Autor(es):
Cabré, Xavier
; Sanchón, Manel
Data: 2006
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/11373
Origem: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
Descrição
We consider nonnegative solutions of −_pu = f(x, u), where
p > 1 and _p is the p-Laplace operator, in a smooth bounded domain of RN with zero
Dirichlet boundary conditions. We introduce the notion of semi-stability for a solution
(perhaps unbounded). We prove that certain minimizers, or one-sided minimizers, of the
energy are semi-stable, and study the properties of this class of solutions.
Under some assumptions on f that make its growth comparable to um, we prove that
every semi-stable solution is bounded if m < mcs. Here, mcs = mcs(N, p) is an explicit
exponent which is optimal for the boundedness of semi-stable solutions. In particular, it is
bigger than the critical Sobolev exponent p_ − 1.
We also study a type of semi-stable solutions called extremal solutions, for which we
establish optimal L1 estimates. Moreover, we characterize singular extremal solutions by
their semi-stability property when the domain is a ball and 1 < p < 2 MCYT, MEC Spanish grants BMF2002-04613-C03,
MTM2005-07660-C02-01; CMUC/FCT