Minimal Lp-solutions to singular sublinear elliptic problems

Abstract

We solve the existence problem for the minimal positive solutions u∈Lp(Ω,dx) to the Dirichlet problems for sublinear elliptic equations of the form Lu=σuq+μinΩ,lim infx→yu(x)=0y∈∂∞Ω,where 0<q<1 and Lu≔−div(A(x)∇u) is a linear uniformly elliptic operator with bounded measurable coefficients. The coefficient σ and data μ are nonnegative Radon measures on an arbitrary domain Ω⊂Rn with a positive Green function associated with L. Our techniques are based on the use of sharp Green potential pointwise estimates, weighted norm inequalities, and norm estimates in terms of generalized energy.

Keywords

• Sublinear elliptic equation
• Measure data
• Divergence form operator
• Green function