physical application problems -- including thin film epitaxy with slope selection and the square phase field crystal model -- are carried out to verify the efficiency of the scheme.
We study positive solutions to the fractional Lane-Emden system begin{equation*} tag{S}label{S} left{ begin{aligned} (-Delta)^s u &= v^p+mu quad &&text{in } Omega (-Delta)^s v &= u^q+ u quad &&text{in } Omega u = v &= 0 quad &&text{in } Omega^c={mathbb R}^N setminus Omega, end{aligned} right. end{equation*} where $Omega$ is a $C^2$ bounded domains in ${mathbb R}^N$, $sin(0,1)$, $N>2s$, $p>0$, $q>0$ and $mu,, u$ are positive measures in $Omega$. We prove the existence of the minimal positive solution of the above system under a smallness condition on the total mass of $mu$ and $ u$. Furthermore, if $p,q in (1,frac{N+s}{N-s})$ and $0 leq mu,, uin L^r(Omega)$ for some $r>frac{N}{2s}$ then we show the existence of at least two positive solutions of the above system. We also discuss the regularity of the solutions.
We revisit the following nonlinear critical elliptic equation begin{equation*} -Delta u+Q(y)u=u^{frac{N+2}{N-2}},;;; u>0;;;hbox{ in } mathbb{R}^N, end{equation*} where $Ngeq 5.$ Although there are some existence results of bubbling solutions for problem above, there are no results about the periodicity of bubbling solutions. Here we investigate some related problems. Assuming that $Q(y)$ is periodic in $y_1$ with period 1 and has a local minimum at 0 satisfying $Q(0)=0,$ we prove the existence and local uniqueness of infinitely many bubbling solutions of the problem above. This local uniqueness result implies that some bubbling solutions preserve the symmetry of the potential function $Q(y),$ i.e. the bubbling solution whose blow-up set is ${(jL,0,...,0):j=0,1,2,...,m}$ must be periodic in $y_{1}$ provided that $L$ is large enough, where $m$ is the number of the bubbles which is large enough but independent of $L.$ Moreover, we also show a non-existence of this bubbling solutions for the problem above if the local minimum of $Q(y)$ does not equal to zero.
The paper is concerned with the slightly subcritical elliptic problem with Hardy term [ left{ begin{aligned} -Delta u-mufrac{u}{|x|^2} &= |u|^{2^{ast}-2-epsilon}u &&quad text{in } Omega, u &= 0&&quad text{on } partialOmega, end{aligned} right. ] in a bounded domain $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^N$ with $0inOmega$, in dimensions $Nge7$. We prove the existence of multi-bubble nodal solutions that blow up positively at the origin and negatively at a different point as $epsilonto0$ and $mu=epsilon^alpha$ with $alpha>frac{N-4}{N-2}$. In the case of $Omega$ being a ball centered at the origin we can obtain solutions with up to $5$ bubbles of different signs. We also obtain nodal bubble tower solutions, i.e. superpositions of bubbles of different signs, all blowing up at the origin but with different blow-up order. The asymptotic shape of the solutions is determined in detail.
This paper deals with the existence of positive solutions for the nonlinear system q(t)phi(p(t)u_{i}(t)))+f^{i}(t,textbf{u})=0,quad 0<t<1,quad i=1,2,...,n. This system often arises in the study of positive radial solutions of nonlinear elliptic system. Here $textbf{u}=(u_{1},...,u_{n})$ and $f^{i}, i=1,2,...,n$ are continuous and nonnegative functions, $p(t), q(t)hbox{rm :} [0,1]to (0,oo)$ are continuous functions. Moreover, we characterize the eigenvalue intervals for (q(t)phi(p(t)u_{i}(t)))+lambda h_{i}(t)g^{i} (textbf{u})=0, quad 0<t<1,quad i=1,2,...,n. The proof is based on a well-known fixed point theorem in cones.